The National Cherokee Fly-In will be June 18-20, 2004. See it at http://www.cherokeeflyin.com/ Mary and I attended this fly-in (in Afton, OK) last year, and it was great! The 2nd Annual should be awesome! Pencil it in... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA

I've noticed something interesting about the aviation newsgroups: posters tend to disappear. I don't mean the posts getting lost, I mean that certain people will post for a while and then just stop. The way I see it, these groups have 3 types of inhabitants: the prolific posters, the lurk...

After last week's great flight down to Atlanta and back to NJ, I've begun to seriously investigate upgrading "my" aircraft to an SR-20. By "my" I mean that I currently rent, and for long distance flights meant more for vacation like the one to Atlanta, I rent a 172SP. I'm very happy with the planes...

I've done a bit of research on where to put your plane if you are flying in. You can't taxi to the museum, so that is right out. Piedmont Hawthorne quoted me $10.96 for landing and $20 a day for parking, with NO transport to the museum. They did offer me a number for Enterprise rent a car and...

Just wondering if anyone on this NG is involved with Canadore College's acquistion of the Air Canada DC-9 thats being donated. I'm just curious cause I can't get any information from my teachers about it.

Me again, Va seems to be only intended to protect against excessive positive load factors. What about negative g's? Can I find a Va for negative design load factors (-1.52 g) for the C172SP anywhere? Reason I am asking is that I want to try the "floating pencil" trick next time I fly but I...

I'm in danger of becoming a regular contributor to "Aviation Safety". My second article has just gone to press. It answers these burning questions: 1) Why is nose wheel shimmy usually reported by only two or three club members and no one else is having a problem? 2) How can you grease a...

Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone. Hope you didn't over eat like I did :-( or :-) depending on your perspective. A month or so ago, I purchased the ICom A-5. It came with the rechargeable battery. I have read a lot about that battery so I know that it leaves some to be desired. After I charged...

Hi all, Sorry haven't been participating much lately, "free time" has become just a figure of speech for me lately. Quick question: I'm not a helicopter pilot, so I don't have any first-hand experience with this. A family member is an electrician and works at a hospital where they're thinking of...

Just wondering. Is it possible (read practical) to take a certified aircraft (C172 for example) and have it "demoted" to an Experimental? Seems there are LOTS of great options out there for non-certified flight instruments (EFIS's and such) available for not much more than a song and a dance, but...

There is a CAA document which lists the range of a small number of the NDBs in the UK, along with the VORs. But most of the NDBs on the 1:500,000 UK map are just not in that list at all. It appears that some are not working at all, or of *very* short range. I tried to use two close by recently...

story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031204/ap_on_re_us/blimp_accident_5 George Patterson Some people think they hear a call to the priesthood when what they really hear is a tiny voice whispering "It's indoor work with no heavy lifting".

Copied with permission from rec.arts.books: The contraption and the bicycle makers four times aloft at Kittyhawk, among astonished gulls unused to share their mastery of the wind; the air sundered briefly, the most a minute; before gravity resumed dominion over canvas, wood and wire.

I've been toying with the idea of getting my headsets repainted in that harlequin paint you see on cars. You'd know instamatically what I'm talking about if you've seen those cars that change colour. Any...

I've been flying a Diamond Star DA40-180 for a few months now and wanted to post my thoughts on it. I transitioned from a 172 to the DA40 and my FOB rents out both for about the same price. However the DA40 is much nicer: faster, more room, standard fancy electronics, and definitely sexier (sorry...

http://www.tsa.gov/public/interapp/editorial/editorial_1113.xml This IB will constitute a set of federally endorsed guidelines for enhancing airport security at GA facilities throughout the nation. The TSA IB is due out early in 2004.

I've been trying to find some info on this thing for quite a while now. I've been to Raytheon's site and found specs for the normal Baron only. If some of you do own the P version, could you please tell me what engines do they have? Are they the regular IO-550s or are they turbocharged? And what...

Recently I dug up an article from some magazine concerning the Tenerife accident when two 747s collided due to language miscomprehension by one of the pilots. Later in the text, the author wrote that ICAO was working on a new set of aviation terminology that is supposed to be an...

I read somewhere that the Symphony 4 cost over $25 million to certify! Is that really how much it costs for companys like Cirrus, Lancair etc.?

I seem to remember seeing a notice on one of the local airport bulletin boards that the restaurant in the Salinas (KSNS) airport terminal building is open again. Is this accurate? Anyone try it yet? Happy landings, Ross Oliver