Anyone have any experience taking small children flying for the first time? Did the kids start screaming the minute the wheels left the pavement or were they pretty calm? Bill

Last weekend, we decided to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary, by flying down to D.C. to see the still-new flight musueum. Very worthwhile for anyone with any interest in aviation. I pinged Ron & Margy and despite their busy schedule was able to get together with them. For those paying...

Here are the web sites of two guys from Northern California flying solo around the world. One, Dean Stahr flying a C-182RG Turbo, turns 80 in Nov. The youngster, Bill Randolph flying an RV-8, turns 77 this fall. My wife and I have talked to Dean on his satellite phone twice Dean's site...

Today, for the first time in weeks, dawned clear, cool, and calm. After a VERY early spring (with temps in the 80s for over a week), we have experienced extremely high winds and record COLD temps. In fact, we broke the record here on both Sunday and Monday... (Take THAT all you "global warming"...

More port for big business? ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVflash Volume 11, Number 17a -- April 25, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------- D.C. LOOKS AT PRIVATIZATION...

Anyone know the official requirement for all those yellow tags that are bulging out of the airframe log book? Do they need to be saved? THX

ATC says "radar contact, 20 miles south of XYZ, proceed on course". Do you acknowledge this transmission? How about when ATC says "altimeter setting 2992" on your first contact after a handoff? Does this require acknowledgement? In the past, I've acknowledged such things if the controller was...

Hey all, looks like I need to plan a flight to the Detroit area for a family thing. The actual function I'm attending is in Ypsilanti but everyone is meeting at my sister's house which is in South Lyon. So it looks like either New Hudson (Y47), Willow Run (YIP) or Pontiac (PTK) are my choices for...

Hi, when I saw page of my friend Tomek describing his recent coast to coast flight I decided my pages need to be finally done properly. :-) So here it is again - this year instead of flying I spent time reading other people stories and redesigning my...

Wow. When we started the Rogue's Gallery -- a webpage where aviation newsgroup aficionados can post pictures of our aircraft, in an effort to get to know one another better -- I had no idea this thing would eventually grow to encompass 32 different makes of aircraft! More amazingly, within those...

fs: 2 icom radios and quick charger base...eBay...item # 4549262271

Something Dudley said in the Leaving Usenet thread got me thinking about flying a P51. I found www.stallion51.com as an option. Does anyone have any personal experience or know of any dual control Mustangs that offer a chance to fly them? Thanks, Michael

Does anyone have any idea if there is a searchable NOTAM/TFR history online? I'm trying to plan for a trip not far from where an air show will be taking place. The NOTAM for this year's event is not published yet. For preliminary planning purposes, I'd like to see how big of an area was TFR'ed...

Marco, There used to be one at Somerset (SMQ), but IIRC it was for sale for a long time and I haven't seen it for some time. ISTR that it moved to Sky Manor or Alexandria. I'll ask around tomorrow and see if I can find out where it went. -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

Got a chance to play with the big boys today. The Mid-Atlantic Aviation Coalition, a PAC that tries to protect NJ Airports from local NIMBY's and developers, had its annual meeting at the original terminal building (Building 1) at Newark Airport this morning. The airport waived the landing fee for...

Thanks for reading - I'm new to this forum but found a lot of information! I am buying a 172RG II in Miami Beach area and will be flying solo back to San Jose, california on May 19th. My planned route is through the gulf, through New Orleans, Texas, Arizona and then back to San Jose (KRHV). Does...

on CNN Jim

Apparently an aviation buff was carjacked last night in Battle creek. When I turned on channel 17, the police chief was reporting that the suspect was in a vehicle bearing license plate "Flynfun". Sad (and otherwise OT) news report from Wood Channel 8 reposted...

Its been fun but I am leaving all usenet group's maby see you all at a fly-in or two over the years

I'm looking for daily low temperatures at a certain station (KBED) for the month of January 2005. Is there a place where METAR data is archived?