I've bought a lot of stuff on Ebay, but I've never sold before -- until now. After a friend received over $200 for his BROKEN transponder (he was bluntly honest in the ad, saying it was basically a "box of parts"), I decided to try selling the wind-up clock I just removed from my panel. It's not...

I have a Lightspeed 15XL ANR headset and I like it. It really cuts down on the noise. However, when I pulled it out to go flying a couple of weeks ago, I discivered that the headband was broken. I was depressed. I have had it for about 18 months and I figured I was going to be royally screwed...

There are two old Senecas at my airport with the Robertson STOL mod - full span flaps w/spoilers in place of conventional ailerons. I've seen one of them take off with a brutally short roll, and it went up as if on an escalator. My question is, how would one of these land in a stiff x-wind? Is the...

Last night on The Tonight Show, Cindy McCain mentioned that she would be doing a lot of flying as part of husband John McCain's 1982 Congressional campaign, so she attended flight ground school in an attempt to overcome her fear of flying. She said she then received flight training, and earned her...

I have had the opportunity to test out the new XMRadio Satellite Weather system (www.wxworx.com) enroute to Oshkosh... The unit is a demo unit which has been somewhat delayed from the initial planned production date of July 1 -- I am planning a Forums talk Wednesday 7/30 at Oshkosh on portable...

Which is more reliable? Which do you like better?

"OK, let¡¦s begin with the big one: what the hell is Iapetus!? Actually, it¡¦s easier to begin with what it¡¦s not: apparently, a natural untouched moon ¡K." "An entire spaceship world ¡K trapped in orbit ¡K around Saturn... "An irregularly shaped, Iapetus-sized body is something quite unusual in...

I went out to the Wings Over Pittsburgh airshow yesterday, and I have to say that the most impressive performance was the Sean Tucker Oracle biplane act. (The Thunderbirds were impressive too, but super-annoying tackily-patriotic musical soundtrack really detracts from their act. The Thunderbird...

Here I am with the big stick again. I can't recall anyone discussing rough area landings or hostile terrain landings in a long time. For example, forced to land (no matter the reason-you supply one) and you are headed into a corn field, or a rice paddy, or trees, or perhaps mountain slopes. Well...

CESSNA TO OFFER DIESEL SKYHAWK (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/971-full.html#196294) Cessna will offer the 172S Skyhawk with a Thielert turbo diesel engine with deliveries to start in mid-2008. In an announcement at AOPA Expo in Hartford, Conn., Cessna officials said the decision...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday. I wonder what the Boeing service manual says about this? :-) -- Jay Honeck

Lets get to the bottom of this. I constantly hear people refer to Airports as being class B,C or D Airports. Any of you who have thorough knowledge and understanding of Airports will know that there are only two kinds of Airports in all of our National Airspace System (NAS). There is Towered and...

http://www.wfrv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0d5fd653-6d41-461b-9885-fd0ca17e627c OSHKOSH (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration says one pilot is confirmed dead today after two planes collided while landing at EAA's AirVenture. The FAA says the accident with the two P-51 Mustangs...

For about three months I have owned both the Bose X headset and the new LightSPEED Zulu headset (actually, three of them). Because of this, I've been asked elsewhere a number of times for my impressions of the two, so I finally sat down to write it up. It is admittedly long, but I hope it helps a...

Like AM radio, magnetic headings are still with us, even though navigation in general has advanced by leaps and bounds. When will true headings be used? The magnetic poles are in continuous motion; the rotational poles are stable. Eventually, the magnetic poles will move so far that every...

Why do turbocharged piston props seem to be so rare/unfavored? Don't they provide a substantial advantage over normally aspirated engines?

Are these the same ATC personnel with whom we entrust our lives in IMC? Very tacky. And apparently there's a history of this malfeasance at the Dallas-Fort Worth TRACON. If found guilty, what's it going to take to get these criminals terminated from any and all government service?

I read an article in the GA News last night about the Iowa City airport. Seems the airport struck a deal with Wal-Mart. They sold 22 acres of airport land to Wal-Mart for a Supercenter. The sale apparently pays off the airport's massive debt and allows airport revenue to now go towards airport...

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I note in the simulation of the Baron in MSFS (Dreamfleet's simulation), there's a button on the left side of the pilot, part of several rows of buttons, marked "Ejection seat." I don't know if this is a joke on the part of the developers, or something that really exists in the aircraft. In the...