An American tourist goes on a trip to China. While in China, he is very sexually promiscuous and does not use a condom all the time. A week after arriving back home in the States, he wakes one morning to find his penis covered with bright green and purple spots. Horrified, he immediately goes to...

Texas Air Aces, T-34A out of Hooks Airport north of Houston, crashed this morning (Tuesday). Both in aircraft deceased. Flight (two A/C) had not started air combat maneuvers per media and did not have a mid air????? if you can believe the media. Other A/C retured to Hooks and landed safely. Sone...

Has anyone alse tried to use GPS in this area? Mine showed current location pretty accurate (within 1/4 mile) but indicated track wallowed +/- 20 degrees from actual. What sort of degradation tests are being run that wil affect GPS this way? No outages encountered, just misleading track...

Located in the residential airpark at Independence (OR) State Airport. 3 BR, 2 bath home, 1,650 sq. ft. 48'x40' hangar in backyard. 40'x11' Highfold hangar door to taxiway in back. 10'x12' RV door to front. more details at http://www.beilkerealtor.com/ JoAnne Beilke, 503-371-3013 x1239

The last couple of flights where I have gone above 7000 ft, I have experienced this strange physiological effect: My left front teeth, gum, and upper lip go completely numb, exactly as if I had gotten a shot of novocaine. It stays that way until I start descending. This happened to me once on an...

Will be in Las Vegas the week of Dec 14th and wish to rent a single engine plane for a day trip over to KGCN. Looking for recommendations and experiences in the Las Vegas area. Any good rentals at Henderson? Richard

How many hours have you all racked up this year? For me, this year looks like it will be about 210 hours for the year and only about 4 hours of it I was able to log as actual instrument. Most of my flying was to airports 200 nm or further from my home base with the farthest trip being 1445 nm one...

Did you fly? Did you see it? I went to LHR to see it take off. A sad day. Got it on my camcorder as it flew over my head. I then went flying. One guy at LHR went straight to Bristol to see it land! I thought 1.5 hours LHR to Bristol was pushing it a bit, roadworks on the M4 and everything!...

Happy Thanksgiving to ya'll, This is related to my previous "overweight" post. I want to know if you agree with the following reasoning: Context: you take off over your maximum gross weight, and wonder how your climb speeds and performance are affected. Vy: The AOA corresponding to the best...

After the reading the Va threads of my past questions, I found a wonderful way to confuse myself. I notice that I've become quite good at confusing myself and making things complicated. To give myself some credit, I did search old messages but found no resolution. So here we go... I am sure...

Does anyone know a good website with a flight planner that actually shows a map? I have found some that show the VOR's etc etc, but am looking for one with an actual map (with landmarks). Thanks in advance.

Does anyone here use Microsoft Flight Simulator to help them become a better pilot? I already know it can be used for fun, but does anyone use it to help them on their IFR landings, or to become familiar with their Garmin 430, or what not? Basically, anyone have any Microfost Flight Simulator...

Good day all, For those who are interested, the actual ATC recording of Concorde's last flight, from engine start to handoff to London departure. Some moving moments. http://jartweb.f2o.org/g-boaf-final/index2.html (scroll to bottom of page) Enjoy,

Here's hoping the airline pilots and air controllers union slowdown backfires in their faces: ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVflash Volume 9, Issue 48b — November 27, 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S.-LIKE...

I'm wondering if an instrument rating is a required to be a CFI for aircraft (not CFII) just CFI VFR only. The regulation is alittle unclear to me states "An instrument rating OR privileges on that person's pilot certificate that are appropriate to the flight instructors rating saught." The OR is...

Went to the USAF Museum this past weekend in Dayton. GREAT place. LOTS of aviation history in that place. Especially, the X planes and such. Also has a "Presidential" hanger with most of the past Air Force One's. (Columbine III, Independence, SAM 26000, etc). Even walked into one hanger to see...

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause (s) of this accident as follows: The inadequate visual lookout of both pilots. Factors in the accident were the FAA controller's failure to provide a traffic advisory, the improper decision among the three controllers to leave...

Is it true 50 hours of simulator time can be counted toward your commercial licence under part 61? If so can you tell me where to find it in the FAR's? Thanks in advance, Chris

I'm planning to fly a 182 from SF Bay (RHV) to Mammoth Lakes for the long weekend. Any tips from people who've been there? I seem to remember there was someone in this group flying out of Mono Lake. Also, I've got room in the plane, so if anyone cares to join, let me know (so far, I'm going solo,...

My bionic eye isn't working well lately and I haven't owned a magnifying glass since I was 10. On the new plastic certificates, there appears to be microscopic writing along the Wright bros collars and along the edge of the plane wings. Is anyone able to make out the text? Does it say something...