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This would imply that the public had an interest prior to Apollo 11. Read this article the other day which provided an interesting look at what the polls were saying about our moon effort throughout the 60's. As @Brad Z more or less stated, I dont think Apollo would have survived in a 24 hour...

Maybe throwing a little bit of shade here on what that video was intended to show/prove but I feel like that video you posted was a "look at me and the type of conditions we fly in." Which, when you post a video landing in near 0/0 and talk about how non-mundane landing in such conditions are...

It's funny you mentioned 25 degrees. While the Rate of Turn calculation is v^2 / 11.26 tan ( angle of bank), a funny thing happens at 25 degrees... The entire equation can be rounded and simplified to: ( NM/min ) ^ 2 / 9 = radius of turn in NM So you can then memorize it as: ( NM/min ) ^ 2 /...

I just logged my first Bravo airport back in June flying in to KPHL. I did it mid-day. It was really quite easy though if you're not familiar with flying in and around a Bravo, especially a busy bravo, it can certainly be daunting. I would recommend doing it IFR; it's just easier. Particularly...

Rereading your original comment I've interpreted it slightly different the "n-th" time through than I did the first time. Maybe it's this additional feedback or just a different frame of mind considering this time I'm focusing solely on your comments and not any side chatter in the thread. This...

There are some 3M + different user-agent strings passed by browsers. Granted most of these are just variations that most sites dont necessarily care about (e.g. running Firefox 67 on Windows 7 vs Windows 10) but there are other variations with significant that sites do care about such as screen...

Notwithstanding 3-pt landings where you land with a minimum airspeed and would need to transition from a tail low to a tail high position for takeoff, it is actually easier and makes more sense to do a touch-and-go wheel-landing in a tailwheel. You never have to transition from tail high to tail...

I dont see where in the story the Cirrus actually declared an emergency, he simply asked for assistance from ATC in ensuring he got to the destination and explained his situation/why he was asking. On the one hand he already lost one screen for unknown reasons so it would seem prudent to get...

FAA or Congress doesn't really make a difference. Congress acted because of the FAA's failure to act but lets be honest here, neither the FAA or Congress had any real reason to act on their own accord. Basic Med was an initiative driven by 3rd Class Medical Reform campaign of AOPA et al.

A little out of context but not entirely incorrect either. I should have framed my statement a little better. A medical review does make us safer than we are without. My point merely was that proper on-going medical review and treatment/management of a condition by a doctor familiar with their...

Lubitz presents an interesting question in my mind... Would he still have done it if the diagnosis didn't mean the end of not only his career flying but his flying career? It's impossible to tell what was going through his mind, why someone decides to commit suicide is usually a very personal...

Fair. I'm not suggesting my opinion is superior and while I hesitate to make cast judgement on 2 or 3 posts by the OP, I dont know that I would agree with the Op that he doesn't pose a threat based on what is there... I do however feel like the FBI probably would have taken a closer look at his...

I feel like that is very much "For want of a nail." So that everyone (FAA, Airline and Pilot) can maintain plausible deniability, we've created a system that stigmatizes and encourages not seeking help/healthcare. I realize of course that its not entirely the same because of the different risk...

By request... Here is my grand-circle of Alaska Tour plan. Dont know that it really fits in this thread since I start and end in Anchorage and dont cover the Southern part of the state or Canada... My goal with planning this was to see things that aren't really accessible by other means...

If you follow the conversation, the analogy is not at all bent. We're discussing what is acceptable risk and how what's acceptable to some might not be acceptable to others. @Juliet Hotel 's previous statement was that if you accept the risk (and presumably take the necessary precautions) and go...

Looking at hours doesn't really say much. A private pilot can have 1000's of hours without ever having gone for a higher certificate/commercial while a commercial pilot can have 250 hours. This is again an issue of how we measure experience. Is a 250 hour commercial pilot who has 44 hours of...

Sure but the same can be said about going hiking in a National Park or doing the supply run flying the Alaskan bush or boating in general or just getting up and driving to work every morning. If something negative happens, your decision to do just about anything has the potential to put others...

Just doing the math... 66 operations a week, given a 5 day work week means about 13 takeoffs or landings per day; 6 of those are aircraft considered "local" and based at the facility, 6 more are considered "transient" and based somewhere else and approximately 1 operation per day is conducted...

Some classic cars do defy some of the criteria I listed (muscle cars in particular tend to appreciate in value thereby making an engine overhaul potentially practical and muscle cars were originally sold as pure power, now frills) but these cars also rarely serve as "daily drivers." They're the...

By all accounts I've seen thus far, this Mooney bounced off the water after striking water with the fuselage, in which case I would agree that he was far below prudent altitudes but bersonal minima are exactly that, personal. What's low over the water to you is likely not low to a seaplane pilot...