Hello, I'm thinking about taking a trip to NYC for a weekend... I've never been so I would be looking to do some touristy stuff. I am wondering where the best (closest to transportation, no landing fees, good service) airport would be for me to go to? Any help would be appreciated! -Dico

Finally, it came. I fuel up today at Arlington, WA with $2.68/gal autofuel. The autofuel was $3.31 only two weeks ago at that airport. Avgas was $4.01 at AWO but $3.84 at Paine field. This is back to the level of early spring 2006 when the autofuel was $2.62 at AWO for a long time. Pacific NW...

The wife and I have just returned from a week's vacation on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. With Kitty Hawk was just up the road, you know where we ended up one day... I thought we would stop so I could pay my respects and have a look around, but I had no idea that it would have the effect on...

I've been lurking here since May of this year and thought I'd go ahead and announce myself. I started flying in May and am now on my third dual xc. Flying has always been a dream of mine and I decided to "make it happen" since I'm getting much older (55, I don't plan on becoming a career...

Hi everybody, My name is Sidharth Mohan. I am an Indian. I am planning to apply to voyager aviation for a professional pilot course, but I dont have any means to get a first hand feedback about the institute. So, I was hoping that you guys could help me out in this respect. I would like to know...

Interesting article on Aviation Week's website. http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_busav_story.jsp?id=news/accid0906.xml I've always maintained that GA's accident record could be significantly improved if there was an effective "wash-out" process that removed the "sludge" at the bottom...

I have my CFI right now, and I'm flying with a CFII in preparation for my CFII checkride. Do I log that time as Dual Received, as well as PIC, or just PIC, or just Dual Received? Also, as a CFI should I be logging the time I fly with my MEI for my multi rating as PIC, or is that stretching...

Listening to the radio transmissions of a VFR pilot who had a panic attack in a cloud of IMC, I heard him mention to a controller that "the stall horn goes off every time I land." I thought that was bizarre. Is a touchdown supposed to be a stall? My stall horn doesn't sound on landing. When I...

Ok so I requested flight-following because my route took me into pretty high traffic areas (inside Class B and surrounding) I was on a Flight Plan and requested center to give me flight following, ok call made, radar contact established 10 miles NW of XXX. Then he asked me: say type aircraft, I...

A few minutes before PDT Fri 2006-09-29T20:00-0700 I was in San Jose coming up US-Ca-I-280 from US-101 towards 7th St and Ca-87 exits, and saw a large airplane (commercial passenger airline sized, although could have been fedex?) take a hard turn (I am pretty sure a turn to the right), somewhere...

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Is there any reason to drain fuel tanks in any way other than symmetrically in normal flight? I notice that most aircraft have complex controls for fuel flow from the tanks, and I wonder if there are things one is suppposed to do during normal flight, or if this is just to provide for possible...

Planning a trip to Page, AZ in early Oct. in a C-172. Would appriciate any input on surrounding points of interest and the "Cliff Dwellers Lodge" appox. 15 nm SW. Comming in from the SW over the Grand Canyon. Is there a large crater in this area...have not been able to locate it on my...

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The subject line says it all. I declare from this moment on all rec.aviators should, on all possible occasions, pick on Jay Honeck for not having an instrument rating. Margy

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/new_pilot_antoinette_pinault.htm We've taken lots of folks flying since we opened the hotel in 2002, and we've helped to influence several of them to take flight lessons. Some have even reached solo... But Antoinette Pinault is our first true, full-blown,...

From http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20010308X00571&key=1 : The determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows: ...A second factor was the omission of the PW120A engine from the airworthiness directive issued by the FAA which mandated the completion of Pratt & Whitney...

Well, just got back from my 2nd flying lesson. It was a perfectly clear day. Not a cloud to be seen. A little blustery on the ground, but nothing major. Today, I did my first take-off. I wasn't expecting it to be such an intense experience. It was much twitchier than I was expecting. Not really...

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10202 This one is small but their website says it is scalable in size. http://veratech.aero/phantom.html

Is it cheating/advisable/forbidden/useless to use the rudder alone to accomplish the very last seconds of runway alignment on landing? As I approach the landing point it becomes very difficult to turn in the usual way just to improve alignment. Using rudder alone can line me up perfectly right...