Years back I was doing FAR 91 corporate flying with a Merlin IIB out of SNA. I had a trip for my boss down to his house in Cabo San Lucas. There was one of many charity fishing tournaments happening that he participated in, and one of the guys asked him if he could add some color to this particular...

OK pilots, try this one on for size. As you likely know, there is a wide and growing rift between the career FAA bureaucrats (aka FAA Management) who run the monstrosity called the federal Air Traffic Organization, and the career FAA air traffic controllers who make that monstrosity work in the...

Does motion sickness fade away with experience? How many of you seasoned pilots had/still have serious issues with recurrent nausea? (Assuming of course an otherwise good health.)

My dad worked for 24 years at UAL-PDX. Laid him off in his 24th year, a year before he was eligible for full retirement. He was UAL-PDX employee of the year a couple of times, received all kinds of awards and bonuses...he received one award for not missing a day of work for something like...

Is it cheating/advisable/forbidden/useless to use the rudder alone to accomplish the very last seconds of runway alignment on landing? As I approach the landing point it becomes very difficult to turn in the usual way just to improve alignment. Using rudder alone can line me up perfectly right...

Anyone here ever landed in such a strong crosswind? Found this posted to another group. This is a great video of 747 and 777 doing auto land certification crosswind landings, the 3rd and 4th shot are the best. It takes a minute to download and get through the credits but its worth it. ...

The other day I shot the VOR approach into SMO for the first time in low actual. I've often looked at that approach as one of the most difficult I've seen published so it was interesting to actually try it. The weather was 008OVC with something like 3sm HZ. I touched down about 3/4 down the runway...

In simulation, the simulated ATC seems to be very inefficient at spacing aircraft, because practically every fifth aircraft on landing is told to go around. In fact, if you are told to follow someone in for a landing, you can take for granted that he won't clear the runway in time and you'll be...

Dude writes: http://flash.aopa.org/asf/pilotstories/impossibleturn/?WT.mc_id=100205epilot&WT.mc_sect=sap I don't understand the point of the story. It's a really bad idea to do what he did. Even he admits it. So why is it being featured? It's only going to encourage other pilots to make the...

http://www.kgan.com/csArticles/articles/000055/005537.htm Amazing! This Cedar Rapids, Iowa TV station did a 2-part piece on learning to fly -- and did a wonderful job! The CFI in both segments, Tim Bush, is outstanding. He's a real pistol, locally, with a zillion ideas for growing GA, and...

What the heck happened? Fuel starvation? Doesn't sound like wind shear could have been an issue. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004130291_apbritainplane17.html

On Sep 22, 12:35*pm, wrote: Mark wrote: Electric cars can now go from 150 - 200 miles on a single charge. In you imagination. http://www.wlwt.com/r/17226175/detail.html Or in other words, they are looking for investor money and the...

Did anyone else catch the History Channel's "Modern Marvels: The F/A 22 Raptor" last night? What an amazing plane. The Air Force did a head-to-head combat exercise, one Raptor versus EIGHT F-15 Eagles. The Eagle pilots were all experienced combat pilots, all with time in the Raptor as well -- so...

So... just got an email from Sportys about the new Garmin GPSMAP 396. It looks pretty cool! A handheld with weather and terrain! Also interesting are the interface features to get TIS from a GTX330 and to be able to change channels on an SL30. This could make the 396 an interesting cheapie option...

I was flying out of VGT last month (North Las Vegas) heading back to SLC in an Aztec after a great round of Golf. After getting VFR clearance from ground to MMM (Mormon Mesa Vortac) which is ENE of Vegas. Cleared for takeoff and given a heading from the tower, then handed off to Nellis aproach. ...

We've had a company VISA card for many years. It has no annual fees, we never pay interest -- but we also don't "get" anything out of using it, either. In the past we've bumped up against the credit limit during the month, and the company (now called "Chase") has been very slow to increase the...

"Doug Vetter" wrote in message ... The SR20's limit of 12000 hours is still too limiting, IMHO, but I can appreciate the FAA's conservatism regarding any new (indeed revolutionary) design. I was told by a Diamond rep...

Hi Guys, My father and I were returning to Petaluma (O69), called in on the 45 to downwind and were just about to turn downwind when a flight of three experimentals called in that they were set up for their "overhead entry". They were flying above pattern altitude on the runway heading, proceeded...

Hi, Just returned from Oshkosh home to Pierre SD. I filled up at Dodge Center MN this AM and not being familiar with the self serve gas fillup, I did not hang up the pump handle properly. Somebody after me continued pumping another $150 on my credit card ($200 instead of about $50). My...

Usually winter is my favorite time of year to fly. The air is cold and crisp, the visibility is CAVU, and the landscape has its own stark beauty. Not this year. Mary and I have not flown in weeks -- not even the pattern -- a new record for us. The weather has simply been appalling, with...