Great way to introduce your power pilot and non-pilot firends to the joy of soaring. Beginning at $99 See: http://www.soaringcenter.net/page05.html Karen

I have about 150 total hours now, but my only night flights were during my training as required for certification. I fly in the Bay Area, CA I would love to see the beautiful scenery of the city lights that night flying offers. How long does it take to comfortabley fly at night and how do those...

Fellow Pilots, www.SafetyPilotClub.com is designed to save pilots money on flight expenses. The basic concept is that pilots can meet and network online so they may share flight expenses. Think how much you can save by sharing the cost of a cross country flight. Find a pilot in your local area to...

Moderator Replacement Announcement rec.aviation.stories The Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announce that Larry Dighera has volunteered to moderate the newsgroup rec.aviation.stories. He will take over moderation duties presently. MODERATOR INFO:...

Portions of the Pacific Northwest experienced a massive windstorm last night. (One million people in that region are presently without power.) The following video captures a NWA jet aborting a landing in favor of a go-around this morning after experiencing very gusty conditions at Sea-Tac. Must...

Here's an interesting photo of Angelina Jolie piloting a Cirrus: http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/121206/slideshow/121206VFEA?pseq=1 Gerry

I was talking about Coriolis effect with someone and he asked me about planes against or with the earth's spin of around 1000mph at the equator. He asked why this didn't benefit east to west plane travel timewise and hurt west to east. I couldn't give him a straight answer, and felt like an...

Planning another trip to the Arctic, I was offered a drum of SEALED avgas 100LL that is supposedly "several years old" by an airport up North. I am not so much concerned about water, rust, sludge or any other impurities which can be filtered out. What I would like to know, however, is if avgas...

A question to the group. When I was going through my high-altitude physiological training, they instructed us to remove wrist watches before going for the baro-flight to FL250 (unpressurized). Has anyone experienced any anomalies with wrist watches at low pressure? I just can't think of why they'd...

Has anyone had this happen? I have a buyer for my plane, he bought the AOPA's title search to make sure there were no liens and everything . I did the same when I bought the plane. There were no liens.I paid cash so there were no problems. He decided to finance the plane and the bank is saying...

Last I heard Jack's plane was damanged by a Citation that taxied into it. Has anyone heard of the current status? I've seen Jack come and go several times when I've been flying down in Mexico. Maybe he should chuck that Commander and go back to a real airplane (231) ;). -Robert

The courts really ought to require that all the facts are in before allowing the suits to go forward. From AOPA A February 2005 crash has resulted in a $3.5 million out-of-court settlement for the family of a Circuit City buyer who was a passenger on the flight to Pueblo Memorial Airport,...

http://theboom.com/theboomaviator.html I just stumbled across this headset while looking for a cellphone headset. Has anyone tried any of this manufacturer's products?

It kills me to read stuff like this. To the non-flying public, it makes all of us GA pilots look like idiots that take unnecessary chances and completely disregard the law. This was a non A&P certified pilot doing all acft maintenance, aircraft's last annual 22 years ago, crash caused apparently by...

I wonder if someone could help me identify and aircraft I saw several times on a reason visit to Reno? The plane is has twin pusher props, the tail is delta shaped and the aircraft canard . . . it looked a little like one that Beechcraft made . . . I can't remember the name but the wing and tail...

When we look at a GPS error value in a so-equipped GPS, does that value reflect *both* the vertical (i.e. altitude) and the horizontal component? Can a separate value for each be determined? The reason I ask is that in firing up my Garmin 496 (an early Christmas present, comments to follow in...

This story just gets more and more bizarre... based on the evidence I've seen reported so far, it certainly sounds to me like the Brazilian air traffic control system itself is solely to blame for this accident. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/12/08/brazil.pilots.ap/index.html -- Guy

Currently I am setting up http://www.airspace-v.com - a general aviation web site with weather reports and navigation information on Google Map. However, I am still looking for a list of all (worldwide!) ICAO airport codes to keep track of changes. Any recommendation where to find...

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r135/snow978/penguin_tebe.swf?msg=Happy%20Hollidays%20from%20The%20Monk The Monk

World's smallest twin engine plane, very cool though I wouldn't fly that death trap! http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/763-full.html ----------------------------------------- DW