Aviation Forum / General / Aviation / July 2006

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/06/npr_xeni_tech_survei.html
   Just this week, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department began
   using a drone called SkySeer for rescue operations and
   tracking "persons of interest" during foot pursuits.

"Crop Cam" ... Coming soon to a cornfield/airspace near you?
http://cropcam.com/index.htm
Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL

I flew into and out of 3W3 this weekend (to eat crabs).  3W3, Kentmorr
Airpark, is a grass strip underneath the Wash DC ADIZ that has a
specific procedure for ingress and egress.
Managing the procedure and airspace restrictions was easy with the 396

According to schedule, I anticipate to be in the market for something like
an Archer II (most likely) or an Archer III around the end of the year.
I've been drooling on various shoping rags for about a year now.  As such
I have several questions.  Hopefully you won't mind ...

I'm thinking of taking a C-152 from LA (WHP) to Sacramento, staying
overnight and coming back the next afternoon. I could take a C-172 or a
Warrior, but don't right off see why I'd want to. It would be a
solo trip.

You may have seen some of my threads over the past 6-8 months, about an
unpredictable flakey radio problem I was having.  It seemed to have
been resolved by replacing a relay in the audio panel.
I have flown the plane for a few months now, with no issues, until

Is there a website which makes it easy to find a rental in a city and/or
at an airport of your choosing?  The plane I trained in was fine for
training but it's a well used trainer.  For local flights, I'm okay with
using it but for some longer flights I'd prefer to rent something ...

Those advocating Air Traffic Control user fees are revealed in this
document:
   http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05333sp.html
   National Airspace System:

Does anybody know why it so happened that there's literally
nobody else out there besides jepp in aeronautical charting
business? TERPS people develop the procedures, FAA test-flies
them, and all this info is publicly available. Yet, the only

9:19pm Sunday...
Ok, I kid you not... I JUST got an "attempt" at a collect call... from the
Oshkosh Correctional Institute!
Now, I admit to be terrible at remembering names, but if there is a Louis

After I land at an unfamiliar airport, I feel like a homeless person.
This summer I planned a long cross-country from Missouri to California
and back, and I wondered if I could fly into small airports and be
assured of finding food and lodging. What I learned may be of interest

This question relates to VOR.
I read  that when VORs where increasing continuously in number in the
beginning of their "career" there was a lack of available frequencies.
So  they increased the frequencies by increasing the number of chanels

I've got a friend of mine who is going backpacking in Alaska for a
couple of weeks. He has expressed an interest in borrowing my handheld
aviation radio to use in an emergency so that they can "flag down" an
overflying aircraft.

Folks,
As I train for my instrument rating, I'm in need of a CD based ground
school.  I'm familiar with the King courses, as I used the King PP-ASEL
kit to help with my Private. I also took an instructor led PP ground

I have been to the EAA Fly-in at Oshkosh in 2001, 2004, 2005, and now
in 2006.   This was the first year that I attended that I wasn't
working in a vendor booth in one of the hangers.  I finally had the
time and opportunity to walk around and look at everything (well, as