Just a question to see if this is typical. Evidently the only agency now willing to insure Flying Club high performance retractables is AOPA. Its great they are stepping up to help AOPA members, we have a 210 and Avemco has left the market. However the new policy in effect for our club will be...

"Wind 285 at 186". That's the highest I've ever seen outside a hurricane. I was coming from the Windy City going south to the Sunshine State at FL330 and crossing the jetstream. The ride through it wasn't too bad, just occasional light chop. I'm sure glad I wasn't westbound! D.

I can't figure out what this beeping thing was that I encountered the other day while flying a 172 from our club. I'm a fresh private and I took my parents to Mansfield airport for Sunday morning breakfast. When we left on runway 14 This beeping thing came on. I think it's a DME. I've seen one...

I'm looking for some help understanding Ground Stops and Ground Delay Programs... In order to reduce arrival rates airports have the following 'tools' to use... 1. ask a flight in the air to 'Slow Down' 2. ask a flight in the air to 'Hold' over the airport 3. issue a 'Ground Stop' 4. issue a...

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Does anyone know if it is legal to substitute distance and speed from an approach certified GPS in place of a DME on a DME required approach? Thanks, Ed

"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message ... "Tim Gilbert" wrote in : I'm putting together a presentation on "aviation enlightenment" that our pilots group...

I am looking for a secondhand, but complete announciator panel for the Seneca III. The sun has destroyed the one in my plane completely and I have looked all over the world the find another, but without any success. Maybe there is some-one out there, on a scrap yard which can sell me that little...

Hi all I am helping a friend promote a web site. You see a childhood friend of hers lost her husband at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. She has run into some hard times and my freind wants to help her. So she came up with the idea to market Just say NO to Bin Ladin dartboards and punching...

Yesterday in Oregon, No injuries. WILBUR - A single-engine airplane crash-landed on a ridge top just north of Roseburg this morning, but all three passengers on board walked away without injuries. The 1981 Mooney took off from the Roseburg airport headed for Lewiston, Idaho, according to the...

Can somebody please enlighten me as to how and why Pinckneyville came to be the home of the annual RAH Flyin? We're trying to do a profile on PJY and the fly-in in particular, for Flyguides and AOPA's Postcards online. I checked the FAQs but couldn't find what I was looking for. Anybody out...

My wife just forwarded me this info, anyone heard anything about it? For whatever reason, I was checking random METARs in CO (I live here in Richmond) today just before lunch, and for the first time I saw sky conditions listed as VV001, which I guess means "vertical visibility 100 feet". From...

Look in the cookbook under "Local Recipes: State of Grease." "RST Engineering" wrote in message ... A few years ago I had a hot beef sandwich at the little mom'n'pop Ardy'n'Ed's drive in restaurant/carhop joint up on the northeast...

The more of these Cirrus accidents I read about, the more I'm convinced that Cirrus has a serious marketing/training problem: http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/business/10853388.htm I'm not convinced there is anything wrong with the aircraft per se. What seems to be happening is...

The Aero-News Propwash newsletter had a lengthy piece this morning on what's entailed in becoming a Sport Pilot examiner, and how the first FAA class (in December) proceeded. The bad news you already know: it's a guvmint program and the guvmint's left hand doesn't know what its right hand is doing....

I started my PP training about 1 1/2 years ago, but due to some unfortunate medical problems in my family, have had to postpone it until this summer. Now that the Sport Pilot license is available, I inquired with my school. The manager basically said "it's useless" and couldn't really see why...

Just a question to see if this is typical. Evidently the only agency now willing to insure Flying Club high performance retractables is AOPA. Its great they are stepping up to help AOPA members, we have a 210 and Avemco has left the market. However the new policy in effect for our club will be...

I am working on my CPL. I am wondering how long it usually takes a 300 hour pilot to master all of the maneuvers to within PTS. I have been working on these maneuvers for six months once or twice a week (weather) here in the North East and am still not ready for the check ride. How many hours will...

My SR22 partners want to install XM weather to the tune of about $10k. I'm not convinced it's worthwhile. The plane is based in Southern California where we don't tend to get the kind of squirrelly weather they get east of the Mississippi. In the summer we'll get isolated thunderstorms over the...

Following the previous discussion on lapse rate, can anyone point me to source where I can find out how saturated adiabatic lapse rate varies with temperature? I know that this number increases from 1C/1000' to 3C/1000' as the temperature gets colder, but I would like to see a plot or an...