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After Desert Storm my squadron commander returned from a commander's conference and sat us all down for a briefing. He told all of us in certain year group's to take the bonus and punch out because the upcoming RIF (reduction in force) was going to be brutal and spare no one. If you weren't an...

This thread stirred up a few more memories for background information. Around a year prior to the strike, a proof of concept mission was flown by Upper Heyford F-111Es. Select crews were just pulled out of the squadron(s) with no explanations offered and disappeared for the duration of the...

. I was a WSO in F-111Es at RAF Upper Heyford in April of '86. We were tasked but never executed although the EF-111s that supported the mission did launch from UH.. For several months prior to the strike selected crews practiced long duration (multiple air refuelings) strike missions against...

That's also how the Air Force packed our down sleeping bag in our survival kit in the F-111.

On demand requires part 135 certificate. Doesn't matter if you advertise or not or whether you know the customer or not. Above situation describes an air taxi.

The AN-2 was probably so slow it was filtered out by the software and never displayed as an air target. Doppler radars have blind speeds and usually the radar is adjusted so that the blind speeds correspond with stuff that wouldn't be aircraft.

I'm retired Air Force and mostly tow gliders now. CAP uses our gliders for CAP cadet orientation flights on occasion as some of our glider club members are also CAP flyers. Always a pleasure to see young people getting motivated to take up flying. I looked into CAP after I retired but found...

Cessna made a modified breather elbow for the C-150 Aerobat (w/ O-200) that has a tube welded/brazed into it that extends the end of the elbow into the crankcase to lessen the amount of oil that flows down the side of the case and gets blown out the breather. It doesn't eliminate the oil that...

I tow gliders at an uncontrolled field with aircraft based there ranging from gyrocopters to large corporate jets. For the most part we try to get along and our glider operations try to accomodate larger aircraft getting on the ground without having to burn more kerosene than they have to...

If you're not established on a published part of the approach, ie. you;re being vectored to the final approach coarse, and you're given permission to intercept, aren't you required to maintain the last altitude given until you're receiving course guidance?

Quick google search has both minimum take-off and landing distances for T-28 as 400 meters or just over 1300 ft.

When I retired from the Air Force I went to community college and got the certificates needed to test for an A&P rating. I never intended to wrench for a living. The skills learned to get the A&P are basic. Today's aircraft are progressively becoming more and more "electronic" and each...

My understanding of "paticipating" VFR means those VFR aircraft that are talking to ATC and have been given a discrete code (ie. they are positively identified). I don't know how ADSB has changed the way ATC works traffic around aircraft they aren't talking to but have ADSB. When ATC has a...

The FAA requires a Part 107 certificate for anyone flying for anything other than purely recreational purposes. They are going after drone pilots who post videos on YouTube of their vacations because posting videos for others to view regardless of whether any money is involved is not...

One question along with "Is it safe to fly"that is required to determine airworthiness is: Does the aircraft conform to its type certificate data sheet and if not has it been properly altered? An aircraft without a type certificate such as an EAB has no tcds so it cannot be legally airworthy...

I think his case is strong without lying about non-existent deer.

It sounds as if you're a student pilot and your friend is letting you grab some unloggable stick time in his plane or a plane he's renting. You have to realize that his "coaching" is worth what you're payng for it--nothing. It may, in fact, be costing you if you let his coaching detract from...

I got a land at your own risk at an airport that had just repaved a runway but the markings hadn't been painted on it. The runway was "open" but landing was at your own risk. I ended up going around and not landing because it was a very wide and long runway and as I descended I lost all...

That well-known public figure left out the evil part and had expressed his admiration of Putin, without caveat, many times.

I met a couple on my honeymoon down in Mexico years ago that had booked passage on a freighter through the Panama Canal and into the Caribbean. We dropped them off at the ship and the Captain gave us a tour of the boat. It was configured for a small number of passengers and even included a...