An amusing email from a friend of mine: Thanks for the heads up that the "English Endorsement" is required to be added to my pilots license in order to clear customs. Due to the fact that hardly anyone knows about this obscure requirement, the cut off date is now extended one year to 3/2009. It...

On Mar 25, 3:07*pm, Eamon McKinley wrote: Unfortunately he gave me some more negative G's on the next one and I couldn't handle it- I grunted and reached out for the controls before he said "recover". On the ground we discussed the situation and my CFII told me that...

On Mar 25, 2:00 pm, Larry Dighera wrote: Those former soldiers hadn't yet found employment, and thus had uncommitted time available in which to train, and our government provided the financial incentive. I'm not sure the caliber of personnel is the same in today's all...

"Robert Barker" ... "Mike Isaksen" ... "Robert Barker" wrote ... We're currently with AVEMCO.... They impose a limit on the # of members we can have per club airplane. Do you recall the member count per airplane they set as a limit? They had several levels with...

Beech Staggerwing. Hard to tell from the pictures, do they have doors on bothsides of the cabin? Wil

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I don't think I saw anyone post this but apologies if I missed it. There's a new PBS program on the behind-the-scenes workings of AirVenture with a focus on the 2007 show. Quite interesting and well done IMO. http://pressroom.pbs.org/programs/inside_season_2/air_show It premiered on Feb 22nd so...

It's that time of year again. It's time for our club to renew it's insurance. We're currently with AVEMCO but want to try to find something less expensive. They also impose a limit on the # of members we can have per airplane and would like to get out from under that restriction. Any...

Do ANR and other headsets usually provide sidetone? (sidetone = a small part of your speech is fed back to your phones). I've used some aviation headsets with no sidetone, it's a bit like talking with your fingers in your ears, not too good. Is aircrafts sidetone generation an intregal part of...

Anyone else have expereince with the C172E (1964)? No matter what I did I could not get that bird to spin to the right. Left spins take some work, and power helps (of course). But right it just wallows and then steep spirals.

Time moves along... The old V-tails are no longer the status symbol... It appears to me that the Cirrus line of aircraft has become the new "fork tailed doctor killer", along with stock broker, dentist, lawyer, etc... http://tinyurl.com/yqt94a denny

We were always taught to refer to ourselves on the radio with our full callsigns until ATC refers to us with a shortened callsign (i.e. the last three characters). However, I've noticed that the majority of the approach controllers refer to most of the GA aircraft as "November" followed by their...

I'm looking to get the King GNS430 course, since N55ZC will have one. Anyone have comments pro or con? Other recommendations? -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net Fairmont, MN (FRM) (Yes,...

When a pilot overflys the town at 200 feet it means... US - He's a danger to society and should be locked up. He's probably also a national security risk. Mexico - He would like a taxi to pick him up at the airport. -Robert

PBIA constructed a huge new taxiway right next to their small GA runway. Airport management expresses continual surprise when airplanes land on the taxiway after mistaking it for the GA runway. After trying several other fixes, they are now painting much of the taxiway green as camouflage to...

lowest life insurance rates, The quest to get low life insurance rates for any policy can be very daunting, and at times nearly impossible. It seems like people in the insurance business hardly talk to one another about their rates and how low their prices should be on a given policy. This is...

On my last GA flight where I acted as safety pilot on an IFR flight plan, I got a video of our shadow on the clouds. So, I will letchya all decide in 43 seconds or less if I was over or in the rainbow For those interested, the technical name you are looking at is called a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Isi2cwJsp4&feature=related Thanks, Ricky

It occurred to me today that in fifteen years of flying I have never once found water in my fuel when I've drained my tanks. Not a drop. Ever. Am I just lucky, or is this really as rare an occurrence as it seems to be? (I fly in SoCal. Maybe that has something to do with it.) rg

My apologies, but someone asked me if I was still working on the G-III and I can't find the post. "I think it was here on RAP. I'm getting back to it. I've done little in the last year due to my inconvenience last April. However I'm feeling good, getting my strength back and even did some...