Writing for a friend with an Arrow that is having a recurring starter problem. The battery has been charged and tested, everything else checks out, and there is the right amount of voltage at the starter. It works once or twice (in a row), then if left overnight, it won't restart (no response from...

Is there a Web site where one can enter a street address and get back the GPS coordinates of that location? Free would be good. Thanks. Walter ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----

The article below is printed (in its entirety) in the current issue of AOPA Pilot magazine. In it, Rod Machado mentions the controls being "mechanically sticky." It has been my experience, that the bar attached to the control yoke which goes through a bushing in the control panel often binds as...

When reading performance specs for helicopters I see the terms IGE and OGE. I understand they are in ground effect and out of ground effect, but when the altitudes are given they don't make sense to me. I thought ground effect was up to one-half the rotor span and anything above that would be out...

This is what happens when you're a schmuck and fly into IMC without an Instument Rating... http://www.naats.org/docs/flightassist.mp3

Hi Due to a freak chance meeting with a pilot in training and an aircraft engineer, I have managed to talk myself into taking a trial flying lesson. Can you help with a few questions I have, having never been up in a small aircraft and being scared of heights (well on tall buildings anyway) But I...

As promised the reason I did not fly my airplane on the Angel Flight. Some time about ten days ago Elizabeth (my airplane) developed an oil leak. My airplane went from using a quart about every 10-12 hours to a quart every 2 hours. The belly was wet. I had an obvious leak. I looked at the drain...

Ok, the air show season is running down, and once again I ask, Why does the Pilot parking empty first. For years I worked at the Medford National Air show, Medford, Oregon. We had a Pilot/Performer parking lot that held a couple hundred cars. Without exception, the Pilot parking emptied first. My...

My company has an immediate need to fill aircraft mechanic positions in various cities in Maryland, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Florida. These jobs are mostly contract work with some temp-to-perm opportunities. Contract jobs pay competitive wages with very generous per diem.

One of the members of my club has proposed that we add TKS de-ice to our two 182s. Apparently, such a system is to become available later this year. My reaction at first was negative. After all, in our near-NYC location, the utility of such a tool is limited to a few months a year. Surely we...

I'm considering putting together a "copilot training program" for my flight school. This course is targeted towards regular passengers who are not interested in becoming private pilots themselves--the spouse or friend who goes flying with you all the time. The program would focus on making that...

On Wednesday, Sept 21st, I departed NY in my Skyhawk on a cross country business/pleasure trip. I departed Montgomery, NY (MGJ)at 8:30 am and touched down in Murfreesboro , TN (MBT) at 3 PM Central, 7.5 hrs later. I refueled at Frederick, MD and again at Pike County, Kentucky (PBX). The entire...

I just bought a PDA and am interested in knowing what aviation software you gents have found useful. Just a cursory look at some of the usual suppliers seems to indicate the software available tends to be a mite pricey.... enough so that I'd want to be sure before I lay down any...

Hello All! I've been hunting high and low for an audio file. Came across it a few years ago. It's an actual audio file of a controller or FSS giving the pilot instructions to recover from a stall? spin? The pilot flew into IMC became disoriented, asked for assistance and panicked. All the while the...

Got to fly a homebuilt Challenger on floats while up in northern Minnesota for the crop dusting season. What a kick! I hadn't been on floats for 35 years and finally got to add one more hour in the SES column. Also managed to put in over 450 hours in helicopter spraying in less than 4...

There is more to flying antique airplanes than manipulating the controls and taking off and landing. There is also knowledge of the peculiarities of the type, make and model. The idiosynchrasies of starting, operating and shutting down the engine; hand propping, fueling and securing the aircraft....

Hi all. I'm interviewing with Jeppesen later this month and while I am a pilot (ASEL and hot air balloon), I don't have any particular insights into Jeppesen products. What I need are a few "insightful questions" that I can ask during the interview that demonstrate my interest in the company and...

As I write this at 4:50 pm pacific time, there is a Jet Blue A320 circling with a nose gear problem. It's rotated 90 degrees. The news is carrying live video of the plane, but details aren't fixed. It may be landing at Long Beach or LAX. It was bound for JFK from Burbank so it has several hours...

Flyers, This was part of a post in "Selling my Garmin 296" and decided to make it a separate post. Sorry for the redundancy. Kobra wrote: ...I toasted my engine about 3 weeks ago.

Could it be? The President is a friend of GA? Or is the FSS modernization the camel's nose under the user-fee tent? ------------------------------------------------------------- AOPA ePilot Volume 7, Issue 27 July 8,...