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Stalls and Thoughts by
Ol Shy & Bashful
What the hell.....why do we work at teaching stalls and recoveries? It
has gone to stall recognition and avoidance which is good. Does it
teach the proper things? How much of a new students time is spent
flying in slow flight at the low end of the performance envelope?
Isn't that where all the...
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Awesome moonscape by
ManhattanMan
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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pilots refuse to fly with gun loons onboard by
nick
"Some flights to the US could be grounded after the airline pilots' union
called on its members not to fly with armed sky marshals on board."
"Airline pilots should not take off with marshals on board, the British
Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has said."
"Capt Granshaw defended pilots'...
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January 9th 04 08:08 PM
by Bogart
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Why are multiple engines different? by
Mxsmanic
Why is flying a multiengine aircraft a separate certification from the
basic license (if I understand correctly)? What is so different about
having more than one engine that justifies a separate certification?
Apart from a few procedures for the failure of an engine, isn't
everything else pretty...
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Can a Plane on a Treadmill Take Off? by
cjcampbell
Saw this question on "The Straight Dope" and I thought it was amusing.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060203.html
The question goes like this:
"An airplane on a runway sits on a conveyer belt that moves in the
opposite direction at exactly the speed that the airplane is moving
forward. Does...
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If user fees go into effect I'm done by
[email protected]
All I have to say about user fees is that if they are implemented and
I am going to be nickeled and dimed to death by a bureaucratic
nightmare that adds overhead and significantly more per hour cost to
an already expensive per hour rate for flying time, I am going to hang
up my wings...
Just...
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February 20th 07 02:02 AM
by Tony
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A tower-induced go-round by
Jay Honeck
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)...
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Low fuel emergency in DFW by
Tony
Did anyone see the news about an AA (maybe 777) airplane declaring a
fuel emergency in DFW, requesting a downwind landing to I think 17
Center, and being told no, had to circle to land on 31 R?
I'm not exactly sure of those details, but it's close enough. It's
that old deal, when a pilot makes a...
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CNN article on problems in Air Travel, as seen by FAA by
Mxsmanic
http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/09/11/airlines.scheduling/index.html
"He blamed resistance from environmentalists for the government's
failure to move more quickly toward a satellite-based technology
that's been 10 years in the making.
"'Residents that have homes that would be in that flight...
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My wife getting scared by
Paul Tomblin
I've been a pilot for 12 years now. I've been married (this time) for 10.
Three years ago, the DE who passed me on my private and instrument tickets
died in a stupid accident. My wife had met him a few times at flying club
dinners and around the airport. A few weeks ago, a club member who...
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Bonanza crash caught on video by
Jay Honeck
http://fox40.trb.com/
In an amazing coincidence, a Sacramento TV station was at Cameron Park
airport filming background for a story about the crash of a plane that
had departed earlier in the day and caught a second crash on video. Go
to the web site and click on "Cameron Park Plane Crash" on the...
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Viable alternatives for serious aviation discussion by
Dudley Henriques[_2_]
Once again I will post below for anyone interested in serious aviation
related discussion the following alternative web based newsgroups. I
will repost this notice periodically.
Many of the pilots who used to post here are now posting at the
following forums. It's a slightly different format...
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Spinner strobing as a "Bird Strike Countermeasure" by
Jim Logajan
The following thread on the Van's Air Force web site was of general enough
interest that I thought it worthwhile to bring it to the attention of other
pilots:
http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=24147
Would be quite useful if it really worked. Of course there would still be...
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Confusion about when it's my navigation, and when it's ATC by
Mxsmanic
I fly from KLAX to KLAS, using the FMC to handle most of the flight.
With the routing I put in, the FMC decides on some default altitudes
and includes required altitudes for the arrival and departure
procedures I select. Part of what it does is to create a descent
schedule from the nominal cruise...
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Airparks; Living On The Beaten Path? by
WJRFlyBoy
This got me thinking, a rudderless Ercoupe in a multi-directional wind
landing......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2NJFrvYls
Do you (I) really want a home that close to a GA landing strip? Yet I see
megabuck homes in my neck of the woods
http://www.visualtour.com/shownp.asp?prt=85&t=1217861
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Running dry? by
Greg Copeland
In September 2004 issue of AOPA Flight Training, Mark Cook has an article,
"No Fueln' Around". Under the "Selector boy" side article, he mentions
that he runs some of his tanks dry in his Bellanca Viking. In at least
one of John Deakin's articles
(http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182044-1.html),...
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