From today's AvWeb: NATCA Honors Its Best Archie League Medal Safety: Air Traffic Control Tapes http://www.natca.org/mediacenter/ALTapes.msp Great Lakes Region: Cirrus in trouble after switching off autopilot. Hmm? Eastern Region: Gear up catch by tower.

This happened last night at an airport near us. Stupid mistake for a kid who dreams of flying one day. There is a link to the full video on the page too. http://www.wsmv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4441019 jf

http://www.wsi.com/corporate/news/releases/usav020806_InflightSirius.asp

Can a flight instructor with a "driver's license" physical give flight instruction in a light sport class plane and charge for the instruction given?

Whilst wandering around the cyber-wastelands the other day, I came across http://socal.pilotinside.com/tools.asp. The site has lots of good stuff there, including a 29-page PDF file describing maneuvers for the C-172. Problem is, it refers to a couple checklist mnemonics I am not familiar with....

The treadmill is irrelevant; it is the relative wind that matters. Whether you are standing on solid ground or on a treadmill, if you have enough of a head wind, you will be airborne period. The Monk

After spending about 10 hour in the exit rows of aluminum tubes over the last week I noticed something new. They 737-800 has a different design than the older style overwing hatches. This is more door like. It has hinges and opens outward. You no longer have to bring the door in and throw it out of...

Hi All, Here's a question for all the FAR/AIM experts: Each year our childrens' school has a charity auction to raise money for various events, services, and equipment. My wife had the idea that I could donate a one hour flight, which could be auctioned for the benefit of the school. I'm...

Surprisingly, this article doesn't mention that the pilot was "an excellent pilot with a clean history" or anything similar. Perhaps he was reckless and had a history of accidents, but then I would suspect that would make for interesting news as...

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Just got this from one of my Lao buddies who's an American GI stationed in Thailand at the moment. LOL His story... To start with, the mission briefing was completely erroneous. At no time before take off was I informed that this would be a live fire operation and deep in hostile enemy...

South Carolina airport department knew that it couldn't legally get FAA grant money (that's your aviation fuels tax $$$) for maintenance equipment and buildings, so it claimed it was "snow" removal equipment and "snow maintenance" buildings that they needed. The deceit was justified of course...

You won't believe it, but one of our former resident loonies, Douglas Eagleson just poped up over at r.a.m.n with the following post: "I am an avocate of adding afterburners to the A-10 for just this reason. A long duration of coverage is the defensive role. A five hour rotation is possible for...

Question; Student pilot drops 3 sky divers from a C-172 and FAA says they are going to violate him but his CFI comes to rescue and saves the day...... HOW? BTW - this is a real story and event that took place nearly 40 years ago in Louisiana.

CBS noon news reported the crash of a Bonanza out of the Lufthansa Flight Training School at Goodyear Airport. The student pilot was a 22 yr-old woman, here from Germany since December, with 49 total hours, 5+ solo hours, on what was supposed to be an hour-long solo flight. No emergency radio calls...

Over on the Cherokee Pilots Association "Cherokee Chat", a guy has posted (at my inquiry) that Lowrance *is* still planning to introduce satellite weather to work with their excellent 2000c aviation GPS. This is the second "verification" (from an anonymous source who supposedly "knows" someone --...

Of course I had to pay him to get into the airplane, but when he got out an hour and a half later, he shook my hand, signed the back of my Student Permit, took some trophy pictures for me, and officially stated that the Government was satisfied that I can pilot an airplane. I haven't been around...

On behalf of myself and my wife Kristen, I would like to say thank you to everyone on r.a.p. for the notes of sympathy and support regarding the passing of my father. It was a difficult week but many memories were shared and many stories were told helping us to drive away the sorrow with...