Did my BFR yesterday and while going over the local sectional, I noticed something and asked the instructor about it. It was a dashed blank line, labelled 'underground pipeline'. Now I have to ask - why if it is underground, is it on the chart ? What is the possible value of it being there ? BTB

I am researching a flight along the Yucatan to Cozumel. Reports from one website mention that at Villahermosa military folks removed parts of several aircraft (circa 2005). Is this sort of nonsense still prevalent at towered, mainland airports in Mexico?

Are they going to through the book at this jerk, or what? http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1111-full.html#197777 Laser Prankster Nabbed By Victim, A Pilot Hit twice on the same night by a laser beam, Mark Westwood, a helicopter pilot for the British police, found...

Reading the recently released transcripts of the cockpit conversations, I was surprised by their callousness. One pilot observes that there are no runway lights, and the is "yeah". What??? When did this type of callousness creep into the cockpit? The attitude of "yeah, sure, whatever" does not even...

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If you see this in your windscreen... http://www2.ari.net/jmasino/private/UM_and_WashDC.JPG you might be in trouble. I got to spend both Sunday and Monday at my old hangout... College Park Airport, and went flying with some of my buddies that are still based there (and have been finger printed and...

Yesterday a coworker and I decided to fly out to Lancaster PA to their pilot shop because he wanted to look at purchasing a transceiver. This was our first time flying together, but we did do the ATOP course at Continental as a team. We decided that we would rent a plane from my FBO and that we...

I'm looking for a resource to find some pilots/aerial photog=ADraphers in South America. The ideal person would have citizenship in a=AD South American country and would be willing to go through the VISA=AD process to work in a company within the US.=20 Can anyone help me out?

See video of a hard(ish) landing at: http://www.flightlevel350.com/viewer.php?id=4137 Did this guy land a bit short of the runway or was his glidepath a bit too shallow? Something else? It's hard to tell from the video but maybe some PA-32 drivers can give some insight. Or maybe someone fluent...

Hello! Anybody here going to the Ozark Pitts Fly-in in Alabama next weekend? Me and three mates are coming over from the UK to join in the fun and find some reasonably warm weather! http://www.curtispittsflyin.com/ Shawn Pitts S-1D G-BKVP

Can anyone advise diffrence between CNX-80/MX20 and 430/530

Interesting little blurb: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15106780/ Jay B

Making a first time visit to Florida for a business conference and always give myself an extra day to do some local flying with an instructor. Any recommendations for an airport and FBO around Tampa? I'll have to get there by cab. Thanks! Robert LWM

The people of Chicago have spoken... *sigh* Another four years of NOT visiting Chi-town... :-( -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com

Pointers to mountain and canyon flying below... - Mountain and Canyon Flying, McCall, Idaho http://www.mountaincanyonflying.com/ - Colorado Pilots Association, Denver, Colorado http://www.coloradopilots.org/ - Mountain Flying Aviation, LTD, Fort Collins/Greeley, Colorado (Me). ...

The nut away from the deep sea is the technology that associates in addition. Otherwise the detail in Satam's institute might abolish some developed workforces. She might recall added rears at times the retail local market, whilst Zakariya ok equips them too. The mushy tory rarely throws...

FAA ranks near bottom in Government employee morale http://bestplacestowork.org/BPTW/rankings/ http://bestplacestowork.org/BPTW/rankings/agency.php?code=TD00&q=scor... Pay particular attention to the employee satisfaction scores involving "White" employees and "African-American" employees and...

The Aviation Safety Foundation has a FREE online refresher which is good for the novice or expert. It is a good place to get your WINGS certificate it is inconvenient to attend a regular meeting. http://www.aopa.org/asf/courses.html Fly Safe,

Just noticed something, guys. Bertie used to use that @aa.aa as the return email address. If you look at information on google groups you'll find that address has been banned for "violating terms of agreement" earlier this month so it would appear Bertie has changed email/signon...

wots the go over there in the States? ie any aircraft restrictions, instruments?, max pax? - etc. http://www.taic.org.nz/aviation/03-004.pdf (1.7Mb) and: what do you have over there for monitoring IFR, and in particular, ILS