Nomen Nescio wrote: "You have to leave, NOW, sir!", he replied sternly. Now this brings up an interesting question. Are we, as US citizens on public land during peacetime, required to abide by the orders of military personnel? On what grounds did he have authority over your actions and...

Some flight plan software requires one to enter a power chart for the aircraft. This is used to calculate time enroute at different altitudes and temperatures. The chart has TAS for various combinations of altitude and power. Given the single airspeed/altitude/power setting provided by the aircraft...

One of the things that TERRIFIED me for the longest time was turbulence. In fact, the very reason why my wife bought me a "Discovery Flight" at the very beginning (and got me hooked to flying) was to get me to see that there was nothing to fear from planes, after me and her had a really bad (for...

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:36:43 -0400, Todd Pattist wrote: I note that Mr. Lynch's comments are not definitive and he's been wrong before How can the guy who wrote 61 be wrong about the interpretation of 61? z

This will be my first winter flying the club's Lance. One instructor told me that you want to tap the brakes before retracting the gear to dislodge any slush or snow so that it doesn't freeze in the wheel well, and I read somebody else saying that you should hold off retracting the gear...

Probably way past due for me to post something not off-topic... Today while descending from a leaf-watching flight at 13K down to 5K, the "high voltage" indicator flickered for about a minute and then went out. It has never done that before. I forgot that a useful procedure is to cycle the...

I'm trying to find a specification or at least waveforms for the Bendix/King serial data protocol used on some DME gear. Googling has come up with nothing. Any help appreciated. Rob

At a time when Big Aviation (Boeing, Airbus et. al.) seem to be going out of their way to make airplanes as boring as possible, it's nice to know that the pioneer spirit of men like Howard Hughes is still with us. http://www.space.com/news/rutan_interview_041014.html -cwk.

Question from a new flight student (whopping 7 hours!) I was looking at the AOPA airport info. ANP and W29 don't list AWOS or ATIS freqs. That seems pretty critical. So - where does one download "better" info so you can get local weather

The other day I heard on Center "Helicopter 1234 with you Flight Level 340". This can't be possible, can it? Is there enough air up there for the rotors to be effective? -Robert

I have been hearing about this new law that allows banks to transmit check electronically instead of having to actually deliver the checks. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=677&e=2&u=/usatoday/20041012/bs_usatoday/sandrablockyourmoneynewlawmeanschecksmayclearorbouncefaster Is this...

EXPORTING JOBS IMPORTING POVERTY The U.S. population is increasing by about three million legal and illegal immigrants each year while jobs are being exported by the bucketful. Anyone who doesn`t wear a decoder ring should realize the country is in trouble and our politicians are more interested...

OK pilots, try this one on for size. As you likely know, there is a wide and growing rift between the career FAA bureaucrats (aka FAA Management) who run the monstrosity called the federal Air Traffic Organization, and the career FAA air traffic controllers who make that monstrosity work in the...

"Ash Wyllie" wrote in message ... -- I wonder how many modelers even know that NOTAMS even exist? What are they going to do: take your model airplane license away?

White Knight and Spaceship One just took off. Wish them luck! You can watch it live at xprize.org. p.s. N328KF is listed as a glider... no 'engine' : ) -lance smith

I saw a message here the other night from someone with the Fear of Flying... can't find it now... but if "you" see this... I too had a problem with flying, especially long flights. Anyways I found some help at this free forum (Taking Flight). Good info from others who have FOF, and there are...

I saw a message here the other night from someone with the Fear of Flying... can't find it now... but if "you" see this... I too had a problem with flying, especially long flights. Anyways I found some help at this free forum (Taking Flight). Good info from others who have FOF, and there are...

I reside in Fairfield County, CT and train in Westchester County, NY. I'm looking for an optometrist or ophthalmologist who may specialize in treating vision correction for pilots. Anyone have a recommendation? Thanks in advance.

SInce I took my training longer ago than most of you are alive, I'm confused about current practices. I came across a NTSB report that described a pilot with about 320 hours TT, of which about 75 were as PIC. The pilot was about half way though his flight training for his IRF rating, had a PPL and...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041014/D85N6DH81.html I'll bet they sure don't have any money to offer federal grants to small-town airports to do worthwhile things like install security fences etc, though.