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This is a cover of your favorite classics like the stall, the steep turn, slow flight but in the style of a Russian fighter trainer...

My daughter and I got to ride bombardier in one of only four B-17 Flying Fortresses still flying. The B-17 dropped more bombs than any...

Exactly. Just because it's hard to find an effective manager does not mean AOPA has one. It's so easy to convince people they are trying...

perhaps, but way too many people think the large check written for a manager guarantees them anything. Just think about how many...

All I can say is a group of pilots and owners are having a dispute with an airport. The airport changed a long standing agreement and...

I have heard the same story many times. AOPA tells the pilots to self organize and take care of the issue. But they are happy to fly...

I argue they do not have "effective management". They have been enjoying the money they get and coming up with infinite excuses...

Taking my wife out for supper.

Well, when I do any sort of self-help I'm called a scofflaw or a cheapskate, but please more of the victim-blaming serving, I'm running...

Joined EAA. Doubt I will renew AOPA

NATA's CEO's salary is $50K, yet they successfully convinced the govt that hiding FBO fees is fine. Several of your arguments are...

Tim, there are infinite excuses for/by AOPA over the years. Yet, a pilot lands at an FBO at a small airport and they charge him $70 per...

Based on the info I could find on the internet: - AOPA proposed transparent FBO fees on the next FAA re-authorization bill - NATA...

Wow, what a crazy experience. Improving your safety with an AD almost killed you. What an irony in regulations. So frustrating. Good...

I have been a super happy user of perfectly reliable Insight G2 for 14 years in two planes. Besides the CHTs and EGTs, I have carb temp...