A few years ago when people were discussing the possibility of electric-powered flight, you'd get hacked on pretty hard for suggesting such a thing would be practical or possible in our lifetime. Obviously if you knew anything about physics or electrical engineering, why, you'd know it was totally...

What is the reasoning behind the full stop landing? thanks, John

Hi folks, Does anyone have any experience of the following or know about it. I recently got a ppl licence and generally are fine doing all the flying type tasks required to safely take off fly and land. One thing that seems to get me every time is if I am for example flying straight and level at...

"The Saudi Sycophants" Not since the Vanderbilt's and Carnegie's and their opulent robber baron era of the 1800's have "We the People" been controlled by "We the Few". The oil SCAM being perpetrated on the American people by the Bush Administration is the greatest crime we have known in nearly...

and now for soemthing completely different: the ICON A5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpNBNg4JzeQ about 140AMUs and boy, this is a cockpit from this century, not like most of the other crap on the market.

FAA doesn't bother with suspension - goes straight for the revocation: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/us/28plane.html Pretty harsh for pilots who don't appear to have had any other blemish on their lengthy records. Revocation would seem to be appropriate for actions that are deliberately...

Ok, it's the year 2025. If man is still alive. You are in a little Cessna 150. You're plane isn't pressurized because it will implode, so you're wearing a pressurized body suit. You have an oxygen mask. You plane is powered by a very powerful hydrogen atom splitting energy source. Supplied by a...

You will be getting a visit tommorow. You messed up big time. Maybe you should've figured out that an imposter uses my identity before you made accusations that resulted in actual physical injuries to someone innocent. ---

I was thinking about taking up flying, but not sure if I'm too old. I'm 62. Is this a bad idea or should I go for it? --- Philip Mellinger

On 2007-11-04 09:14:06 -0800, RL Anderson said: Gang, I just found this out yesterday, but I was told that the story broke on Friday. We have a local pilot, CFI and aviation business owner who has been arrested on sex charges with boys. I will not...

On a 3 hour cross country today I was amusing myself by flying with rudder pedals only (all right, OK, a little yoke usage to maintain altitude). But then I got to wondering why applying rudder pressure causes the plane to bank. All I could think of was that rudder usage produces asymmetric lift...

A small plane crashed into Lake Pleasant, just outside of Phoenix, at approx 8pm Friday, while the pilot was reportedly talking on his cellphone and flying 10 feet above the water. According to thr FAA, the pilot was talking on a cellphone to a friend in a boat below and asked the friend to...

http://www.aero-news.net just in time for Oshkosh.

Do you own/rent/borrow a portable oxygen system? Which brand? Likes/dislikes regarding the particular brand? System features? Size/capacity? Typical altitude flown when in use? Comments please. Thanks!

Has anyone experienced significant "loss of signal" hiccups with their new 396?? Since getting ours a few months ago, we have had several...some lasting 15-20 minutes. System shutdowns/start ups may or may not re-initialize it. THe antenna is unobstructed and in plain view of the sky. An older...

We've got the PS Engineering CD/Intercom in our plane, and listen to CDs on long trips. I am obviously slipping into "dinosaur" status, as I have never downloaded music, for "burning" onto a blank CD. I *have* burned CDs, but I've always done it from tracks played off of another CD. Does anyone...

I did my BFR last month in a PA28-181. It is an airplane new to the flying club I belong to and although I have more than 60 hours in type, the owner requires anyone who desires to rent it, have an instructor checkout. Prior to the flight I calculated a weight and balance and appropriate speeds...

Apparently, the insurance co of the pilot who lost his amphibious float plane on landing (see "Stupid Pilot Tricks" and Followup a couple of weeks ago) and parked it in a hangar with a Comanche already inside, is trying to get out of paying anything since the pilot was on drugs. Not...

"DaveC" wrote in message ... Cell phone usage is restricted on all domestic commercial flights by the FAA, so the flight attendant keeps telling me. The regulation against using electronic devices that have not...

I saw one of these signs along I-78 in NJ. Now, I find it ***REALLY*** hard to believe that this particular sign is true. The highway is congested and with radar guns and all, monitoring speed by aircraft (copter maybe?) seems expensive and unnecessary. I know I've seen these signs elsewhere -...