Does anyone know who is responsible for maintaining those red flashing beacons on towers and hilltops? Government agency? County? State? Federal? This may sound weird, but I want that job. The whole outdoor aspect of it interests me. The rural mountain roads, climbing high towers, the views! ...

I'm thinking to install such an STC on my Cardinal 200 hp engine. http://www.taturbo.com/frames.html Anyone who had experienced it ? Is it valuable ? Any comments ? Thank you

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has proposed to withdraw all aeronautical data and products from public distribution. http://www.urisa.org/Board_Initiatives/NGA.htm

It IS possible for an instructor to give dual instruction without logging (or being) PIC. In one instance, I did some instrument training in my aero-club's Grumman Tiger. The instrument instructor I used was not yet checked out in the aircraft type in the club. So, from a club insurance point...

Hi - we are running a competition to win two tickets to the Music in the Air at Middle Wallop. All you have to do is text the word MITA to 84010 all texts cost =A31.50. Proceeds go to the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop. If you want more details,...

I'd like to hear anyone's experience with one of the headsets like the Lighspeed L1 or Mach 1, or the Clarity Aloft headset. I really like the idea of them, if they work. Besides the obvious questions of noise attenuation, comfort and sound quality, I'd like to know if they interfere with glasses...

That's the first time I am trying to post in this group, apologies if my question is perhaps a little bit off the main stream. It's motivated by (a) the recent crash of an airliner going from Cyprus to Greece (under truly horrific circumstances, if you ask me) and (b) a planned journey where my...

My girlfriend is on a flight tomorrow from Amsterdam to Kenya... airline Kenya Airways. Is there a site I can check speed/altitude of her plane? Or even a good site that shows takeoff/landing confirmation? A lot of sites are for US only... and other sites don't accept Kenya Airways... Any...

Anyone else watch the Jet Blue Airbus on CNN do the emergency landing at LAX with the nose gear pointed crossways? It is worth checking out the highlights on CNN to watch it. That had to be one of the best and smoothest landings I have ever seen. The pilot really greased it in, and held the nose...

Here's two URLs pointing to PDF's of the same approach: http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0502/00548I2.PDF http://download.aopa.org/iap/20050217/SW-1/saf_ils_rwy_02.pdf The airnav version is crystal clear. The AOPA version is blurry and pixelated. Zooming in, it almost...

A new wiki is available at http://aviation.freeprohost.com/ (until we get a better url) as a meeting place for all things aviation. Please populate it, I guarantee it will be useful. Use this topic to give feedback on the website, improvements that could be made, etc. Thank you.

I just saw a clip on the local news about a single-engine turboprop that landed on a Highway 933 in Roselawn yesterday after having engine problems. It looks like it might be a PC-12. It's N922RG. It was going from South Bend Regional, IN to White Plains, NY with five people on board. They were...

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How's this for a wierd notam: http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr/jsp/save_pages/detail_4_0539.html The fun part is the altitude description: "Altitude: From and including the surface up to and including 0 feet MSL".

Peter wrote: I am moving a plane from G-reg to N-reg and everybody in the avionics business tells me I need a tri-band ELT like the Kannad 406 AP http://www.adamsdirect.co.uk/proddetail.asp?modelno=406%20AP at about $3000. However I don't think this is true. What is the actual minimum...

I'm planning a trip from HPN to GAI soon. I've read all the NOTAMs, and all the other stuff AOPA and others have put out, and I'm still baffled how this is all supposed to work. Some of the material directly contradicts other stuff (AOPA's presentation says you MUST close your ADIZ flight plan,...

Hi, this was the best NG I could find for my question, but if there's a better one to ask this in just name it and I'll go away. I don't know much about aircrafts, but I'm trying to find a few models that fit a certain specification. All I need to know are a couple names of smaller airplanes that...

Is there anyplace on the web where one can find the N numbers of commercial airliners that have crashed over the past several years? I have looked over the FAA site but either I don't know where to look or it isn't there. Also, does the FAA reissue N numbers for aircraft that have crashed or are...

Are airline op-specs public documents? If I wanted to see, for example, the op-specs that United Airlines operates under, could I get a copy from the FAA?

Peter wrote: I've just had my 6th failure of the roll servo, since 2002. This time I got a video of it, showing that the power-up tests pass even with a dead roll servo: http://www.zen74158.zen.co.uk/misc-files/kfc225-failure-2005-1.mpg Evidently Honeywell have not fixed this - even...