I vote for Iowa City! This just in: "'Kiplinger's Personal Finance' ranked Iowa City 10th in its top 50 'Smart Places to Live' list. The rankings are based on cost of living, homes, crime, health care, climate, environment and education." :-) --

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No. Straight lines on Lambert Conformal maps are not great circles. It's my understanding that the Lambert Conformal is better than any other flat surface at representing the curved surface of the earth in such a way that a straight line on the chart comes very close to being a Great...

I'll be flying one of our 172's down to Santa Monica (KSMO) sometime in the next few weeks, probably this coming Friday (returning the following day). I'll be arriving from Oakland, stopping somewhere like Santa Maria or San Luis Obispo for lunch before arriving IFR into SMO with a couple of...

https://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/When-Government-Cant-Keep-Up-230190-1.html When Government Can't Keep Up By Russ Niles | January 19, 2018 As the U.S. girds for another budget showdown that threatens to shut down the government, aviation, deemed an essential service in most respects, will...

I am thinking of purchasing a hand held radio (tranceiver). Can anyone recommend one ? I am a student pilot. Please reply to this newsgroup and not via email.

http://www.divingservices.net/aircraft.jpg http://www.divingservices.net/9bcess2.jpg Anyone have the story behind this? Strange that a plane designed to float, sank! The Monk

The grounds opened today (man, you've gotta be hard-core to fly in THIS early!), and it's shaping up to be another great show. This'll be our 25th in a row, God willin' and the crik don't rise. Who's in? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993

I'm still in a bit of a quandry as to how to learn to make coordinated turns in a PC simulator that does not include a motion platform. I've turned on the visual alignment indicator that MSFS provides, which is a red "V" that sits squarely ahead in the visual field, effectively bolted to the...

I had a situation yesterday at the end of my local "just because" flight (you know, one of those where you really have no place to go but the weather is favourable and you just want to go flying). Was flying a rental 172. Took off like a rocket (lightly loaded solo... cold air about freezing),...

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:11:00 +0100, Peter wrote: Reading FAR/AIM 2004 it isn't entirely clear to me because different sections refer to day and night cross country, and I don't think the description of a day cross country applies to the night flight; the distances are...

It would seem to me, that the City of Santa Monica committed malfeasance in office by permitting residential development adjacent to the airport many years ago. Perhaps the City should face charges and be held accountable for their actions, if justice is to be served. If the City of Santa...

.... when using pressure pattern nav techniques, what's a standard way for working out groundspeed for flight planning purposes? Do you take the forecast curved route and divide it up into segments and average it out? TIA

I am not a pilot but have the greatest respect for those you are. Most here wish to share their pleasure with non-pilots and I thank you for your posts. But some wish to maintain an elitist group. Perhaps that elitist behaviour reduces the support you may have from non-pilot members of the...

***CAUTION -- SHAMELESS PLUG WARNING *** I've been promising this one for six months -- and we have finally finished the Mustang Suite! We took our most popular suite (it's popular because it's our smallest, cheapest Jacuzzi suite) and loaded it up with new wall paper border, carpeting, window...

Greetings, Well, I went to Oshkosh last week and loved it. I spent about three hours in the museum, not nearly enough, but it was enough to get a feel of the place. The place was dead though. There was about 4 other people in the place besides my friend and I. In a way this was neat because I...

It is my understanding (always subject to correction) that as a safety pilot you may log PIC time because you are indeed a required crew member for the operation. However, to log PIC time you also must be qualified to act as PIC of that particular aircraft. -- Jim Burns...

Right now there is a pretty intense lake-enhanced band of snow going on to the north of my home airport. Twenty four to thirty six inches (0.6 to 1 meter) of snow is expected in that narrow region over the next day. The forecasters included lightning and thunder in their discussion of this...

Pilot reported heavy downdraft over Lancaster, CA, resulting in crash. http://www.orovillemr.com/news/chico/ci_4917367 Can somebody explain what he did right/wrong?

Monday, July 03, 2017 11:22PM PRICE COUNTY, Wis. (WLS) -- Five people from Illinois were among six killed in a northern Wisconsin plane crash Saturday. Authorities said the small Cessna airplane fell apart in the air. .... Weiss, of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Monday the debris...