Capt Lou,as somebody who has just got this  venerable 'old bird' out of the hangar where after purchase it lay dormant,as I have been spending far too much time with the latest modern day  'heavies' and their FMC-enabled navaids,this a/c's navaids system was all a bewilderment to me until I read your oh-so-informative tuition above.Thank you very much for going to all that effort of not only a textual tutorial but like the old adage of 'a picture paints.....', I have learned something  today.

Wow! is the only word befitting what you have taken the time and trouble to do

This may be a dumb question, but did you have to get a different kind of pilot's license when you got the Cub?

Though is there a different kind of license for flying a private prop than for a commercial jet? (Other than the basic certification for the airplane, that is)

CoolP wrote on Jun 27^th, 2011 at 10:30am:

Ahhhh. Good old (young actually) Heidi! Don't you love it when she screams in terror? I sure do! On normal, not so exciting, flights, I don't take her with me. 

Could be that the biggest license to achieve is the "wifey-flies-too" one. My girlfriend said that she will never sit in a plane where I'm the pilot in command. Seems as if those Heidi screams had some impact. 
That's kinda hard, but I still will go my way and then make her drunk or something.  

CoolP, tell her people shell out big bucks at DizzyWorld to go loop-d-loop and all sorts of puke inducing rides. The plane ride is tame next to some of the coasters today.

When I got married to my sweet wife, I would take her for rides in the plane. One day many years ago, I said to her I was going out to the airport to wash my plane. She said "see you later." I went out to the airport near where I live to do a little cleaning and as I was working on my plane I noticed the various airport bums sitting out side the office watching me work. I was perplexed since watching some one clean a plane was akin to paint drying.

Well, it soon became clear why the bums were keeping an eye on me. A small plane flew over the airport, entered the pattern and landed. The plane taxied up to where I was working and out popped my wife with a log book tied with a ribbon.

It happened to be my birthday and this was her present to me.    

While I was away at work flying for the airlines, she would take lessons. All the bums knew what she was doing, just not me!  

I don't know about you, but I thought that was one cool birthday present.  

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Bruce, if you lived nearby,  there would be a shortage of bourbon.     I would have you doing ADF approaches in IMC weather in that old CS 707!

Hello Capt Lou

What a lovely story. Tugs at the human ethos. very befitting birthday present for a gentleman in every sense,even after you have hung up your airline headsets.

Unlike btscott,I cannot offer you YouTube lessons, nevertheless, I'd be willing to sit and learn all navigating these old steam-driven planes.

Capt Lou,if it is not too much trouble, can you kindly run me through capturing the VOC/LOC and G/S as last night I was approaching YMML,night flight,set the ILS frequency in the NAV1 radio of 109.30,and at 2000ft selected VOR/LOC on the 2D AP pop-out panel,and yet the a/c did not track that beam.I had to hand land it eventually. Was I doing something wrong?

I have done autolands with several of the glass-cockpit FS9/FSX aircraft capturing the VOR/LOC+ G/S without any probs,yet this one flummoxes me.

You have an incredible skill at being so instructive,hence I'm asking for your help,if it's not too much bother. Thank you in advance.