Been lurking and not posting but think this will be of interest to all. Wheee. Look at the numbers :o) Big John ********************************************************** FLYING THE SR-71 AT A "LEISURELY CRUISE" OF M3.0+ AT FL800

Spoke with the Renton FSDO and they sent me the following link to the 2002 Runway Safety Order 7050-1. As promised, I'll share the word: http://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/aso/Media/2002%20Runway%20Safety%20Order%207050-1.pdf Relevant part is Appendix 2, parts 1 and 2a: 1: "In April...

Listening to Boston ATC at various times the Tower controller asks a flight if they 'have got their numbers" (?) or a flight will say they're not ready to proceed because they "don't have their numbers". What does this mean as it doesnt translate here in the UK? TIA

FOUR KILLED IN MINNESOTA SR22 CRASH (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1006-full.html#196677) A Cirrus SR22 was on its second try to land at the Faribault airport in southern Minnesota on Sunday afternoon when it flipped over and burst into flames by the side of the...

"Ned" wrote in message ... Ten Plane Crashes That Changed Aviation Popular Mechanics | By David Noland | October 13, 2007 snip Hmmm. No mention of September 11, 2001. I would have thought those plane crashes would have made the list, given the...

NEW YORK — Boeing Co's (BA) new carbon-composite 787 Dreamliner plane may turn out to be unsafe and could lead to more deaths in crashes, according to a report by veteran journalist Dan Rather to be broadcast in the United States on Tuesday. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297248,00.html

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...

Looking at the prog charts for the next several days, Texas looks like a mess. Moderate to heavy rains, thunderstorms, yuck. Our plan to head south on Sunday is scrubbed. So, we're looking at heading to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina instead. The progs look great for at least three or four days, and...

All, When touching down in a crosswind, after the mains and the nosewheel have all touched down firmly and are rolling, would it be proper procedure to apply slight forward pressure to get better steering from the nosewheel? Often, noseweel steering seems ineffective, and this seems to have...

Is there any harm in taking off at a relatively high speed and very gently? There seems to be plenty of runway in most cases for small aircraft. If I leave the ground at 120 kts instead of the normal rotation speed, I find that I can lift off ever so gently. Plus I have lots of airspeed if...

Hello. I thought I'd bounce these off the group and see what people think. These are the UniRegs at the University of Wyoming for flying your own or rented plane on University business. I feel, as a low-time private pilot that they are overly restrictive, but I thought I'd see what the sage...

Non-instrument-rated pilot and his 421C are down in the vicinity of Carson, WA. Last reported at 11000 (?). The mind boggles. Weather is not too swift in the Seattle area...dunno the condx down there. -- Bob Gardner Send a Singing Valentine to a loved one. Go to www.singingvalentine.com for...

I was thinking about jointing/volunteering for Angel Flight of Oklahoma as a pilot. Would a low time VFR pilot be of any use to them? I have 190 hr soon to be 200hr, when we get some good flying weather. I have flown only 3 times since November. Because VFR flying is unreliable, I wonder if I...

Is it me, or is wind direction bass ackwards? Vectors normally indicate direction an object is moving, but not so with wind. Why is that?

Hope all of you across America (and overseas) are having a wonderful Fourth of July. Mary and I are soon to be off to the annual parade, where we will once again be representing our Inn by posing as "Amelia Earhart" and "Fred Noonan"... Our kids will carry our banner, and toss thousands of...

Plane and Pilot. March 2005. "What Pilots Say". Wow!

Why in the world would they let us see what goes on at that airline on the show AIRLINE on A&E Mondays at 8:00pm eastern. They overbook and strand passengers and families headed for vacations booked months in advance. Remove paying passengers from the plane to accommodate deadheading crew. I am...

Has anyone else noticed that the time you're on hold to talk to a briefer is getting longer and longer? I noticed this about a year ago when I still lived in Florida and thought it was just a local problem. Now I live in Virginia and they have the same problem here. It used to be you could get...

Many thanks to this group's own John Osterhout for forwarding me these cool videos of the Thunderbirds crash from last fall: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aviation_videos.htm There are two separate videos -- one shot from inside the cockpit (that many of us have seen, but is still remarkable) --...

Over on the Cherokee Chat page people are talking about yet ANOTHER incursion into the restricted airspace around D.C. by a Spam Can driver today. Anyone got any details on this? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com