Hello. i just passed my PP ASEL checkride Saturday and find myself on a business trip to beautiful Phoenix. Would anyone care to reccomend a friendly flight school with a(some) decent/nice 172(s) where i might take either a checkout and some solo time or a dual sight-seeing flight?

A moment of silence of this 11th day of the 11th month when the guns went silent on the western front. A truce in the arguing over getting thrown out of FBO's...

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...

I've been using MSFS 2002 to keep my instrument scan up (and sometimes let my wife fly it; she's my "pinch hitter"). I have an el-cheapo joystick which is now insisting that the nose shall always be pointed down. It's a mouse systems bogeyman, and is pretty terrible (though the price was...

My fuel servo is coming back from the shop. I wish I better understood how they work. One day my plane just stated running so rich that I could almost not keep the engine runnnig. I was pulling about 7GPH at 1500 (normal is about 3). However, if I shutdown and restarted it would run correctly about...

I got landing clearance while still 10 miles away and not in the traffic pattern at all. BT "Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... In my sim, ATC always clears me for landing in the pattern just as I come abeam of the threshold...

http://ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2006/061103.htm UPDATE ON CIRRUS PLANE CRASH IN MANHATTAN, NEW YORK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Transportation Safety Board today released the following update on its investigation into the accident...

First of all, congratulations to John (BucFan), whose posting of a successful checkride prompted me to write. I've rarely posted here, but I've been consistently lurking, and I have learned a lot from the group in the last year-and-a-half. Thanks to all of you for that. I passed my PPL-ASEL...

Hi, I wonder if I can borrow your wisdom here. I tried to convert a foreign private pilot license to a US one, and hit a wall. On 9/5, I applied for a conversion of Japanese glider license to a US one at San Jose FSDO. On the application form, I disclosed that I had a US ASEL license, and even...

We found the Chicken Strip in Death Valley on Mon. What a great flight. I highly recommend it, especially if in SoCal and looking for something different. Thanks for the help. GT

Okay, rather than replying to the individual arrivals' threads, I felt compelled to start this new one. Is it just me, or is there a palpable feeling of freshness around here? A certain simmer notwithstanding, it seems to me that in the recent month or so, we've gotten at least three other...

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just from a non-pilots angle, whats the reason for the hangar doors to be the way they are? I mean the 2 part folding types. Is there some advantage to them? why dont we make car garages the same way?

May be approx location of some lost plane which is not traced till date, or ... I don't know. You tell me. I just don't understand what to do with this google map on my mobile.

In a typical small GA aircraft, do the controls have a natural tendency to return exactly to their neutral positions when you aren't holding them and when you are on the ground? Do they have a tendency to return to exactly neutral in flight if you release them in level flight? The reason I ask is...

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I guess this shows the difficulty of figuring out what's underneath you. I guess if you hear about traffic but do not see it, you should assume it is right where you can't see it rather than safely away from you. Just speculation, of course. http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/51744.html -- A....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6113418.stm The birth of a quieter, greener plane By Tim Bowler Business reporter, BBC World Service .... Now a team of researchers in Britain and the US has come up with a revolutionary new aircraft design that could make a dramatic contribution to...

Does anyone know if Bose has a headset in the works with audio input? It would seem like the next logical step. I'm not sure if the David Clark X11 is as comfortable as the Bose, and I'm trying to choose between the two. --Dan

NYC's East River is about 2000' wide. So when you approach the north endpoint of the VFR corridor there, you need to make a U turn with a 1000' radius (or less if you're not right next to the eastern shore when you start the turn). Suppose you're afraid to fly too slowly because you don't want...