Its been fun but I am leaving all usenet group's maby see you all at a fly-in or two over the years

I can't remember where I read it, but I seem to recall that in the majority of fatal accidents the pilot knew something was wrong with the airplane before he even took off. It does seem like a popular trend reading through the accident databases. But can anyone point me to a study that...

OK pilots, try this one on for size. As you likely know, there is a wide and growing rift between the career FAA bureaucrats (aka FAA Management) who run the monstrosity called the federal Air Traffic Organization, and the career FAA air traffic controllers who make that monstrosity work in the...

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In an on-the-air (*) broadcast, a BBC announcer was trying to explain the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats to his British audience. "The Republicans are verry like our ... ahhh ... Conservatives. The Democrats are verry like our ... ahhh ... Conservatives." (*) "on-the-AIR"...

ATC says "radar contact, 20 miles south of XYZ, proceed on course". Do you acknowledge this transmission? How about when ATC says "altimeter setting 2992" on your first contact after a handoff? Does this require acknowledgement? In the past, I've acknowledged such things if the controller was...

How does the military's use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle intend to comply with the Part 91 See-And-Avoid mandate? Will there be new Restricted Areas imposed along the border, or will the UAVs be flown in Positive Control...

Why does the shuttle throttle to 3 Gs on ascent? Danny Deger

We should be cautious about posting anything on these news groups. There is no way of convincing the mentally ill that airplanes are not a threat to them, so arguing with them is futile. At worst, somebody in these groups could find out about the rec.aviation news groups. This is a serious...

I got an email response from the guys at Rocket Engineering about their PT6A conversion of a P-Baron. He mentioned they're finishing STC work for their turbine Duke conversion and I wondered which airplane might make the better platform for conversion. Their preliminary numbers for the -21 engined...

Hi all, While I was on my way home this evening from Flying Traffic survey. I was nearly run over by a Baron driver coming out of Stafford Airport (RMN) on his way to Frederick (FDK). He called Potomac approach saying level 3200. I was cruising at 3000 between Stafford, Virginia near Quantico...

I was pre-flighting my plane today until I saw this long red strip running down the entire length of my prop with a small puddle at the bottom!!! I hadn't seen it before. It was the first time flying in three weeks. I was at the plane last week, and didn't see anything, but the again, I wasn't...

What regulations determine the absolute lowest altitude you can fly above the ground in the U.S.? I understand that the area just above the ground is usually Class G outside airports, and it only goes up to 700 or 1200 feet most of the time ... which implies that you can actually fly at 500 feet...

This got me thinking, a rudderless Ercoupe in a multi-directional wind landing...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2NJFrvYls Do you (I) really want a home that close to a GA landing strip? Yet I see megabuck homes in my neck of the woods http://www.visualtour.com/shownp.asp?prt=85&t=1217861

Hi all, going for my medical soon and was wondering if I will be subject to a drug-screen urinalysis as well as other urine tests. I've tried looking for the info but could not find it. thanks, Jon

Recently I was departing a small airport (with no control tower) which was underneath the class C shelf area of a somewhat larger airport (which is an air force base). Immediately before departing, I called the approach controller for the class C airspace and told him that I was departing and...

With Avgas topping five bucks a gallon, I find myself asking: How much more will it take before GA is completely unaffordable? At what price point will all the current "weekend pilots" be driven from the market? Example: While on our trip back from Florida a couple of weeks ago, we paid $5.20...

I took my daughter to Linden Airport (that's in New Jersey). We stood with a small crowd at the fence on the shopping mall side as planes took off and landed. (This is where I got my interest in flying many years ago.) Presently a mall security truck drove up and the guard told us to disperse...

Alright, I realize that Oshkosh is so very last week, but with my drive home to Southern California and going back to work it's taken me until now to weed through all 1992 pictures I took. I weeded them down to 539... obviously not all of them are interesting but at least they're broken up into...

In another thread, we have been hashing out whether some pilots in training quit flying because of a hair-raising event, such as a brush with disaster, or getting lost. Few ex-students seem to admit that this was a reason for quitting, but the drop-out rate seems to be far higher than it should...