Preflighted today for a two-hour trip only to discover one side of the '02 C172 spinner bent outward. The metal spinner base holding that crucial bolt had ripped off like a piece of paper. With nothing to counteract the spinning forces, the outside skin of the spinner opened right up. ...

Anyone have any experience with GATTS, Double Eagle Aviation or Cloudbusters?

You always learn something when you fly with another pilot. I've researched the aggressive leaning procedures that keep the O-320 in our 172 N clean running and posted them for our club members. If anyone wants to take pot shots at them, they are...

It's a beautiful day in the Puget Sound: no clouds and 50 miles visibility. My wife and I were on the apron at Wings Aloft by 2:10, having left work in plenty of time for the scheduled 2:50 arrival. I was idly monitoring the tower frequency when I realized someone was saying "Speedbird" and...

On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:31:04 -0500, Tony Woolner wrote: Anyone have any experience with GATTS, Double Eagle Aviation or Cloudbusters? I did GATTS and liked it enough to go back for my commercial.

Anybody have reviews of delta connection academy... pros? cons? or can recommend any other academies? I'm heading down to fla. for the DCA tour in Dec. Thanks. -Bill

About a year ago I passed a kidney stone. I know it passed because I saw it, and I know it was the only stone because I've had two ultrasounds: one on the night it passed showing just one stone, and another several months later showing no stones. My 3rd class medical expires in spring of...

This is really great news! When is the last time that a stolen plane has been successfully tracked and a suspect arrested? Perhaps the "homeland security" drive gave the feds an extra push to solve this case. If so, I think that is the first (only?) positive affect on GA. Lakewood Muni has...

A Robinson R44 and an R22 crashed at 3:30 Thursday afternoon. The R44 contained a flight instructor and student taking the Robinson safety course in the 4 place. The R22 had a student making his first supervised solo. Amazingly, the crash occured right in front of the control tower. The student...

Anyone tried out the new AOPA flight planner? It looks pretty interesting - you can import weather graphics from DUAT(S) and overlay them on the 'sectional' that it draws the routes on. It also plots all the TFRs and such. Still playing with it, but it looks like it has a lot of possibilities. ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0311020421nov02,1,1068995.story FAA report rips DuPage flight school Records falsified to pass students, investigator finds By Jon Hilkevitch Tribune transportation reporter Published November 2, 2003

After watching _Cast Away_ again, I'm still not clear on what supposedly caused the crash of his FedEx plane. Not being a pilot, though, perhaps I've missed clues in the film. Has anyone here been able to figure out what went wrong? Or was it just a "Hollywood crash" suitable for the plot but...

will you enter earth´s orbit?

Looks like it might be interesting. Here's the sight for it http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/ It comes on tonight at 10:00 in my area. I'll be watching!

From NBC news on the TV tonight: Around 1530 today the student pilot of a two-place Robinson on his first solo flight clipped the rotor disk of an R-44 with two aboard (now believed dead), a Robinson employee possibly conducting a customer familiarization flight. The flights were operating...

Decided as part of my Wings refresher training to dust off the night flying skills and give them a once over. I am based near Philly and flew to Atlantic City (KACY). As we were approaching from the NW I noticed a bank of very large and bright floodlights pointing back toward me. They were about...

Want to give as a gift. Where can one go for a scenic sailplane ride in Washington? (A professional business please) Not interested in a glider club or the local banner tow co who does this part-time. Thanks. kb

http://www.alexisparkinn.com/the_iowa_city_airport.htm Added a bunch of pictures (full-sized ones, too), made a bunch of suggested changes, grammatical and otherwise. Let me know whatcha think, please? Any other suggestions are welcome, as always. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA

BoDEAN wrote in : Curious what CFI's have for a 2nd job to supplement income. You mean there are some that DON'T??? G Then why, when I asked my CFI to demonstrate a steep turn, he asked "Sure, you want fries...

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