Okay, I know security is important, but this reads like DHS or AOPA have been taken in by an April Fools prank. I mean, really, a terrorist who goes by the name of Hijaq? ------------------------------------------------------------------- AOPA ePilot Special Airspace Bulletin April...

http://www.greatlandlaser.com/faa2.htm Even as the news media envision powerful lasers blasting airliners out of the sky, pilots have been experimenting with using lasers to make flying safer. This rescue device was developed by an Alaskan pilot. It doesn't seem likely to blind anybody, but if I...

From an AP article today: "Officials said that the thousands of general aviation airports - which host recreational planes, business jets, helicopters and other kinds of noncommercial aircraft - must all have security measures that are equivalent to TSA mandates at commercial airports." It would...

The Air Force manual "Air Navigation" is on line he http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/11/afpam11-216/afpam11-216.pdf This manual answers several FAQ that have come up that even some instructors have no definitive answer for. Examples of things contained in this pamphlet a How to...

Apparently an immigrant smuggling operation. AP is reporting a Cessna was forced down Tuesday morning near San Antonio with four Chinese nationals on board. The plane, N98873, is supposedly owned by Afzal Hameed and Alyce S. Taylor. -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port...

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May God bless you and yours throughout the coming year. -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA Ne Obliviscaris

According to AOPA, many of the TFRs have been downgraded to NSAs with the release of the latest round of charts. This includes all the hated Puget Sound TFRs. NSAs are depicted on charts and pilots are advised to avoid them, but they are not prohibited unless the FAA issues a special notice during...

On Thursday, Dec. 23, the city of Lakewood announced that it would be closing the American Lake seaplane base effective Dec. 31, 2004 -- in just 9 days! No hearings or other public input were sought. The decision was made and announced by Deborah Johnson ). Her...

Went into work yesterday and found in the showroom a brand new Cessna T206 with the G1000 package. Wow. The new owner is said to be very excited. I wonder if he will let me have a few minutes with it? -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA

Surprised no one has commented on it before, but Dick Tracy has been running a series for two weeks now featuring an evil mayor who sends bulldozers out to tear up a runway without warning. -- Christopher J. Campbell World Famous Flight Instructor Port Orchard, WA

Yesterday a local aerial photographer came in just fuming. Apparently he was working within the Seattle Class B and called FSS to get an update. He had a squawk and was in touch with Approach, of course. Anyway, FSS told him that they could not find his flight plan and that he was required to have...

Mt. Saint Helens erupted again today; fairly large eruption. It has been spilling magma onto the surface at the rate of 10 cubic yards per second for over a week (that is one dump truck of new mountain per second). I was up with a multi-engine student in his Cessna 337P and took this picture which...

"Ash Wyllie" wrote in message ... -- I wonder how many modelers even know that NOTAMS even exist? What are they going to do: take your model airplane license away?

A Hell-USA Helicopter crashed at Princetown Thursday, killing the pilot and three passengers. Then yesterday a Smoky Mountain Tours helicopter crashed on Kauai. One person died of a heart attack, so the news media are saying that it was a fatal crash. There have been something like 8 helicopter...

That fact that it is extremely rare probably does not make anyone involved feel any better about it. There were four souls lost in the collision between a 152 and a 172. AP and CNN say one of them was in a car in the ground and the rest on board the planes. UPI says two of the victims were on...

http://www.break.com/index/birds-landing-on-ice.html -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor

Wonder Woman flies an invisible jet. Just how does that work? :-) http://www.Break.com/index/its-tough-fightin-crime.html -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor

Danged if my news reader didn't filter out my own spam! -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor