Letter found in FAA ATCT breakroom Funny Protected Class or the Subtle spread of Perversion? In the famous fable the “Emperor has no clothes”, all in the “Village” were completely conditioned for control of their thoughts and trained to

Delta announced today it will lose another 1 Billion dollars in 2005 Most of the US Airlines are losing money due to higher fuel cost's In Europe, airlines are making money and the fuel is 3 times more expensive. I don't get it. Is it some new type of math the US airlines are using or have...

There was a time (probably right before I passed my Instrumenr written) when I was pretty good at being able to read the shorthand used for weather conditions, FA's, and the like. There was also a time when using shorthand made sense - days of slow teletypes, limited memory, etc. But does it...

The installation of the GNS530 is complete. The learning is just begun. But since I now have equipment which allows it, what is the likelihood of receiving 'cleared as filed' if I file direct to a destination a few hundred miles away? Is this not what 'Free Flight' was supposed to be about? Is it...

It is common wisdom, and often common sense, that if a full deflection of a CDI (or GS) is experienced, a missed approach is to be flown. But a lot of people seem to think that it is REQUIRED. I have had a CFII tell me it is required. But I can not find anything in FAR or AIM that states such...

Looking to upgrade the panel to include an IFR GPS. Are there really any alternatives to Garmin? (either 430 or 480 or 530) (where alternative is defined as comparable functionality for comparable price)?

Happy Centennial, All !!! http://home.earthlink.net/~avi8ing/HOA.html Keep the clean side up, and the dirty side down !!! Phil ATP ASMEL CFI AIM

If you are going to Oshkosh, you may want to consider a stop at our little small town airport. 3LF http://www.litchfieldil.com/airport/ take a look at the photography, the young eagle links, the pilot info and then.......... stop over here for a night. Gas is guaranteed at $2.85 a gallon...

I posted earlier about seeing differences of up to 500' between the altitude shown on my Garmin GPS 196 (even while receiving WAAS) and my altimeter. The GPS would consistently indicate higher than the altimeter. Dan Luke suggested the cause might be non-standard temperatures. After some more...

in article , Snowbird at wrote on 8/31/03 8:24 PM: Anyone know of an archive for nexrad? I'd like to know if we were nuts or just plane crazy Thanks, Sydney

Suppose your currency has lapsed. Say 7 months ago you did 3 approaches and then 3 months ago you did a hold, VOR tracking and 3 more approaches. Your currency has lapsed. Would flying 3 approaches under the hood make you current, or since your currency has lapsed would you have to do all 6 plus...

In a recent flight, I received the handoff, "27D change to Chicago Center on xxx.xx" Next call, "Chicago Center, Arrow 27D, 3000" Response: "Arrow 27D, this is not Chicago Center, this is Chicago Approach". Me "Arrow 27D, correction noted" Is this an issue of sufficient importance to waste the...

Anyone out there have any good web sources for up-to-date, textual PIREPS? Multiple ones over a wide area would be a plus. The only solid way I've found to get them is to log on to DUATS and do a flight plan around the area I'm wanting to get PIREPs for. This is time consuming, and I know theres...

Hello fellow pilots, I need help finding a preferred route from KPBI - KGNV. I have to do a flight plan for my ground course and can't find the route. Also, do i have to calculate for winds as I do for VFR flights? How would I do that? Thank you very much for your help.

Help! I am a graduate student conducting research on student pilots and flight schools. Have you ever been 'fed-up' with a flight school and quit? Lousy experience? Bad CFIs? Poor reliabilty? Took all your $$$... I need to survey YOU! PLEASE help me and take my survey. It will only take a few...

The Honorable Norman Mineta Transportation Secretary U.S. Department of Transportation 400 7th Street, S.W Washington, DC 20590 Dear Mr. Secretary: We write to express our grave concern about the recent conduct of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in lobbying Congress for the

The FBI has arrested three men in connection with a plot to smuggle a surface to air missile into the United States. You do understand what a successful strike with a surface-to-air missile would do, don't you? Not only would it kill the 100+ people who happened to be on the targeted airliner, it...

Air Safety should not go to the lowest bidder. Please contact your representative and tell them Air Safety is not for sell. For all of you who fly, remember, it is important enough that your luggage be screened by federal employees. But apparently NOT important enough that the people who inspect...

Roger that. I took your advice and cross posted. "dlevy" wrote in message ... Shouldn't you have cross posted this to more groups? How about rec.aviation.homebuilt? How about rec.aviation.ifr? "plumbus bobbus" ...

Hi everyone.! This is my first time on this site I would like to tell what I really like this project "Aviation Usenet Newsgroups" I've been reading it for a while, and I have learned so much here So, I decided to try my luck asking a few questions... How can you IM, PM or whatever you call it...