Long last few weeks 336 from U.S. to Nicaurauga, 3 hours hold in U.S. Customs they did not like my Lebanon stamp in my passport, 172 from Mas. to WA now home home sitting having a rum & cola relaxing and it's annual time on my buck fifty should be rather straight fwd simple this year but who...

SOMEWHERE on the net I've seen somebody who rents out equipment to degauss the area around where the compass goes. In Cessna 180/185s the compass rests between a steel "V" brace and this sometimes gets a magnetic set, or something. Does anyone remember who rents out that...

Suppose you're PIC with a pilot friend on a long flight. You decide that to save time, one of you can nap while the other continues the flight. The aircraft requires only one pilot. Is this legal? In particular, can the pilot in command sleep during the flight? Or does the active pilot become...

I had a great morning on Pearl Harbor Day. Our little Piper Cherokee is a shared plane, owned by corporation in which we all own shares. We have an older gentleman (Mat) do the books for us in exchange for a few hours a month of flying time so that he can stay current. It is winterizing time...

9/18/2006 - LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFPN) -- Pilot error caused a B-1 Lancer to crash while landing on the runway at a forward-deployed location May 8, 2006, according to an aircraft accident investigation report released here Sept. 18. The co-pilot suffered a minor back injury and the other...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/plane_passing_gas "NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to disguise the scent of flatulence, authorities said. " -Robert

From the Financial Times website: Jumbo blow By Paul Betts Published: December 8 2006 02:00 | Last updated: December 8 2006 02:00 Lufthansa is obviously hedging its bets against further delays in the Airbus A380 superjumbo programme by placing a bumper order for the new stretched version of the...

Tom Fleischman wrote: Does anyone know which flight schools these are? Certainly not the flight school located at my airport in Syracuse, NY. They were asked to join the lawsuit but refused with the explanation that the state political...

..... I am now convinced along with others that the best, most effective tactic shall be to shun he who will no longer be named nor addressed in any of my posts regardless of however often he holds his self out to ridicule. Regards to all, Casey Wilson Freelance Writer and Professional...

Trey Lessard posted the following on the Yahoo Tomahawk group that I thought ya'll might find interesting: N2426N is now deceased...it was 'bartered' to one of the folks who was owed alot of money. The engine was then rebuilt by someone at KBAZ, and the new owner sold it to my brother and I. My...

So we took the Mighty Grape (See it he http://alexisparkinn.com/fuel_truck.htm ), our '95 Nissan pickup fuel-hauling truck (so-named because of its hideous purple color), into the shop, after noting that the tail lights had ceased to function. When the shop tried to lift the poor thing on the...

Hi, We all take pictures when we fly. And we can do better than vertical pictures shot by satellites. (Even if i'm not a convincing exemple of this statement.) Why not share them with other people? I have created a web page dedicated to this kind of pictures. It starts from scratch, so your...

I think one of the plaintiff schools would be American Flyers at Islip KISP and possibly Dowling College, their flight department is located at HWV. Ron Tom Fleischman wrote: http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2006/061207nysuit.html

The only solution to this numbskull is ignoring him... I beg you all, please do, this newsgroup is pointless if the sort of discussions he creates continue to exist.

Reading MXx's responses to our answers, ****ed me off a bit, and I began to wonder why. Somewhere I got the idea that if I didn't know something, and asked someone who did, I might actually profit from respectfully listening to their answer. While I might have some further questions, my...

A friend on another forum posted this in response to an e-mail received about a bf110 recovery in Europe: http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

I have a new widescreen monitor. Is it possible in any of the recent MS flightsim setups to park the radio stack off to the side instead of on top of the Course Deviation Indicators?

Source: Dow Jones News of 17.06.2003 Boeing Co (BA) may be making a lot of hype at the Paris Air Show about its proposed 7E7 airliner that was dubbed the Dreamliner over the weekend, but the chief salesman of Boeing's rival Airbus (F.ABI) knows a sales gimmick when he sees one. "The "dream...

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20040219X00202&ntsbno=ANC04FA021&akey=1 "The airplane was being operated as an instrument flight rules (IFR) cross-country personal flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident occurred. The non-instrument rated, solo private-certificated pilot,...

There was a little press on the boob tube during the week of Thanksgiving as the first operation was scheduled for Thanksgiving Day (I imagine there's at least a joke or 3 in there...