While discussing flight safety in a different thread, the idea popped into my head that rental planes are probably more dangerous to fly than owner-flown aircraft. In my case, some of the rental birds I used to fly were down-right scary, and I know that they were often abused and ignored. This...

I was at my AME and saw a picture of Chuck Yeager. The AME's wife (who works the desk) said that both Chuck and his wife go there. Apparently Chuck's wife is learning to fly. -Robert

Over the last 24 hours there were 23 new Garmin GPS396 up for auction , no one is bidding on them except 1 which went for $89 Euro. It looks very suss that they all come up about the same time and all come from China or Hong Kong and from sellers with little or no feedback history. Seeing as...

Of course it has to be the correct card type. Ron Lee

I went up with my boyfriend today, first time in a small plane. I think was a King Air. He said it is customary to show your breasts above five thousand feet. My girlfriend and I did it, but was he messing with us?. My girlfriend had bigger breasts than I did and were perky suckers. I think I am...

My first solo xc flight plan was from 3A1 VUZ TCL and back to 3A1. It was a little windy, about 5-6 knots at times. The flight went as planned. I departed 3A1 about 11:00am. After passing the VUZ VOR, I headed to Tuscaloosa. It was a pleasant trip. When I arrived at TCL I had to...

I have been a private pilot for about 20 years. My usual practice is to go for a medical in the beginning of the month in which my current medical expires. That way I get the full 24 months of coverage (class 2). Bad idea. This time, my AME decided that he needed to send my case to the FAA for...

The recent thread regarding the lack of parts for the Garmin 480 got me to wondering just how long the G-1000's will "live"? Steam gauges are forever, but integrated circuits are produced for a given period, then production is ceased as newer chips come along. Does Garmin mention anywhere how...

A relatively new reference book on flight is out. Flight Dynamics by: Robert Stengel 2004 It contains a ground reference flight model that looks nice and needs to be used to authorize new FAA training methods. All relative wind theory is crap.

Do any of you listen to music while flying? If so, do you listen yourself, or do passengers listen, or do you all listen? Is there any regulatory obstacle to this? (Some aircraft are apparently equipped for it, so it must be allowed.) I don't listen to music when driving because it distracts...

http://kevinandrews.com/1967_cherokee_180_c_for_sale__as.htm I hope it ok to post this in here.

I just spoke with Lycoming regarding my very high fuel flow. Recently I've had a problem where I'm getting almost double my normal fuel flow at idle even with the mixture at the edge of cut-off. I suspected a servo but called Lycoming. They said I may have a nozzel with a blockage and the other...

While Googling around, I ran across this: http://tl.cs.fiu.edu/qGNRzLatqEz34.416386qAzLongqEz-119.808472qAzplace_NameqEzMores+Landing#Omnisearch There is an enormous amount of aerial imagery available.

We flew commercial back to Atlanta yesterday from California after a weeklong trip to San Francisco, Napa, and Yosemite. On the way home, I had a window seat and was surprised on a couple of occasions at how close 1,000' of vertical separation appears when you're looking out the window from...

If this was already posted and I missed it. Sorry. For those of you interested (especially the pilots), a very nice job of showing what led up to the crash into the New York apartment building by Lidle in his SR20. click below......... http://tinyurl.com/s8cey

Just over a week ago, our airport had it's first annual open house type event. I'd been looking forward to it for about a month when a fuel leak seemed like it might keep me from flying some Young Eagles that day. The day before the event, I'd taken the plane in for a couple minor maintenance...

I have a question for this group, but first must state (as will soon become obvious) that I'm not a pilot and know just enough about flying to be dangerous, i.e., not much. The question: I've read on this newsgroup that the turn that Lidle's plane was making was tight (I'm very familiar with this...

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OK, everyone, since some feel they have to respond to Mxsmaniac's posts, how about being humane to all of us who don't want to read all of the crap that is following in his wake. It is easy to make a change to your reply, to help us all out. Simply position your cursor in the subject bar after...

I just saw the NOVA program about how two fully loaded 747 jumbo jets collided on a fog-blanketed runway on the island of Tenerife, claiming the lives of 583 people in 1977. The pilot of the KLM plane ordered his plane to be refueled, so he rolled down the runway with 55 tons of fuel for a flight...