A Hell-USA Helicopter crashed at Princetown Thursday, killing the pilot and three passengers. Then yesterday a Smoky Mountain Tours helicopter crashed on Kauai. One person died of a heart attack, so the news media are saying that it was a fatal crash. There have been something like 8 helicopter...

Does anybody have any suggestions on flying down to Dayton to see the museum at Wright-Pat? Good airports to use, good places to stay, etc? Is there public transit to Wright-Pat or will I need to rent a car? -- Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/ May all their sendmail.cf...

As much as you have wanted to visit the Hangar Hotel, you definitely made the right decision about the direction of your vacation. We're about 70 miles east of Fredericksburg, and here's a synopsis of what we've enjoyed lately. Sunday: solid IFR, light rain. Sunday night-Monday...

Looking at the prog charts for the next several days, Texas looks like a mess. Moderate to heavy rains, thunderstorms, yuck. Our plan to head south on Sunday is scrubbed. So, we're looking at heading to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina instead. The progs look great for at least three or four days, and...

While conversing about something altogether unrelated today, it slowly dawned on me that I bought and brought home about 500 lbs of dog food over the past 6 months. We have 70 new pounds of dog in that same period. That means the brownish dust blowing about the backyard is not really topsoil...

For the last few weeks I have been getting numerous phone calls everyday from a number that lists itself as "PUB INTEREST CO". Since I'm not in the habit of picking up the phone to talk to solicitors, I don't answer calls from unknown parties. But today I thought I would put an end to all the...

We're hoping to depart for Fredericksburg, Texas (T82) next Sunday, to pay a visit to the Hangar Hotel -- the only other aviation themed hotel in the country (that we know of). Fredericksburg itself sounds very neat, and we'll spend a day or two there, but the kids want WARM weather -- and so do...

I am a little excited. Flying into Boise to pick it up and then back to RAL. Hope the weather will be good.

Folks, If you are a local operator from KPLU, or are flying to KPLU, you can now get WX info from the AWOS. The address is: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KPLU.html Hope you find it useful. Rick

Several years ago, I was offered a warbird ride by one of the old timers at the airport. So, of course, I took him up on it and had a great time riding around in the front seat of an open cockpit biplane. Now that the person has moved out of the area, I've been told by his friends that A) He...

Is Lowrance not selling the Airmap 500 anymore ? http://www.lowrance.com/Products/Aviation/default.asp

A friend and I were discussing the Flight Design CT2K and CTSW LSA's and he mentioned that he had read in Wikipedia that "The CTSW is reported to be somewhat more challenging to fly than other LSA, owing to the higher wing loading and low drag; the low drag increases speed but requires additional...

Well, the vibration in the prop that I mentioned last week has been rectified. Aparently they fixed it up during the week. No sign of vibration anymore. Did 2 circuits with the instructor today, and 5 solo. Was reasonable happy with my last touch down, but all the rest were a bit sloppy. Winds...

As is apparent from my other recent thread, we're planning to fly to Texas Sunday afternoon. Well, today was a beautiful day here in Iowa, and we agreed to fly a good friend to a nearby airport, where he was supposed to pick up his new (to him) Cessna 172, and take his biennial flight review. We...

Happened to fall across a Heritage Flight training session the other day while in the vicinity of Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ: http://www.pbase.com/flyingphotog/aviation_imagery First four pics across the top of the gallery... Jay Beckman PP-ASEL Chandler, AZ

Well?

Does anyone have a recommendation for which field and FBO to use at Tucson? Will be there about four days in a Saratoga. Stan

I have a script that generates a custom web page of TAFs and METARs for airports that I'm interested in so I can quickly access that information from my Treo. I just noticed that it's been broken since late January because it's unable to ftp to weather.noaa.gov. Does anybody know if that site is...

According to "Fly With Blake", http://fly.blakecrosby.com/2007/03/toronto_airspace_changes_expla.html the YYZ "Class C Mode C" airspace stretches out to 26nm, and now they are going to make the ring from 26nm out to 65nm from 6,500MSL to 12,500MSL "Class E Mode C", meaning you don't need a...

If you live in a country that does DD/MM/YY, then this year is Boeing's year. Let me explain. April 7, 2007 7/4/07 will be 747 May 7, 2007 7/5/07 will be 757 June 7, 2007 7/6/07 will be 767 July 7, 2007 7/7/07 will be 777 - the best one of them all! August 7, 2007 will be 787 Boeing should...