If you are following a road or river or other feature on the ground while flying VFR, and that feature runs north/south but often veers off to one side or the other, are you expected to change your altitude each time you move from a heading of 0-179 to 180-359 or vice versa?

It is all relative. A 5000 foot paved runway that is 150 feet wide can be challenging to a 747 pilot.

Pilot reported heavy downdraft over Lancaster, CA, resulting in crash. http://www.orovillemr.com/news/chico/ci_4917367 Can somebody explain what he did right/wrong?

How do the rest of you deal with careless linemen? The kind who scratch your airplane or chip the paint because they are either careless or have not been properly trained on how to avoid damaging aircraft when refueling 'em. Case in point - this afternoon I stopped by the airport to prep for a...

Hi everybody We are two Danes and two Austrians who have thought of flying around the Carribean for about a month in late winter/wpring 2004. Just from looking at the map we figure it should be possible to do some loop around the Caribbean Sea (Cuba - Haiti - Domenican Rep. - Puerto Rico -...

So, Wichita, Kansas seems to be blessed with a lot of airports and the sectional chart looks pretty busy. To the east of Wichita Mid Continent (ICT), there is Col. Jabara (towerless), Beech Factory (private field w/ tower), McConnell AFB, etc. McConnel's Class D just grazes Beech's towered...

I had a situation yesterday at the end of my local "just because" flight (you know, one of those where you really have no place to go but the weather is favourable and you just want to go flying). Was flying a rental 172. Took off like a rocket (lightly loaded solo... cold air about freezing),...

Plane at the hold bar at active. ATC-- Position and hold Pilot taxies to the Rwy and holds. Atc --take position and hold Pilot taxies to rwy and holds. Atc-- Hold in position Pilot stays at hold bar.

The grounds opened today (man, you've gotta be hard-core to fly in THIS early!), and it's shaping up to be another great show. This'll be our 25th in a row, God willin' and the crik don't rise. Who's in? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993

Separate cockpit and passengers by wall with no door, no window, just plane wall. No mechanism of communication whatsover with cockpit from passenger area. That will discourage hijacker because whatever he do, pilot will not know. When terrorists know that even flight staff can not talk to pilot,...

The Maydays post got me wondering. I don't monitor except during the long flights, maybe ~2 hours or longer...

Just heard about this on the morning news. Apparently pilot with 4 months with the company had trouble maintaining altitude and attempted a landing at the Easton, WA airstrip. It sounds like he came up short and crashed into some trees, then cartwheeled and burst into flames. This is tragic,...

Our EAA chapter had a 40' hangar door that split in the middle and folded sideways (each half). The ends were hinged and the center had a single roller that ran in a track above. The bottom was not attached in any way and just hung. It was held closed and open with large steel pins that dropped...

Is it possible that BOTH pilots fell asleep? http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0220abrk-sleepingpilots.html Airline pilots may have slept past their stop in Hawaii Barbi Walker The Arizona Republic Feb. 20, 2008 04:59 PM The Federal Aviation Administration is...

Greetings, Well, I went to Oshkosh last week and loved it. I spent about three hours in the museum, not nearly enough, but it was enough to get a feel of the place. The place was dead though. There was about 4 other people in the place besides my friend and I. In a way this was neat because I...

Just got this today in e-mail, forwarded from an Aviation Daily piece. I imagine this should **** of a few people. ========================== DHS Wants GA Aircraft Screened Before Flights To U.S. The Dept. of Homeland Security plans to extend the security requirements now applicable to Part 135...

Hi everyone, I have a question for people who fly in CT, and NY often. Today I was flying from Danbury (DXR) to Brookhaven (HWV). I flew out without incident. Coming home I flew from Brookhaven direct to Calverton then to Bridgeport then direct Danbury using a combination of my sectional chart and...

John Deakin included this link in his latest "Pelican's Perch" column on AvWeb.com: http://home.earthlink.net/~quade/lawnchair.html Despite the downbeat ending I find it inspirational: chase that dream...

I'm taking flight lessons and was hoping to get my private pilot certificate not too far down the line. Today I went in for my medical and was told by the examiner I have a couple problems. Although I've been asymptomatic for some time I'm on a medication that is not allowed by the FAA. When I...

Does anybody know why on the Denver Terminal Area Chart, the Byers (BVR 113.5) vor/dme facility is charted without the compass ring that are on most vortacs? It's the only one I've seen charted like this. Byers is located 33NM on the 090 radial of DVV (the Denver International Vortac). Thanks,...