http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040408/D81QALHO0.html Best wishes to former PAVCO line guy, student and flight instructor Pete Siebold as he prepares for his next flight. Be good to the line guys, you never know where they might end up. :-) -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight...

Student pilot Eric Johnson kills himself and his eight-year-old daughter by slamming a plane into his former mother-in-law's house. The Indiana Star notes that as a student pilot he was not allowed to carry passengers... Apparently he practiced a few touch and goes before killing himself. This...

The Seven Levels of Aviation (Satire) (and with apologies to Ken Rockwell, the Seven Levels of Photographers) Master: Level 7 (the highest level) The Master has a Vision in a tangible form called Flying. He and the aircraft are one. The Master is the aircraft and the aircraft is the Master. The...

Wall Street Journal today ran an article on the Boeing Large Cargo Freighter, the "Dreamlifter." It is one ugly plane. A CFI and student in a Skyhawk were darn near killed in November when they flew through the monster's wake turbulence. They were flipped over and lost 1000 feet of altitude and...

Every now and then we get a contentious, obnoxious know-it-all who in fact has only rudimentary knowledge of aviation. Past examples include the Fish Who Must Not Be Named, AcroBat, Skyloon, and others. There is at least one such haunting the aviation groups even now. The current guy is small...

Back in late 2002 and early 2001 I had a commercial student who was an Army Reserve helicopter pilot. He was called to active service for the invasion of Iraq and had to leave, but he finished his training in Mississippi and Texas before he went overseas. I had not heard from him since then and...

One of the most important lessons, I think, coming from the war on terrorism is that poor intelligence is becoming very costly. Satellites are predictable and are unable to loiter over an area, while drones can cover only relatively small areas. From Desert Shield up to now we have been basically...

"Doug Vetter" wrote in message ... The SR20's limit of 12000 hours is still too limiting, IMHO, but I can appreciate the FAA's conservatism regarding any new (indeed revolutionary) design. I was told by a Diamond rep...

Dave Krall in a note forwarded to the Pacific Northwest Flying forum says that there is a movement afoot to close Copalis Beach State Airport. This airport is worth extra effort to save it. Noise is not a legitimate issue; as the web site notes the sound of wind and waves drowns out the sound...

Thomas Peterson of Washington DOT reports that the NTSB found high levels of carbon monoxide in the bodies of both pilot and passenger in the Cessna 170 that went down in Case Inlet last month. The plane was the subject of a search that lasted over a week. The muffler has been sent to NTSB...

"R. Hubbell" wrote in message news:20040303194733.3b99a3f5@fstop... An unfortunate end to a plane gone missing: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Feb-27-Fri-2004/news/23314333.html Interesting that they used radar signals to find the crash site. I...

The Gig Harbor chapter of "Pedophiles Who Hate Bush" will meet at 3:00 pm in the south hangar. Pilots, especially young pilots, are invited. Pedophiles Who Hate Bush was established to demand equal marriage rights. "Why should we be forbidden to marry those we love?," asked spokesman...

Someone posted on the Pacific Northwest Flying forum that they had flown to McMinnville, OR to tour the Spruce Goose. What they found out was that since the entire airplane is not handicapped accessible the public was no longer being allowed to go through it. The only view of the interior now...

"Those Magnificent Men & Their Flying Machines" (or "How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours Eleven Minutes") has finally been released on DVD. This appears to be a good print, retaining the original widescreen format. Bonus materials are pretty much the same as appeared on the...

Looks interesting, but very pricey. Several avionics suppliers are advertising it, though. http://www.pacific-coast-avionics.com/detail.asp?id=5914 -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA

I see HP has introduced the HP Compaq tr3000 (apparently named after a breadmaking machine). It is supposed to be a 'rugged' tablet PC, capable of being left out in the rain, dropped from three feet, etc., and generally exceeding milspec standards for hardiness. The 8" screen is supposed to...

From Nisha Hanchinamani Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation News Service March 16, 2004

http://www.thesunlink.com/redesign/2004-03-14/local/425090.shtml The thing I don't understand is the relative's comment that "they won't let us go down and get them." Who is supposed to be stopping them? -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA

Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation News Service March 8, 2004

http://www.thesunlink.com/redesign/2004-03-08/local/420302.shtml I take students out over this area to practice every single day. The whole area is heavily forested (as is all of western Washington), but there are also several private airstrips, golf courses, farms, a pipeline right of way,...