I had two recent situations where other pilots thought they'd be cool by being condescending jackasses over the radio, which effected my ability to teach my student. The first time was when I was at a local uncontrolled field with one of my students to introduce solf-field takeoffs and landings....

Hello: Does anyone know of other professions that require psychological evaluation of "attitude" to weed out overconfident candidates, etc? Thank you. Best Regards Steve Sousa

FAA has generated a revised policy to permit the use of SINGLE anti-depressant drug prescriptions for pilots. Suicidal ideation, multi-drugs, etc., are disqualifying. This ought to be of particular interest to some users of this group?? Brian W

Why do we pull the props back to feather prior to shutting down? I cannot see any reason for this. This seems a useless procedure on the shutdown checklist. If the prop levers are left forward upon shutdown, the prop blades will go into feather when oil pressure drops off. On start up, the...

that if five years from now the FBI had solved the : * access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further : * legislation might be required. : * : * The obvious solution: a federal law prohibiting the use of any : * cryptographic device that did not provide government...

I have long expressed my opinion that public displays of low level aerobatics entails risk vastly out of proportion to any benefits, perceived or real... Aerobatic displays do not improve public support for general aviation nor for the preservation of local airports... Aerobatic displays do not...

To all current and former AirPlan user's/subscribers After much careful and difficult deliberation, I have decided to cease all new sales of AirPlan on my website as of October 1, 2006. I started working on AirPlan in 1997 with hopes that I could create a successful business selling flight...

**Shameless Plug Warning** My fourth aviation article is about to hit the stands. The next "Aviation Safety" will have a piece I wrote on prop nicks. You do read "Aviation Safety" don't you? If not, you should. -- Roger Long

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WHO: The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum and Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society in Pueblo, Colorado WHAT: presents its 18th Annual Moonlight Ball museum fundraiser. WHEN: Friday April 17, 2009 WHE Occhiato Ball Room at the Colorado State University-Pueblo COST and TICKETS: Tickets are...

If you pay Colorado income tax, this will be of interest to you. An Enterprise Zone has been created to help build a new hangar for the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum located on the grounds of the Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB). Pueblo Memorial Airport is located six miles east of Pueblo, Colorado....

The Puget Sound and Hermiston TFRs were rescinded at 11:49 1/9/04 and replaced with National Security Areas, possibly as a prelude to permanent publication. Jeppesen Flitestar is still showing the old TFRs, however, and since the Jepp engine is the one that the FAA and AOPA use on their web sites I...

I'm thinking about a pulse oximeter. I've seen both Nonin and CheckMate units for sale, with Checkmate being noticably cheaper. Anyone have any experience with either? Is there a good reason to pay more for the Nonin? --Dan

Tomorrow (weather pending) or next weekend, we're probably taking the RV-6 to just north of Little Rock Arkansas to look at and probably buy a puppy. Yeah, I know, there are plenty of puppies locally, but my wife is on a quest to find a pup with the same bloodline (or at least some of it) as the...

I'm training to get my pilots certificate and doing pretty well so far. I' ve posted a couple of times in this newsgroup in the past few weeks and I've received some very good advice. Therefore I thought I'd throw another question at you. I'll be commuting with my license. Flying form my home...

I'm looking at buying into a partnership. The plane is a Piper Lance (6 place, complex single engine). From you Piper drivers, particularly those who have Lance experience, is there anything I need to know about? I asked an IA about 6 place aircraft and he told me that C210s I was looking at tend...

I need to get a push to talk switch for the Cessna's I rent now. I have noticed that they are very expensive for what they are (a switch). Is it legal to build my own from Radio Shack type parts? If so, does someone have the specs? Tyson

In simulation, I note that I'm apparently expected to have my plane pushed back from its parking place before I start the engines and taxi, judging from the way the aircraft are parked (with very little room to turn around on their own). Are real small aircraft tugged and pushed back, or do you...

Jay started a discussion recently about pushing planes after seeing someone push a Cherokee by the elevator. I was at the Golden West Fly-in at Marysville, CA (MYV) over the weekend, and after the air race demo, the crew of Dreadnought (Hawker Sea Fury) grabbed a bunch of spectators to help push...

This one isn't of me flying, I did figure out a way to get a nice outside view in those by the way, just got to go take the Cardinal for a spin sometime... I'm thinking next week. This video is something I put together after getting an unexpected day off of work (every one in 3 people got the...