Is it OK for the FAA or Airlines to pass over white males for black females so the diversity numbers look better? Just curious how airline and private pilots felt about safety positions being filled by unsafe and/or unqualified (Other than White Male) employees?

I was referred to this by my parents. I live in Seattle and just bought a Honda Insight in FLA. I am a school teacher and cannot get way to pick it up right now. My parents have friends who have their cars driven up from AZ each year by pilots/retired pilots that get free tickets but...

After I completed my training, by 300 hour 20 year old instructors, (who taught me soft field for my flight test, while admitting that they had NEVER landed on anything other than a surfaced runway) I went to a Northern BC bush pilot with over 20,000 hours and asked him to give me some...

"Capt.Doug" wrote in message ... It was a beautiful day in land that Mickey built- 76 degrees with full sun while the northern folks got their first freezing blast of winter. We headed off-shore over the...

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I live in the US and am currently training for a career in aviation. In about one year from now I'll have my CFII with a multi-engine rating. Ever since I was little I always wanted to live in another part of the world when I got older. Great Britian is one of those places that has always intrigued...

I have always been under the impression that lift is the product of airspeed and angle of attack, and that lift is the measure of upward force acting on the plane at a given time. For instance, if you are doing slow flight, your wings are producing the same amount of life that you would be if you...

I'm pursuing a career in aviation, but there are something in my life that have sort of been a sort of slow train coming during in the past 10 years or so. I think it is finally time I take care of these things, and as a result, I will most likley be put on medication that will void my medical...

What exactly do they mean by this? Has anyone ever been denied their ATP because they weren't in "good moral character"? What do they use as a metric?

I am interested in doing crop dusting instead / in addition to flight instructing to build hours in order to get a good aviation job. What kind of experience do they prefer? I know all you legally need is a commercial liscense (which I already have), so will that be enough? Do they want more? I...

I'm a CFI with a first class medical issued 6/15/05. I began taking a banned medication (celexa) about a week ago. I have not flown since I started the drugs, and I don't plan on returning until the medication stops (the doc said that may not be for another 6-12 months). When I "get back" will my...

I have never quite understood indiced airflow. Suppose there is an multi-engine airplane with wing mounted engines. I've been taught that while the engine is running, there is a greater amount of airflow over the wing behind the prop. The prop is throwing air back over the wing which is creating...

When I used to fly Cessna 152's and 172's, I'd always just say "Cessna 12345...". Now that I fly Piper Warriors, I began using "Piper 12345...", but then I realized no one else says just "Piper", they say "Seneca 12345", or "Twin Comanche 12345...", so I began using the callsign "Warrior 12345..."...

I have my CFI right now, and I'm flying with a CFII in preparation for my CFII checkride. Do I log that time as Dual Received, as well as PIC, or just PIC, or just Dual Received? Also, as a CFI should I be logging the time I fly with my MEI for my multi rating as PIC, or is that stretching...

I'm in the process of vectorizing all the charts in the PA-28-161 Warrior III POH. I am mostly doing it to make it easier on me and my students when reading them. The takeoff roll charts you almost need a microscope to get an accurate reading, the lines are so close together. I plan on doing all...

I'm doing some research, trying to find information on airplanes with counter-rotating props, but I'm getting a lot of junk hits from articles that use "counter-rotating" when they should mean "contra-rotating". I was always taught that "contra-rotating" was when you had two sets of blades...

According to the Aerostar's specification sheet, it says "Must have 350hp engines above FL250". Is this a regulation thing, or just a limitation of the type? I tried searching through any kind of e-FAR I could find, but came up with squat. http://www.aerostaraircraft.com/specs.pdf Come to think...

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/ click on "emergency response to troubled plane" An arrow tried to bounce the plane on the runway to get the stuck landing gear to come down, but all it did was make the other three gear get stuck in the down position.

What does it mean when a controller says "Cleared for landing full length", or "cleared for takeoff full length"? I've never heard this said until I started flying out of this airport I'm based at now which has a 11,800 ft. runway. Does it mean he wants me to land further down towards the middle...

I asked this question to my CFI, but he just give me a blank stare, so I'm hoping someone here could answer it. As I understand it, all commercial maneuvers revolve around the idea of converting between potential energy and kinetic energy, and the control characteristics of the plane assiciated...