I am trying to determine the best IFR configurations/power settings for my Cessna TR182. For example: APPROACH LEVEL GEAR UP: MP 17 in, RPM 2300, IAS 100, VS 0, Mix Rich, Carb Heat OFF, Flaps UP, Cowl flaps closed seems to work but I would like to hear from other 182 pilots: What approach level...

Margy, I have a late afternoon flight out of DCA on Sunday May 7, so I hope to make it up to the Udvar Hazy Center for a couple of hours before I have to go drop off the rental car and hop my flight back to Phoenix. I see where there is a prohibition on tripods but how about a "monopod?" I'd like...

I've now had two run-away climbs with the KAP150 and wondering if anyone else has seen this. In both situations I was established in the climb with the 150 set to about 600 fpm with a higher altitude armed. I'm not sure what I may have done that started the situation but it may have been after I...

Last month Jim Burns and I flew our families up to Anoka-Blaine Airport, near Minneapolis, to visit Montblack and to take in the sights at the Golden Wings Museum. Montblack arranged for a private tour of the museum -- which houses some fantastic aircraft from the "Golden Age" of flight -- and we...

A pilot friend and I are thinking about flying my single into Dulles to spend a day at the Udvar-Hazy Center. Anyone here know if small planes can still taxi directly to that facility after landing? If so, are there are any landing fees incurred? Does anyone have any unusual "tips" about flying...

Oh well, perhaps Boeing are going to fast in the development of the 787. http://www.tulsaworld.com/BusinessStory.asp?ID=060610_Bu_E1_Boein52489

All, I am looking for a good audio interface to listen to XM radio in club aircraft (they have basic intercoms, but no aux inputs). I've seen the one sporty's is pushing for cell phones. Does anyone know how well this thing works? Will it drop the music when ATC calls? (that would be...

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Sup all, What a Long Trip!! Started in Charlotte, NC In a 152 to Orange County, Ca. Very Uneventful except for the first time in 114 Degree Yuma, AZ Weather! I then hopped on an Airliner to Chicago, IL then Down to Kankakee, Il from Kankakee in a 172 I stopped and went to lunch with Jay and his...

AOPA is petitioning the FAA to fix the sport pilot "Catch 22" and to allow recreational pilots to fly with a "driver's license medical." "That would mean that even if you've lost your medical, you could still fly something as large as a Cessna 172 if you're healthy enough for a driver's license...

Hey, all: I was experimenting with the ability to blog directly from my Treo smartphone thing, and posted a few warbird pictures I took with it a couple of weeks ago. I thought I'd post this in case anyone wanted to see them. Bear in mind that they were taken with the pretty basic camera in my...

I'm working on my Commercial certificate. I've got about 4.5 hours in a PFCAATD simulating the Bonanza I'm going to use for the complex part of my checkride. The rest of the time is in the Bonanza plus 1.5 in an Arrow. Question: Does the 4.5 in the simulator count towards the 10 hours of complex I...

Here are photos of this afternoon's storm moving through northwest Tucson. I'm standing in front of my hangar at KAVQ. From the first photo until the last was about five...

Cessna is working on a LSA to be unveiled at Oshkosh this year. It kinda sounds like a modern 152. If this enters production it would help legitimize the LSA segment (not that it needed it). Between this plane and the "Cirrus Killer" and a new jet sized below the Mustang, the Cessna product...

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In answer to the question earlier all those videos are available on DVD from Ebay http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=pilotpublications Thanks

Does anyone know in which city in South Carolina the Vought factory to build the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fuselage section will be located?

This article was quoted in AvWeb this week: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,19378061,00.html "FAA officials have become aware that an electronics boffin, using a second-hand or 'borrowed' transponder from a small (general aviation) aircraft connected to a $5 data lead, a $5...

I don't care that it is R/C http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gulv_bvZS94&eurl

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