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The mountain goat is from the Far Side.

I contacted the seller of a plane that had 0 SMOH on a Lycoming. The ad didn’t say when the overhaul was done. My first question was that. He said it was two years ago, but he starts it and does runups on the ramp. Ugh. Conversation terminated.

As a former law enforcement firearms instructor as well as a pilot, that should be a no-go. Close the field via prior coordination (at least a month in advance) with the airport manager and file a NOTAM, or do the training elsewhere. If there is an opportunity for someone who is not part of the...

In 1995, I camped for a few nights near Deception Pass while on a motorcycle ride. Turns out the A-6s were doing night patterns that week.

A flight school near here has been known to do S-turns across a canal that borders our airpark so that their turns take them across our final at the same altitude as planes on final. When there are a few hundred square miles of dead-straight roads laid out on section lines, and many miles of...

But EAA did not publicly proclaim that Gryder is banned. A security volunteer slipped up and let someone see the banned people list, and that person then took a photo and posted it. The one who saw the list should have had the discretion and foresight to pretend that he didn’t see it, and keep...

Both teams fly planes that are currently in production. They fly older jets from the series, but can swap them out for newer ones when needed.

The first thing you need to is find out if you can get a First Class medical certificate. No First Class, no flying people in First Class.

There is a great big world outside Missouri. One of the absolutely best things you can do for yourself is move to an entirely new place.

The article says the author is a former USAF flight surgeon. Anyone familiar with him? He comes across as a whiny punk.

Some reason why your A&P can’t do it himself?

There are an increasing number of ads with lengthy, flowery descriptions full of superlatives, and are AI-generated, and with some grammar indicating the poster to not be an American English speaker (“aircrafts”, non-standard syntax) and trying way too hard to convince the reader of how great...

I’ll just say stay away from Aviator College in Ft. Pierce. Two fatal crashes in nine months with CFIs at the controls.

A properly-rigged Cessna or Piper does that pretty easily. The key is to stay by flying with just the tips of the thumb and one or two fingers, and use the trim wheel the same way. Fly it like that, trim it precisely after getting power settled in, and enjoy the ride.

Prelim report is out. https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/194729/pdf

One thing that Google Earth is good for is viewing the area surrounding an airport and helping to answer the question “what around here looks like the airport and can lead me to land at the wrong place?”.

If “stabilized approach” means a three degree glidepath at Vref from two miles out, then OSH isn’t the place. But it can also be everything locked in on a steeper 300 yard final.

I’m working on assembling a document with Dan’s and Magman’s posts, plus a few others. It’ll be a fair amount of work, but will be a great maintenance bible.

Last day today. I took Friday off, but went every other day. Today I’m headed to the seaplane base and ultralights to see what’s left. Next year we’ll have a plane again and are already planning on flying in.

I’m sure our county - St. Lucie - charges sales tax. We’re already the highest-taxed county in the whole state.