What the hell.....why do we work at teaching stalls and recoveries? It has gone to stall recognition and avoidance which is good. Does it teach the proper things? How much of a new students time is spent flying in slow flight at the low end of the performance envelope? Isn't that where all the...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ Todays "Astronomy Picture Of The Day" - it changes daily so this moonscape is only on today Friday 12/14. Man, what a panorama! And it's not OT, as Frank Sinatra crooned, "Fly me to the moon".... Cheers'n beers.. )

"Some flights to the US could be grounded after the airline pilots' union called on its members not to fly with armed sky marshals on board." "Airline pilots should not take off with marshals on board, the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) has said." "Capt Granshaw defended pilots'...

Why is flying a multiengine aircraft a separate certification from the basic license (if I understand correctly)? What is so different about having more than one engine that justifies a separate certification? Apart from a few procedures for the failure of an engine, isn't everything else pretty...

Today we experienced a new first, when the tower controller at Jefferson City, Missouri decided to cut a Cessa 172 in front of me on a short right base, *after* clearing me to land on Rwy 30. Incredulous, I slowed as much as possible, and watched as the 172 (who was several hundred feet above us)...

All I have to say about user fees is that if they are implemented and I am going to be nickeled and dimed to death by a bureaucratic nightmare that adds overhead and significantly more per hour cost to an already expensive per hour rate for flying time, I am going to hang up my wings... Just...

Saw this question on "The Straight Dope" and I thought it was amusing. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060203.html The question goes like this: "An airplane on a runway sits on a conveyer belt that moves in the opposite direction at exactly the speed that the airplane is moving forward. Does...

Its been fun but I am leaving all usenet group's maby see you all at a fly-in or two over the years

Did anyone see the news about an AA (maybe 777) airplane declaring a fuel emergency in DFW, requesting a downwind landing to I think 17 Center, and being told no, had to circle to land on 31 R? I'm not exactly sure of those details, but it's close enough. It's that old deal, when a pilot makes a...

I've been a pilot for 12 years now. I've been married (this time) for 10. Three years ago, the DE who passed me on my private and instrument tickets died in a stupid accident. My wife had met him a few times at flying club dinners and around the airport. A few weeks ago, a club member who...

http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/09/11/airlines.scheduling/index.html "He blamed resistance from environmentalists for the government's failure to move more quickly toward a satellite-based technology that's been 10 years in the making. "'Residents that have homes that would be in that flight...

CNN's Web page has a video segment from The Situation Room that describes the serious problems with international pilots who cannot speak English well enough to communicate with air traffic control. They provide a recording of communications with Air China flight 981 in April in which the pilot...

http://fox40.trb.com/ In an amazing coincidence, a Sacramento TV station was at Cameron Park airport filming background for a story about the crash of a plane that had departed earlier in the day and caught a second crash on video. Go to the web site and click on "Cameron Park Plane Crash" on the...

What are the main things I have to give special consideration to when preparing to fly in very hot weather (43° C)?

Once again I will post below for anyone interested in serious aviation related discussion the following alternative web based newsgroups. I will repost this notice periodically. Many of the pilots who used to post here are now posting at the following forums. It's a slightly different format...

The following thread on the Van's Air Force web site was of general enough interest that I thought it worthwhile to bring it to the attention of other pilots: http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=24147 Would be quite useful if it really worked. Of course there would still be...

Is it safe/wise to fly a Cessna 172R from Telluride to Aspen? If so, what conditions or restrictions (if any) should be observed?

I fly from KLAX to KLAS, using the FMC to handle most of the flight. With the routing I put in, the FMC decides on some default altitudes and includes required altitudes for the arrival and departure procedures I select. Part of what it does is to create a descent schedule from the nominal cruise...

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

In September 2004 issue of AOPA Flight Training, Mark Cook has an article, "No Fueln' Around". Under the "Selector boy" side article, he mentions that he runs some of his tanks dry in his Bellanca Viking. In at least one of John Deakin's articles (http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182044-1.html),...