http://www.garmin.com/products/gpsmap296/# Pretty cool! Mike MU-2

Just got home from spending the weekend in Houston at the Continental Airlines Training Facility flying the Boeing 737-300 simulator. Full motion and landing certified. My wife bought me the ATOP weekend for a Christmas present and man what a blast! Had the greatest time. I would...

I saw an ad in AOPA for www.airchart.com . Does anyone have any experience with these charts? My flight instructor recently got them. For someone that does a bit of traveling, it sounds like a great deal. I'm curious how practical they are (in-flight usage, not able to draw the big 'ol line across...

Does anyone have any information on this incident? The brief news item I heard said the plane was headed back here to Maine. -- Roger Long

What's Your Call Sign? Naval aviators often give up their given name for a contrived, loving or humorous nickname.* My staff (me--with a little help from the Mech guy...OK, Dan...a lot of help) has come up with a list of our top-ten favorite call signs.* I hope you will enjoy the list and will...

No. Straight lines on Lambert Conformal maps are not great circles. It's my understanding that the Lambert Conformal is better than any other flat surface at representing the curved surface of the earth in such a way that a straight line on the chart comes very close to being a Great...

I have always thought that it would be a nice training tool to be able to get a handheld GPS to work with Microsoft Flight Simulator. I had success with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, Garmin 196, and Garmin GPS III Pilot. I would imagine that a Garmin 295 would also work. Peter Dowson has some...

My hanger mate has been considering buying a RV-6A for a few months. We made one trip to Texas to view one but that did not work out. Today we went to Mesa AZ (Phoenix area) from Colorado Springs CO to view another one. My planning generated a trip that straight line was about 478 nm. But that...

I've been planning a little weekend getaway for self, wife, and son for a while now. I've a club airplane lined up, I've paid off the weather gods, and I've arranged for someone to feed the cats. I've also been playing with Aeroplanner just for fun (I've not yet decided if it's a keeper, but I've...

Guess the Call Sign? • Lt. Bill "The Worm" Selk • Lt. Bill "Farkle" Freckleton (A RIO who flew F-4B Phantoms with VF-111 off USS Coral Sea.* Got the call sign from the old Laugh In show--the Farkle family.) • LtCol. T.R. "Olongapo" Longo (Rare double call sign:* T.R. stands for "The Remarkable"...

14 CFR 121.327 says that "cabin pressure altitude" and "flight altitude" mean the same thing for unpressurized cabins. Now, even though Part 91 doesn't have the same statement, I think it reasonable that the same definition applies to 91.211...

I'll be flying out of White Plains, NY (HPN) to Allentown, PA (ABE) in early June and would like to fly down the Hudson River to the Statue of Liberty then west. It looks like the Class B and TEB's Class D would allow this at 1000' MSL without any clearance or approval, am I right in this...

http://www.windycitysoaring.com/ASK21%20Flight%20Lesson1.wmv I put these clips together that my dad took from the backseat of a glider as I flew and added music! Trace Lewis

Approach, March-April 2004 Survival at Sea By PR2 Ronald Beermnder The Coast Guard puts the life expectancy for swimming in 59-degree-Fahrenheit water at less than two hours. It's called hypothermia: Abnormally low body temperature, with slowing of physiologic activity.

My engine has 1200 SMOA and 4500 TT. I can find very little regarding the relevance of total time. Maybe it's close to irrelevant since a MO touches everything anyway. Lyc even zero-times their remans, of course, even they are obviously not truly 0 TT. Just curious about the subject of engine...

Ooops, wrong newsgroup (since this is a VFR question). Putting that right. "David Brooks" wrote in message ... I learned something Friday night while getting in some night solo time. I called Whidbey Approach for a few...

I tried to go to the AOPA Flight Planning web page today, and found that the only option remaining is to download a Microsoft-only application. This seems annoying. Sure, I was able to go directly to the duat web site, and it was fine. But I'm a member of AOPA, and they've eliminated a benefit...

I would like to find a database that shows the pilot certificates in a specific zip code or city for some research. Does anyone know if there is one available? Thanks... Chuck ---

The old BLM TFR site is up for the time being, but the message: BLM Airspace Information System has moved to the NIFC Airspace Information System. http://airspace.nifc.gov Please update your links. Redirects visitors Don

Does anyone have the King CFI/FOI exam course and/or the King CFI Checkride Course on DVD? VHS doesn't do me a lot of good because I have a portable DVD player and can watch DVD's anytime. EBay doesn't anything but the ASA course which I heard isn't as good. email me at...