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The FAA, like other government agencies is top heavy with management, and a large portion of that management does nothing constructive...

And that's for 1,000 feet, not the old 1,320 foot 1/4 mile.

Pilot couldn't have asked for a better place to put it down. NHRA's Safety Safari are the best out there. Sounds like the on-scene...

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet but a home copy of Flight Simulator can be very helpful. Tomorrow, the new Microsoft Flight...

Not that many moons ago I had an MEI transition student who took a phone call in a 45 degree banked turn at 3,500 ft. I took the...

Quit yer bitchin. Grab that sumbitch with some pliers and make it gone. Pull the bulb out and reach into the dark abyss for your food...

Given that they've all been removed from YT I doubt we'll ever see them again. Especially given how much the aviation community came...

And nowadays, smoking is so much rarer that the smell is significantly more obvious. I learned this the hard way when my family moved...

It's apparent few have dealt with a radiator drain in the past 2 decades, lol. Just about every one of them uses a plastic drain...

I've used a few of those. They work great... until they don't, when they break or the rubber seal fails... at which point they spill...

Seems to me that not too long ago we had a VERY long discussion about some young lady from TN who blatantly ignored/forgot everything...

I flew this morning with a -900 density altitude, too.

New England sounds like a GREAT idea. Much much better than Florida. Seasonal color changes, delightful blizzards to kill off the...

I have one of those, too. Not impressed compared to the old straight-tube style. I still spill more fuel out of this style than I ever...

EVERY attempt at complying with the federal mandate that gas cans be ventless and have some sort of a shutoff mechanism in the spout has...