I just purchased a 1974 Cardinal RG and am very happy with it so far. I have been privileged to live in a very beautiful part of the world. All we are missing here are trees that change colours in the fall! Here is a trip log made yesterday through the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. Lots of...

In simulation, if I set the autopilot to maintain the altitude, and then try to change pitch with the controls, the control surfaces barely move, and I can hardly have any effect on pitch. I think this is a limitation of the simulator. My guess is that, in real life, the autopilot continuously...

When I heard the sad news about the plane crash in New York on this morning's BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme, I immediately predicted what Skylune's action would be and almost predicted with 100% accuracy what the subject line of his new thread would be, and what the message contents would be. At...

Partial radar track of the first few minutes of Lidle's Cirrus departing Teterboro on Passur: http://www4.passur.com/ewr.html Set the clock there for October 11th, 14:30 pm, then click on the first aircraft that departs Teterboro. -- Peter

I know this has been done before, but has anyone thought about putting together another list of on-field places to eat? JP took everyone's input and used it for his own profit. I would be willing to recreate a website listing for free (always free) if there was enough input. Has anyone else...

From New York Times: Luis Gonzalez, 23, was one of several construction workers and others viewing plans for renovating an apartment in the Belaire when they looked out the window and saw a plane headed their way. “It was coming right at us, directly at us at the floor where we were working on,”...

The Cirrus apparently crashed into the Manhattan building around 1440 local time, or 1840Z. KNYC is the closest official weather station to the crash site. Below are the weather observations taken at KNYC and nearby about 11 minutes after the accident. Almost immediately after the accident...

I was at a high school football game a week ago and the local news helicopter came to watch the game. After landing and filming some footage, it took off and buzzed the stadium in a pretty high speed bank of about 30 to 40 degrees, maybe 150 feet up. So I thought all sporting events were tfrs. ...

Gus, hope you don't mind that I cross posted this. The video is incredible from the jumper perspective. I noticed the plane in the lower left of the video frame,... and I remember the pilot mantra: if it aint movin in the windshield, you will hit it. Jumpers are the only real scary aviation...

I'm sure most of us have been surprised by a passenger's action at one time or another, but my wife (Kelly) startled the heck out of me this weekend. We made a trip to Texas to visit her school (Texas A&M) to see a football game and to visit with family and friends while we were in the area. At...

Interesting little blurb: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106780/ Jay B

Christie's New York to mark Star Trek's 40th Anniversary with first-ever official auction of Star Trek studio items. October 5 - 7, 2006 ....I'm ....too ...weak ....to ...resist. http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/16195.html New York - In celebration of the 40th anniversary of...

According to Google's count, there were 6149 posts to this group last month, more than in any other month except September, 2001 (which saw 9341 posts due no doubt to discussions about the 9/11 attacks) and September, 2005, which saw 6262 posts, according to Google's counters. Source for the...

Last week we set a new record high here in Iowa City, of (I think) 93 degrees. Tonight they are predicting record lows in the low 20s -- a swing of 70 degrees in a week. Prior to the arrival of those temperatures, they're calling for wind gusts to 50 mph. We've gone from flying -- and sweating...

I was recently on a SWA flight aboard a 737-800, and looking at the large winglet that the 737-800 sports (for lift enhancement, drag reduction), it occured to me that perhaps the recent 737-800 that went down in Brazil after colliding with an Embraer jet may have had one of its winglets sliced...

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Fox News just briefly had up on their scrolling news feed on TV that Corey was flying the airplane. Of course considering the hit and run media wants to be the first to report anything this could be a mistake. I haven't seen it again.

I purchased an eFlyBook from MyAirplanes.com a week after Oshkosh this year, and initially was very happy with the unit. There were some software glitches and upgrades needed, but the overall quality of the screen and convenience were outstanding. However, on my first use during a 1000 mile xc,...

How much of a movement in the little ball in the turn indicator corresponds to something you can feel in a real aircraft? And how much of a movement represents an error large enough to affect flight safety or proper maneuvering? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

What would radio technicians have thought of 25kHz frequency spacing in the era when this was in operation: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=020&item=300034903598&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1