Background... newly minted PPL, looking to ease navigation via GPS. I actually find it cool to navigate via maps, compass and timepiece, but I realize there is a lot more capability out there. I'll be renting for awhile, so portability is important. I've done the standard research (including...

A hiker found Steve Fossett's pilot license and other items near Mammoth Lake CA: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_re_us/fossett_search

I guess the Diversity workforce in the FAA is working great huh?? I believe the first video mentions the word "Incompetency" The same word I was chastised for using a few years ago by FAA Management Maybe I was just a little ahead of my time perhaps?

Cirrus Design is entering the LSA market. At 9:30 this morning they unveiled, appropriately hidden beneath a parachute, their Cirrus SRS. The aircraft will be produced in conjunction with Fk Lightplanes based in Speyer, Germany, with production facilities in Poland. The aircraft is a low-wing...

Which of you clowns voted for top gun??

I fly through an organization that requires a proficiency check ride every six months. As a result I somehow got it into my head that I didn't need to worry about BFR's any more. But today my instructor reminded me that a BFR requires an hour of ground instruction, so technically I have not...

What does it mean when the crew of an aircraft look for "the pin" held by the ground crew after pushback? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/01/20/pilot.dies.ap/index.html So much for first-class medicals. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

When pilots quote how many hours they have logged, is this a personal log that is kept, or is every hour you fly entered into a national registry and formally kept? Crash Lander -- I'm not always right, But I'm never wrong!

There's a TFR today over DC for the State of the Union address. I don't understand why when there's been a massive one in place for the past 4 years.

I will be visiting Iowa City soon and was wondering if anyone knew of a good aviation themed hotel in that area? Thanks Bobbus

This from the Aero-News Propwash email letter: ************ The whole-airplane parachute company, Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc., has now saved 179 pilot and passenger lives. The latest dramatic save happened when New Yorker Ilan Reich deployed the BRS System last Thursday, June 30th, while he...

Here a couple of alarming stories about the pilots who went down at HPN last weekend: First: http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050426/NEWS02 /504260335/1018&template=printart Pertinent quote:

These cowards deserve DEATH. Nothing less. They will be judged someday...this is good news. :o) If you would like to know why I posted this and the details...feel free to email me. Believe me, I have my reasons for such strong(and purely justified) thoughts. For the rest of you 'good' pilots out...

Sorry, I got my information wrong when I stated that a three bladed prop advanced 15 inches during each revolution at 200 mph. I now have the article in front of me and the exact quote is as follows: "At 200 mph and 2,800 rpm, the blades on my three-plade prop follow three distinct helical paths...

Is anyone in this group interested in or experimenting with Lean of Peak operation? I'm especially interested in the experience of anyone doing it with a fixed pitch carb engine with single EGT and CHT probes. -- Roger Long

Our EAA chapter had a 40' hangar door that split in the middle and folded sideways (each half). The ends were hinged and the center had a single roller that ran in a track above. The bottom was not attached in any way and just hung. It was held closed and open with large steel pins that dropped...

Billy is redeeming himself in my eyes after foisting his insecure OS (and Outlook) on us: ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVflash Volume 10, Number 07b -- February 12, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------

Does anybody know why on the Denver Terminal Area Chart, the Byers (BVR 113.5) vor/dme facility is charted without the compass ring that are on most vortacs? It's the only one I've seen charted like this. Byers is located 33NM on the 090 radial of DVV (the Denver International Vortac). Thanks,...

Yellowstone has a camp ground next to the airport that is nice. It is only open in the summer for 3 months. On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:30:13 -0500, Gene Kearns wrote: The thread on Fly-In Museums worked so well that I thought I would pose this question to the...