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https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/auction-provides-public-chance-to-bid-on-vintage-airplane/article_e43e6d96-7ce8-11ef-b4c9-2b70e9727870.html The auction for the 1974 Bellanca Super Viking 1BL7-31ATC airplane is open to the public at municibid.com and ends on Friday, October 4th...

If your kids are up for the challenge, go for it. Don’t let guys like me and Clip4, who were mentally immature well into our 20s, hold your kids back.

my local flight school has a Redbird simulator with the motion. That and the wraparound screen made it fun for my 13-year-old. We’d go out there once sometimes twice a week and have a real flight lesson using John and Martha’s private pilot syllabus. Then I’d reserve five or 10 minutes at the...

“throttle it back”??? In a ROTAX 4.5 GPH is max power. —if you are into that whole fuel efficiency thing. Rotax FTW

So the Pantera specs make it look like a “Cirrus killer“. But if you had $1 million to spend on an airplane, would you buy an air frame that had 20+ years of experience and service and support in all 50 states? Or, Would you buy the airplane that has zero support and appears to be abandoned by...

“So there I was at 30,000 feet and I told the Captain I was going to hand fly. And he said, ‘No way Billy. Leave that autopilot on - we are in RSVM airspace.’ Ha! He’s obviously jealous of my skillz.” ‘this looks shopped to me. I can tell by the pixels.’ Nauga, probably

https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/finally-an-honest-assessment-of-electric-airplanes.143350/ The “honest” assessment has been around awhile. It doesn’t stop hucksters from raising $ for the next quadcopter Air Uber/Lyft.

Why not? In the FAA book a 70% is a PASS. Take the “W” and go home victorious. If you scored in the high 90s, that simply tells me you have mastered the FAAs -illogical- testing logic Things like: out of date questions, irrelevant questions, questions with more than one correct answer...

That’s because Vashon put the wrong engine on it. *cough needs-a-rotax cough*

Are they currently accepting applications? What are their hiring mins? Do you need a four-year degree?

As Southwest flight 147 makes its final approach, the aircraft goes off course, flying east of the runway, and reportedly gets dangerously close to the air traffic control tower

I never thought “boom” would leave the ground. Boom Aviation’s XB-1 took a giant step forward in its mission to become the third civilian-built supersonic jet today when it completed a roughly 12-minute sub-sonic test flight in the skies around California’s Mohave Desert Source: Boom’s...

I keep getting alerts from flightaware.com that my N number has been flying all around Europe in the past couple weeks. I’m assuming some bizjet is spoofing my transponder code. Is there anything I can do about this? Because, I know my airplane has been safely locked away in its hangar during...

The most useless things in aviation are runway behind you, altitude above you, and fuel you left behind.

As a CFI, who has given dozens of sign offs over the past couple years for written exams, I find two-year-expiry date to be capricious and arbitrary. In fact, I find the exams themselves to be capricious and arbitrary. They are chock full of trick questions, The best answer/the least worst...

I have a glider, that counts as a plane, right?

Six yards of Flightline, a Bucket of Propwash, and left-handed monkey wrench. (am I doing it right?)

The Alpha trainer does have centering springs - so the rudder will return to neutral. But that doesn’t mean the ball will center. The alpha trainer being a “pod and boom” design doesn’t have a lot of surface area aft the CG — therefore not a lot of natural Yaw stability. I find flying the Alpha...

True, it might corrode away. … or your temp gauge is reading 10 to 15 degrees low.