I use ForeFlight exclusively. For flight planning I use it on my iPad. I also have it installed on my iPhone. The airport info, including weather, on the iPhone comes out looking like the image in the video. When I am airborne, I use the iPhone version to look up airport info enroute.
In our area we often have a forecast of a full sun day no cloud, get all excited camera at the ready only to find it is inverted and very hazy. 😪Need to study my Skew T to predict them.
I feel your pain! 😬 For me, it's a 45 minute drive to the airport and either the weather changes or conditions are just different there than what I saw when I looked out my front door.
Would you tell us what is the knob on the lower left bottom of your monitor at 3:30 you are turning. You started turning it when you said that you were going to make a U turn.
Hi Jeff. Thanks for the question. At that point in the flight the plane was flying on autopilot. I had the autopilot set to hold a heading. The heading bug is set and changed using the knob you saw me turning. As I rotated the heading bug from 270 to 180 degrees, the autopilot started a turn to intercept the new heading. The turn was executed by the autopilot - I never touched the stick.
Hi, just an observation and a question. I may be off base here! My RV-12iS ELSA appears to have identical avionics as your SLSA. I'm super happy with the choice. I think while flying with the A/P on you used the small left G3X knob to turn the Heading Bug when you decided to turn around. I normally use the larger HDG knob on the A/P control head to do that. I haven't ever tried using the smaller left G3X knob to do that. Seems I pretty much haven't touched the lower left G3X knobs at all. Again, my powers of observation are quite limited so I may be off base. If that's what you did, I'm curious what your experience and hence choice process was to use the method you did. Respectfully, Scott
Hi Scott. Thanks for the question. I tend to use both controls. It is my habit to press the knob at lower left to set the bug to the current heading and sometimes after I've done that I stick with that knob to make minor adjustments. It's just a preference thing I suppose. I agree that larger heading changes like the one I did are more easily handled with the bigger knob on the A/P head. I also note that in rough air the larger knob on the A/P head is easier to grasp and control.
I watch all your videos. I have a hangar at Cleveland GA. 0GE5. I have a PiperSport.
Thank you Dennis, I appreciate that you are a faithful follower. I will try to keep my videos entertaining for you.
Really enjoy all your videos.
What is the app you are using to get your airport specific weather?
I use ForeFlight exclusively. For flight planning I use it on my iPad. I also have it installed on my iPhone. The airport info, including weather, on the iPhone comes out looking like the image in the video. When I am airborne, I use the iPhone version to look up airport info enroute.
In our area we often have a forecast of a full sun day no cloud, get all excited camera at the ready only to find it is inverted and very hazy. 😪Need to study my Skew T to predict them.
I feel your pain! 😬 For me, it's a 45 minute drive to the airport and either the weather changes or conditions are just different there than what I saw when I looked out my front door.
Dalton has a pretty nice airport. It was a leg on my cross country
They have a nice long runway. i thought that with the carpet mills nearby I would see corporate jets, but no.
@@rv12sg cartersville has quite the fleet of small jets. Phoenix aviation is based there.
Would you tell us what is the knob on the lower left bottom of your monitor at 3:30 you are turning. You started turning it when you said that you were going to make a U turn.
Hi Jeff. Thanks for the question. At that point in the flight the plane was flying on autopilot. I had the autopilot set to hold a heading. The heading bug is set and changed using the knob you saw me turning. As I rotated the heading bug from 270 to 180 degrees, the autopilot started a turn to intercept the new heading. The turn was executed by the autopilot - I never touched the stick.
Hi, just an observation and a question. I may be off base here! My RV-12iS ELSA appears to have identical avionics as your SLSA. I'm super happy with the choice. I think while flying with the A/P on you used the small left G3X knob to turn the Heading Bug when you decided to turn around. I normally use the larger HDG knob on the A/P control head to do that. I haven't ever tried using the smaller left G3X knob to do that. Seems I pretty much haven't touched the lower left G3X knobs at all. Again, my powers of observation are quite limited so I may be off base. If that's what you did, I'm curious what your experience and hence choice process was to use the method you did. Respectfully, Scott
Hi Scott. Thanks for the question. I tend to use both controls. It is my habit to press the knob at lower left to set the bug to the current heading and sometimes after I've done that I stick with that knob to make minor adjustments. It's just a preference thing I suppose. I agree that larger heading changes like the one I did are more easily handled with the bigger knob on the A/P head. I also note that in rough air the larger knob on the A/P head is easier to grasp and control.