Just got around to reviewing all the comments under "Simulators". I guess it was inevitable that it ended up as disagreements with MX. While I don't want to get involved with that dead end, I have had an experience that kind of parallels. As I mentioned before, after I lost my medical, I tried...

When I look at the NTSB reports it seems pretty often a bounced landing and loss of directional control is cited as a cause of accidents. Many of the pilots involved were highly experienced. My question is why isn't recovery from bounced landings stressed more in private pilot training? ...

some questions if anyone knows the answers... is 757 fly by wire or fly by cable? The FMCS has full flight and landing capability, is it a separate control system? The FANS network, is it capable of directing "goto location/altitude" and "set airspeed to K" type commands to the plane?

The discussion on simulators was interesting in many aspects. Since being grounded some 20 years ago (medical), I've tried substitutes - radio control and computer simulators - and found them sorely lacking, if not downright boring. However, while playing with the simulator, I could not help but...

I just got through watching several skydiving videos trying to motivate myself to plunk down the money to continue my AFF jumps. As a pilot/mechanic, I have continually been alarmed at the seeming disregard for federal regulations in the sport, or are they? Do jump planes operate under a waiver...

I understand that ATC radar uses an encoding altimeter and a transponder operating with Mode C to determine an aircraft's altitude. Let's forget about Mode C for a moment and switch to Mode A only or just a primary return. If an aircraft is at 18,000 ft (approx 3 nm) and 3 nm away from the...

Is it true that Bert@# got banned? I haven't noticed he or Max for a while. It's like a whole, new, wonderful world here! May it last...please! Ricky

On air conversation about JFK controller - Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKrffnq4V1A I wanted to go to a new airport. While on KJAN approach frequency, discussion ensued about the recent incident at JFK. It wouldn't surprise me that the feelings the approach controller conveyed in...

The FAA sent inspectors to check on a plane that towed a taunting banner and claimed it had a seatbelt issue, grounding it: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100409/ap_on_sp_go_ne/glf_masters_banner_plane I'm glad to see that the FAA doesn't abuse their police powers when asked by the rich and...

I'm unable to find the regulation I was told about where passengers may *not* consume alcohol in an airplane flying under part 91. Can someone help?

Anyone else planning to go to Mojave to see Burt Rutan's ship fly? http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/New_Index/news/062104.htm -- Gene Seibel Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html Because I fly, I envy no one.

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 -...

Texas Air Aces, T-34A out of Hooks Airport north of Houston, crashed this morning (Tuesday). Both in aircraft deceased. Flight (two A/C) had not started air combat maneuvers per media and did not have a mid air????? if you can believe the media. Other A/C retured to Hooks and landed safely. Sone...

OK... So I flew home from Tom Ridge airport in Erie, PA today. I couldn't fly myself there because of weather (freezing rain, snow, ice and such), so I took the bus (Airbus, that is)... Anyway, flying out from LGA everything was smooth as silk. I fly commercially enough to know the routine and...

The Plot Thickens! CAMPAIGN DRAMA ROCKS DEMOCRATS: KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN **World Exclusive** **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT** A frantic behind-the-scenes drama is unfolding around Sen. John Kerry and his quest to lockup the Democratic...

I see these things available locally for around $40 bucks. They claim to be able to recharge cell phones and laptops. They also say they're good for trickle-charging vehicle batteries. My thinking is that a solar charger would be great for Sun N Fun and Oshkosh -- places where my cell phone (and...

Can a commercial pilot be hired to rent a plane and fly a journalist on a local flight for aerial photography, without meeting any operator requirements? Or does that count as a sightseeing flight, invoking the part 135 drug-testing rules?

I was approaching class C airspace for landing at the primary airport for which the class C airspace is designated and I listened to the ATIS. The ATIS said "all frequencies are combined on TowerFrequency". So I tuned to TowerFrequency and made my radio call to approach. The response that I...

Leaving OAK I called ground and asked for flight following to 7S3 (which I gave by name and spelled phonetically). Later, while I'm taxiing they come back with "where is that" and I couldn't imagine how I could help them if the identifier didn't, so I came up with "near McMinnville", which is both...

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