SATS Success! And here you thought the only way to make a small fortune in aviation was to start with a large one. :) It seems the SATS (Small Aircraft Transportation System) research program, a joint effort involving agencies such as NASA, the FAA and experienced industry professionals, is...

Allegheny County (PA) Airport (KAGC) is located in Class D airspace. The KAGC Class D is located inside the boundaries of the Pittsburgh (PA) International (KPIT) Class B airspace, except for one small portion of the Class D which extends outside of the Class B. If flying into or out of KAGC,...

Last Friday, I went up for an introductory flight lesson out of the San Carlos airport. WOW!!!!!! I have been dreaming about learning to fly since I was in my teens. All the time I was in the air the lines of that famous poem kept going through my head "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of...

As the subject says, the majority of Canadian airport codes seem to have disappeared from aeroplanner.com and skyvector.com. Are there any workarounds?

My old cell phone was on its last legs. I had twice given my "free upgrades" to my kids so they could get the "latest-greatest" music-enabled whiz phones, so my old phone was...just a phone. It looked like a hockey puck after a full season on the ice, with hardly any paint left on it, and the...

Are these the same ATC personnel with whom we entrust our lives in IMC? Very tacky. And apparently there's a history of this malfeasance at the Dallas-Fort Worth TRACON. If found guilty, what's it going to take to get these criminals terminated from any and all government service?

Airman Bush has no regard for GA: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/110-2/saphr2881-s.pdf EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 April 29, 2008 (Senate) STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY H.R. 2881 – FAA...

Just FYI for CFI candidates: Got the same score within 2 point(91 instead of 93)on the AGI as I got on the CFI written last week. Spent all week learning about pinnacle approaches, retreating blade stall, balloon license requirements, etc... figured it would be worse than that so I didn't...

Fine day yesterday for taking a nickle and dime tour of a slightly overflowing MS river. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am2dpXFF-j8 5 1/2 minutes of your viewing pleasure will have you "survive" 1 take off and one landing at KMBO and 1 take off and one landing at KVKS Air was amazingly sparkling...

Been chatting with a few old time geek friends online it looks like we are going to start an embedded Linux project for this hardware while keeping it capable of running current nav data/maps my unit just booted an 8 gig CF card (Avmap SW) a friend is going to try a 32 gig card in the next week...

"I am therefore compelled to retire from the FAA and seek employment with an organization that complies with and honors the laws of the land and that respects and values its employees" The irony to the above quote is the FAA continues to spew lies about their "Model work environment" and...

Does there seem to be an inordinate amount of bad press for the FAA these days? http://www.local6.com/news/16144687/detail.html Former Top FAA Official Raises Concerns About Safety In The Skies POSTED: 12:00 am EDT May 3, 2008 UPDATED: 6:39 pm EDT May 3, 2008 ORLANDO,...

Story on Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_re_us/obit_van_meter I'm aware of three people I've known in my life that attempted suicide, and sadly one was successful. None of them were attempting to escape physical pain or fiscal trauma. Sometimes the worst enemy a person has is...

EMTAE wrote: Based on PERSONAL experience ONLY list your top five favorite airlines 1 Air France 2 Piedmont 3 Pan Am (The Original) 4 KLM 5 Air France (oh wait did I say that already? :)

http://www.katu.com/news/18535344.html No other word yet. Yak 18?

"Buttman" wrote in message ... http://tinyurl.com/67rded Also the former home of a delightfully equal success story, Jim Bede. Bertie, Bede,,,,Bertie,Bede,,,,,, nah, surely not.

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Flown C172's for quite a while, and never had anybody in the back. Now I'm planning on quite a trip, with 2 pax and luggage. When I fill the fuel to the *tabs*, calc everyone's weight honestly and consider baggage -- I'm 75 lbs over the 2450 gross on departure. Maybe 100 over gross if I assume...

MAKING 50,000 DOLLARS IN 20 days This is NO joke….. A while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00 plus stamps! So I thought, "Yeah,...