I'm close to HEF YJO, I think those are correct IDs Manassas & Leesburg. How would I go about finding hangers or tie-down spaces at these two airports? What are the prices in this area (NOVA)? Thanks to all who replies in advance. The Monk

The surveillance camera pix were released by the Pentagon today were on the conspiracy theory sites since they started, and won't do anything to bed the theorists' apprehensions (not that I believe them). Did anyone here see anything in those pix that was conclusively one way or the other? I...

The FAA is slowly removing the requirement to fill out 8710's for ratings. There is a new web site. http://aera.faa.gov The student fills out their checkride app, you approve it as the CFI, the DE approve it after the checkride and the web site prints a temporary certificate. All the DE's in the...

After weeks of truly dreadful weather, and an untold number of obstacles, both natural and man-made, the Iowa City Big Kids Toys Show opened to the public with a bang! What a turn-out! The weather was *perfect*, Mustangs flew, T-6s growled, Pitts Specials covered the town with smoke, helicopters...

Wendy: If you are talking about automatically optimizing routes for winds, than I believe FliteStar does that. The others mentioned, DUATS and AOPA's RTFP, as well as the similar Jepp Internet flight planner, take winds into account in presenting the nav log, but don't suggest the optimal...

Sorry if this is the wrong group (probably!) Please advise a more suitable group I've got this test set, on the back is a mains socket, all the manuals I've seen in the uk, show a uk socket. This one has six pins, (its the 110volt version). It's not clear to me which pins are for which. Top

I'm starting to get prepared for my first flight into Oshkosh this Summer (arrived by ground several times before). As I read through the Notam, it looks like I'm either on the high speed end of the normal Fisk/Ripon arrival (plane doesn't like flying below 90-100kt unless it involves descending)...

Do any readers know what particular plane in World War 2, was rumored to have broke the sound barrier ?

After seeing this commercial and viewing the documentary on the Land Rover website, I still can't figure out how they got the GPS unit in the truck to work while inside the plane. The doc. showed a guy sticking something to the plane's windows that might be an antenna, but I doubt a dash-mounted...

What are the air space rules regarding flying over an event like that? Anybody know? Would NASCAR have the authority to have the pilot arrested? Can NASCAR ask for certain air space at a certain time to be 'theirs'? MW "Alan Jones" wrote in...

At some airfields, you get tiedowns in the grass that consist of some kind of weight (such as a concrete block or tire filled with concrete) and a tiedown. Perhaps they aren't much use -- a plane apparently can still fly with one attached to the tail. In this month's 'Pilot' magazine (British)...

FlightStar will do wind-aware routing and you can then look at the various atltitude options for time, cost and fuel burn. It's not 100% automatic, but it works great for my needs.

When I was involved in the design-build project of at least two A-1 pipelines here in the United Arab Emirates, I recall seeing the bid documents state the Specific Gravity of A-1 as being between 0.78 and 0.84. Can anyone point me to a link that endorses this range as an accepted international...

The Eastern Iowa Big Kids Toy Show will be held at the Iowa City Airport (KIOW) THIS coming weekend (May 20-21), both Saturday AND Sunday -- and it promises to be a lot of fun! Starting at 7 AM, we've got fly-in pancake & sausage breakfasts going BOTH mornings. There will be tons of cool "big...

Anyone know or see more details about Ted Kennedy's jet being struck by lightning last Friday, other than what appeared in wire stories. Wonder how the crew could divert to HVN and fly *manually* when they claim that all power was...

All excited about the new "Boeing 757 Hitting the Pentagon" footage Karl Rove just gave his blessing to? Did it look anything like this? http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20060518_WhatthePentagonVideoShouldHaveShown.php If not, it's probably the same fake they've been flogging...

Has anyone gone to the trouble of getting TSA certified to provide foreign flight training on this list? I have my appointment with the FSDO tomorrow morning. They told me to bring my birth certificate to prove my U.S. citizenship along with my medical and CFI certificate (I would think they would...

I will be flying through the Toronto airspace from the southwest, landing at Buttonville (CYKZ). It would most likely be IFR. I realize I have to detour around Pearson (CYYZ) to the north or south. I don't know if there are standard fixes that ATC assigns for aircraft transitioning the airspace. My...

All: A simple flash game: http://www.zeljo.com/teach-W-to-fly ================================ This page is random and kind of off topic but if I recall correctly W was a pilot of some sort flying like 30 years ago. It appears that he

I'm a new plane owner, and in an unusual stroke of luck I own the plane outright. The problem is that financially I'm not in a position to maintain it (or own it for that matter...), so I'm looking into various partnership setups to help offset costs such as fractionals, co-ownerships and...