http://news.airwise.com/stories/2004/02/1077659102.html An assailant stabbed to death the air traffic controller who was on duty when two planes collided over southern Germany in July 2002, killing 71 people, Swiss police said on Tuesday. The 36-year old Danish national, whose name was...

PROPOSED AMENDMENT PLACES MAJOR RESTRICTIONS ON GA February 27, 2004 - EAA is encouraging its members to contact their congressional representatives to express their concern about a proposed amendment to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HR 3798) that would place additional restrictions on...

Saw an article today about an aircraft that would change it's buoyancy, so it would float up like a balloon and then change buoyancy and glide down. Interesting stuff, although I doubt we'll see it anytime soon. Is something like this even practical? The article says they take the aircraft up...

Hi there, i'm a German Private Pilot and i'm looking for aircraft charter possibilities at the Out Islands (Exuma, Eleuthera, Long Island, ..) of the Bahamas Isles. Does anybody of you guys have information about it ? What are beautiful sceneries to fly along or between the isles ? I already have...

There was a thread here about getting your Seaplane rating at Jack Brown's Seaplane school in Winter Haven, Florida and after checking out the website I am now hooked on the idea of getting the rating. I've come up with a small problem though... Where in Central Florida would a seaplane rated pilot...

After a few months off from flying, I went to some of my favorite aviation weather sites only to find that I couldn't get any METARs. Both AOPA and ADDS are returning "invalid identifiers" for well known airports like IAD and MSP. I've tried other airports with and without the leading K - no...

For some reason the Clearcoat on my Mooney is starting to bubble off and peal away. I otherwise have a good paint job that I believe was done around '95. Sadly, a hanger is not possible around here. Is it worth it to strip the Clearcoat off and have it reapplied (can that even be done)? Am I...

I've been going over the POH, remembering the various procedures and settings. But something I've taken for granted in the 172s I've been flying up until now is missing: power settings for the pattern. You know: 1800 RPM and 10 on the flaps for midfield downwind, 1500 and 85 kts and descending...

A while back, there was a thread regarding survival kits onboard our aircraft. I found an item I just added to mine, and I recommend it highly. It is a tiny, handcranked mini-generator designed to charge a cellphone. It also has an emergency light. It is VERY small . . . about 3 inches wide...

Yesterday, 29 Feb, Brazoria County Airport just south of Houston. Perp cut locks on 16 hangers . Only thing taken was a C-172 and two 6 pacs (Texas staff of life). T/O was about 06:30. Wx was a band of heavy haze and fog Airplane ran into high tension lines 3 miles from airport. Knocked power out...

Washington State Department of Transportation Aviation News Service March 3, 2004 Bad Weather Hampers Search for Missing Aircraft BREMERTON - Washington Air Search and Rescue and Civil Air Patrol volunteers continue in the search today for a missing 1948 Cessna 170 aircraft,

As most of you know, the "Rogue's Gallery" is a picture website created solely for the use of Rec.Aviation pilots. Here we can all post pictures of our beautiful aircraft, so that the rest of us can drool all over them! :-) Here are the February...

When stating the type of aircraft (Beech V35) to ATC, do I call it a "BE 35" or "Bravo Echo 35?" -- Peter

This is my gyro after the overhaul shop took two shots at it!! Click on "Mooney Gyro"

Since IR's for private pilots seems to be a hot topic lately, I thought I'd toss out this bit of trivia for all of you to gnaw on. I took a copy of the FAA database and ran some (admittedly naive) queries. Below you may peruse the results of a list of the number of US Private ASEL, Private IR,...

The worst airline disaster in Poland's history occurred today when a two-seater Cessna crashed into a cemetery early this afternoon. Rescue workers have so far uncovered 826 bodies and expect to find more as the digging continues.

Flying a spamcan at 1000-2000ft after scuba-diving is identical to diving in mountain lakes at these specific altitudes (well it's actually saver because diving in mountain lakes gets you to altidude immediatley after surfacing, in contrast to flying where some additional time is needed to remove...

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:18:05 GMT, "Jay Honeck" wrote: What is the aircraft that is most closely associated with the Viet Nam war? B-52, unfortunately. Don

check this out, a ATC was possibly killed by a relative in a plane crash http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=495147

Anyone have any good / high DPI pictures of clouds? Has been cloudy here in MI lately, and I am in search of a cloud picture/pictures but it has to be a high DPI (200+)