The long knives are coming out now... This excerpted from an AP article this evening: "Hersman said that as of September, there were 545 SR20s registered in the United States. Since 2001, the NTSB has investigated 18 accidents involving the plane; those crashes resulted in 14 deaths." They sure...

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Hi Everyone, All I wanted to try to do is attempt to find a flight aboard a 747 without going to far to do so. I really didn't realize it would be such a battle to go through to find one. Wow!! Ultimately a posting by a James Robinson ended my search and HOPEFULLY will end the battles that I...

Thirty Five percent more fuel efficient. That would translate into less expensive tickets. And just a fraction of the noise. But will Boeing ever build something like this? Or will they wait until Airbus or Embraer or the Chinese or the Russians build...

I've noticed something interesting about the aviation newsgroups: posters tend to disappear. I don't mean the posts getting lost, I mean that certain people will post for a while and then just stop. The way I see it, these groups have 3 types of inhabitants: the prolific posters, the lurk...

Ok, I know this is one of those "it depends" answers, but I'm curious as to what folks are willing to do in the winter time. Assumptions: Single engine piston aircraft with NO de-icing equipment. Situation: It's wintertime. You want to fly XC and there are midlevel clouds in the

A Cessna 172 crashed yesterday short of the approach end of RWY 16 killing the pilot and instructor aboard. No cause for the accident has yet been established, but the weather was at or near minimums for the ILS-16 approach at the time of the crash and and tracking the...

As anyone in the Upper Midwest knows, we're getting our first real winter in many years. Temperatures well below zero (we set the record on December 7th, at minus 19), and snow every day are making life hard on everyone. Yesterday we got hit hard, with another all-day snow. At times...

"cjcampbell" wrote in message ... Our missionaries use water filters, or they buy sealed bottled water from a known source. It is very inconvenient. The water filters cost P15,000 apiece (about $275)....

I just recieved my annual bill from the state of Oregon for registering my airplane: $50 for single engine. How does this compare to other states? tom pettit

Lets get to the bottom of this. I constantly hear people refer to Airports as being class B,C or D Airports. Any of you who have thorough knowledge and understanding of Airports will know that there are only two kinds of Airports in all of our National Airspace System (NAS). There is Towered and...

A friend of ours has been after us to fly up to Ames, IA (home of "the other" Iowa university, Iowa State) to go flying with the "Silent Knights" soaring club for months. Today was the planned day, but things were up in the air after my mother-in law passed away unexpectedly on Sunday. Mary has...

What's with the SR22 crashes? Another one went down Arizona yesterday.

I do not understand why so many of you real time pilots take such a negative look at simmers. I have always loved aviation. For me, because of physical limitations and age, I will never be able to fly a real airplane alone. I understand that it will never compare to rt experiences, and I also...

Called Lockheed Martin FSS this AM for my flight briefing. Spent 20 minutes in the "we are experiencing high call volume" queue waiting for a live briefer to take my call. When one finally did, he was servicing my upstate NY state flight from Phoenix, Az. Nice enough briefer but so much for the...

Depression and despair rule the roost tonight in Iowa City. After all the meetings attended, and all the editorials rebutted, and all the interviews granted, and all the letters written -- our City Council called a sudden, surprise joint meeting with our Airport Commission tonight, and announced...

If money were not an issue, and you had the opportunity to install a single new gadget in your instrument panel (without removing anything else--assume you have the room for something new), which instrument would you install, and why?

In article 688cae97-a624-4bcd-9dd7-48f591718f55 @j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com, skyrider says... Ahhh.... the fun of doing nothing. There are times I wish I'd worked so *I* could retire... feh... maybe in the next life. Best wishes Dyna... have a good one. And then have another...

Hello, I guess de-icing is going to be a popular subject. Question, please: On commercial jet airliners like, e.g., a 767 or 757, is there any in-flight deicing system for the wing and tail surfaces, other than a leading edge pneumatic boot ? What about the "main," large upper surfaces ?

The R in a circle symbol next to an airport on Sectionals nindicates that this airport has Airport Surveillance Radar. But what does this really indicate to the VFR pilot? At Reading, Pennsylvania (KRDG) there is such a symbol. This (Class D Airspace) airport has its own Approach control (shared...