On Mar 25, 5:21*pm, Jim Logajan wrote: Bluuuue Rajah Bluuuuue@Rajah. wrote: Fifth European Conference on Space Debris Thanks for the notice! As a student pilot I will try to avoid space debris! If I am on collision course with a bit of debris, I should turn right, ...

I fly a PC12 for a charter company, and ours has the 8 seat executive seating. There is a 9 seat airline config for the plane available - add in the two crew seats and you're still short three seats for the 14 people that were lost in the crash. Did they have kids sitting on the floor in the aisle?...

"make the transition today" - they say: http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft.html #m

"Dan Camper" wrote in message ... http://tr.im/1f9p Thanks Dan, I am not a big fan of Tinyurl or other URL disguising tools, but took a chance and was lead to http://trollcentral.com/ then to ...

WW2 fly in this past weekend. This short video only a sample of what arrived. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41dmJI1M54Q Wish the video did the sounds the "true" heart thumping justice the sounds of the planes actually made.

I'm a suicidal pilot and I want to kill myself by flying into a mountain. How can I fly into a mountain, so that I will die for sure???

Russia to approve new Moon rocket By Anatoly Zak Science reporter http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7946689.stm Russia is developing a new generation of space vehicles Russian space officials are to select the winning proposal for a new rocket intended to carry cosmonauts on...

-blink- look what crashed in (sort of) my neighborhood: http://gazette.net/stories/03182009/gaitnew204745_32470.shtml any landing you can walk away from is a good landing..... --j_a

Yesterday's flight to Natchez MS KHEZ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAREmeeboYU While enroute, I filed a PIREP with FSS. Video includes screenhots on how that PIREP shows up at http://adds.aviationweather.gov/ I filed a PIREP on my return trip which included a turbulence report of light chop...

Been 8 years since I did short field or soft field takeoffs so figured to see if I could even do these.type of takeoffs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJfFeKYZCM 7:30 minute video in which you will endure 10 takeoffs of which 1 soft field take off and 2 short field takeoffs, Eight landings...

If money were not an issue, and you had the opportunity to install a single new gadget in your instrument panel (without removing anything else--assume you have the room for something new), which instrument would you install, and why?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=841_1237225755 "... and you won't get that on United Airlines, I guarantee!" #m

It seems as if Microsoft is pulling the plug on MS Flight Simulator. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7902468.stm --

The other day I saw a watch advertised as a watch for pilots that includes an altimeter. While I have seen these before for mountain climbers this is the first I have seen targeted at pilots. My first question in seeing it was "Where is the Kollsman window?" I tried to find more data online but...

Hi all, I got my FAA PPL ASEL almost 10 years ago in Maryland. I have done very little flying with it since, due to university, job, women and booze.....basically money. I feel I need cheering up and the lovely weather we've had over the last couple of days have had me looking at the Blue Skies...

It appears that the Air Force is experimenting with non-rated UAV "pilots". Since as a civilian pilot I could potentially be sharing the same airspace with these folks, I am not sure this gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Of course, the government could always "solve" any potential problem with...

Looking for original items related to the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics, or related to Casey Jones (the aviator, not the railroad engineer) a/k/a Charles Sherman Jones. Photographs and other ephemera: advertisements, patches, pins, signs, paper goods, coveralls, some "prop wash" publications,...

On Mar 3, 5:15*am, Ibby wrote: First priority is NOT talking to ATC but retaining control of the aircraft. *If it is decending rapidly the FIRST button I would engage is Altitude Hold which will start the aircraft to level out. *This can be easily reached without...

Wolfgang Schwanke wrote: Imagine a world where anyone with any kind of medical history can't get a job. Imagine a world where anyone with any kind of *visible*/easily identifiable medical history (e.g., visible disability) can't get a job... oh, never mind, been there done that, it's...

Thought I'd share this. Sometimes the old-timers do some wacky things, and I wouldn't advocate this, but I think it's a good story. One 80-year old stick here has a nice 172. No hangar. When planning the next start to be in cold wx: Shuts the thing down, drains a full GATTS jar of avgas and...