With school started, and family vacations a soon-to-be-distant memory, it's time to reflect on a summer of flying. Where'd everyone fly to? What was the coolest flight you made this summer? Help us plan NEXT summer's flight, by describing your "must-see" place from this year. I'll get the ball...

Why do turbocharged piston props seem to be so rare/unfavored? Don't they provide a substantial advantage over normally aspirated engines?

A couple of days ago the NTSB found the 320 series to have too sensitive a rudder, it can be torn off with peddle pressures. What's especially of interest is the problem seems to persist even when crews are given special training about the problem. There are some details...

Russia to approve new Moon rocket By Anatoly Zak Science reporter http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7946689.stm Russia is developing a new generation of space vehicles Russian space officials are to select the winning proposal for a new rocket intended to carry cosmonauts on...

Another in the long line of stories and articles about our Federal Guvment corruption and waste and fraud. Reminds me of the FAA and Southwest being little love birds and all cozy People we need to slice and dice the Government out of everything THEY ARE the problem. Washington DC is a...

Just got an AvWeb flash announcing same... Jay Beckman PP-ASEL Chandler, AZ www.pbase.com/flyingphotog

This question is directed at student pilots and flight instructors. How many of you learn/teach cross country navigation using the traditional methods using paper charts, protractors, E6B and navigation logs? During my training more than 10 years ago, xc planning was a fairly elaborate process...

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

I am thinking about buying a 1946 Taylorcraft that has NO gyros at all on the panel. I really want at least a turn and bank so I want die if I loose reference to the horizon for any reason. I have been told that the heading information from a GPS is good enough to do the function of a turn and...

Do you use autopilots on short trips (along the lines of an hour or so)? Do you use autopilots systematically on IFR flights? Is it bad form to use the autopilot for a 25-minute flight? I've tried KPAE-KTIW under IFR both by hand and with autopilot, and autopilot is a breeze in any weather...

Many of my emails in response to those of you who have sent me pictures for the new Rec.Aviation website have been "bouncing back". When it became obvious that it was NOT "everyone else's" problem, I contacted Mediacom to inquire about the service. Here is their reply -- anyone care to translate?...

I'm just home from the 'plex, where I spent a claustrophobic hour and a half living through the last flight of "United 93." By this time, it will come as no surprise that this is one of the most astonishing pieces of movie-making of all time. (FAA operations manager Ben Sliney, who plays himself as...

In article , TRUTH wrote: Tenured Physics Professor Steven E Jones gave two seminars to hundreds of people on WTC controlled demolitions and how the government's version of events "defies physics". The Feb 1st seminar can be viewed on...

I fly out of CVO (Corvallis, OR), a small non-towered airport. While walking to the porta-potty this afternoon I walked past the dumpster. Naturally I looked in to see what was there, and I was pretty surprized to see several of the empty wine boxes. Now tell me how many folks keep wine in their...

The other night, when we were working the pattern as an excuse to watch the sunset from 1000 AGL, it dawned on me that I hadn't practiced any emergency procedures since my last biennial. I like to do these things once in a while, in an effort to remain sharp, and now seemed like a good time. With...

I really appreciate you all taking the time to express you opinions. Some very good points were made that I hadn't considered. So, I will try not to worry so much and not give him any more grief about his hobby. I'm sure he'd thank you guys for your efforts! June

are awfully hard to find. I just "interviewed" a couple at local flight schools by taking little flights with them, ostensibly just for rust removal. There's no way I'd hire them for instrument training. It is tough to find an instructor who really knows his stuff, is a good teacher and is...

Can the mike be rotated so that it can be on either the right or left side of one's face? The one demo unit I looked at was new and the mike boom was already broken, so it was impossible to tell. It was kind of just dangling, without the ability to be secure in either location. Are these headsets...

Given my relative low time of 700 hours, I wanted to share the story of my first in-flight mechanical problem, which happened today while returning from southwest Pennsylvania to central NY. Cruising along at 11,000 feet with the XM radio playing in my headsets (thanks to an earlier thread here,...

Recentingly, in another thread, cell phones and planes came up. I thought others might be interested in these links. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1568024,00.asp http://wirelesscabin.com/ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/start.html?pg=12 The general theory on modern cell phones in...