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How does the military's use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle intend to comply with the Part 91 See-And-Avoid mandate? Will there be new Restricted Areas imposed along the border, or will the UAVs be flown in Positive Control...

Why does the shuttle throttle to 3 Gs on ascent? Danny Deger

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...

I got an email response from the guys at Rocket Engineering about their PT6A conversion of a P-Baron. He mentioned they're finishing STC work for their turbine Duke conversion and I wondered which airplane might make the better platform for conversion. Their preliminary numbers for the -21 engined...

We should be cautious about posting anything on these news groups. There is no way of convincing the mentally ill that airplanes are not a threat to them, so arguing with them is futile. At worst, somebody in these groups could find out about the rec.aviation news groups. This is a serious...

ATC says "radar contact, 20 miles south of XYZ, proceed on course". Do you acknowledge this transmission? How about when ATC says "altimeter setting 2992" on your first contact after a handoff? Does this require acknowledgement? In the past, I've acknowledged such things if the controller was...

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...

I was pre-flighting my plane today until I saw this long red strip running down the entire length of my prop with a small puddle at the bottom!!! I hadn't seen it before. It was the first time flying in three weeks. I was at the plane last week, and didn't see anything, but the again, I wasn't...

This got me thinking, a rudderless Ercoupe in a multi-directional wind landing...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2NJFrvYls Do you (I) really want a home that close to a GA landing strip? Yet I see megabuck homes in my neck of the woods http://www.visualtour.com/shownp.asp?prt=85&t=1217861

What regulations determine the absolute lowest altitude you can fly above the ground in the U.S.? I understand that the area just above the ground is usually Class G outside airports, and it only goes up to 700 or 1200 feet most of the time ... which implies that you can actually fly at 500 feet...

Hi all, going for my medical soon and was wondering if I will be subject to a drug-screen urinalysis as well as other urine tests. I've tried looking for the info but could not find it. thanks, Jon

Recently I was departing a small airport (with no control tower) which was underneath the class C shelf area of a somewhat larger airport (which is an air force base). Immediately before departing, I called the approach controller for the class C airspace and told him that I was departing and...

With Avgas topping five bucks a gallon, I find myself asking: How much more will it take before GA is completely unaffordable? At what price point will all the current "weekend pilots" be driven from the market? Example: While on our trip back from Florida a couple of weeks ago, we paid $5.20...

In another thread, we have been hashing out whether some pilots in training quit flying because of a hair-raising event, such as a brush with disaster, or getting lost. Few ex-students seem to admit that this was a reason for quitting, but the drop-out rate seems to be far higher than it should...

Everywhere, every day on the radio, television, and in the newspapers, all I hear is how the "Record Price of Oil" is killing America. Yet, strangely, Americans keep driving *more*. And I don't see anyone flying less. How can this be? Here are some encouraging stats from the current issue of...

I took my daughter to Linden Airport (that's in New Jersey). We stood with a small crowd at the fence on the shopping mall side as planes took off and landed. (This is where I got my interest in flying many years ago.) Presently a mall security truck drove up and the guard told us to disperse...

For those who think ethanol is a fuel that can't be made to work in aircraft, I present the following: http://makeashorterlink.com/?E6EB52F8D and http://makeashorterlink.com/?N40C13F8D These folks, photographed by me at OSH '06, are burning ethanol in

Hi all, While I was on my way home this evening from Flying Traffic survey. I was nearly run over by a Baron driver coming out of Stafford Airport (RMN) on his way to Frederick (FDK). He called Potomac approach saying level 3200. I was cruising at 3000 between Stafford, Virginia near Quantico...

While making a turn to base and final recently, I was aware that I was going to be wide with my normal turn from downwind through base to final, so I banked more to keep as close to the runway centerline as possible. I kept thinking about the infamous and usually fatal stall/ spin by some pilots...