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Clinton Says She Can Control Her Husband
January 30, 2008 8:19 PM
ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton, in
an interview with ABC News' Cynthia McFadden for ABC News'

I need some information about the take off & landing of a passanger
plane.is there any particular distance upto which a plane has to
travell before moving towards direction of its destination. Or before
landing do these planes come to a certain distance from where they

The POH for the C150M calls it the "Commuter".  I'm sure the marketing guys
at Cessna envisioned the sky full of these little airplanes carting people
around and I always chuckled at the concept.  But maybe it wasn't such a
goofy idea after all.

I thought this was supposed to be a forum for student pilots? Why
can't it be just that without adding all this extra crap. Can't we
just have a forum for pilots and students were relevant questions are
asked and answered or is or is that too much to ask of some of the

how come there are so many idiotic a.sholes on here. If these are the
new generation of pilots I am truly not surprised by the incompetence
in the skies that seems to be the trend these days. People crash
SR-20s these days. How do you crash an airplane with a parachute while

1. The area where you safety wire the oil filter on a Diamond DA20 is really
close to the positive battery terminal.
2. Safety wire gets really hot really fast when it short-circuits the
battery.

How do you feel global warming will affect aviation. After all the
biggest safety factor in flying is the weather. And these days it is
going haywire.

Today's approach into KHKS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-Hzig3RdM
On launch celings were 600 and tops were 1700 solid OVC.
By the time I got to HKS, ceilings were about 700 and broken.

I'm starting to work on my IR and my instructor told me "Get a good
stopwatch". This is for procedure turns, etc. The planes we fly in are
rentals, sort of, and don't have all the equipment that I'd put in a
plane for IFR flight (although some are quite nicely equiped). In

I just received something from the FAA (link below) and (to me) it is quite
frustrating when they get terminology incorrect, they say:
"A clearance to "taxi to" the takeoff runway assigned to the aircraft is not
a clearance to cross the assigned takeoff runway, or to taxi on that ...

Let's say I overflew a Class G airports with a tower at 2,000 AGL without
contacting the tower.
Have I "violated airspace"?

Just looking at an airport diagram with a "hot cargo area"...  
What is that?...

Hello everyone. I'm currently a senior at Metropolitan State College
of Denver majoring in Aviation Management. The faculty in the
aeronautics department insists we are one of the top three schools in
the country when it comes to Aviation and reputation.(1. ERAU 2. UND

I got quite a surprise for Christmas this year. My wife wrote me a
check to cover my instrument training!
I met with my instructor today and have some work to do to get
started. I'm excited about the prospects and nervous about the work

Anybody ever ponder the very different ways in which we approach
learning (or teaching) how to drive vs. how to fly?
I'm sitting here reading about aerodynamics to understand lift and
drag etc.  Thinking back to when I learned to drive - I didn't study