Aviation Forum / General / Aviation / August 2008

Our club currently flies a 172R and 172SP as trainers and a Diamond DA40 as
our 3rd plane.  We've put tons of students thru our 172s and are finally
getting some good usage on our Diamond.  We've started "long distance"
planning on our next planes.  We'd like to get a good low ...

A recent thread reminded me it might be worth discussing an personal
flying practice.   When en route, as a way of reducing the likelihood
of a midair by about a binary order of magnitude (that's a factor of
two for the non mathematically inclined) I  fly the nominal altitude

I made it to the airport for the first time since my son (first child)
was born in May. I did a little PAO-WVI-E16 loop by myself.
I couldn't help but notice that a lot of the Sunday flyers were father/
son or father/daughter teams. Perhaps that's how it's always been, I

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I came across this while looking up weather radar scales
http://njection.com/blogs/jalopnik/archive/2008/08/12/weather-radar-picks
-up-car-doing-130-mph-offbeat-news.aspx

I, for one, do not think this newsgroup is dead.  It has had and continue to
have hiccups.  After reading almost all of the posts in this group, here is
what I have gathered.
1.  There are those among us who don't have a full knowledge of aviation

Interesting, in the past week Bertie the Buttlipp has posted 20% of the
message on this group.
85% of those messages were cross posted to kook group, apparently soliciting
noise.

I'd vote for myself but I'm not a dumbshit. Aggravating sometimes but
certainly not dumb. Who is your favorite? Seems to be a paucity of on
topic posts of late and more time spent on slamming people with the
insults born of the Simpson's era or is it Dr Suess?

I bet 3 to 1 this major FAA outage was caused by incompetent
minorities who work for the FAA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082602203.
html?hpid=sec-nation

Recently in Madrid, Vegas, Utah, all unexplained.
Ken

I have a Socata TB20, 6 years old, and would like to look after it as
best as one can.
I have noticed that some owners (of any aircraft type) get theirs
sprayed in all the internal cavities with either ACF-50 or

Here's a cute trivial problem I usually use to kill time with curious students.
There are places on the Earth where you can fly; 1 mile south, then 1 mile east (or west), and then 1 mile north, and end up in the same place.  One of these places is the north pole.  Where are the ...

When you fly for pleasure, how do you select your destination for a flight?
How long a flight do you prefer, ideally?  How close do you remain to your
home base (if any)?  And do you prefer to fly alone, or do you like to have
passengers?  In the latter case, whom do you usually ...

Remote-Controlled Helicopter Toys Recalled by Innovage Due to Fire and
Burn Hazards
   In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC), Innovage LLC, of Foothill Ranch, Calif., is voluntarily

There is the question. I'm in a mood today. Have you flown your
favorite aircraft with zero or near zero indicated airspeed? I'm
talking about controlled flight and predictable outcomes.
Let the games begin. I'm so freaking tired of beach volleyball and the