Any of you guys now of a good place to get a sea rating in florida? I've been dying to try it, and also to get into bush flying but it seems hard to get a foot in the door unless you have some seaplane experience. Any bush-people out there?

Forgive me fellow fliers for I have sinned. It had been over 6 months since I have flown... I finally got a chance for a short flight yesterday! My first flight since last September. That flight was to flight breakfasts in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. I kept my Ercoupe hangared in Sleepy...

I just bought a Brittan turn coordinator off a Bonanza on ebay. I'm curious how to open it up so I can see the gyro, et. al. I took the back off but that only gained me access to some capacitors on the back. I tried to take the face apart but that didn't seem to be the way to do it. How can I open...

Is FAA already a Profit Based Organization? ------------------------------------------------------------- AOPA ePilot Volume 6, Issue 13 March 26, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------- SPORT PILOT RULE UNEXPECTEDLY RETURNS TO FAA The FAA has temporarily...

Does anyone do an "automotive" type compression test on their aircraft engine? I think this kind of "dynamic" test might show problems (such as valves not opening all the way), that a leakdown test would not (and vice-versa). Anyway my annual is coming up and I want to do it. I imagine something...

Someone posted on the Pacific Northwest Flying forum that they had flown to McMinnville, OR to tour the Spruce Goose. What they found out was that since the entire airplane is not handicapped accessible the public was no longer being allowed to go through it. The only view of the interior now...

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=537804 Anyone know what those fins/blades are all about?

Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ...I Shall Fear No Evil ... For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing. (sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location Kadena, Japan). You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F.Crickmore -test pilot) From an old carrier sailor -...

And I'm still giggling, probably from sleep deprivation. Here's how it happened: Mary and I were at the inn yesterday, working desperately to get our new Blackbird Suite ready for prime time -- it was booked for the weekend, and we still had over 20 pieces of art to hang! (And you don't just...

The expected release date for all models is April of 2004. I do not have a more accurate date than that. I hope to see them available by the middle of the month in the US if all goes smoothly. You will need the Pacific basemap for coverage of Australia and New Zealand. The Lithium battery pack...

I suggest to change the name of this group from rec.aviation.piloting to rec.USA_pilots_chatting_about_everything_except_piloting

I'm about to start with a student at Addison airport. I haven't been there in a while and am amazed that all the old FBO's I used to teach out of are no longer there. I'm looking for names of FBO's that'll rent to CFI's. TIA

To think, the whole lengthy, periodically mean-spirited, often accusational, and sometimes borderline insane thread started because Jay was trying to wish good tidings to the victims of the terror attack in Spain.... And now the whole world, and the whole newsgroup, has been changed for ever...

See the story he http://www.avweb.com/newswire/10_13a/briefs/186939-1.html

I've been looking around a bit for a good headset, any recomendations. Is ANR worth it or not? Some people say it's bad because you can't hear the engines so it takes longer to discover engine problems and makes it harder to sync the props. On the other hand, it seems to be a very comfortable...

What are the differences between these two? Overall, the seem much the same, though every 152 I saw has a "newer" look i.e. looks younger and cleaner. Triple Delta

http://www.newbid.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18&PN=1&TPN=2 http://www.newbid.net/index.asp

sci.aeronautics does not allow theory work, only aerodynamics b.s. So my disclosure of a nice STC project is this invention of mine. It may have been invented already by somebody else, and I have not read about it. Either way, if I am the first, it is now a public domain invention, for all to...