Its been fun but I am leaving all usenet group's maby see you all at a fly-in or two over the years

I just noticed an approach to Frederick, MD (FDK) entitled "ILS OR LOC RWY 23". I thought every ILS could be flown as a non-precision LOC approach so why not just call this one the "ILS RWY 23"?

They don't charge for that. I just got one recently. "Nomen Nescio" Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@ wrote in message ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" Well, that's...

Tom Fleischman wrote: If you want to read something really disturbing, this is it. Is there something specific that is disturbing, or are you referring to the entire report? I read through it and, while it is always disturbing when an accident...

Thunderstorm season is up us. I get a little concerned when I see towering cumulus clouds forming in my flight path because I know that towering cumulus clouds can turn into thunderstorms. 1. Assuming that thunderstorms were not predicted for the area, is my concern unjustified? 2. Do most...

In article , wrote: Anybody know what the weather conditions were around HPN on Saturday? http://www.uswx.com/us/stn/?code=c&n=200&stn=KHPN

I used to have Cheap *******s software and a palm. While not perfect it was much better than nothing. Is there anything available now that is even remotely similar? I can't justify thousands of dollars but I might be able to purchase some sort of palm type thing if I can also use it for work. I...

Flyers, I finally had it with hangar rent increases and moved to a tie-down. So now I have a Ramsey ATV2500 wireless remote winch for sale on ebay.com. It is great for pulling a plane into the hangar. I used it for 1 1/2 years and it really saved my back. Here's the...

We've been using www.youcanbookit.com for scheduling our airplane. So far it's been easy and worked great. The best part about it was it was a free/commercial based site. Unfortunately the site has gone down and the owner says it isn't likely to be put back online. What web based scheduleing...

I know this subject has been discussed before, but not in awhile. I am a current user of Destination Direct and Aeroplanner. While I really like DD, I am very displeased with their updates. They don't even support current TFR's over a planned route. Aeroplanner does allow this, but I don't...

Man, talk about ATC being nice to pilots. I was heading into Providence (RI) earlier today. Weather was VFR, but there was just enough cloud around that lots of instrument students were out chasing some benign IMC time (that's what we were doing). There's some guy who's obviously having trouble...

V139 goes from southern NJ to eastern Long Island, cutting off the corner of the coastline at New York, heading out about 40 miles over the ocean. I just happened to notice that it's got MOCA's defined in addition to the MEA's. The segment between MANTA and PLUME, for example, has a MOCA of 2000....

Face it, the FAA is on the decline. The Potomac Tracon (Managed by unqualified FAA Government minorities) allowed a Cessna 150 within 3 miles of the White House!!???!?!?!? MAJOR F^&% UP!!!!!! CNN this morning did not mention the FAA at all (Major responsibility area) They also mentioned no big...

Just heard that a small aircraft busted the DC prohibited are, and they evacuated the White House and Capitol Building. Some poor ******* ain't going to be aviating for a while.

What confuses me is that all the pundit TV shows keep saying tonight is that authorities have decided not to charge the pilots with a crime. Are they shaving the distinction between "crime" and a "violation" very closely. I can't imagine there wouldn't be administrative action against these two...

To my knowledge, in the US one must file an alternate IFR airport regardless of the weather if the destination airport does not have an IFR approach. Can someone please quote me the FAA regulation where this is actually spelled out? Thanks! Gerd

Thanks to Rod Machado's article in May's _AOPA Pilot_, which was a recap of another aviation safety enthusiast's lecture, I just learned that there may be a big discrepancy in a storm's intensity when comparing its base reflectivity (what is actually falling out of the cloud) to its composite...

This is from AvionicsWest: "WAAS for the GNS430/530 is now postponed until sometime in 2006. I don't "think" the problem is really a WAAS issue. You see, Garmin plans on making the 430/530 comply with TSO 146 just as the GNS480. TSO 146 requires an update rate of 5hz verses 1hz as the product...

I was just reviewing the new Elmira One departure procedure. I think the government has let GPS go to their heads. Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, it specifies the initial heading out to TWO decimal places! The procedure is pretty trivial as it basically says to fly runway heading to 4000...

I have seen some GPS Notams about likely unreliability in certain areas over certain very narrowly-defined periods of time. Can anyone tell me what sort of known activities create these conditions? -Robert Scott Ypsilanti, Michigan