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I have for sale a pre-owned Anywhere Map Quadra GPS unit with a current database, including sectionals. The unit operates flawlessly and has a good battery. I am including the original packaging, instruction manual, AC power adapter, cigarette lighter adapter, suction cup automotive mount...

Everybody calls it Syracuse approach, tower, departure or whatever. Never once have I heard anyone call it "Hancock International Airport" on the radio. Never. In the town where I live, and fly to frequently, you can always tell the locals from the transients on the CTAF. Every time, the...

Since I started that thread about PnP a couple weeks ago, I thought it appropriate to note that I completed my first flight for them last weekend. It involved five puppies coming from GA to Western NY. I did the last leg, from Greenville, PA to Olean, NY. Other than some brief...

Steve, In my opinion, it would be very helpful to set it so that replies on a forum to which one has posted are automatically e-mailed. I realize one gets the e-mail notification of a new post, but it's an added step to have to go back to the forum to actually read it.

This is what I do. At the class C field where I'm based, tower and ground always seem to be the same controller, so that makes it easier I guess.

I live four hours from NY City, but having driven in the city a number of times, I know that there, you get about 0.4 seconds after the light changes, and if you're not moving, you get full-on horn blasts from every vehicle in line behind you. Here in the boonies, I try to be a little more...

Hey Dan, your blog post about your flight was one of the things which reminded me this was something I wanted to try. Yeah, I have figured out it can be frustrating, and still working on figuring out the chain of communication. None of the transports for which I've volunteered have come to...

Looks like he's climbing at a little under 100 fpm. Not too bad for a PA-28 at 10,400! :D

Well, I won't write them off yet. But "disorganized" does seem to aptly describe their process. Ted and Gary, thanks for those other links. I'll check them out.

I have thought for a while this would be a good use of my time (and some money). I talked to the reps at the AOPA Summit thing last year. Finally got around to signing up on their website a week or so ago. Responded to a few requests for transport. I only responded to ones which appeared to...

Chelsea Welch has been around aviation for a while. IIRC from various articles, she is based in California and is big into aviation for women. She started the watch company as a student pilot...something about not being able to find pilot watches for women. She works as a CFI, a ferry pilot...

Yes. But only ones with the pulse lights activated. On the other hand, after a plane has been spotted in lower visibility conditions, the strobes certainly help to keep it in sight. The beacon? All that has ever done for me is let me know whether someone's engine is running or about to be.

Yeah. What he/she said. Since I fly club airplanes, and you never know what happened with the last flight, my first flight gets a very thorough by-the-book inspection. For flights later in the same day, where the plane hasn't been out of my sight, a walk-around, visual on the oil and fuel and...

Cool, will plan on it!

Congrats! Enjoyed the narrative. I also had a FSDO inspector sit in on my oral. He contributed to some discussions, and I actually learned a thing or two from him. Now go enjoy flying whenever and wherever you want - with no logbook endorsements!

Des Moines approach did that when I was out there recently, on my initial call after departing from an untowered field under the class C. Sort of surprised me as well, as I wasn't expecting it.

Not a big deal. Even the airline folks do that on a semi-regular basis!

"Tower, Bugsmasher xxx, unable takeoff. Request (1 minute, 3 minutes, whatever) delay." Then do what they tell you. If you can't raise the tower, as someone already pointed out, taxi off the runway, then call and wait for instructions. Don't do anything you're not comfortable with. But...

Awesome! Thanks for the generous offers. I'll PM you closer to the actual trip. As for X35 vs OCF, my friend lives within the Ocala city limits, so looks like X35 is a bit further out. But I didn't actually check the distance, just eyeballed it, so that might work.

For an auto repo (don't know about airplanes) New York state requires the repo'er to notify the local police department AFTER the repo. That's not to prevent trouble, it's so that when the former owner awakens and finds his car gone, and calls 911 to report the car stolen, the cops know that's...