I wonder if I can fit one of these under the belly of my Cherokee. :^) http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/16/airline.anti.missile.ap/index.html Just what is the color of the threat chart these days anyway? KC

("Joe Kultgen" wrote) I'm kind of curious about one thing though. Whatever happened to that guy who was suing the FAA under provisions of the ADA claiming the weight limits for ultralights discriminated against heavy people? This sound delicious... Any news out there?

See http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/01/18/deer.ice.ap/index.html Includes video. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

My flying club in Germany has purchased a 1972 Piper Pawnee PA25-235 "C" as a restoration project. Now we are looking for some big sketches (construction papers, blueprints or building plans?) of the aircraft with the drawing we need for the work on the aircraft giving all detail information on...

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...

I know that books can be written about what FAA considers "commercial use" requiring appropriate certification and what is "incidental", but I'm going to ask this anyway. Does taking aerial pictures and then using them in a commercial product constitute a commercial use? If I take a picture of say...

The other day I sent out this post to rec.aviation.student and got some very good feedback. I'm not meaning to spam this group with a double post but I wanted to make sure the website is helpful to all, not just students. brakesoff.com is a new website designed to list attractions and restaurants...

Thanks to work and the weather, we hadn't flown in a couple of weeks. Therefore, even though the temperature this morning was just above zero, and the runways were twin sheets of ice (thanks to an ice storm that preceded our snowstorm), we decided we HAD to fly today. Worse, we hadn't taken the...

Can anyone identify and airport where gliders and powered aircraft use the same runway? Do they use opposite traffic patterns? Any other operational issues? Ron Lee

$ means maintenance required on a METAR (and some people thank that the FAA has no sense of humor) Anyway, if a $ appears in the METAR, does it mean that: 1. No METAR info should be trusted 2. All METAR info should be trusted but some might be missing 3. It is guaranteed to be VFR anyway Thanks,

The recent obliteration of the Somali chapter of Al Queda by an AC-130 gunship (See http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ac-130.htm if you don't know what one looks like) got me wondering how, exactly, one would pilot such a craft during an attack. Think about it. You've got a 155,000 pound,...

This came up in another group and no one had an answer. What is the relationship of the FAA to the military? Is the FAA the final word on regulations for everything in the US airspace with the military using an additional set of their own regulations? -- Dallas

It's surprising there aren't more solar powered blimps for tours of canyons. The forest service could use them to count big horn sheep and other lildlife. If the weather was fair, wouldn't you like to take a quiet ride in an airship? Maybe sneak up on a mule deer . . . There's no question...

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Hi all, I have a few concerns with landing a B734 (flight simulator). Does anyone know where I can find a POH for this aircraft. Also, in the flight simulator, it seems as though i can never find that happy medium between velocity and flaps I speed up and gain too much lift, I decrease speed and...

In watching a freezing rain/snow storm move from the midwest up to the northeast US today, I again wonder how the airlines deal with freezing rain. Are many flights canceled during a freezing rain storm or is it business as usual? Does a deicing on the ground and anti-icing equipment on the...

Thanks to those who responded...I didnt think it would last long. --Don Don Byrer KJ5KB Radar Tech & Smilin' Commercial Pilot Guy Glider & CFI wannabe kj5kb-at-hotmail.com "I have slipped the surly bonds of earth; now if I can just land without bending the gear..." "Watch out for those...

As posted in Anthony's blog... http://aprenta.blogspot.com/ ....which is linked from his website... http://www.atkielski.com/default.html Thursday, November 23, 2006 This was a bit of a bad day.

This is the first I've heard of this practice. Does anyone have firsthand information? ------------------------------------------------------------------- AVwebFlash Volume 13, Number 1b -- January 4, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Aging...

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