What's the procedure for installing instruments and avionics in small aircraft? For example, if you want to install, say, a stereo in your car, it's no big deal. Lots of stereos seem to be pretty standardized, you just get what you want and connect a few wires and stuff and its in. How modular...

Interesting article on Aviation Week's website. http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_busav_story.jsp?id=news/accid0906.xml I've always maintained that GA's accident record could be significantly improved if there was an effective "wash-out" process that removed the "sludge" at the bottom...

Confusing reports on the Lidle crash-- Mayor Bloomberg, sounding utterly confident in his sources, says the plane took off from Teterboro, circled the Statue of Liberty, flew up (south-to-north) the East River, then into the building. A few minutes earlier, a CNN reporter using PASSUR asserted that...

Well, I'm going to take a break from this group for a while. The signal to noise level is so high, and the volume of junk so large, it takes too much time and annoys me. I'm tired of being called a netcop, among other things, and since all of you "weenies" that are enabling this troll by...

I left this morning for my first supervised solo. My flight instructor is a new guy, about 25 who's never taught students before a month ago. But he seems to know his stuff, so I've put up with him for this long. Until today. We take off from Addison to McKinney TX airport, arrive at...

We're hoping to depart for Fredericksburg, Texas (T82) next Sunday, to pay a visit to the Hangar Hotel -- the only other aviation themed hotel in the country (that we know of). Fredericksburg itself sounds very neat, and we'll spend a day or two there, but the kids want WARM weather -- and so do...

Hey, all. I'm looking for a bit of wisdom here. Background is, I'm a system administrator whose job just dissolved in a corporate buyout and, after being promised that if I came over I'd keep my salary and title, I was sleazed into a 30% paycut (given a single day to either sign it or hit the...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday. I wonder what the Boeing service manual says about this? :-) -- Jay Honeck

"Now that Boeing has conceded that the first flight and first deliveries of the new 787 jetliner will be at least six months behind schedule, company officials acknowledge that their strategy of relying on far-flung major subcontractors to design and produce most major components was...

well if anyone knows you guys should! what is this phenomena all about? we all can see normal contrails but the other sort - the ones that just hang in the air and spread wider and wider forming fake cirrus clouds, are we being poisened, are they reflecting back sunlight? and who is involved with...

It was the 3rd leg of an Angel Flight and I wasn't even supposed to be flying it. I'd already flown the second leg from Natchez, MS to Monroeville, AL, but the 3rd leg pilot had mysteriously failed to show--no call, no nothin'. It was late, I was tired and I was mad. I had two pax aboard. We...

I have long expressed my opinion that public displays of low level aerobatics entails risk vastly out of proportion to any benefits, perceived or real... Aerobatic displays do not improve public support for general aviation nor for the preservation of local airports... Aerobatic displays do not...

Local radio reports a plane down alongside I-70 on Vail Pass, Colorado -- elevation 11,000 feet. Anyone hear something about this? Seth N8100R

CNN video: NEW looks bad; partially under water. Heavy damage to most buildings, particularly the large Millionaire FBO west of 18/36. Wonder how long it will be before we make the $100 muffaletta trip to Lakefront again--if indeed we ever do? -- Dan C172RG at BFM

I don't. It stays on 24/7 (you know what I mean). 1200 unless given a code. It effectively prevents "Maule, check your transponder" unless using the wrong code. I make no attempt to turn it off or go to standby while taxiing or anything else. I've never been asked to go to standby or...

We enjoyed a 45 knot tailwind all the way to our favorite fly-in restaurant today (The CAVU Cafe, in Janesville, WI ). This blessing naturally switched to a 45 knot curse on the way home. Droning along has its advantages. The headwind gave my kids ample time for a nap, and gave Mary and me...

Concerening arrival and flight through Class C airspace... 91.130(c)(1) Each person must establish two-way radio communications with the ATC facility providing air traffic services prior to entering that airspace and thereafter maintain those communications while within that airspace. Note the...

Something suspicious here? http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2004/08/25/1093246621809.html "The pilot of one of two Russian planes that crashed almost simultaneously had sent a hijack alert,"...and, in the same story: "FSB officials had not yet found evidence of a terrorist act...

Sunday, July 25th, is our day to give back to the pilot community, in thanks for another great year! Fly into Iowa City (KIOW) en route to OSH '04, and enjoy: - Free food! - Free (real) beer! - Free pop! - Live music at poolside!

We have a civilian astronaut. yeeeehaaa!