I've mastered fuel management now the hardest part. How to manage mine and my wife's bathroom breaks. Our trips are typically 3 to 3.5 hours but our blatters don't always make it thus forci6ng a stop. Thats a big 30 min addition to the trip. On my last filight I filed two flight plans and...

http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/148-full.html I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but wow!

I Will Pay Up To $15,000 Cash for a Cessna 152 Or Piper Tomahawk. High Airframe Tiome Ok, Engine Must Not Exceed TBO, Airplane must be in flying condition, in current annual and have all the logs, No Major Damage. I will pay cash upon pick up of airplane (yes i have cash the green paper kind). Call...

Of course it has to be the correct card type. Ron Lee

CNN reports that Nancy's B757 operating costs are $22,000.00 an hour. Geez, I used to think $125 an hours was expensive. -- Dallas

Another Boeing Boondoggle Creates Potential Hazard In Skies Over Los Angeles Call me Chicken Little, but.... I take issue with this quote from the following article: "The Metroplex system relies on sophisticated automation and global positioning satellites that will let controllers and...

I'm seeing a huge number of spam postings in this group. I'm sure they are from a bot, but since the address keeps switching, I don't know how to block the messages in OE. Suggestions?

Why is it everytime someone posts an accident, there are those who quickly make a decision or pronouncement that it was stupid, or the pilot was a moron, or, etc, etc, and never have a clue as to the real happenings? Why does it take well trained professional crash investigators to do a full...

I'm proud to announce about my new Cessna 172SP weight & balance iPhone app! Calculate weight & balance in 30sec !!! App store...

Was flying in the Denver area today and approach told a plane that FL 180 was unavailable die to low altimeter, which was 28.87 at the time. What is the reason for this? Confusion with 29.92 readings? Thanks, Michael

I fly in the southeastern US, nearly always under IFR, in a complex sel. In reading other threads it's pretty clear that some others who post here don't understand what IMC means. I mostly hand fly, and I'm guessing 30% or more of my IMC flying is using the outside horizon, with occasional glances...

The other day I shot the VOR approach into SMO for the first time in low actual. I've often looked at that approach as one of the most difficult I've seen published so it was interesting to actually try it. The weather was 008OVC with something like 3sm HZ. I touched down about 3/4 down the runway...

I have been reading the various threads about spins, forced landings, etc and talking with CFIs. The road to a PPL is preset in requirements by FAA. I see that most people are happy to do nothing more than that. Outside of the cost factors, I find this much more than curious considering...

Twice in 2 days I've filed VFR flight plans only to have FSS unable to find them when I called on radio after takeoff. One was filed through Duats at 9PM for noon next day (and left at noon). The other was filed with a briefer at Terre Haute at 10PM for 8AM next day (and left on time). In both...

I have received the Garmin GPSMAP 396 that I ordered at OSH and am now trying to figure out how to mount it securely in the airplane (Piper Arrow) 1 I want to be able to use it out of the airplane occasionally. 2 Experimenting with it at home, it appears to me that the font size on both screen...

http://ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2006/061103.htm UPDATE ON CIRRUS PLANE CRASH IN MANHATTAN, NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Transportation Safety Board today released the following update on its investigation into the accident...

There are some mysteries that I've encountered while learning to read VFR charts: 1. I see airports with dashed cyan circles around them that I presume indicate Class D airspace (based on the chart legend). However, the circles are not always the same size, and I don't see any indication of their...

Boeing has discovered that the Italian firm to which it subcontracted construction of tail assemblies isn't doing the work correctly, putting the 23 aircraft it has already built at...

CNN article on "The Doomsday Plane" Cool. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/12/king.mystery.plane.CNN -c

Only in the 21st century: Without any effort on my part I just received an aviation video as an attachment to an email (for our aviation video website) from a guy who is viewing our hotel's website (which resides on a computer in California, which, in turn, is owned and operated by a guy in...