Hi I am in Grade 11 and I live in Canada. I was just wondering what would be the best way to go to school and become a commercial airline pilot as well as being able to get into an airline industry? I will be recieving my private pilots license after Grade 12 free through Cadets and I am also...

I have been told that a end-stage dialysis patient on dialysis is unlikely to pass a FAA medical for a pilot's license. I am going to be soon on PD dialysis which does not require me to dialyze in a clinic, but at home. Otherwise, I have no other symptopms that would make it unable for me to...

Was at TRK (Truckee), and wind was 200@10 or 210@11. Wind favors Runway 19, but west departure needs to consider some hills nearby, which was inconvenient but not challenging. We took off on 28 instead, and the terrain was much more flat north of the airport, going west. 28 is 7000', longer than...

To whomever suggested that my atrial fibrillation might be a sign of a thyroid condition, thanks. As it turned out, it is Graves disease, something that the FAA can work with. One symptom of Graves is increased irritability which, thankfully, has not been bothering me. Seems to bother everybody...

"Dana" wrote in news:0rhIi.11478$A55.11322@pd7urf2no: War, famine, global warming, climate change, disease and so much more. How will YOU cope? I was thinking I might come over to your place, kill you, skin you and make you into a curry.

Just been checking the latest FAA knowledge testing requirement matrix to see what the sign off requirements are for the instructors tests. I was surprised to see that non off them require any formal sign off, even the FOI. So it is a case of turning up at the test center on day and cracking out...

Eeyore wrote in : John Mazor wrote: "Eeyore" wrote WhoGivesAFig? wrote:

This weekend the Cessna Pilots Ass'n put on one of their 2-day Systems & Procedures classes at Sporty's in Batavia Ohio. This one was for 182S, 182T and T182S/T owners. About 20 owners attended, and it was well worth the trip and cost. Anyhow, one of the best tips I picked up from John Frank...

Anyone is interested in the Sporty's DVD - So You Want to Fly Twins? I have it on eBay: http://tinyurl.com/36mp5y Kobra

Got to fly right seat in the EAA's Ford Tri-Motor this afternoon. Quite an experience. It's such a low speed, high lift aircraft, it seems to literally leap into air with 10 to 15 kts down the runway. It felt like I was flying an 11 seat, 1350 hp ultralight. It's certainly the most unusual...

A GPS can be very useful in lots of situations, as well as great fun. Many websites offer fun tips and equipment or all your navigation needs, including GPS systems and more... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages.com/10_ways_to_use_your_new_gps

CNN article on "The Doomsday Plane" Cool. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/09/12/king.mystery.plane.CNN -c

Maybe this is old stuff for most on this newsgroup, but I just discovered this. I rarely if ever hawk a particular product on Usenet, but this older DVD set (1998) is fantastic. My brother-in-law gave it to me for Christmas....thinking it was some boring collection of fuzzy black-and-white 1960s...

Triple Tree Aerodrome Fly-In, LLC of Greenville, SC (serving the entire Upstate Region of South Carolina, parts of Georgia and North Carolina) wishes to announce TRIPLE TREE - A DIFFERENT KIND OF FLY-IN. This is an event that the Fly-In Committee hopes will turn into an annual event with the...

Contrary to what most of the non-technical idiots in FAA management think, facilities are important for Air Safety Systems to check for a dangerous weather condition were faulty at the time of Sunday's devastating air crash at Phuket airport, Thai officials say. Some of the airport's wind...

This from a thread in rec.aviation.owning: Leave unleaded mogas in your lawnmower for a year, and it likely won't start. Autogas lacks the stabilizer package found in avgas. You know, I've heard that ever since I started using mogas in my planes, but I've never seen a cite, nor have I...

I almost fell on the floor when I read this The FAA is actually hiring a WHITE MALE PILOT with a aviation background for a high up position within the FAA Good GOD what the hell is going on!?!?!?!?!? I can't believe this!!! A WHITE MALE who is qualified hired by the FAA????

I've got about 40 100 ohm headphone speakers that are surplus to my needs. Two of them in series make a very nice 200 ohm circuit that will work quite nicely on a 150 ohm radio headphone output. Where you get the headset hardware itself is up to you ... modification of a Rat Shack set of...

As best I can tell, it seems for a given configuration air speed for best glide angle (I will define best as most shallow angle) changes with weight, but the angle itself doesn't change much. Hi performance gliders carry water to increase penetration into headwinds, dump it to increase time aloft,...

Hi folks, I'm having a devil of a time getting DUATS to work on my XP SP2 laptop. I've looked on line and have not found a similar problem. Description is that on startup, the application dumps core. DUATS is compiled without symbols so the stack traceback is non symbolic, not much use in...