Hi - Can someone share some personal experiences of flying small airplanes with a yaw damper? In particular, does the slipping crosswind landing technique require the yaw damper to be shut off on final? Does it significantly aid passenger comfort? When installed in a light twin, does it mask...

Well it's been a week since Charley took out my internet cable line, but I'm back online today. The damage that Charley did to the planes across the street at Orlando Executive is indeed sad to see. Many of the hangars have also received quite a bit of damage, one even looks like a bomb went off...

My poor cousin Ian lost his job... but it looks like fun! http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/02/27/fly.by.firing.ap/index.html

Anyone know the official requirement for all those yellow tags that are bulging out of the airframe log book? Do they need to be saved? THX

Maybe they can combine both this week's events and turn them into a Lifetime movie or movie of the week or something. The pics are LOL ... wonder how they're going to top this. American 777 loses door at D/FW Fort Worth Star-Telegram June 16, 2010

In-flight video of my trip to KEKY to help reduce the turkey population by one. Very pretty ride above the undercast. Something always magical to watching the sun rise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aroOqkDU9k

Yesterday's instrument approach workout and it was a mental workout! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChXbsb-gUc ILS approaches over at HKS Hawkins Jackson MS and VOR Alpha back to Madison. True workout which I only made it on top of the overcast for a blissful 30 seconds and the entire flight...

is sometimes called operations research. I personally rank Norbert Wiener above Albert Einstein. Operations research is a difficult discipline --- I certainly don't understand it --- but when it was desperately needed during World War II, the U.S. Dept. of War went for it gung-ho, rightfully....

Yesterday's VFR round robin trip to KRNV Cleveland MS, KJAN Jackson MS and KMBO full stops at each airport. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ibUcF5MUrk Severe clear and rock solid glass smooth air. So smooth, one would have thought the DG video'd during the climb was broke.:-) Quite fascinating...

Here's the link but you might be redirected to the front page. http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=20088 Here's the pic. http://www.rep-am.com/frontpix/a1pix.jpg Here's the story: Pilot walks away from Southbury plane crash

from today's AvWeb... A Bad Week For Ex-Boeing CEO ... But With A Couple Million For Solace Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher has been booted from the company for breaking its code of conduct by having an affair with a female executive at the company ... but he still is parachuting away with more than...

FOUR KILLED IN MINNESOTA SR22 CRASH (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1006-full.html#196677) A Cirrus SR22 was on its second try to land at the Faribault airport in southern Minnesota on Sunday afternoon when it flipped over and burst into flames by the side of the...

Runaway truck smashes into home, burns By Scott J. Croteau and Taryn Plumb TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF WORCESTER - The driver of a 10-wheel dump truck lost control on gravel-covered Forbes Street yesterday, and the truck hit a Jeep on Lincoln Street, then barreled over an embankment and slammed into...

Woke up this morning (5/25/05) to hear this on WPLJ in NY (in reference to the ADIZ incursion a couple weeks ago)... - Rumsfeld had ordered the plane to be shot down, and they were literally seconds away from doing so... - The "CFI" had his "license" revoked... - The "student pilot" would not be...

Is bone marrow donation disqualifying? I can't imagine it would be, but you never know....

From the New York Daily News: A pilot was killed yesterday when his twin-engine airplane crashed in the middle of the Village of East Hampton, terrifying movie stars and fans mobbing an annual film festival. The Cessna 411 aircraft plummeted out of the clear eastern Long Island sky at 1:44 p.m....

Pilot A: owns a plane and does aerial photography for a business, but does not have a current medical or BFR. Pilot B (me): current private pilot w/medical. Can I legally fly Pilot A's plane on an aerial photography flight (with him in the right seat) if I pay half the expenses, which in this...

It seems AOL has initiated some sort of an anti-Spam blocker that no longer accepts group emails. Of course, the unintended downside is that AOL users in our "Friends of Iowa City Airport" mailing list can no longer receive email updates -- unless I'm willing and able to send each of them their...

I've really enjoyed reading student solo and checkride posts here, so I'd like to give back by sharing my student pilot journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/clumpinglitter/ Enjoy.

When I went to renew my medical last week, I realized that I had just introduced a discrepancy in the system: I always bring along copies of the previous years 8500-8 forms to avoid introducing inadvertently unwanted discrepancies -- administrations hate discrepancies. This time however, ...