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I'm going to recommend that our flight school get a copy--for the instructors. It's hard to remember how confusing and difficult even basic concepts were when you started flying (or any other equally complex activity). And how perplexing some of the expert's explanations sounded. This book...

http://www.avweb.com/news/avtraining/188005-1.html A former Disney animator tells a mostly engaging tale of his flight training. The drawings are illuminating.

Here's something scarier than an itty-bitty spider: http://www.jimstafford.com/

Snopes.com, a great source for sorting through urban legends, photos of dubious origin, email petitions, and the like, has this information about the pictures that started this thread: http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/brownrecluse.asp

The U.S. FARs including VFR-Over-The-Top: The definition in Part 1: "VFR over-the-top, with respect to the operation of aircraft, means the operation of an aircraft over-the-top under VFR when it is not being operated on an IFR flight plan." FAR 91.507 specifies equipment requirements. Part...

Experimental Category: Operating Limitations It appears that FAR 91.319 is the main governing regulation, specifically: (e) No person may operate an aircraft that is issued an experimental certificate under §21.191 (i) [i.e., a light sport aircraft] of this chapter for compensation or hire...

That's an area of the rules I'm not familiar with. I suggest following up with the Warbirds of America group at www.eaa.org.

From http://www.aopa.org/members/files/travel/canada/can02.html: Overflight U.S. and Canadian Customs regulations permit aircraft to overfly the respective countries and return to the original country of departure without reporting to Customs. Examples of this might be a flight from Detroit...

If you're an AOPA member, check out the following information: Canadian Flight Information Due to recent confusion on what types of flight plans are required for flights to, from, and within Canada, NAV CANADA has provided the following explanation...

Russian Cosmonaut Says Alcohol Should Be Allowed on ISS MosNews Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, just back from space, said that alcohol should be allowed on the International Space Station as it helps to cope with stress and enhances performance, the RIA-Novosti news...

Ah. A crucial difference. You can receive instruction in your own airplane and pay an instructor without complying with the 100-hour inspection rule because you're not offering the airplane for compensation or hire to another person. You're paying the instructor for his or her services as an...

The National Association of Air Traffic Specialists (representing FSS specialists) is using the ADIZ indcident to make some political points about the recent decision to outsource FSS functions: http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=47351: Imagine the person checking your...

The sightseeing exemption is stated in 135.1: (5) Nonstop sightseeing flights for compensation or hire that begin and end at the same airport, and are conducted within a 25 statute mile radius of that airport; however, except for operations subject to SFAR 50-2, these operations, when conducted...

To verify the status of an AME, you can always call the closest FSDO http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/fsdo/index.cfm The FAA also maintains a searchable database of AMEs at: http://ame.cami.jccbi.gov/

More Reasonable Press Reports Appearing Perhaps there's hope. Some of the media seem to be recovering from their hyperventilation, and we're starting to more reasonable, better-researched reports on the ADIZ incident. For example: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05135/504865.stm Which includes...

I couldn't agree with (the other) Bruce more. Talk to professional pilots, and you'll be amazed at how much recurrent training they undergo, even though they fly for a living and have considerably more experience than most of us. I don't think it's realistic, however, to expect much more in the...

From http://www.physorg.com/news4107.html Using harmonic radar, scientists have now tracked the flight of bees that had attended a "waggle dance" and found that they flew straight to the vicinity of the feeding site, as predicted by von Frisch. The tracks allowed the scientists to determine how...

Washington Post Story on ADIZ Here's a link to a story in the Washington Post with more details about the ADIZ incident, including evidence that the student pilot took over control of the airplane and landed it at KFDK...

At the NBAA convention last year, FlightSafety International (in conjunction with Mayo Clinic Aerospace Medicine) introduced a clever new way of training pilots to recognize hypoxia without an altitude chamber. It uses a portable system that allows the operator to feed a mix of gases to the...

AOPA/ASF has just created new Safety Hotspot on its Web site with links to all sorts of useful, free information about airspace, post-911 rules, etc. You can check it out at: http://www.aopa.org/asf/hotspot/airspace.html