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Hey, all I am back for a bit. by
NW_Pilot
Long last few weeks 336 from U.S. to Nicaurauga, 3 hours hold in U.S.
Customs they did not like my Lebanon stamp in my passport, 172 from Mas. to
WA now home home sitting having a rum & cola relaxing and it's annual time
on my buck fifty should be rather straight fwd simple this year but who...
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degaussing for compass by
karl gruber
SOMEWHERE on the net I've seen somebody who rents out equipment to degauss
the area around where the compass goes.
In Cessna 180/185s the compass rests between a steel "V" brace and this
sometimes gets a magnetic set, or something. Does anyone remember who rents
out that...
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Two pilots flying on long flights by
Mxsmanic
Suppose you're PIC with a pilot friend on a long flight. You decide
that to save time, one of you can nap while the other continues the
flight. The aircraft requires only one pilot. Is this legal? In
particular, can the pilot in command sleep during the flight? Or does
the active pilot become...
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Pearl Harbor Day Flight by
Kevin Clarke
I had a great morning on Pearl Harbor Day. Our little Piper Cherokee is
a shared plane, owned by corporation in which we all own shares. We have
an older gentleman (Mat) do the books for us in exchange for a few hours
a month of flying time so that he can stay current.
It is winterizing time...
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December 10th 06 01:26 PM
by kjc
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Why the B-1 landed gear up... by
[email protected]
9/18/2006 - LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFPN) -- Pilot error caused a
B-1 Lancer to crash while landing on the runway at a forward-deployed
location May 8, 2006, according to an aircraft accident investigation report
released here Sept. 18. The co-pilot suffered a minor back injury and the
other...
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Airline lands due to too much gas by
Robert M. Gary
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/plane_passing_gas
"NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An American Airlines flight was forced to make an
emergency landing Monday morning after a passenger lit a match to
disguise the scent of flatulence, authorities said. "
-Robert
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December 10th 06 02:02 AM
by Judah
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Another blow for Airbus by
AJ
From the Financial Times website:
Jumbo blow
By Paul Betts
Published: December 8 2006 02:00 | Last updated: December 8 2006 02:00
Lufthansa is obviously hedging its bets against further delays in the
Airbus A380 superjumbo programme by placing a bumper order for the new
stretched version of the...
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AOPA New York Lawsuit by
Peter R.
Tom Fleischman wrote:
Does anyone know which flight schools these are?
Certainly not the flight school located at my airport in Syracuse, NY.
They were asked to join the lawsuit but refused with the explanation that
the state political...
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[on topic, sort of] Taking a hint from the Quakers.... by
N2310D
..... I am now convinced along with others that the best, most effective
tactic shall be to shun he who will no longer be named nor addressed in any
of my posts regardless of however often he holds his self out to ridicule.
Regards to all,
Casey Wilson
Freelance Writer
and Professional...
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December 9th 06 03:08 PM
by N2310D
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Tomahawk forced landing caught on camera by
[email protected]
Trey Lessard posted the following on the Yahoo Tomahawk group that I thought
ya'll might find interesting:
N2426N is now deceased...it was 'bartered' to one of the folks who
was owed alot of money. The engine was then rebuilt by someone at
KBAZ, and the new owner sold it to my brother and I. My...
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Farewell, Mighty Grape... by
Jay Honeck
So we took the Mighty Grape (See it he
http://alexisparkinn.com/fuel_truck.htm ), our '95 Nissan pickup
fuel-hauling truck (so-named because of its hideous purple color), into
the shop, after noting that the tail lights had ceased to function.
When the shop tried to lift the poor thing on the...
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Share our birds'eye views by
TThierry
Hi,
We all take pictures when we fly. And we can do better than vertical
pictures shot by satellites. (Even if i'm not a convincing exemple of
this statement.) Why not share them with other people?
I have created a web page dedicated to this kind of pictures. It starts
from scratch, so your...
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AOPA New York Lawsuit by
[email protected]
I think one of the plaintiff schools would be American Flyers at Islip
KISP and possibly Dowling College, their flight department is located
at HWV.
Ron
Tom Fleischman wrote:
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2006/061207nysuit.html
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Getting rid of MXSMANIC by
[email protected]
The only solution to this numbskull is ignoring him... I beg you all,
please do, this newsgroup is pointless if the sort of discussions he
creates continue to exist.
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December 8th 06 11:26 PM
by gatt
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Mxx Observation by
Al G
Reading MXx's responses to our answers, ****ed me off a bit, and I began
to wonder why.
Somewhere I got the idea that if I didn't know something, and asked
someone who did, I might actually profit from respectfully listening to
their answer. While I might have some further questions, my...
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OUCHOUCHOUCH wheels-up B1 landing by
gatt
A friend on another forum posted this in response to an e-mail received
about a bf110 recovery in Europe:
http://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html
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MSFS question by
Paul kgyy
I have a new widescreen monitor. Is it possible in any of the recent
MS flightsim setups to park the radio stack off to the side instead of
on top of the Course Deviation Indicators?
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Source: Dow Jones News of 17.06.2003 by
[email protected]
Source: Dow Jones News of 17.06.2003
Boeing Co (BA) may be making a lot of hype at the Paris Air Show about its
proposed 7E7 airliner that was dubbed the Dreamliner over the weekend, but
the chief salesman of Boeing's rival
Airbus (F.ABI) knows a sales gimmick when he sees one.
"The "dream...
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Can MSFS Kill you? by
Steve Foley
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?ev_id=20040219X00202&ntsbno=ANC04FA021&akey=1
"The airplane was being operated as an instrument flight rules (IFR)
cross-country personal flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the accident
occurred. The non-instrument rated, solo private-certificated pilot,...
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Runway 14/32 @ KBOS by
Jon
There was a little press on the boob tube during the week of
Thanksgiving as the first operation was scheduled for Thanksgiving Day
(I imagine there's at least a joke or 3 in there...
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