Recentingly, in another thread, cell phones and planes came up. I thought others might be interested in these links. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1568024,00.asp http://wirelesscabin.com/ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/start.html?pg=12 The general theory on modern cell phones in...

The emergency: http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe.avi The lucky fellow after landing: http://www.baltnet.ru/~dropzone/voyage/safe2.avi Looks like he was just shot at at! You ain't draggin' me upthere to jump from the sky with that stringed napkin! :-))

Seen this in a few sources - it appears to be a true story : http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/08/dday.lost/index.html

In article , Vigo wrote: I have next to no experience in the Jet world, but I was under the impression that in a bind you can burn avgas in a jet engine. I had a pilot once tell me that if horse **** could burn you could...

I've been reading the book "Aftermath" by the editors of Flying magazine. The book describes an accident that I'd like more information on. It was a head-on midair that occurred in VMC between a Piper Navajo and an Army U-21, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. There was a single pilot in the...

Hi all, Hope, British Columbia is a very nice grass strip (3900' long) I've mentioned here before. This coming weekend - June 12 & 13 - is their annual FlightFest. http://www.hopeflightfest.com/ Weather permitting, I'll be flying a 172 in from Victoria (CYYJ) with family on early Saturday...

I just looked at an ad in Trade a plane. It's a Cessna Cardinal, 1968 (fairly cheap)with no paperwork which means to me, no logs. Besides the obvious, what kind of hassles is there to lost logs? If I were to purchase this plane, it would be with the intention of doing a ground-up resto.after a...

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KMCD My favorite airport is the airport on top of Mackinac Island. It's at the very top of a picturesque island between lakes Michigan and Huron. There are always ferries traveling the straights, and they have a type of ferry that shoots water straight up in a...

Does anyone know if 'jumpseating' is still a employee fringe benefit with FedEx, UPS, etc? Or did the FedEx 705 & 9-11 incidents ruin it all? -- Ben C-172 - N13258 @ 87Y

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=PILOTS-VISION-06-08-04&cat=WW

Filed an IFR plan yesterday and got the new McMinnville bulletin. Don't remember it verbatim, but it's in regard to airspace usage during certain pro and collegiate sporting events, open assemblies of 30,000 people or more. Then it said something about monitoring 121.5 and listening to...

After reading Don Brown's latest article at AvWeb (http://avweb.com/news/columns/187318-1.html), I got to thinking about my new neighborhood. I'll soon be plying the skies around the Washington DC area VFR. I'm new to the area and it seems like it's pretty hazy most of the time, so flight...

If you stand a quarter of a mile or so from the threshold at PDX 28R, (or at the cemetery at McCarran in Las Vegas, the incoming), you hear a windy, howling sound that is so well defined it seems to take shape in the sky after the larger jets have passed for touchdown. Has anybody heard it? What...

I like to keep RPM in ground operations just over 1000 to minimize fouling. This is always a compromise with brake usage however. Controlling speed by riding the brakes is a clear no, no. One suggestion a CFI made to me recently is to just leave the throttle alone, apply brakes briefly, let...

I'm a lucky guy. For my b-day this year, my wife bought me an hour of introductory acrobatic time at a semi-local FBO (Attitude Aviation, Livermore, CA). I decided to go up in their Super Decathlon. So, yesterday, I took the opportunity to experience several "firsts". My first tail wheel...

I have a Piper PA 28-161 very nice airplane. It is in Louisiana and I need to get it to an airport near Napa California. I am looking for a pilot that needs cross country time and an adventure. I would like to have the aircraft in California by the first week of July. Thanks Steve Barnes

Jay, I was telling my wife of your Inn and she reminded me of the time we were at Dodgeville, Wisconsin. There is one requirement to stop at the Alexis..... a flat runway ;-) Marty

I have always wondered why there are no small GA turboprops. It seems like most of the major problems & maintenance issues associated with GA aircraft are related to the piston motor, and as far as I can tell, turboprops are much more reliable, fuel efficient, smoother running and easier to...

Hi all, Since yesterday I'm a bit more confident about my piloting. The two of us had planned a trip to an island on our north coast for lunch. Really looking forward to this because we had some bad weather for the last several weeks. So after fuelling, preflight etc. I pushed the throttle forward...

Has anyone here bothered to get the FCC radio license? I've been going down to Mexico for awhile and have never heard of anyone down there ever being asked for one (the officials in Mexico don't even know what it is). Has anyone ever heard of anyone being asked for it in Canada? I'm just wondering...