x-no-archive: yes If you own a Garmin iQue 3600a (not the plain 3600) or a Lowrance 2000c, I'd like to hear your opinion and comments on these units... good, bad or neutral. email me at

Hi, I'm a new private pilot and new to this group. I have a question regarding FF. I plan to fly a direct route which will transit class c airspace. If I call "center" and request FF, will they coordinate my flight through class c, or will they hand me off to class c controllers until I'm clear of...

"This engineering was in a museum Aircraft technicians in Moscow earlier. But when a museum have closed, engineering have put on a separate platform open-air and it became nobody necessary." Nevermind the broken English. Photos of what's apparently a place near Moscow for abandoned Soviet...

Hey everybody, I'm a volunteer with the World University Project (WUP) and I've been tasked with finding information regarding flight services provided for free to non-profit and non-governmental organizations, including charity flights, donated flights, travel credit systems (e.g., the...

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/06/09/Communication_failure_Police_hampered_on_latest_laser_attack

The Vintage Flying Museum at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas, (http://www.vintageflyingmuseum.org) an IRS-approved non-profit organization, is looking for five vacuum tubes to complete its static display of a B-17 WW2 bomber "SCR-287-A liason radio station" setup. They have already received...

A bill has wound its way through the NY State assembly and senate which would require fingerprinting and criminal background checks for all student pilots. If you live in NY State, please write or call Gov Pataki urging him to veto this bill. More information...

Hello, Has there ever been an actual rocket or jet prototype ever developed that uses atomic Hydrogen? This is not necessairily a fuel cell, but there is a lot of talk on how this could be 5 times as powerfull as a conventional jet or rocket, & it seems fairly easy to produce, so has this actually...

My engine analyzed is telling me that the spark plug on the #6 cylinder, left mag is fouled. I have a new plug, but can't tell which cylinder #6 is and whether it's the plug on the top or the bottom.... Can anyone tell me which plug it is...? Thanks much, Anthony

Hey everyone, if you want to contribute to a great memorial, and get a tax deduction, please consider the Jimmy Franklin Heart Memorial. Anyone who has ever seen Jimmy perform at an airshow knows what type of entertainer and pilot he was (I think he should have been an astronaut). So if you've...

What a day! Today I made my first cross country as a licensed private pilot. I just took my checkride last Wednesday. My wife and I had been planning on flying to Myrtle Beach since well before I received my license. She had never been in a small plane and really doesn't like flying anyway. ...

The FAA has just issued an emergency AD that appears to ground _all_ Beech T-34 aircraft, all models, until further notice, after confirming that the Texas Air Aces T-34 that went down a few days ago suffered a wing separation. It only allows a few hours of flight under very strict restrictions to...

Hi. My name is Steve Davies, I am a writer. I am currently working on a story about weather modification in the Sahara desert. A pilot in a weather modification lands in a Sahelian village to refuel. The story is about villagers' different attitudes to what he is doing. I am appealing to you...

With the demise of 80/87 avgas, I bought a gallon of TCP and will start adding that to the 100LL that I must now buy. However, scouting around the internet I found something that claims to be similar in function but safer: decalin. Here's a blurb from Aircraft Spruce. My questions are, has...

I took a long road trip over the weekend. At one point, I was driving north on US-52 just turning onto I-74 near Mt Airy in north-central North Carolina. As I made the turn, a very low flying airplane passed over the freeway. It had one engine stopped and the prop feathered. I think it was a...

I needed a break this morning so I whipped up a trivial little script to create a sectional image from GPS data. https://aviationtoolbox.org/Members/kyler/tools/trip_plot It just barely works but it takes NMEA $GPRMC sentences and generates a JPEG. I noticed that there are people who like to...

Hey, I live in San Diego, and I am planning to spend a weekend spotting some planes and taking insane amounts of pictures at one of the big moth-ball sites. I have called both Victorville and Mojave airports, and they didnt really want to help me. What to do? Stand around the fences? Does anyone...

I plan on going to Oshkosh again this year. I enjoy getting there a couple of days early and sit near the flight line and watch all the planes arrive. I think it would be more enjoyable if I had a scanner to listen to air traffic control. Could someone recommend an inexpensive scanner for this...

"I Want To FLY!"-(Youth) My store to raise funds for flying lessons http://www.cafeshops.com/IWantToFly Hi! My name is Trace. I am 13 years old and LOVE to fly planes and gliders. I have a deal with my parents to split the cost of my flying lessons. My dad helped me start my "I want To FLY!"...

Hi folks. A question, if I may. In the film "S.W.A.T.", a commandeered Learjet is descending for a landing on a bridge. The pilot or copilot is going through checklists and he says, "Go to 'forty percent flaps.' " I'm a private pilot, and I use DEGREES of flaps (10, 20, or 30 -- and once, in a...