http://tinyurl.com/qhlsh My tent stayed dry; my buddy Jerry's didn't. He spent half the night in the airplane (the next night, too). -- Dan C172RG at BFM

534 -- Dan T182T at 4R4

....offers endless opportunities for screwing up the experience for them, as I've demonstrated yet again. My business partner's 21-yr. old son has been hinting around for a few years that he wanted to try flying sometime. When he finally asked outright to take a flight, I was happy to agree,...

"Mxsmanic" wrote: Can I learn useful things by listening to ATC? No. You should spend all your time reading the MSFS manual. --

Winning bid to build 10 T hangars at the Geneva, AL airport: $494,266.00 by Webb Builders, Millbrook, AL

http://www.flyftm.com/rentals.php For comparison to what you may be seeing in your area. These airplanes receive care that is above average for rentals, at least in my experience. I have flown two of them. -- Dan C172RG at BFM

Amazing aircraft performance! For rate-of-climb, a Pitts Special has nothing on these WW I planes, and they can pull more g's than an F-16. Also, we see that Hollywood still believes that bullets make sparks when they hit. Looks like realism on about the scale of "Memphis Belle",...

Garmin advises that the GA25 remote amplified antenna design is known to have a noise reception/rejection problem. They are sending me a GA26 at no charge. Garmin should be recalling all GA25s, IMO, not sitting there waiting for owners to complain. -- Dan

Three times in the last two weeks, my 496 has lost satellite reception upon descent below 2000' AGL. This occurred in three different locations: The first time was about a week ago, crossing the western shoreline of Galveston Bay, just south of Ellington field. Moving the amplified antenna...

Anyone know a way to transfer flight logs (not tracks) from one Garmin portable to another? FlightBook will upload but not download. Anyone seen an app. that will do both? -- Dan C172RG at BFM

NPR continued its above-the-rest quality aviation reporting this morning with this story: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1545986.html Nice of them to include flying links on the page, too. -- Dan C172RG at BFM

Departing OSH Wednesday morning, the departure wait for light GA peons got pretty long. I was interested to hear the ever-more-urgent pleas from a Cirrus flight of four to speed things up because their engines were over-heating as they sat idling in line. Didn't hear anything like that from...

An aircraft departing a class D airport next to class C airspace requests VFR flight following and is assigned a squawk code. The aircraft is cleared for takeoff and instructed to fly runway heading at or below 1,700. A few moments after takeoff, the pilot is instructed to contact Approach but is...

"R. Hubbell" wrote: Just not sure if I'll be the best judge of my safe flying when I'm on the tail end of my years. A good point. I've had a relative continue to drive until multiple accidents forced him to stop. Until he had more than a couple of wrecks, he refused or was unable to...

....and the prize is your choice of any new, piston, single-engine airplane, equipped with any factory options you want. What's your choice? -- Dan C172RG at BFM (remove pants to reply by email)

http://www.aart-jan.net/images/aart_in_vliegtuigwrak.jpg Winner gets lunch at Nan Sea's seafood restaurant on me (transportation to Mobile not included!). -- Dan C172RG at BFM (remove pants to reply by email)

"We must find a way to blend with our present erratic tyranny of mind the countless, subtle and still-little-known elements that created the tangible shape of man and his intangible extensions. Through the eons these elements have raised the human complex to a sensitivity which recognizes that...

http://www.townonline.com/bedford/news/local_regional/bed_covbmcrashpnb02112004.htm

Nice, short piece this morning (Monday) from the Nashua NH control tower: http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1617665 There's a link at the top of the page.

Anybody tied down at Fletcher Aviation at Houston Hobby recently? How was it? Any other FBOs there to recommend? Thanks, -- Dan C172RG at BFM