Aviation Forum / General / Learning / September 2006

I managed to dig up an actual scanned copy of a Cessna 172S checklist from a
website a few months back.
Now, I'd like to find one for a C150.  Anyone know where something like this
might exist?

IFR alternate airport weather minimums 91.169(c)(i)
"...or if none are specified the following standard approach minima:"
I don't get it.
What approach doesn't specify minimums?

Doctors practice for surgery in space by operating on someone in a
free-falling plane "in parabolic flight."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1882600,00.html
I assume the airplane is going straight down for 22 seconds, then

Can a pilot who has allowed their medical to expire perform as a safety
pilot?
It would be understood prior to the flight that the non-instrument
rated pilot flying under the hood would be PIC. The flight would be VFR

The single threaded fallacy
GPS Sole Source Civil Aviation Navigation?
Ask Wong Lee in Beijing  what he thinks about that?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/26/wchina226.xml

Having just completed my first medical, I've got to hand it to the AOPA for
setting up a great service both on the website and on the phone.
I had to contact one of their Medical Certification Technicians for some
clarification and I was impressed with their knowledge and ...

I passed my PP-ASEL oral and checkride (out of Concord, CA) yesterday
and it was a pretty
cool feeling. I will write a bit about the entire checkride here and
hopefully people who are

I talked with two pilots (owner) coming back in a Diamond DA-40, who
offered me
to take a look at the interior of the plane. The plane looks pretty
inside

I know we should wait for the accident report, but it sounds like the
plane stalled at low altitude, giving the pilot no room to maneuver out
of the stall. Does that sound about right?
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060924/APN/609242239&cach
etime=5

GFYS

Always look forward to this (though I've been told that I really must go to
Airventure/Oshkosh one year - apparently anything else pales by comparison)
Expo, as I usually do.
This will be the first time that I won't see the King's single presentation,

Am I correct in assuming that this is a device for pre heating the oil
in cold climates?
Does it affect useful load or horsepower in the way that air
conditioning does for a four place plane like a Skyhawk or Cherokee?

I had an idea this morning that seems pretty simple, but that might help
encourage people to join our august ranks: subscribe to some "we suck you
into aviation" periodicals on behalf of school libraries.
I came late to aviation, and was brought in by a flight with a friend that

A bright orange metal rod crashed through a
woman's home south of Seattle.
http://www.komotv.com/stories/45520.htm
Any idea what this is? Part of a towbar?

I decide to have a second/third vendor for my pilot gear purchases,
after the shipment of the current order with my primary source got
delayed for
a few weeks [one of the places where all students probably buy things