Ok, I did it today, first time ever, after ferrying my newly purchased 152 home. I realized about an hour after landing that I'd forgotten. I called the FSS and they'd informed me that they'd called the tower who had confirmed my landing and thus the plan had been closed. I felt like a complete...

The weather was a huge question mark for pretty much the entire flight home. My plan A of course was to fly back the next day (Tuesday, the 30th). Plan B was to fly home commercially, leaving the airplane for about a month until weather is more stable and I had less expected schedule...

This note is about Vbr (speed for best range) and Vbe (speed for best endurance) - as well as specific range SR (nm per pound of fuel) and specific endurance SE (hr per pound of fuel) themselves - and how these quantities depend on (fixed pitch propeller) airplane gross weight W and (density)...

I'm fairly new to GA after a 19 year break flying jets. I routinely fly a single engine experimental with a constant speed prop mounted on a Lycoming IO-360. 2 QUESTIONS: 1. What's the proper setup to simulate the way the plane would glide in case of an engine failure? I'm looking for pitch...

Does anyone know of any videos that provide overviews of airports--kind of an "AFD on video" type of thing? Anything that's broken down by region? Thanks.

A typical power chart for a constant speed prop will limit the RPM to 2400 at all altitudes and power settings. The 75% power table will just end when it is no longer possible to make enough manifold pressure to get 75% HP out of the engine at 2400 RPM. In contrast, a fixed pitch prop will turn...

There was a car commercial on not too long ago for lexus or infiniti or mazda or something (I was only paying attention to the plane) that had a twin engine plane flying low overhead. I think it was a beechcraft. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Why can't I find .mpg's of TV commercials...

Thanks to everyone for their detailed and frank responses. You confirmed that flying tops the 'expensive hobby' list. I knew it, I just couldn't face up to it. I can see that for recreational pilots, flying is all about the experience. It cannot be justified any other way financially except to a...

While the airlines consume 94% of annual aviation fuel sales*, it's my understanding that they are largely exempt fuel tax**. So who's right on the issue of ATC funding? ------------------------------------------------------------- AOPA ePilot Volume 6, Issue 11 March 12,...

I landed at BED a couple of days ago, and as I was rolling out the controllers switched, so I never got the usual instruction to "turn off at Golf, ground .7". Since Golf was the first taxiway to turn off on anyway, I made the turn off. Tower was now so busy (common at BED) that I could not get a...

Who violates the FAA Administrator? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Business AVflash Volume 2, Number 07 -- April 14, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- TSA WATCH I: FAA'S FOOT-DRAGGING This issue's TSA Watch feature...

Men are too dumb to fly, they will think of their penises all the time and crash into mountains.Women are far more skilled and not driven by small "joysticks".

The following are questions about the reality in going from no flying experience to being qualified to fly my family away on weekends. Please indicate if this is the wrong newsgroup for these questions. The weekend drive from my home in Grosse Pointe, MI to Lake Ann, MI is 230 statute miles, about...

It's time again to tell Highflyer we're coming and make the annual descent upon the flatland of southern Illinois. I'm going, of course. The opportunity to stand around in a hangar with a crowd of certified geniuses who dress like hoboes (attack of the bright shirts!), drink beer, laugh a lot and...

Is anyone in this group interested in or experimenting with Lean of Peak operation? I'm especially interested in the experience of anyone doing it with a fixed pitch carb engine with single EGT and CHT probes. -- Roger Long

Hello, do anyone know where can I find an audio training for Private Pilot Certif. ? Thanks

Hi all, I just recently got my Instrument rating (still waiting for that shiny new plastic ID :)), and was thinking about purchasing a low-end ANR headset(sub-$300). I was thinking about either the Marv Golden MG-ANR's or the DRE-6000's. I was looking through the newsgroups, and couldn't really...

Sure the chute worked as advertised. Great. What irks me is how and why the aircraft experienced all these instrument failures one right after another. If any of our Pipers/Cessnas/Beechcrafts had a propensity to experience near simultaneous failures of supposedly separate systems there would be...

I have noticed that American Champion offers three different panel "types" on the Super Decathlon: No gyro instruments. Vacuum gyro instruments. Electric gyro instruments. I have read that aerobatic work is extremely hard on vacuum gyro

Just found out President "W" is coming to Buffalo, NY next Tuesday 4/20. No further details yet. Now two questions: First, do presidential TFR's automatically include Canadian airspace? Bush may be visiting within a couple hundred yards of the Canadian boarder/airspace.