Last night I flew from SJC to VNY. To my astonishment I was cleared vectors to SNS, then direct VNY (despite having filed a more standard routing) at 9000 feet. I knew perfectly well that the routing was going to change because I've done that route a zillion times, and indeed, near...

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complete beginner however have funds to get pilots training this course starts in september and i would like to know what to start on to study any suggestions thank you for being patient with a beginner kimmer

I've flown a lot of planes, of different sizes, and I always lift off gently. When I fly as a passenger on an airliner though, there is a "thud" or even a "bang" as the main wheels leave the runway. Sometimes this bang is so loud is frightens passengers, and once it was strong enough (on a 777...

Yesterday I flew a cessna 172 in the hard IFR. When I penetrated apparently a heavy cumulonimbus rain cloud area, the VSI and altimeter started to oscillate and bounce +/- 250 FPM (ALT oscilated 200~300 ft up and back). The rate of bounces was about 3 to 4 Hz (3 to 4 times per second). It lasted...

A few days ago I had a last minute change of destination and didn't check the database (KLN 89B) of the rental A/C for the approaches at Waterloo (CYKF) prior to departure. To my surprise, the db only had 1 approach (VOR) for the airport against the 4 published approaches (VOR, NDB, LOC(BC)...

This one is just funny: http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/13_2a/briefs/Stealing_From_Peter_To_Pay_Paul_194158-1.html Why is it funny? Because Tracy is, or was, the only airport I know that LOCKS and SHUTS DOWN their card activated fueling at night, making them practically useless for a fuel stop...

http://www.invensense.com/news/112806.html The short take on this: MEMS or micromechanical technology, basically integrated circuit technology used to make microscopic mechanical features, having been used to make $1 accelerometers, is now being used to make $1 gyroscopes, with a full internal...

Where online can I find a list of countries meeting the WGS-84 GPS standards? Preferably from an "authoritative" source, such as FAA, AOPA, ALPA, NASA, etc, and not from Cousin Vinnies online website thanks BILL

Ha! I bet you thought that this was going to be some porn spam. Well...perhaps not after the "Cold" bit grin. I'd a very nice "getting feet wet" flight today. I was in the clouds for roughly half the brief (two hour) (CDW-SWF-CDW) flight, I was in wet clouds watching the thermostat drop, and...

Great, I flunked my medical. Actually, this came close to happening 4 years ago. I tested bad on blood sugar (I don't know if that means too high or too low). Last time, I passed it after taking a new blood test after fasting. This time, the (12 hour) fast didn't help. Last time, I got advised to...

I was flying the ILS 06 approach on my plane equipt with an Aspen and Garmin 430. I had the Garmin set up for vectors to final, tuned properly, set on VLOC, station identified and was flying near the OM towards the FAF. Then I noticed the Aspen said "BC1", was reverse sensing, and showing no...

On our second leg home from Michigan to New York yesterday, I was the PIC and Rick took care of the communication. We filled the following route from KBQR Buffalo-Lancaster) to KPOU (Dutchess County Airport) BUF V14 BEEPS V34 HNK V167 SPECL Departing KBQR VFR, we picked up our clearance...

I roughly calculated that the weight of 1 in. of ice on all forward surfaces on my T182 (fixed gear) is about 250 lbs. Anyone cares to comment on this? Gerd (ATPL)

I once saw a website (I think it may have been a government website) that graphically displays the VORs that are used to describe to borders of areas described in airmets. Does anyone know the URL of this website? Thanks Evan

I want to help my worrywart wife with a subscription to one of those web-based IFR flight tracker services. Free would nice, but as far as I can tell, the free ones cover commercial flights and not GA. What's a decent one that is cheap that works with GA? I don't want to spend a meaningful amount...

There was a time (probably right before I passed my Instrumenr written) when I was pretty good at being able to read the shorthand used for weather conditions, FA's, and the like. There was also a time when using shorthand made sense - days of slow teletypes, limited memory, etc. But does it...

Do any of the new weather services like WXworx work on a wireless PDA like the Palm Tungsten or the Blackberries? How about plain old downloads from the net to these devices- is it usable or practical? I'm thinking about getting either a Tungsten or color Blackberry primarily for business email,...

I'm recently received my IFR ticket and flew in actual a couple weeks ago for only the 2nd time. I picked up some rime ice at 9000' in a calm stratus layer. Scared the &#&((*@# out of me! I promptly turned back for home. I just didn't feel like I got any real training for this in the IFR work....

off topic i know go to www.google.com type in Weapons of mass destruction and hit the "i'm feeling lucky" button read the error message.