My VOR, LOC & GS KI-214 was wacky well, I have been putting it off, and putting it off dreading a high repair bill on this item from the stories I have herd on the usent posts. It was not as bad as some say it was after a week waiting for my appointment! 9:30 my KI-214 in along with my 170B that...

Hello, Question from a complete landlubber. I work outdoors beneath the flightpath to Edinburgh Airport. I take it that vapour trails are the condensed water contained in the air ingested by the engines. My question is, how much air does an engine ingest at cruise? How would you visualise that...

Well, I've now got a grand total of 6 hours in my newly-acquired 1980 Saratoga, and since a couple of people asked, I thought I'd post my experiences. The first big difference that hit me before I got off the ground -- it's a heck of lot harder to taxi than the PA-28. Ok, so it helped a lot when I...

"My A&P took a look, sure enough, said I have never seen anything like this." He's never worked on Mooney then has he. :-) One thing about Mooney's, either they are leaking now, or they will be :-) We have some seepage that has appeared on our '79 M20J. We are monitoring it but we will...

I was wondering where I could find any information about a twin engine caravan conversion. I remember seeing this a while back where someone had geared to turbines together to keep a single prop. Does anyone know who did the conversion? Thanks, Dan

ok...as to flying c-150/172 type aircraft, what can you do, really, that's fun and won't hurt the airframe? at 80mph, can you really hurt the machine with full control deflection? i guess that's what i'm asking ... how much can you "yank and bank" these things before bad things happen? i can...

This ran in Carl Hiassen's column a while back -- HELP WANTED: Experienced aviation director for major international airport. Lack of assertiveness is essential. Independent and creative thinkers need not apply. Applicants must be willing to discard all sound management practices, prudent fiscal...

Perhaps he didn't do a proper weight/balance? http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/12/20/drug.plane.ap/index.html Pilot sought after cocaine found Monday, December 20, 2004 Posted: 7:26 PM EST (0026 GMT) WHEELING, West Virginia (AP) -- Authorities called to the scene of a weekend plane crash found no...

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Another T-34 crashed today here in Houston killing the IP and student.Was from the company that has air combat and upset training. Eye witness heard a report and saw a wing that had separated. They had a similar accident (wing separation) just a year ago that killed the owner of Company. Not sure...

Hi, I've just moved to saint louis and am looking for a place to continue my private training. I've searched through these postings but unfortunatly it seems like a lot of the FBO's around here have either gone out of business or at least stopped teaching. So does anyone have any thoughts on...

Over a period of time aviation seems to make changes due to technical advances. As such in the past certain "basics" of aviation that were once written in stone have gone by the wayside. So here is one for ya. Last week I started a student on the ground school basics of cross country planing. Draw...

Is anyone else getting a high number (about 20%) of identical posts? I think the problem lies with my ISP (Charter), since they recently went with a new newsreader service. Let me know, if you are, and especially if you are using an ISP other than charter. Thanks. -- Jim in NC

Twas the night before Christmas 'Twas the night before Christmas, and out on the ramp, Not an airplane was stirring, not even a Champ. The aircraft were fastened to tiedowns with care, In hopes that come morning, they all would be there. The fuel trucks were nestled, all snug in their spots, With...

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Howdy, Just started taking flying lessons (6 hours ground and 7 hours in the air) and I've been reading up on everything like accessories, techniques, etc plus lurking here for a week. During this time, I noticed the difference between military andcivilian headsets, and if I understand correctly,...

I just got off the phone with Southwest Customer Relations asking a question about cabin air pressure. Two separate people informed that cabin air pressure in flight is 14.7 psi (sea level equiv.) and that it is 10.0 psi (about 10,000 ft equiv.) on the ground. Obviously, this has to be backwards,...

I lost the link to the website where you can download the sectional chart. Anyone out there know what I am talking about? What is that link? Toks Desalu

I fly an airplane whose last two digits in its identifier are "0P" (indicating that it's an OurPlane aircraft). Of course, OurPlane would have liked it to be "OP" instead, but the FAA won't allow "oscar" in aircraft identifiers, only "zero". It happens that there's another airplane at my airport...

I'm looking for a simple flight planning program or link to do some long cross country, short leg vfr flying. Something simple, without weight and balance computation or having to put in fuel burn and power setting. Don't need any graphics. Just a flight log type that uses an airport...