At other times, in other restaurants, he would be the guy to be studiously avoided, like a stray dog that looked friendly. In a freeway restaurant, or a hotel lobby, he would be the old guy that would cause you to avert your eyes and quicken your step, for fear of endless, repetitive...

Now that I have again provided the amount of annual funding deriving from GA fuel taxes (including AV GAS and Jet A), compare that to 2005 capital grants to airports by looking at the ACTUAL 2005 DATA below. (Note that these figures DO NOT include the $150K annual operating subsidy that many GA...

FAA Administrator Nominee Dixon lied to the Senate committee charged with confirming him and, had a whistleblower pilot reporting safety issues at Delta fraudulently declared unfit for duty. Later the FAA validated the reported safety issues. IS THIS WHO WE WANT GOVERNING THE SAFETY OF AIRLINE...

"The pilots of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago apparently became distracted with faulty airspeed indicators and failed to properly deal with other vital systems, including adjusting engine thrust, according to people familiar with preliminary findings from...

A little while ago I started a thread about why a Cessna landing peformance chart showed a climb wt limit that was pressure altitude rather than density altitude dependant. Well now I am similarly confused by a different performance table ( not a chart this time) which shows the take off distance...

On Thursday, Dec. 23, the city of Lakewood announced that it would be closing the American Lake seaplane base effective Dec. 31, 2004 -- in just 9 days! No hearings or other public input were sought. The decision was made and announced by Deborah Johnson ). Her...

PROPOSED AMENDMENT PLACES MAJOR RESTRICTIONS ON GA February 27, 2004 - EAA is encouraging its members to contact their congressional representatives to express their concern about a proposed amendment to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HR 3798) that would place additional restrictions on...

After an additional 5.5 hours practicing forward slips to a landing and soft field landings, I got my ticket today. I will admit it is exciting to finally get your ticket checking to see if it's truly mine, yep, has my name on it. Now that the "pressure" is off, I plan to just fly and...

Had a flight last week to MVY. Ran into Meg Ryan at the FBO. Nice lady. Very beautiful and thin! CAVU both ways. A very worthwhile trip. WLS

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I am an historian who is writing a nonfiction book involving WWII B-24 airmen. I have done considerable research on B-24s, but I am not a pilot. In my book, I tell of an incident in which an engine died and was feathered. I have been repeatedly told, and have repeatedly read, that feathering is...

Okay, so we're stuck flying the executive mailing tube to Seattle in May, to attend my nephew's wedding. I just don't have time to fly Atlas all the way, and I can't risk being held up by weather. For all you Washingtonians, where is the best "suites-type" of hotel to stay? I won't have a lot of...

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:39:35 -0000, cpw wrote in : I passed my instrument checkride (ASEL) yesterday! Woot! Congratulations. Just in timeas the clouds roll over northern Michigan for the season. Excellent.

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A pilot recently asked me a question, that I cannot find the answer to. On a sectional chart, around cities, are yellow areas. What are they? Where on the legend can this be found? My answer was "congested areas of a city or town" which I though sounded official enough to work. Ah-Ha, he says,...

I was just wondering if best glidespeed in say a cessna 152 will be fast enough to get the engine started if you encountered a battery failure or starter failure. shywon

I don't want this to sound like an advertisement for Lightspeed Aviation, but I have to hail any company that has outstanding service. My wife has a pair of 25XL headsets whose "stirrup" broke recently. We also have some 20XL headsets that are used for passengers. They had a screw missing along...

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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.

For those who want to jump straight to the pictures: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/2008_-_red_bull_races_in_detroit.htm We intended to fly to YIP (Ypsilanti, MI) last Friday, to meet this group's own Jim & Tami Burns (& Family) for a fun weekend at the races. Unfortunately, Mother Nature brought...