There was some discussion a while back about a Minnesota man who was restoring a wrecked Corsair and the U.S. Navy's heavy-handed attempt to sue him for the return of the airplane and reimbursement for any "damage" he did to it. A happy ending may be forthcoming, as an NC Congressman has...

Spectacular severe clear weather, most of my co-workers have already cleared out for the holidays, and I'm at work looking out the window at the blue skies and limp flag in front of my building. Humbug.

When I fly with my GPS396, I usually don't put in a flight plan or any direct-tos; I use the panel mounted KLN94 for that. I use the 396 just for weather, terrain, and additional situational awareness. I had never heard the spurious terrain warnings near airports that Dave Butler reported in...

I will be in Southhampton on business in June with a couple of free days, one thing I like to do when that happens is rent a plane and instructor at a local FBO for sightseeing flight. I've been able to find those types of resources easily in the U.S. with airnav.com. Is there a similar resoruce...

While in Johannesburg on a business trip I had free time over the weekend so I found a local GA operator and went flying. I flew with http://www.skyafrica.com out of Brakpan-Benoni airfield (in the shadow of Joburg International) If you're ever in this part of the world, I highly recommend it. I...

On May 23, 3:07 pm, doflier wrote: 1. Reading the yard-sale-acquired novel, "Flight of the Intruder" (Stephen Coonts) and I was wondering if anyone knows a good novel which is similarly specific as to what is happening in the cockpit as the first three chapters, at...

On May 23, 3:07 pm, doflier wrote: 1. Reading the yard-sale-acquired novel, "Flight of the Intruder" (Stephen Coonts) and I was wondering if anyone knows a good novel which is similarly specific as to what is happening in the cockpit as the first three chapters, at...

On May 28, 5:57 pm, john smith I am not a part-owner in either of the two clubs of which I am a member. I simply rent the aircraft. All of the aircraft are lease-backs in one club and the club is incorporated and the corporation owns the other. There are nine airplanes...

On Apr 4, 8:51*pm, "Mike" nospam @ aol.com wrote: 5) You may wish to opt for a wet rate instead of a dry rate. *There's nothing worse than going out to the plane and finding it low on fuel, then having to track down who flew it last. *It WILL happen. *Some members will also routinely...

You do have to give it to Thomas for coming on here and debating this stuff. Of course in some ways he is blind to how he is perceived, as is everyone probably. His response, which is basically, "if you haven't bought from me you have no standing to evaluate me" shows that he does not see the...

My GPSMAP396 came with a coupon for a free Jepp update, but it must be used within 90 days of purchase date (which I will assume will be the ship date of 8/23). I want to optimize this to get the most recent data I can within the 90 days. When will be the last Jepp data update before November...

Been scanning airplane ads for a while and just recently started looking some of them up using AOPA's Vref service for members. According to that, most of the airplanes I see advertised are way overpriced, some by significant margins. Are the AOPA Vref prices too low? Or do people have...

I miscalculated my health benefits. I expected to have to pay cash for my medical and for some diagnostic tests that I needed to have to get the medical, but my HMO ended up picking up all of it. So I have a signficant surplus in my healthcare flexible spending account that I must spend by the end...

"We're not firing anybody," said Jones, a consultant whose firm, MD Strum Housing Services in Indianapolis, was hired to clean up the troubled agency. "This is a reduction in force that required some people to lose their jobs." (from: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2350628p-8728507c.html)

If an engine has been overhauled 3 times, never making TBO either time (not even making it to 1/2 of TBO 2 of the times), should I be concerned that it might be a lemon, or if the current overhaul was done right and the engine has been treated right since then, should I not worry about how it did...

Fire up AOPA flight planner or any other flight planning software and plot a direct route, S37-LBT. The result reinforces my earlier speculation that someone at S37 just did "direct-to LBT" on a handheld (probably non-aviation) GPS and was simply flying that line. If so, dumb. Actually I can't...

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I ordered my GPS396 from Sporty's on July 20th. Yesterday I got a letter from them telling me the projected ship date is August 31st.

Don't know if he's still here, he bought one of these last year and chronicled it for us. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1352-full.html#200157 Bummer. Sorry to hear about this, man.