It's my Father in Law's 80th birthday, and we are wanting to treat him to an aviation themed culinary experience. Our choices in Atlanta are Downwind at PDK or Flight Deck at Charlie Brown. We want to eat and watch planes with 3 great grandkids...any input on either of these? This is the same...

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08102703.html Watch that Entire video. Angelo Campanella

so i just passed the commercial written, and i hear that the CFI written is half of the commercial written information, with the other half being new material. Any reality to that? I also have watched a few videos of fellow group members flying, and wondering how many of you are running lean of...

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The latest issue of AOPA Pilot contains an article about vortex generators. The article places high emphasis on how they can improve controllability during low airspeed single engine operations in twin engine airplanes. The subtitle of the article, as it relates to twins, mentions "Blueline Ops...

Included in a reply to my email to AOPA about the current state of FSS was a list of FSS direct-dial numbers that are still active. Both AOPA and Lockheed Martin are now advertising these direct dial numbers as a work-around to the long hold times experienced when calling 800-WX-BRIEF. Lockheed...

The plane I usually rent is probably going to be sold relatively soon. I will miss the Garmin 430 since most of the planes left in the fleet available to me do not have a GPS at all. So I am looking at the Lowrance Airmap 1000 as a portable alternative, but for the life of me, can't find a single...

I would like to subscribe to weather on a gps, but only for the months I'm likely to be flying cross country. Does anyone know if I can subscribe, quit, resubscribe later, quit later, etc? tom

In the interest in lightening the mood, I thought I'd share the following to fellow rec.aviation.piloting readers: Last time I checked no one had recorded it to audio, yet here is the infamous "I am the very model of a Usenet individual" (based on the "I am the very model of a modern...

GOOD NEWS @ GROTON - NEW LONDON CT AIRPORT! GON In case you have not heard the good news, the airport restaurant - DeMarinis Family Italian Restaurant - opened for business this week in the Main Terminal with fresh pizza, pasta and seafood. Hours are 6 am to 10 pm daily and free delivery is...

Richard Riley wrote: I've been working with a conventionally configured helicopter for a few months and this suddenly started eating my brain. In a 2 rotor helicopter you are countering the torque of one rotor with the other rotor. But how do you do a pedal turn? In a coaxial I'd...

http://machineitright.com/movies/060213_flying_motorcycle.wmv I want one.

I normally fly into Brookhaven ( HWV ) to visit my Mom but I need to go up next Sunday and there is no car rental there and Enterprise is closed on Sunday. Can anyone recommend a airport/FBO combo on the eastern half of the island with decent prices for tiedown & car rental? John Theune

Although I have decided to stop actively promoting and further developing my flight planning software product, AirPlan, I have decided that in order to be fair to all the user's who have purchased AirPlan in the past that I need to continue to provide database updates for the software. The...

I think you should file a suit against these guys for stealing your Kiwi design: http://www.hotseatinc.com/uploads/30/PAGES/1900/ -- Dallas

SportPilotTalk.com has just launched The Affordable Flying Initiative (AFI) to help make flying more affordable. Read all about it at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Affordable_Flying/

Made up a Google Earth file of all current airports & heliports in Canada I plan on updating this info every 56 days from the Canada Flight Supplement. http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/760736/an/0/page/4#760736 -- Remove NOSPAM to reply

According to the type certificate data sheet for the Pratt and Whitney 62,000 thrust engine, the max continuous thrust should be ~52,000 and the 62,000 for 5 minutes max. The question is, does N1 @ 100% produce 52,000 lbs of thrust or does it produce 60,200 lbs of thurst? Any airline pilots out...

All, I heard this weekend some rumors that Columbia is working on known-ice certification for the E-vade system on the 400, and that Diamond will be producing a DA42 with larger diesel engines. Anyone know anything more about either of these? --Dan

$ means maintenance required on a METAR (and some people thank that the FAA has no sense of humor) Anyway, if a $ appears in the METAR, does it mean that: 1. No METAR info should be trusted 2. All METAR info should be trusted but some might be missing 3. It is guaranteed to be VFR anyway Thanks,