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I had happened to watch one of her videos before I heard about her accident. I remember her talking about nearing a checkride and I also remember her saying she was working on her IR but based on her flying, I really thought she hadn't gotten her private certificate. She seemed to have...

Thank you for your service. My point is that all the services have unique acronyms and what's understood in one is greek to another. Until you get deal closely with the other services you don't realize it's like learning a new language.

You probably have never served in the military. Each service has a huge list of acronyms unique to itself. I left my first joint service meeting not having a clue about half of what was said. My supervisor said not to worry as I would eventually learn. I was once tasked to go through a...

Whenever we hosted another NATO Tiger Squadron in England, my squadron, 79TFS, would purchase an old, beat up upright piano, and smash it into pieces small enough to pass through a toilet seat, and burn the pieces. We would gather around the fire and sing fighter pilot songs and trade stories...

Actually there are three entities that can "ground" a plane. The owner, the operator, and the FAA/FSDO. Mechanic or "Director of Maintenence" might ground a plane under the authority of the owner/operator if so enpowered under his term of employment but in general, a mechanic, even one with...

My last assignment was on Security Hill at what was then Kelly AFB. In the parking lot of the Air Intelligence Command there is a C-47 on permanent static display. It had the red navigation light lens on the right wing and the green lens on the left the last time I saw it up close. I wonder...

Need some extra grip to stay on the treadmill when there's been a snow fall.

What about the TFR?

Plenty of important things to worry about, this is not one of them.

There were significant changes made throughout the time 150s were manufactured while few changes were made by the time the 152 came out. What year-model 150 is yours? I owned a 150 '76 M for a good number of years. The M model was manufactured for three years, 75-77 before the 152 came out in...

Aerobats were available in both 150 and 152 models. I fly a 1973 A-150L with an O-360 (STC) and tow gliders with it.

Cessna vented caps are normally closed. They only pop open if a vacuum forms in the tank due to a stopped up main vent.

The tower controller's primary responsibility is sequencing aircraft not separation. If there had been a midair, the responsibility for the accident would be shared by both the Cirrus and Diamond pilots with the Diamond pilot getting the lion's share of blame. The tower controller would be...

When you accept a visual approach while Ifr, you either land if cleared to land or execute the missed approach. The controller asked whether the Cirrus wanted to go missed approach, ie. stay IFR, or remain visual (cancel IFR and remain in the pattern). I don't know of any instance where you...

A call that is often neglected is acknowledging that you have the aircraft in front of you in sight. Can't tell you how many times aircraft take off behind me while I'm towing a glider and fail to say they have tow and glider in sight. Makes me very uncomfortable doing a pattern tow, turning...

This may only be semantics but here goes. Lift is lift and it is a force generally perpendicular to the surface of the wing. Lift can have either a horizontal component or a vertical component or some combination of the two depending on bank angle. In other terms, lift is a vector sum of the...

Maybe if we only did straight-ins there would be no base to final accidents. :)

I knew it was only a matter of time before O Clubs were done when the military police stopped every car leaving the O Club parking lot on the night of the Wing Christmas party for breathalyzer tests. No warning or announcement to expect this. Merry Christmas! I stopped by Randolph AFB the...

A limit is a limit. Everyone can argue numbers. Overall, basic med has been great. I doubt the third class will ever go away because a private pilot with a third class could theoretically fly just about anything given enough money and a type rating if required. I really don't want some guy who...

You're correct; I was thinking 2 years to mission ready. The rating takes about one year of full time training.