This Sunday, August 26th, will be the annual SERTOMA Fly-In Breakfast here in Iowa City (KIOW). This event has been held for decades, and annually draws thousands of people to Iowa City Airport for pancakes, sausage, and aircraft, all served in the name of a good cause. (SERTOMA stands for...

HarperCollins has just published a revised, updated, and shortened (!) edition of "Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942". Thanks in large part to people I met on this newsgroup, it's a much improved version of what Smithsonian Institution Press published in 1991...

I have received the Garmin GPSMAP 396 that I ordered at OSH and am now trying to figure out how to mount it securely in the airplane (Piper Arrow) 1 I want to be able to use it out of the airplane occasionally. 2 Experimenting with it at home, it appears to me that the font size on both screen...

Well, I passed my check ride! Suffice is to say, I have flown MUCH better before today, and I really was not at all happy with my performance, but I passed none the less. Now, time to start learning. -- Straight and Level Forum. http://z7.invisionfree.com/Straight_and_Level/index.php?act=idx

http://tinyurl.com/2mz2y9 Upper right corner. Note the age of the NEXRAD vs. the age of the XM lightning. -- Dan T-182T at BFM

I don't think any kind of weather is as irritating to me as these summertime stationary fronts that just drape themselves through the midwest, generating day after day of fog, rain, drizzle, low clouds, tstorms. Very little wind, air so stagnant that it too is irritating. I tried to fly from...

Interesting video and stills of an airline being struck by lightning. http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2173.html?theme=light

I find it interesting that the only accident/incident reported at AirVenture 2007 is the P-51. So much for the NTSB not being influenced by politics. :-))

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/whats-off-the-record-at-nhtsa-almost-everything/ Seems public agencies feel they are exempt from answering to the public... I am sooo shocked over this... denny

Out of curiosity, I got this quote last February: ====================== Thank you for requesting a flight quote from SATSair - Smart Air Travel Solutions. a.. Your round trip flight from Mobile, AL to Orlando, FL for 1-3 passengers would take approximately 5hrs 15min Round Trip (Includes...

I'll try to make this long story brief. On 7/29 I filed via DUATS an IFR departure from KFIT to KBHB via ENE. This was at 1200Z. My proposed time off was 1500z. My morning went quicker so when I got to the airport I called BDR FSS on the RCO 118.025 and amended my time off for 1300Z and filed...

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Pilot_Killed_Seawind_Prototype_Lost_195948-1.html Does anybody have any additional Data? My Condolences to the family of Glenn Ralph Holmes

Hooray for The History Channel, who aired a program last night that presented one 9/11 conspiracy theory after another and blew them all out of the sky like clay pigeons. It also demonstrated why Americans view these theories with such hostility and anger. Of course it won't change the minds of...

GPS article http://www.real-article.com/gps/index.php

What are you allowed to take with you to the PPL written test? Can you bring an electronic E6B?

(Trying to steer a thread to the topic of the group g) A response of mine in another thread got me to thinking (dangerous, I know) about what makes a person *want* to become a pilot. This has probably been asked umpteen times before, and will be asked umpteen times in the future, but I am...

Hey all I have been using ac-u-kwik, Well UVweather sent me a copy of their UVtrip Planner I am finding UVtrip Planner to be far more superior updates every 28 days great uptodate handler and fuel information... Cons: Advertising in the form on image banners If I am going to pay for it should...

Hello Everybody, I am considering purchasing a two-seater trike to fly, as recreational activity, in NSW, and in ACT, hence I need friendly expert advise about trikes. (NSW : New South Wales and ACT: Australian Capital Territory, ie around Canberra and Sydney Australia) The major criteria that I...

I'm curious if anyone out there has flown (or driven) in to the AAA fly-in near Blakesburg, IA over labor day weekend. My understanding is that to fly-in one must be invited, but is the whole show by invitation only? (for those of us unwashed masses who fly 172's, they must keep the riff-raff...

I just picked up a used U-2. It's quite a hoot to fly, but I'm having some trouble. Maybe you can help me out. 1) When I go cruising above 60,000 ft I cancel my IFR clearance. Then I buzz around a bit. But how do I come back down legally? Obviously I need an IFR clearance to decend back down...