Aviation Forum / General / Learning / March 2008

One minute 46 seconds of your time will have you "only imagine".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uP17DO1U3c
Combination of flying, weather and nature scenes.  Hopefully not only
worthy sharing with our aviation brethren, but anybody that enjoys

Just wanted to know generally what pitch on takeoff I should expect,
generally, for Vx and Vy, on the AI?
Thanks
SD

My home airport (non towered) has "two" lines before the runway, the
ILS and the Hold ShortOn the ILS hold short markings.  I was trained
to taxi to the Hold Short line (right before the runway), announce,
wait for clearance then takeoff.  I had a stage check receintly and

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near-misses between flying aircraft in the U.S., a
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I was totaling up my hours and I wanted to ask about item 5-iii here.
I have gone on two solo x-countries totaling over 5 hrs and two dual x
countries, one night and one day.  The day one was 2 hours and the
night one was about the same.

Hi All,  Thought I might give a report as to what to expect on a mult
engine checkride.
I took a long time and a lot of hours to get my multi engine land
(MEL) checkride out of the way.  I'm 56 years old, so lots of items

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The Lockheed Martin AFSS main computer system was shut down
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Since things have been soooo quiet around here. ;-)
Would you consider it ok to test procedures that hadn't been trained on a
stage check?
A stage check included engine out from over the runway (above pattern

Anyone have any experience with Palm Beach Flight Training at KLNA and care
to share?

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport has 5 physical runways, numbered
8/26 R&L, 9/27R&L and 10/28.  While I realize it is a crude tool,
inspection of this airport in Google Earth seems to show that all 5 of
these runways are actually parallel with one another.  While I know

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The annual flyin time is coming around again!  I finally got to where I
could find things in the hangar again, which is a sure indication that it is
time to start flyin preparations!

It's been a long time coming...
This past Thursday, I soloed for the first time.  The winds were
right, the pattern was quiet, and my instructor knew I was ready.
Winds were 170 at 12, gusting to 17.  Active runways were 17L, (the

As I'm sure all of you know already, since you're all vastly smarter than
I, the term "controlled airspace" includes class E airspace. But we can
fly through it with near impunity without ever talking to anyone.
Frequently I see or hear pilots use "controlled airspace" to refer ...

2 pilots, 1 student pilot, 2 cameras 1 plane = 9 minute video that I
use the split screen feature of Windows Movie Maker where you can see
on the left side outside the plane and the right side what the glide
slope and ILS needles are doing. Pilot got his instrument ticket last