I'm prejudiced. Of course I'm prejudiced. In 5000+ flight hours, I've never come as close to a midair as I did at Oshkosh 1999. Oshkosh Tower: "BlueOnBlue Cessna, number three for runway 27. Ercoupe put it on the numbers. Flight of three T6s, cross over runway 27, right downwind for runway...

Here's a message posted to my blog from the brave Mr "Anonymous": "YOU are the same Dan from Usenet who has the audacity to claim hoew ****ing wonderful of a pilot you are when you don't have your CFI or a plane that is worth a ****?" "Grow the **** up, McCormack. Google GrouperLooser."

So we've been flying our new "Penguin" -- our brand-new 2-place simulator -- during Movie Night at the Inn (see it he http://www.alexisparkinn.com/flight_simulator.htm ), and last night we started "flying" the G1000-equipped Mooney for the first time. No one in the room (and there was...

Another great OSH. The number and quality of the exhibits seems to improve each year. I especially like the Miller Welding trailer. My girlfriend even got to play with the plasma cutter, and she liked it (maybe helping me justify a future purchase ;-)... We met the MotoArt guys (from the now...

My wife and I drove down from our home in Appleton to Oshkosh today (Sunday the 23rd) for a few hours to watch arrivals. We saw the first Cessna 172 land and we were at AeroShell Square to see them pull it onto the display ramp. Way cool! On my scanner we heard some guy in a Cessna 180...

So I was at our airport commission meeting tonight when the tornado sirens went off. We had noticed the skies becoming black, but were all too wrapped up in talk of paving taxiways to pay much heed. The meeting abruptly adjourned with the sirens, and everyone tried to find the long-rumored...

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Today I flew into KBFI (Boeing field) which is class D and has extentions that underlie the Class B that require close attention to altitudes and headings so as to stay clear. Today the winds were favoring 31L (and 31R) and I came in from the west on the Vashon approach--the most common approach...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, here we go, guys. It's tomorrow, streamed live on Airbus' website. ZDF (Zweite Deutsche Fernsehen, Ch. 2, Germany) and CNN International are going to be covering it as well. Starts tomorrow at 10am GMT (2am PST). Agenda as follows (times are...

I understand that one normally turns on beacons or anticollision lights whenever an aircraft's engines are running. Is this a regulation, or just a polite custom? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

wrote in : On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:54:23 -0500, "Scott M. Kozel" wrote: wrote: "Scott M. Kozel" wrote: what the ditching button does ... it may...

Belle wrote: Hi all! Does anybody out there know the 14 yr old boy or his parents from Rainsville Ala who managed to get a small plane up into the air last night? I would really like to interview him or his parents. Please help if you can. Thanks for everything. Linda

This time it's Vlado Lenoch gracing the pages of our rec.aviation photo gallery, colloquially known in these parts as the "Rogue's Gallery"... Check out his fabulous 1944 P-51D Mustang, "Moonbeam McSwine," at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rec_aviation.htm . (Navigate to the "L"s to find Vlado's...

My voting decision was influenced in large part on which candidates supported GA. I called each candidate's office and asked for their views on GA and ATC privatization. I was wondering what people think about how GA will be affected by the new government, on things like ATC privatization, user...

CESSNA TO OFFER DIESEL SKYHAWK (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/971-full.html#196294) Cessna will offer the 172S Skyhawk with a Thielert turbo diesel engine with deliveries to start in mid-2008. In an announcement at AOPA Expo in Hartford, Conn., Cessna officials said the decision...

Today, for the first time in weeks, dawned clear, cool, and calm. After a VERY early spring (with temps in the 80s for over a week), we have experienced extremely high winds and record COLD temps. In fact, we broke the record here on both Sunday and Monday... (Take THAT all you "global warming"...

Is it better to use just the rudder or differential braking to turn on taxiways? I understand that steering mechanisms vary considerably from one aircraft to another, but I'm still curious. In this case, I'm wondering about a Baron 58, the aircraft I fly in my sim (most of the time). I note when...

This weekend I was flying down to Ocean City NJ.... I was second in pattern when someone came on the radio calling to the pilot on final approach. Pilot on final, Pilot on final....you have the wrong freq. We were flying, and didn't reply. He came on again, Pilot on Final you have the wrong...

Howdy. I was discussing with a friend of mine my concerns about flying single-engine planes at night or in hard IFR, due to the possibility of engine failure. My buddy is a CFI/CFII/ATP as well as an A&P, about 3500 hours, and been around airplanes for a long time, so I tend to give credence to his...

I made another flight to KFTG this afternoon and periodically checked the GPS receiver provided altitude versus my aircraft altimeter. GPS was within 40' every time I checked (closer at times). I need to check my last altimeter check to see if it has any errors but it is certainly within...