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...

Boing747 over-runs Landing-strip. I believe this happened in China. The wet runway and the probably over-speeded 747 produced this dramatic crash: http://www.jumpingpixels.com/boing747.html

This is a really, REALLY long post, but it contains PIREPS on: - 2006 Cherokee Pilots Association Fly-In in Osage Beach, Missouri - Amelia Earhart Museum in Atchison, Kansas - New Abraham Lincoln Center, in Springfield, Illinois - Cedar Point Amusement Park (Roller Coasters!), in Sandusky, Ohio -...

I just ran across a fascinating video of a paragliding pilot that gets into trouble, makes the right decision and gets on the ground safely with his reserve. Things sometimes go very wrong in the air, so for all their contraversy, I for one would love to have a similar option and have BRS style...

.... when using pressure pattern nav techniques, what's a standard way for working out groundspeed for flight planning purposes? Do you take the forecast curved route and divide it up into segments and average it out? TIA

I have seen at least one in the ear "head set". I was wondering if any one has tried them with a cheap passive hearing protector like the ones used for shooting and things like that. The reason I ask is I know some shooters prefer, plugs and some prefer headsets, and some like to use both. Well...

Anyone who wants to chip in ahead of time so that folks like Jim B. and MontBlack can have some working capital for buying food for the party, e-mail me, Jim B. or Jay H. for Jim's Paypal info. Some people (who shall remain nameless but tend to build awesome coolers for said event) go way above...

I have a student looking for some affordable software which will simulate 1. Flight in a C-172 2. ATC communications I'd love some feedback and recommendations. Thanks, Helen

....Skyhawk XXX. Traffic is 12 o'clock, two miles, altitude 7600, closing. Recommend turn left 30 degrees immediately." My buddy (we'll call him CJ) rolled into a hard left bank and added some down-push to the yoke when a glance at the altimeter told him he was at 7,500. "XXX, traffic now one...

How far back can one go back for posts? I can only see about a week.

http://www.courant.com/news/local/statewire/hc-28104258.apds.m0098.bc-ct--fatajun28,0,2623580.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Preliminary reports show two men from a New Hampshire company killed two weeks ago in a plane crash in Virginia had trouble seeing the ground as...

I recently did a trip to Canada, and wanted to summarize it for the benefit of others. Flight was from Dayton, OH to Toronto Buttonville Airport (CYKZ). Realizing that I will inevitably be radar vectored around Toronto, I filed for GPS direct with only one intermediate waypoint (CYPT) to keep me...

Robert Bosch will acquired Telex Communications for $420 million. Does Bosch have any aviation products besides spark plugs?

Hey Guys, So my annual on 'Julie' (A Cherokee 140) is coming in substantially lower than expected, and it looks like I'm going to have about 4k in funds freed up that I had already budgeted to spend. Of course, the sensible side of me says I should save the money for Fuel... but what fun is...

Boeing May Enter A Modified 777 In Tanker Battle By ANDY PASZTOR and J. LYNN LUNSFORD Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL December 5, 2005 With a military competition for new aerial refueling tankers on the horizon, it is increasingly likely that the Defense Department and congressional...

I am looking for recommendations for software for one of the interactive, computer IFR training courses. A friend just bought the one from King, and I have looked on line at the one from Sporty's. Are there any others that I should consider? I would appreciate hearing about the pros and cons of...

The PHAK (A US governmet publication, so it can't be wrong!!!) pg. 2-1 states: http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/aviation/pilot_handbook/ The atmosphere is composed of 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, and 1 percent other gases, such as argon or helium. As some of these elements are...

Nomen Nescio wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Blue Angels seem to have picked my house as a turning point for this weekend's airshow. They've been flying over at a few hundred feet in a tight bank all day. I've been enjoying the show. TK, however, has been dashing under...

"Dane Spearing" wrote in message ... Do the two VRF cross country trips required for the commercial rating (2 hrs, 100 nm min, one day, one night) have to be dual? FAR 61.129(a)(3) seems to imply that it should be dual in the...

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