Sport Aviation (EAA Magazine), April issue, pages 110-112. The article shows a system of metal rod-stakes and the 3-part chain with the repair link in the middle. The article goes into some detail on how to make a 3-part chain with a repair link (pretty trivial to figure that out) but...

Hi, I'm going in two weeks for fly&tour&camp vacations. I planned to fly from San Diego to Florida and back, using different routes both ways. At first I wanted to go counterclockwise, but then after reading different comments decided to go in other direction, going through Grand Canyon and...

All aircraft welcome to drop in for a burger. Come and visit our central Florida Fly-in. All info about our field is on our website. http://www.flyinggators.com/news/spring.htm Last year we had a couple helicopters stop by. Hope we can get a few more this year. -- Have a good day and stay out of...

I'm interested in flying again after 30 years on the deck. I haven't taken the Cat III physical as I know I'll need a waiver from the FAA because I have a pacemaker implant. I know waivers are possible and I know what the waiver protocol entails. It's very involved and costly. I'm willing to...

Late July, I will flying from the Boston, MA area first to Montreal for a conference and then up the St. Lawrence river an hour or so to CYML. Anyone been there and can offer flying and/or sightseeing tips? I will be staying at the Fairmont, looks like a fairly spectacular hotel with a view of the...

I must say that I'm not certain why the discussion over BRS has become = so heated. BRS is a tool - nothing more, nothing less. Pilots are a diverse bunch - attitudes about their own abilities run the = gamut from cautious to cowboy. Some will view BRS as enabling them to = take risks they might...

I heard on the radio this morning that a Marine F-18 went down in So. Cal last night somewhere near my house. I did not hear strange noises last night. Hope the crew is ok. They are conducting a search now. -- Mike Flyin'8

http://www.my-cast.com/ Here's the website for the service I first heard about at Sun N Fun. I've signed up and it seems to work perfectly. It's very, very cool to be able to see "live" weather radar on your cell phone. A radar picture is truly worth a thousand words when you're trying to skirt...

I enjoy going to the US military safety websites and reading the annual mishap report review. They describe the different classes of mishap (severity) and list the associated costs of each mishap (your tax dollars at work!). Remember the B-1B that went down off Diego Garcia? It resulted from an...

Rally for America How about making April 15th just another day? American businesses will spend more just on the cost of compliance with the IRS code than we spend on the war on terror, and we do it EVERY year, with no end in sight. Our current tax code is fair to no one, cripples our...

We had worked at the hotel until noon that Easter Sunday, but -- with the plane loaded and fueled the night before -- we were actually off the ground by 1 PM, a new world's record. We figured we'd make a leisurely day of it by stopping overnight in Jim Fisher's Muscle Shoals, to see if we could...

This might be FAQ #276, but it's a slow day... Can we talk about routings from Central California to OSH? My Skylane can drink mogas, 80/87 and 100LL, in that order of preference. What is (are) your favorite route(s)? -jav

Airspeed limitation below 10000ft is usually 250kts unless you have been authorized by the Administrator. However I guess it's a bit slow for military fighters. So I am curious how fast military fighters fly in the real world. I guess it's very dangerous military aircraft fly much fast among...

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A four-place Cirrus crashed yesterday near Greenwood, SC. There were not many details in the paper this morning. There were four on board, all killed. It went down in a wooded area near a golf course shortly after takeoff. There was no mention of a parachute deployment. They had arrived a few...

Is it normal for an airline pilot, or any pilot, to experience ear-popping, lower volume, and sometimes ear pain during ascent and descent (but mainly descent)?

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I hope I bought the right relish ... zzzzzzzzz ...

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YOW!! Everybody out of the GENETIC POOL!