Apparently when you are the only provider of GPS data for the Garmin GNS430, as Jeppesen is in the US, you can afford to have **** poor after-business hours customer service. Jeppesen does not offer telephone sales or customer support on weekends. OK, fair enough since Jeppesen does have a web...

My son is 15. He'll be turning 16 in August, and starting his Junior year of high school. He's been flying since he can remember, and has many hours in the right seat. (He's got over 1500 hours as a passenger with Mary and me.) His first dozen or so hours behind the yoke were "IFR" -- because he...

Electric planes will fly circles around gasoline planes in the near future. "In the drive to devise more efficient and durable batteries, one promising option uses carbon nanotubes, which not only can store far more electricity by weight than lithium ion batteries but also retain their charge for...

I was about to shoot the approach into MYF when they closed the field this morning. When I did get to land there was a very broken C-182 on the side of Runway 23. Any word on what happened? Paul

See http://tinyurl.com/j3hy3 This "special software" bears an uncanny resemblance to the Microsoft Flight Simulator that I played with last night. In fact, I tried the very same thing on my PC last night that CNN is now using in its highly scientific demonstration today. I didn't mention my...

As many may know, we set records here in Iowa yesterday, hitting 73 degrees in Iowa City. It felt great! The winds in the afternoon started to kick up pretty good, as a cold front approached from the northwest. On our way back from brunch in Lone Rock, WI (where we ran into this group's own Jim...

My grandson just turned 15 and has a great interest in aviation, so I decided to get legal and show him how much fun we could have in a Piper Cherokee. After not flying for the past 23 years I got my medical, found a local club with a good instructor and hope to start flying on my own in the next...

I see from reading the FAA accident site, that aircraft hunting season has begun. Just this week... C210 got a deer C560 got a deer B1900 got three geese C650 got two geese One would think that sitting on the ground with a gun would be cheaper, but I guess there is more sport in using an airplane.

I believe the "minigun" is the chopper door mounted version of the electric gattling guns. Arnold was hand holding one in "Predator" and "Terminator II". The weapon that's as long as your aircraft, throws 6,000/min of death is the Vulcan Cannon of A-10 Warthog fame. A mini gun would be the...

Okay, so this year my son wants to do a flying father/son trip. (Every summer I take each kid, just the two of us, somewhere. It's usually a motorcycle camping trip, but my son tends to alternate between riding and flying. Two years ago we flew into Gaston's Fly-In Resort down in Arkansas, and had...

ever seen an ultralight seaplane? http://www.saf.net/seadays/ (PICT9733.jpg) thought you might like it. regards, Friedrich

What's eveyrones opinion regarding the lack of spin traning for students in the US? I see that there was a thread about this from an instructor viewpoint a while back, but not necessarilly from the student viewpoint. Personally, there was only two lessons that I didn't look forward to - Spin...

I made a day trip out to the SouthWest Regional Flyin held this weekend in New Braunsfels KBAZ, Texas and thought I would share a little of what I found. Of course, once you have attended Oshkosk/Airventure, nothing will compare or measure up... but overall it was an enjoyable trip. I have to...

I've been trying to find some info on this thing for quite a while now. I've been to Raytheon's site and found specs for the normal Baron only. If some of you do own the P version, could you please tell me what engines do they have? Are they the regular IO-550s or are they turbocharged? And what...

Ex-Game Show Host, Wife Die in Plane Crash SANTA MONICA, Calif. Mar 13, 2006 (AP)- A former TV game show host and his wife were killed Monday morning when their small plane crashed into Santa Monica Bay, authorities said. Rescue crews were searching for a third person also aboard the plane. The...

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/NASA-Tests-Drone-Traffic-System-226142-1.html NASA Tests Drone Traffic System By Mary Grady In the first and largest demonstration of its kind, staffers from NASA and the FAA last week flew 22 drones simultaneously from six test sites across the country to...

Rotax is on track to certify and begin deliveries of its 915 iS engine in 2017, the company said. “We’ve got pretty good experience with these engines,� said Marc Becker, head of aviation engines for Rotax, whose four-cylinder models have logged more than 50 million flight hours. “We think...

Okay, here's an odd situation. 30-something pilot, been flying a few years, have had a couple of class III medical examinations; no problems. On a recent visit home, pilot's family remind him that as infant he had a heart murmur. There were checkups for a few years, but no restrictions, meds,...

A friend told me a while back that that a couple of pilots purchased every type of human relief container, and armed with prior consumption of a gallon or so of coffee or tea, made a test flight and reported on the pros/cons of each. I think this could be quite funny but have never been able to...

Maybe a little OT for this group, but does anyone know what happened to the Kane Aero Company? I was brushing up with my E6-B in prep for the commercial checkride and I have an old Kane Aero MK-6B that I got with my private pilot kit back in 1977. I got to wondering what happened to this...