(Necessary Aviation Content: Weight) (Necessary Aviation Content - Part Deux: Piper entrance and egress) Anyone looking to shed 'a few' pounds this year? If you've succeeded it in the past, want to share your story? Montblack If food is my cocaine, I'm the Darryl Strawberry of weight loss...

Well now I know why it is called the G1000 because that is how much it costs to get checked out in one. This afternoon I finished my checkout in a G1000 equipped Diamond Star ( 180 HP four place). That was my excitement for New Years Eve. After finishing this posting I will be headed to...

Anyone know what's the fastest single engine prop aircraft that could be used for corporate use? Lets say 6-8 passengers. Thanks in advance Daveb

Interestingly CAP just received a memo from Cirrus warning us about the parachute system and the airbag system. Apparently both become very dangerous items to a recovery team. They said recovery teams should **NOT** approach the aircraft until contacting Cirrus if at all possible. Apparently there...

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The Canard Aviation forum had a quick heads up about this product: http://www.zaonflight.com/http://www.zaonflight.com/ Two models of passive traffic detection that are similar to existing ones: Using the "local" transponder as a benchmark for gauging distance from other targets. One model,...

Check out this link: http://www.kcra.com/news/5844154/detail.html The video shows the tracks left in the mud by the mains and front tire... As quoted by the news-copter, it appears to have been a text book soft-field approach. You can see when he pans out that the mains are the only tracks in...

It's been reported that a single engine plane went down in the Hudson River today at around 11:51am EST near the Yonkers Pier. Two people were reported rescued.

Somewhere on the net I came across a towbar for cherokees, which was reversed in such a way that one could push on the wing and steer with this towbar all by oneself. However, as the saying goes, I can't find it again. Anybody know of such a device? Jose -- You can choose whom to befriend, but...

Hi, I am using a scanner to listen to my local airport and I often hear "clear the option". Does this mean "you are clear to take-off"? Also - were could I look up the usage & rules used for aircraft-tower communacations? Thanks,

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Salutations All, I know this isn't a flight-simulator group, but I've got a question for all the real pilots out the In general, how much do commercial aviation pilots use their auto-pilot? I've been spending time learning IFR navigation in FS 2004, and while up and about I'm constantly...

Ladies and Gents: I have put the current sectional and terminal area charts from the FAA onto my website. They have also been converted into more reasonably sized jpeg files. They are available for free download at http://welch.econ.brown.edu/aviation/ I find such on-line access very convenient...

Does anyone know how to determine when a final NSB report would be issued. I'm interested in the findings for the Areostar crash at Lakeway TX on Aug 04 (6 fatalities).

To All: Removal of the FAA AFS-800 Part 61 and 141 FAQ web site Last month the FAA cancelled the AFS-800 Part 61 and Part 141 FAQ's. Evidently the reason was because the FAA Public Relations folks, the creator of the FAA's main "How do I become a Pilot?" FAQ web page convinced the...

I was looking and found this Garmin page http://www.garmin.com/support/commProtocol.html It seems to be the start of the answer to the question previously asked about transferring waypoints. FAQs

I see a Notam that the main runway has been closed since early December. There was also an article about a developer looking to keep it as an airport but building houses. Anyone have any idea what's going on there? Thanks. Tom

There was a thread recently where this was briefly discussed, though I can't seem to quite find it now. On AOPA's web site, they talk a bit about how the feds do try to levy stiff penalties on people whom intentionally misrepresents facts on the medical, if they're caught. (And they indicate that...

1956 172, rainy/low cloud kinda weather, hills, 9pm at night, 2 kids on board... http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/22/MNGC9GC0ED8.DTL

....does it take to change a nav light? 1 to change the nav light and to post that the nav light has been changed 14 to share similar experiences of changing nav lights and how the nav light could have been changed differently 7 to caution about the dangers of changing nav lights