1980's... Watching the string of landing lights of arriving aircraft east of Oshkosh stretching out over Lake Michigan. (Amusingly, followed by watching the arrivals try to find a parking spot in the dark with out flag-people.)

Back to the thread on pilots setting QNH for local acro work. I was in the trusty Pawnee this weekend and checked the altimeter, I can only select settings from 28.10 to 31.50, so.. following the others advice of setting QNH. I could not. I attempted to find this information in my personal...

Sound like alot of wisdom in this newsgroup would appreciate the same about what my prospects can be starting at 50. Flight has always been a lure for me (father in the business, avid flight sim user etc etc) Now that I can financially afford to do the real thing (well lets say ~...

wrote in news:23e736d2-3743-4ab9-be9d-e3d15bf7ce36 @q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com: It is amazing that so many people just do not understand that all the murderers who go on shooting rampages and kill students and others are doing it for the sole purpose of discrediting the...

And so we must part again. Economic obsolescence brings despair once again. The joy, the inner peace, the relaxing comfort that comes with a familiar trusted colleague slips away once more. The anxiety of starting over with a new partner is facing me, again. The future is daunting. My first...

I have been following the "Grass Strip" thread and have a few comments: I have a "high performance" Vintage Johnson Rocket (the hot rod of 1946) and have based it on both grass and paved fields and have flown into and out of grass fields ranging from "fantastic" to "I'd never go in...

Hi, In the video at www.fulldeflection.com , Kirby Chambliss has his canopy fly open during flight. He was very cool about it. I think he made all the right choices. I've had a door open a few times during flight too, on a Cessna 152. My instructor showed me how to close it in-flight. You slow...

Many of you may not know these places by the phrase "141 school" so I will give you some great ways to spot them. If the school is a university flight department, if the name includes the word Academy, or if their ad says anything that refers to training pilots for an airline position it is a...

I just read an interesting argument by Lew Gauge in his E-185 Bonanza book. Some background -- the older Bonanzas (straight 35) have a "Flap" switch. There's no increments unless you stop the motor as the flaps are being dropped. Apparently it's hard on that design to start-stop the motor. Lew...

Hi Everyone, I've found that I always want to look up METARs and TAFs when not in front of a computer. So I wrote a Mobile website to do get this info for me straight from NOAA. I thought it would also be useful to others. So here is the URL: awx.mobi Its a free service and no registering needed...

My dad drives along the south side of OKC to work every day and his OAT in his car always goes a few degrees colder around the where the extended centerline for the runways would intersect the road. Then it goes right back up after he is through that area. He thinks this is because the...

Here is a question to challenge your understanding of engine operation... During Winter in the colder climes, do you use less fuel when you fly because the air is more dense?

I was wondering what people view as their limitations in terms of wind. I'm talking 172 / Warrior territory here. Clearly this is a personal decision, based on your perceptions of your own skills, the aircraft you are flying, the specific conditions on the day (E.g. how gusty, reports of LLWS &...

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On NY Newsday (Newsday.com) they have a link for the airport spec's for the A380. On page 3-3-1 or so, they have the take off specs extrapolated out to a 17000 foot runway. hehehehe. I wonder where that is.....ummmm, mojave dessert? I presume it will fly like any other transport category...

I need to do something to say thanks to my CFI, but I can't think of any grand ideas. I really feel bad for not having to pay him much for instruction. I'm going for my exam at 41hrs. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1...

It was just a news blurb this morning on the local TV news, but they claimed that investigators now blame the loss of the Air Bus 300's tail on the improper use of the rudder by the co-pilot. If true (that the co-pilot is actually being blamed), I find that difficult to believe. A little research...

I thought it was +/- 200 feet before you've violated if you are flying IFR, but someone just told me it's a 100 feet, which seems a little steep considering they use 1000 feet separations.

I didn't have time for this -- or anything else, for that matter. The inn was full, and I was fighting constant interruptions of all kinds. But the phone call was from the airport, and Mary said it was important. Zach was on the line, one of our CFIs. He had just taken a most unusual call, from...

Do all commercial aircraft that fly in and out of North America have dual unit altimeters (hPa and inHg)?