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I'm impressed with the new FreeFlight iPhone app from Seattle Avionics,
free, which became available Jan. 3. It opens with a listing of nearby
airports ranked by distance from your position. A small graphic depicts
runway orientation and relative length. Text show distance and compass
heading, longest runway length, pattern altitude, airspace class, fuel
availability, current weather category, tower, ATIS and ground
frequencies.

Click on the listing and you get a satellite photo of airport and more
comm detail plus navaid listing.

You can choose to display "small airports" as well as airports. Thus I
can see my own airport, Brian Ranch, as well as other private desert
airports that are registered with the FAA. Now that I've got a listing
for Bohunk's Airpark in Lancaster, I plan to fly there and check out the
1900-foot runway.

App also has animated weather radar, local, regional or national. You
can create a flight plan very quickly and it will file the plan with DTC
DUAT if you want. Or you can just fly it without filing it.

To do flight plans you have to have a DTC DUAT profile. That's when I
discovered that the FAA has purged me from its list of active pilots
because I don't have a medical and I don't have a Sport Pilot
certificate. I have a Commercial certificate. I had to send DTC a copy
of my pilot certificate and my valid driver license to be reinstated.
They notified me overnight that I was in the system and my new access
code. Then I was able to complete my configuration of FreeFlight.

Dick

Dick
Thanks - I just installed it.
Combined with the moving map that AirWX has, and the heading, altitude and ground speed available with Handy GPS, the IPhone might be all I need. I'll try them out for a week. The weather here in SoCal has been remarkable the past week, and is supposed to stay this way for a while.
John

John,

Good for you.

I got two afternoon flights in at Brian Ranch this week. Amazing. But Sunday I'm
going to race my sailboat in Long Beach and would like more wind than is being
predicted.

I guess you've got your plane back from Earthstar. Having fun with it?
 Dick O'Reilly

Bahh!! Y.......... You got nice, we got crap. Oh well, we had some nice unexpected flying days in December.

kb

Dick
Oh boy, am I ever having fun with it. Mark (and Mike) did a wonderful job installing the BRS and refurbishing. I think you're supposed to get some wind Sunday, Say hi to Dick Barnes if you see him. I'll probably see you at Brian Ranch or El Mirage one of these days.
John