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

Instead of clogging up the newsgroups, I've started a personal aviation weblog, "Land and Hold Short". You can visit it here in a browser http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/ The best option, though, is to use the RSS to get a live feed in your...

Our club is considering installing an electric AI as a backup after a vacuum gyro failure not involving the suction system. We have three cherokees and are looking at three alternatives (we'd like the same one in all the...

I'm looking for suggestions for a school to do an IFR finish-up course in December or January. I live in Massachusetts and while I don't mind flying actual IFR there's entirely too much ice in the clouds around here that time of year. A break from the winter chill wouldn't be bad, either. Dave...

In 1837, Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen, wrote a wonderful fairy tale which he titled The Emperor's New Clothes. It may be the very first example of the power of political correctness. It is the story of the Ruler of a distant land who was so enamored of his appearance (FAA MANAGEMENT)...

Hello group, I got my Instrument Rating 35 years ago, and have never been legally current since 6 months after that date. It was the hardest rating I ever got, even harder than CFI for airplanes or gliders. Probably the difficulty and disuse result from the same source: I'm just a...

Our politicians just wanted to blow us some sunshine. Get the details from The Expert: http://www.ExpertHumor.com/

Like Cecil, I'm finishing up my IFR rating soon. That has me wondering what's next. I don't have any desire or time to become a CFI, and I have no intention of becoming a commercial pilot in any sense of the word. I've thought that I might like to take a few lessons in a taildragger, but I'd need...

With all of the new EFIS(Electronic flight Instrumentation Systems), has anyone seen one that stores the flight path for replay? It looks like all of the information is there, and this would be a tremendous help in instrument instructing, or even "pattern review". If downloaded to a simulator on a...

Today I learned a lesson about practicing IFR flight. I was practicing with another member of our flying club who is a private pilot, but not instrument rated, coming back from Rogers, AR to Fort Smith after a pancake breakfast fly-in. Fort Smith was landing 7. My safety pilot wanted to fly just...

Late evening stop of the DC10 N-601-GC from Gemini Air Cargo at Luxembourg. Pictures of this event on http://decker.antoine.free.fr

Flew my 172M today and experienced some truly bizarre GPS behavior. On preflight my portable GPS (Garmin 296), with external antenna and aircraft power securely attached, initialized just fine, acquired several satellites and went right into NAV mode. After runup and right before takeoff, it...

Anyone know why New Kent, VA's VOR approach is NA at night? And does this prohibition apply to part 91 operators? http://www.myairplane.com/databases/approach/NorthEast/W96_vA.pdf -- remove underscores to email

Does anybody know of any airports in the New York City area with a GCO installed? This is the new(ish) "4 click for ATC, 6 clicks for FSS" gizmo. It seems like something I should expose my students to.

What is required to get an 'N' number for a foreign (to the US) registered plane? Does sit matter where the plane is currently registered? Does the plane have to be in the US currently? Thanks, Harvey

Hi Everybody, I just moved to AVL and looking to get into some freelance instructing. But of course I need access to an airplane, so if anybody knows of one that I could instruct in, I would really appreciate hearing about it... Thanks, Jonah

Does a CFII have to be instrument current to give instrument instruction in VFR conditions? Just curious...and I don't have a set-O-regs handy at the moment otherwise I'd get off my lazy butt and look it up. Thanks... -John *You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or...

2 pilots, 1 student pilot, 2 cameras 1 plane = 9 minute video that I use the split screen feature of Windows Movie Maker where you can see on the left side outside the plane and the right side what the glide slope and ILS needles are doing. Pilot got his instrument ticket last month and this was...

Flew my first GPS approaches this morning... Wow!!! Easy and precise! I was flying a 1997 C182S with King KLN 94 GPS and UPSAT MX 20 moving map display. The moving map has a lot of lag during a turn, but fly the OBS and you go right where you are supposed to.

I'm an instrument student looking for another pilot to fly with to allow me to log sim instrument time. You could be another instrument student or possibly just someone looking to build XC time. I own a '79 Cessna 152 based at MWC (Timmerman) and I will charge my co-pilot nothing more than 1/2...