The B-17 bomber owned by the Experimental Aircraft Assn. was damaged yesterday at Van Nuys airport when its main gear collaped. From the videos on TV, you could see its tail wheel firmly on the ground, when the main gear retracted, and the aircraft dropped onto the runway. The crew must had had...

has anyone used the Teterboro New Jersey Transit train station after landing at TEB airport? If you go to any of the FBOs along the West side of runway 1-19, the train station is just a mile or so further to the West along Rt. 17 and Williams Ave. The trip time is approx. 30 minutes into the city...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ Todays "Astronomy Picture Of The Day" - it changes daily so this moonscape is only on today Friday 12/14. Man, what a panorama! And it's not OT, as Frank Sinatra crooned, "Fly me to the moon".... Cheers'n beers.. )

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone can explain exactly how a prop governor works for a constant speed prop system? All I know is that the engine Oil pushes a piston in the prop hub that twists the prop to the appropriate angle. Thanks, Felix

A bit of neophite comment on simulators. Some years ago I bought a Microsoft simulator, played with it a while and relegated it to a young friend. I'll say this - I wish I had this when I first started chasing instruments for certification. The first major hurdle, at least in my case, was...

Total stream-of-consciousness post here... Anbody learn to fly in a high performance complex aircraft? Bonanza, Saratoga, 182RG and the like? I know it's possible, just wonder how much longer it'd take for a student to master something with significant power and prop & gear controls. (I did all my...

http://msnbc.com/news/993760.asp?0cv=CB10 Seems to be a little more well written and objective than most articles on this subject. They mentioned AOPA's Airport Watch program among other things. They also have a picture of that C-172 hanging from that building in Florida (it was Florida, right)?...

If you've got a small problem with your plane, do you bother with a ferry permit, or do you just fly it if you think it's safe? Hypothetical: Say your (shared) plane has gotten some damage, say for instance a wingtip strobe/nav light assembly got scraped off against a hangar while it was being...

Is anyone else getting SSL security errors when trying to access the FAA Web site's Pilotweb pages? I tried to look up TFRs today and got an error message saying the certificate issuer was unknown. One URL that does this is: https://pilotweb.nas.faa.gov/center.html

Can anybody point out a good bibliography or article that describes the differences in landing on a grass airstrip for the first time, tips and advices? Thanks

Today I flew RST (Rochester, MN) to 3CK (Chicago-Lake in the Hills). As I neared Chicago I was listening to 120.55, which is ORD approach for the North side. This was around 6pm, which is a pretty busy time for approach, lots of arrivals and departures in the ORD area. During the 15 minutes...

I am confused by this practice commercial nav question. ( at least I am confused by the answer in the book which was b. but I think both a and c are correct), but I appreciate some other opinions. Day 1 Altimeter reads elevation of 1390 feet with 1013 HPa set on subscale ( thats...

Just got off the phone with NWPilot, calling me from a wake (at Hooters) for a fellow ferry pilot who went down today in the North Atlantic, 50 miles short of Keflavik, Iceland. Here's the story, from...

I had 2 Dui's (one when I was 21 and one when I was 22) and I'm now almost 28. I was working on a degree in communications and I'm at about the junior level, but my old dream of flying just came back to me all of the sudden and I thought I would make absolutely sure if those DUI's will be more...

The manual for my aircraft gives figures for MOM and ARM at various stations, but it doesn't actually explain how to use these to calculate weight and balance. I want to place the load so that the aircraft neither pitches down nor pitches up. Can someone provide me with a pointer to an...

Plan to be in the Phoenix area towards the middle of May, enroute to KMYF. What route would you recommend from the Phoenix area to KMYF ?

Can't get your kid to behave on a plane? There's always Trailways... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16773655/?GT1=8921

Today we experienced a new first, when the tower controller at Jefferson City, Missouri decided to cut a Cessa 172 in front of me on a short right base, *after* clearing me to land on Rwy 30. Incredulous, I slowed as much as possible, and watched as the 172 (who was several hundred feet above us)...

So I'm on my way home from Green Bay today (where Monday night my son and I saw his first pro-football game, and my first game at Lambeau Field), and the weather is fairly crappy. By noon conditions had risen to VFR along our route of flight (KGRB to KIOW -- Iowa City, IA), with ceilings in Green...