SportPilotTalk.com has just launched The Affordable Flying Initiative (AFI) to help make flying more affordable. Read all about it at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Affordable_Flying/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KLjUAFPcJk I made another quick vid... no landing cuz I'm a clutz and I erased it. But a bit more of the scenery out the window.

Looks like the feds are getting in step with ICAO and raising pilot retirement age to 65. http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Close_Book_On_Age60_194342-1.html

Greetings Gentlemen, I am looking for a copy of FAR Part 61.109(A) (Aeronautical Experience) that was current in June 1970 when I got my private pilot ticket. I don't need all of 61.109, just part A which is Private Single Engine Land. FAA.gov has some Historical FARs but not part 61. I called...

Looking at the Super Bowl restrictions I have to wonder what the value of requiring aircraft in the outer ring be on a VFR flight plan. After 9/11 it made sense to me that the TSA didn't understand what a VFR flight plan was, but you'd think that by now they'd have figured it out. Will ATC verify...

Hi! I am new to this particular forum, but have been visiting one of the others in the network for some time. I'm looking for opinions on my 3rd Class Medical status. My last physical was in 2005, and given that you need to renew it every 3 years, I am due in 2008. I turn 40 in September of...

Made up a Google Earth file of all current airports & heliports in Canada I plan on updating this info every 56 days from the Canada Flight Supplement. http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/760736/an/0/page/4#760736 -- Remove NOSPAM to reply

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16875766?GT1=8921 It was later reported FAA inspectors from the Juneau FSDO cited the eagle for flying over gross and out of CG, as well as dropping an object endangering those on the ground. The (slightly toasted) eagle's defense that he was "Just looking to get...

Hey, It's me I havent been on usenet it a little while so just droping you all a line saying hello! I, got a few flights on the burnner PA/28 U.S. to S. Africa And a Buckfifty U.S. to Peru! The PA/28is on hold as it was not ready for pick up to take to the tanker for tanking....so far lots of...

Or, every bugsmasher pilot's secret fantasy... I just saw this little snippet about the Continental flight whose pilot became incapacitated. This is the first I'd read about a passenger taking the right seat. I guess TSA/FAA's secured flight deck rules go out the window in such a...

Check your local PBS listings 8PM the SwissAir crash in Canada 9PM the Tenerife (sic) 747 collision

See http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/reactor.security/index.html I agree with the NRC. Nuclear plants are designed to readily withstand far worse than the impact of an aircraft, such as internal steam explosions. Aircraft are light and fragile, and would simply crumple uselessly if they hit a...

I was about to shoot the approach into MYF when they closed the field this morning. When I did get to land there was a very broken C-182 on the side of Runway 23. Any word on what happened? Paul

The footage was taken during my trip last month from Colorado to FL and back in a C172 (yeah, I'm a masochist): Fluffy little clouds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJsasteE9k Blues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxULCYqvGpY

I'm a little fearful of small planes; my dad had one and he was a real amateur and showoff. We had some close calls with death when I was a child and I haven't been up in a small plane since those years. But I drive between the north San Diego area and Bakersfield Ca about twice a month and am...

Can anyone give me some ideas for temporary, but securable weight ballasts? The situation is we're preparing for FAA required test flights on our FIRST production aircraft. Weight will most likely need to be positioned in the right seat area, and/or in the limited baggage area behind the two...

Are there any GA helicopter pilots here? If so, do you fly for pleasure? Why did you choose to go with a helicopter instead of a fixed-wing aircraft? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Why kind of helicopter do you fly, and do you own your own? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach...

Yesterday, I attended a 4-hour seminar on the G1000 presented by Charlie Masters (Cessna/FITS & Sporty's @ Clermont County). The focus was on providing an overview of transitioning from steam gauges to glass panels as implemented in new Cessna single-engine aircraft. Charlie did a great job, and...

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The manual for my aircraft gives figures for MOM and ARM at various stations, but it doesn't actually explain how to use these to calculate weight and balance. I want to place the load so that the aircraft neither pitches down nor pitches up. Can someone provide me with a pointer to an...