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Feb. 24 - The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association on Tuesday provided initial support to four Massachusetts pilots - all AOPA members - facing a lawsuit filed by a few residents. The suit alleges that the noise signature from the aerobatics performed by the pilots caused significant harm; they...

Folks, I am posting this on behalf of my friend, a chief pilot of an airline working for JMC ( http://www.jmc.nu ) peacekeeping force in Sudan. They operate a gamut of russian aircraft and require US-made VHF radios, antennas and intercoms for them. Since Sudan is on the US Dept. of State list of...

From: Geoff Peck ) Subject: CHARTER: rec.aviation.piloting Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting Date: 2002-01-13 00:45:07 PST The charter of rec.aviation.piloting is: ******************************************************************* * Information pertinent to pilots of general...

NTSB reports, where the FAA were the investigators, are notorious for their inaccuracies. The NTSB change the original facts quite often. The FAA inspectors are just as frustrated as you are when they point out the incorrect facts and the NTSB refuses to correct them. This is probably why NTSB...

Changed sparkplugs in July 2001, Fly 200 hours a year. At the last 100 hour inspection my AP had to clean the plugs and regapp them. What is the life of a sparkplug in a 360 Lycoming? Would ask my AP but he is out of town until the middle of July. My annual is due in july and I would like to have...

While searching the web for something else, I ran across "The Idiot's Guide to Flying and Gliding" One of the teasers on the cover read, "Exciting stories of daredevil pilots and their most amazing exploits". This really is an idiot's guide. Another interesting cover note was "No matter what it...

Wings For Christ, an aviation ministry in Waco, TX is selling our 1959 Cessna 175 so we can move up to a larger aircraft to meet our mission transport needs. You can see the aircraft at www.wings-for-christ.org. Please contact me if you're interested. If you or your company would like to help our...

For those of you who were following along previously... My funny noise was there again last Saturday when I was flying. So I took the plane to my mechanic today to have them take a closer look. Interestingly, it turned out that there were at least two possible explanations, as there were two...

Hey guys/gals, I'm trying to get a photo gallery going. If anyone is interested in posting some pics feel free. http://tinyurl.com/3dqhk Thank you

IFR-Student i'm looking for a good IR-Trainer, based on a Microsoft System. ...any experience about these trainers ?

Everyone... July 10 is the annual EAA Chapter 1333 Young Eagles Day and Fly-In at Central Jersey Regional Airport (47N)... There will be vintage aircraft and cars on display, food and lots more... Kids between 7 and 17 get free airplane rides from 10 AM until 4 PM... The picnic starts at...

Can somebody please explain to me the technique to measure your plane's true airspeed by flying in 3 or 4 different directions for a while and recording GPS ground speed ? Do you just fly the same amount of time each leg and average the groundspeed readings ?

I'm planning on flying a 172 RG from San Diego to OSH for the big show at the end of July. Any thoughts from others that have made the trip? I'm IFR rated, but with the summer time T-Storms the trip is probably the same IFR or VFR. Paul

Hi, just one question. It's not clear from what I found - is KDR-510 just a VDL Mode 2 RECEIVER?! For more than $5000 that's not much of functionality. Anyone has service/installation manual? I'd like to have a look. Just digging through ATN and VDL2,3,4 specifications :-) If it's just a...

Things that make you go 'hmm'. The accepted wisdom is that aviation engines are tough, because they can be run at full rated power for hours on end, and auto engines are fragile, and must not be thrashed or they won't last very long. It was even mentioned in a thread in the last couple of weeks -...

This was spotted at the National Cherokee Fly-In last weekend: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photogallery/CPA/Small%20Non-standard%20landing%20light%20on%20Cherokee!%206-04.jpg There's a matching one on the other strut, too. How's it possible that this light is legal? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA

When the Montgomery-Ward 8-band radio I've had since I was a kid finally gave up the ghost last month, we were left without Unicom playing in our hotel lobby. Since we are an aviation-theme, fly-in hotel, this was unacceptable -- we quite often listen for fly-in guests, so we can have the courtesy...

Quonset State (RI) airport (OQU) has class D airspace and is just south of Providence (PVD), which has class C airspace. The northern arc of the Class D airspace isn't charted with a dashed blue line, so the best I can do is assume that this boundary is coexistent with the Class C surface area. ...

Sunday, July 25th, is our day to give back to the pilot community, in thanks for another great year! Fly into Iowa City (KIOW) en route to OSH '04, and enjoy: - Free food! - Free (real) beer! - Free pop! - Live music at poolside!