First off, I'm not directly involved in this situation, but I am trying to gain an understanding on how other FBOs and flying clubs deal with something like it. One of our club members was flying our 182 -- which the club leases from the two gentlemen who own it -- and had what appeared to be an...

Hello, I had a fun trip Friday 02-18-05 during the day I went from KVUO to KDLS to 63S "Colville Municipal Airport" 3.6 hours that drop off "cliff" at the end of 19 is very interesting. Well went to see a relative I hadn't seen for a long time was a fun day and ended back at my airplane about 7pm...

I know everyone hear remember Capt. Haynes. Capt. Haynes was the pilot of United flight 232 when the center engine suffered an uncontained failure and the DC-10 lost all of its hydraulic systems. Capt. Haynes landed the ship at Sioux City using differential power. His handling of the...

Hi, I was wondering what the acronym GUMPS stood on a landing checklist. Larry

Anthony will never admit he's wrong, even though he's asked some of the most naive and ignorant questions, ones that truly demonstrate his lack of knowledge and experience. For the real pilots and students, I suggest joining Pilots of America, a moderated group. It is what this NG used to be,...

Here's food for thought. The pilot chose to press on on three engines, and then had to land for refueling ~100 miles short of his transatlantic destination. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-britair1mar01,1,2497317.story March 1, 2005 By Eric Malnic and Hector Becerra, Times Staff Writers

We had a pilot and his wife with us at the hotel Sunday who was waiting for the wind to drop before departing for home. The winds were really howling here, gusting to over 30 knots, and they didn't want to do the "imitation popcorn popper" ride all the way home to Missouri. While they were...

I learned today that the TSA has a rule that prohibits a passenger from purchasing a new ticket on a flight departing in less than two hours if that passenger has no luggage... even if the airline of a connecting flight has lost your luggage.

Hi, I'm new to this group and new to piloting, just having passed my private pilot FAA written and about halfway through flight school. I'm training in a Cessna 172SP and have a question for the experienced pilots out there. Do you prefer flying a high wing or low wing aircraft and why?...I...

I caught most of it -- and it was fantastic! To hear a president actually promoting manned space travel, and laying out a plausible, doable plan to get our space program back on track, was a breath of fresh air on a bleak and dreary January day. Hell, maybe we'll set foot on Mars before I die...

TRUTH wrote: In reality, a clueless non-pilot would encounter almost insurmountable difficulties in attempting to navigate and fly a 200,000-lb airliner into a building located on the ground, 7 miles below and hundreds of miles away and out of sight, and in an unknown direction, while...

How much of the American boarder with Mexico is out of radar contact? There was some fuss about the FAA creating TFRs for the UAVs that are flying with boarder patrol along the Mexico. Why can't the UAV just fly along under an IFR flight plan and everyone else just avoid the little thing...

Out of fuel, out of hope: 'Help, I'm in the water' A 20-year-old from Springfield who had hoped to swim in the Olympics was flying a single-engine plane to his college in Wisconsin late Monday night when he ran out of fuel over Lake Michigan. at...

Can anybody point out a good bibliography or article that describes the differences in landing on a grass airstrip for the first time, tips and advices? Thanks

Scary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWDEIvjwaFU -- Dallas

Why is it everytime someone posts an accident, there are those who quickly make a decision or pronouncement that it was stupid, or the pilot was a moron, or, etc, etc, and never have a clue as to the real happenings? Why does it take well trained professional crash investigators to do a full...

We need to find or create a moderated list for the pilots who follow this group... I'm willing to even kick in a few bucks to make it happen... denny

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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: What happened to Jay? Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:50:09 GMT From: Mike nospam @ aol.com Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting,misc.kids.tantrums Followup-To: misc.kids.tantrums References: ...

Ok, it's the year 2016. You are in a little Cessna 150. You're plane isn't pressurized because it will implode, so you're wearing a pressurized body suit. You have an oxygen mask. You plane is powered by a very powerful brushless electric motor supplied by a 20lb carbon nanotube source that is...