Operational Tips & Tricks

(continuing from email thread)

So chime in: how many of you have a quick way handy to reference rate of climb for required climb performance, such as david's table?

Or do you just plan to pull it from published info, such as the terminal procedures supplement? (or, maybe do the numbers in your head with a rule of thumb?)

How often have you needed to reference this info in the past, say, year or so? What was the scenario? What did you learn from needing to check it?

The FAA has finally revised the takeoff obstacle clearance procedures.

Check out AIM 5-2-9

Some of you may not be aware of the increased gross weight of our Cessna.

Attached are performance data as well as weight and balance for weights above 2950. Do keep in mind though that max landing weight remains at 2950.

This is just a reminder of what our Garmin GTN 750s & 650 will (and won't) do related to ILS approaches. Many (most?) of you may already know this, but it's a good reminder nonetheless. I was flying with a member in the A36 the other day and (after fulfilling my duties to look out for traffic) saw that the 750 wasn't tracking the ILS properly - after diagnosing, we recognized that the LOC freq had been automatically populated into the 750 upon activation of the approach, BUT...we hadn't made it active (manually). So just remember, when you activate an ILS in the 750, it will help you by putting the LOC freq into STANDBY, but NOT into Active - you must do that yourself. It will switch from GPS to VLOC automatically (if set up properly under Settings), but will leave the LOC freq as standby. I was readin…