The Passur AirportMonitor (http://www.passur.com/sites.htm) is pretty cool, but unfortunately my area isn't covered by any of the available installations. Does anyone know of a similar service that covers the Cincinnati area? Thanks. -m --

Hi, I'm currently doing my PPL training after work and in evenings and it's taking me forever. I keep getting lessons cancelled due to bad weather and numerous problems with ATC staff. My main goal is just to be up in the air flying. I think eventually I'd like to become an instructor. Can any...

I am having a problem with the MapSource software, I want to be able to save all of my routes on my PC, but I keep getting an error message. I know it is communicating, the tracking feature follows along with the simulator, and the GPS appears in teh wondow when you tell it to transfer. Any...

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In the recent Airbus nose gear thread, someone posted a link to a report about a B-777 fly-by-wire upset. I can't find it now and am asking if someone can bring up the link to this report. TIA, D.

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Hi Doug, I'm in a similar situation to you but i've got my PPL, check out this website www.pprune.com you'll get most if not all of your answers on there. Pete "Doug" wrote in message ...

I'm considering putting together a "copilot training program" for my flight school. This course is targeted towards regular passengers who are not interested in becoming private pilots themselves--the spouse or friend who goes flying with you all the time. The program would focus on making that...

My company has an immediate need to fill aircraft mechanic positions in various cities in Maryland, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Florida. These jobs are mostly contract work with some temp-to-perm opportunities. Contract jobs pay competitive wages with very generous per diem.

I've got one of the neatest nieghbors a person could ever ask for. He's 77 years old and had over 1000 hours before he received a major bypass operation back in 1986. He's as alert and sharp and has a very active life, but he let his medical expire back in 1988 (never been denied a medical) and...

***** "The place where you get out of my car," I said. "The people who Joshua come from," I said. "They're called the Yherajk. In t heir natural form, they look like Jell-O globs. People will be terrified of them. But if they could see them in human form first, it would make it easie r. We need a...

www.wxnotice.com now has on demand Metar and TAF weather reports sent to your cell phone. The service is free.

VistaNav™ from Mercury Computer Systems of Massachusetts is due to debut this month. With its 5" by 8" 100 DPI LCD display, 3D solid-state inertial navigation system with a WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, 3D solid state gyros, and a Bluetooth® wireless interface, VistaNav™ looks like just what pilots...

I've been trying to email you off-group about your new Rogues Gallery photos, but no joy. Please email me at with the following info about your new plane: a) Year/make/model b) N number c) Other info in your profile still up to date?

My partner and I went up in the Mooney this AM to take advantage of the unusual overcast at MHR. Tower was reporting around 1,000 overcast with vis around 3. We took off from our little foothills airport (non-tower) right behind a Luscome who seemed to depart right into the soup. In the 2 hours it...

Dan Luke wrote: I'm going nuts. I can understand why. My airplane's at BFM, fueled up and ready to go, with a fresh annual. I'm on crutches, grounded by a ruptured tendon and scheduled for surgery that will keep me grounded for at least eight weeks. ****.

Cub Driver wrote: And yes, I was born poor, in a poverty that today's welfare cases can't begin to imagine. I learned to read in school, in a hillbilly town in New Hampshire. I have absolutely zero sympathy for people who grow to adulthood without learning to read. 2. Reintarnation:...

"john smith" wrote in message ... That's called scrounging. Losing everything you already have is a contingency. How many times did you see the helicopters going to check out what was causing smoke? Every time didn't they? ...

Hello Trying to get some history or background on the below airport, known I believe as "Sanco Airfield" It is NOT any any aeronautical charts, and is paved, approx 5000 feet long, with runway markings and a large turn around area. It is located at approx N 32.04, W 100.46

Following is from Newsday.com, not too much info yet. Apparently he was experiencing engine trouble and appeared to be diverting. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/sns-ap-small-plane-crash,0,1021262.story?coll=ny-top-headlines