Following from AW&ST 24 MAY 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SMA DIESEL REVS UP Its their diesel-cycle jet-fuel general avation engine. SMA delivered the first engine 24 Jan. Will ramp up to 30 engines a month by June. They have over 500 orders for the initial 230 HP, 4 cyl, 5 liter Model

http://www.joked.com/view.php?id=791&item_nr=18&total=738 Wow.

I talked with a METAR expert at the NWS today about the P000 (three zeros) group. I've long been bothered by the fact that many AWOS's include the group all the time; moreover, according to the specs, there should never be THREE zeros. A P0000 (four zeros) indicates that there has been an...

Curious to know how busy flight schools are now that summer has arrived. Ours sucks, but I'm not sure if it's the economy or our extraordinarily high prices (C152, $85/hr). Normally this time of year, the schedule is booked until 8 or 9 pm.

"avfan" wrote in message news:j1c2b0h37tm0cvslp7o92q0k47rrsjdf8t@news... http://www.airliners.net/open.file/541868/M/ Ah those were the days... I wonder if those commercial aircraft used water injection. Imagine that aircraft with 8 engines, spewing double the smoke,...

The other flying club on our field has just been told by Avemco that they won't insure Piper Lances and other large complex planes for flying clubs any more. Since we've got a Lance as well, we're trying to get a confirmation from Avemco. If true, this is a big blow. I wonder if they'd insure a...

Thanks to Dan Luke, pix of the infamous Pinckneyville "rec.aviation" fly-in are now available on the "Rogue's Gallery"! See them at: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rogue's_gallery_i_-_p.htm (Scroll down to the "P's"....) Looks like a great time! Next year, for sure!

Hello all, Passed my Private Pilot Checkride yesterday (see my posting in r.a.student), and just in the nick of time, as I'm moving from Omaha to Minneapolis next week to begin my medical residency. Despite being overworked I still plan on flying at least once or twice a month. I will be living...

Hi all, Can someone tell me if they're seen this particular model actually shipping anywhere? Many thanks, CC

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Anybody have a contact for an instructor/FBO in Gulf Shores?

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I used to listen to live ATC webcasts a couple of years ago and was able to get LAX, DFW, Ohare, etc. Now the only link I can find is for SoCal approach. The rest of the links are offline, some w/ messages stating they were requested to stop transmission, etc. Is this due to security concerns? ...

Like many airplane partnerships, we've wished we had a simple, web-based system to schedule the plane, that everyone (four partners) can log onto and which will keep a central calendar for us. We had looked at a commercial "flying club scheduler" that would do everything we wanted, but it...

Hi, I want to buy an Headset. I have two offers: a Sennheiser HME100 and a David Clark H10-60. Both are used but in excellent conditions. Price about the same. Which it is better? Thanks

Until last month, I hadn't flown on an airliner for about 8 years. Last month, however, my father was suddenly hospitalized and because the weather was bad I decided to fly down via Delta instead of flying my own plane as I usually do. In the line for the security screening at the airport, the two...

For the first time last week, on Sunday evening I took my wife up with me in the Piper 180 at Central Jersey. I have to confess that I was a lot more scared than she was. In fact she was COMPLETELY indifferent to the point of annoyance. I on the other hand was utterly terrified. I mean, what if...

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A recent compass swing on our plane has turned up some opinions about magnetic compasses that are surprising to me.. A club member has asked me why we spent money to have a 14 degree error removed from our compass since it is just a back up instrument if everything else quits. He just sets the DG...

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