Aviation Forum / General / Aviation / February 2006

Flight Level Aviation is pleased to announce a half-day upset recovery
and introductory aerobatics course utilizing our full-motion simulator.
 This course may be scheduled as a standalone or may be added on to
IFR recurrent training or type-specific Cessna 210 or Bonanza Training.

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I'm taking my ATP checkride (single engine) at the end of March and
would like to hear from others that've "been there & done that". I'm
studying for the written and reviewing the PTS and will be flying twice
a week with a CFII in the Lance to get up to speed & comfortable with

I was looking at these, in anticipation of getting my ticket soon (I
hope!). The prices seem to be all over the board. Many seem to have an
add on module for use with 4 passengers.
I certainly don't know how to design electronic stuff, although I can

When doing steep turns, I noticed that there is a little resistance to pitch
changes on the yoke. It seems it binds a little in the bearing through the
panel. Does anyone have a suggestion for the type of lubricant I could use
on this? Do they make anything for this purpose?

Yes, Michael Baldwin Bruce claims that Belfort Instruments makes anal
probes!  What does he know, and how does he know it!
Here's what he said:
"I hear the aliens like to come to Earth specifically because Belfort

Instead of responding to a request for vectors in an engine failure over
water situation, this controller played Q&A.  No telling if the plane would
have made land if the controller had answered *the* question.  The pilot and
his teenage daughter died in the crash...

Let me be the first to say:  Great show, Roger!  Congratulations on coming
up with a new theory of Titanic's demise.
To be able to "fly" 2.5 miles straight down into the depths of the North
Atlantic -- wow!   What an experience that must've been.

It's almost time for my first ever BFR, what should I expect?

Am I the only one that still has the Aero Advantage Dual Pump
installed? I see that the AD to remove the pump has finally arrived:
http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p84/385862.pdf
This is a stupid AD, in my opinion. The reason for the AD is that both

Yesterday was gorgeous, CAVU weather in Iowa, so we took advantage and flew
to Ft. Dodge for the first time.
Located in north central Iowa, Ft. Dodge is the site of Iowa's only Flight
Service Station.  We have talked to them literally hundreds of times over

We all know (or should) that when a Class D airport tower closes, the
airspace reverts to Class E or Class G and is specified in the A/FD.
Question is what determines which airspace it reverts to???
CFI Test Prep question 6930 answer states, "When that tower ceases to

hey im looking for information on how to acuire WAIF files from issues
104 onwards i used to collect them when they first came out but then i
joined the RAF and stoped collecting now im looking to complete my
collection...

I hate to keep posting these, but it helps us to be aware of such
things.  Here's the link to a Washington Post story about a Cessna with
three souls aboard that went down attempting to land in poor
visibility, after being warned by unicom about the conditions.

I'm going to be in plane camping at Oshkosh this year, and I'm wondering
how I'm going to keep my camera batteries and iPod charged.  I know from
harsh experience that keeping the airplane master on to use a cigarette
lighter adaptor runs down the plane battery pretty damn fast, so ...