Has anyone on this list working with CAP. I'm a CFI and would be willing to donate some instruction if they were interested and if it were helpful. Is CAP interested in civilian CFIs or just those with a military background? What does it mean that some CAP orgs are "Cadet" and some are "composite"?...

wrote in news:23e736d2-3743-4ab9-be9d-e3d15bf7ce36 @q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com: It is amazing that so many people just do not understand that all the murderers who go on shooting rampages and kill students and others are doing it for the sole purpose of discrediting the...

Lopresti recently introduced a product that I've long awaited -- bluetooth wireless ANR headphones. This technology seems to be key to solving one of the great aggravations in the cockpit -- wire snarl. I've done everything possible to minimize wiring from our GPS units, and from XM...

yesterday I finished my latest rating. Commercial Single Engine Sea! It was a lot of fun. Now I have to get floats for the Maule! I was actually having fun while training for the rating. That was a change. Next year? CMES? That will round out the powered rating for me. Michelle P

I'm hoping to make my long VFR cross-country for my commercial license this afternoon and evening (to get both day and night into one flight). I'm tentatively planning to fly into CAK which is class bravo airspace. As I was planning the flight today, I realized that I haven't flown VFR into...

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/12_30-SE/leadnews/cessna_lsa_cirrus_killer_192767-1.html ---------------------------------------------------- DW

I have been following the "Grass Strip" thread and have a few comments: I have a "high performance" Vintage Johnson Rocket (the hot rod of 1946) and have based it on both grass and paved fields and have flown into and out of grass fields ranging from "fantastic" to "I'd never go in...

Do you ever experience the sensation that time is slowing down for you? E.G. Your brain and motor functions are moving at normal speed, but everything around you has slowed down? I've had this sensation more than a few times. A couple of times when I was in auto accidents (not my fault) and could...

Went to Lone Rock, Wisconsin today for the $100 hamburger , with excellent VFR conditions, and winds light and variable. After lunch we saw a 210 taxi to the approach end of runway 27 (clearly visible from the the far end at the restaurant). Just as he started his takeoff roll, another guy in a...

Does anybody have a good handle on when ATC wants you to read back altimeter settings? On a single IFR flight on Tuesday, I encountered several controllers who I'd check in with, and they'd give me an altimeter setting, and that would be it, and 2 (both in Canada, BTW) whom when I didn't read back...

In a previous Monday morning quarterback argument: "He abdicated complete personal responsibility for any kind of contingency plan or consideration of how he was going to get back with limited fuel." Bruce Hamilton And what the hell else do you expect...

Scientists are now predicting a 70% chance of Mt. Saint Helens erupting and throwing rocks as far as three miles away. Pilots flying in the area should steer clear of the crater. -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA

There seems to be a discrepancy between glider landing patterns and power landing patterns. There is a discussion on the soaring news group about our 30-45 degree turns vs the power shallow banked turns. The reason for our bank angle is because we fly close-in/tight patterns. I can’t provide...

Sound like alot of wisdom in this newsgroup would appreciate the same about what my prospects can be starting at 50. Flight has always been a lure for me (father in the business, avid flight sim user etc etc) Now that I can financially afford to do the real thing (well lets say ~...

Back to the thread on pilots setting QNH for local acro work. I was in the trusty Pawnee this weekend and checked the altimeter, I can only select settings from 28.10 to 31.50, so.. following the others advice of setting QNH. I could not. I attempted to find this information in my personal...

1980's... Watching the string of landing lights of arriving aircraft east of Oshkosh stretching out over Lake Michigan. (Amusingly, followed by watching the arrivals try to find a parking spot in the dark with out flag-people.)

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I hadn't heard anything about this and was surprised when someone asked if I had. My condolences to the families and friends, a tragic accident. http://ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20031231X02110 Seems like with 5 souls that they were probably heading out for a buffalo burger and a visit to...

Is there a way to ACCURATELY measure the available fuel in the tanks of a general single-engine piston aircraft??? I know there are fuel flow computers available (such as JPI?). But these typically need to be "set" with a starting fuel quantity, and then it accurately measures the fuel flow rate...

http://www.strategypage.com/fyeo/qndguide/default.asp?target=URBANG.HTM excerpt: While passenger aircraft are now pretty secure, the same is not the case for commercial freighters and private aircraft. It is quite possible that a smaller aircraft, or long range transports from foreign nations,...