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Tidbits for those who don't know Cameron Park: 1. RWY 31 (crash runway) has a significant upslode beyond the runway which isn't totally obvious as to its extent/height when standing on the ruwnay. The whole world slopes up in that direction with mountains on either side adding to the visual...

All you need to make your own fuel tester is a small glass tube, a stopper or cork, some masking tape, and a permanent marking pen. The local high school or college chemistry department can set you up with a ~20 mL test tube and a rubber stopper. Any store in the area selling kids' science kits...

$789 MSRP.

It's a simple price/supply curve problem, but the airline execs aren't exactly economics wizards so I’m not surprised that they fail to understand this simple fact. FWIW, there is no “pilot shortage”—the truth is that there are currently more US commercial and ATP certificate holding pilots...

IME, your experience was not related to the mixed airline ticketing. I fly mixed airline trips quite frequently and have yet to get "special" service from TSA; my average overseas trip will have 6-10 airlines involved. As to the original question: Iberia is okay, not stellar, no bad, just...

The PC will do fine running on 230V. My favorite supplier of adapters and a stepdown transformer is Radio Shack. YMMV, but the nice thing about their stuff is that your PC's power cord will fit directly into the various adapter plugs provided with the transformer so if the PC is your only power...

A Mooney M20J is a 145-150 kt KTAS aircraft only if you typically run 55-60% power (8000', econony cruise power, 8.6-9.2 gph respectively, BTW), but if you run truly "typical" power settings a M20J is considerably faster than 145-150 kts. For example, an M20J will produce ~169 kts @ 75% power @...

For practical purposes the only difference between FG and BR is the visibility. Which (BR or FG) the visibility limiting phenomenon is called depends on whether current visibility is + or - of 5/8 mile. Otherwise, it's all the same thing. You could have a cloud phenomenon on the ground with...

I don't remember if it was Bill or Kaye, or who, but while flying with someone at Mountain Home prior to returning to Gaston's I demonstrated that using 78 mph (light loading) we could make the first turn off at Mountain Home (~1000' of runway) with only a small amount of braking, which is...

Okay, a few footnotes that need to be understood. First, the M20J stall speed manual is in IAS (mph and knots). Second, the relative error between IAS stall speed and 1.3 Vso in an M20J is so small (near zero) as to be ignored (previoulsy mentioned in excellent manner). Third, when I flew...

Thanks for the catch. How the blazes I skipped past "...recommended glide speed..." and locked onto "1.4 Vso" I'll never know.

According to the AFH the 180 degree landing is flown at 1.4 Vso. IOW, it isn't a best glide airspeed maneuver at all.

Even when available for solo flight, many complex aircraft simply don't rent a whole lot other than training flights for complex endorsements and commercial certificates. The Mooney M20C that I rented for several years way back when didn't fly solo unless I was in it, despite being readily...

FWIW, and just in case my insurance agent is reading this thread, I don't give instruction in my Mooney--the insurance policy doesn't cover it so I don't go there. I have, on a rare occassion or two been willing to let a few other pilots fly my Mooney for a short while during which I acted as...

Or it could be that the FBO did shop around and have better market analysis skills than the folks across the field. For example, the FBO determines that it will cost $5k to insure a Mooney if no solo flight is allowed, but $15k if solo flight is allowed. They also deterimne that the plane will...

The Mooney maintenance manual suggests using a mechanical scraping device fashioned from plexiglass sheet. There is/was someone out there offering a solvent recirculating system (pumped/sprayed solvent in fuel bay until sealant was removed), but I've heard it is murder on the aircraft paint on...

Without some sort of FAA legal guidance to the contrary, the above does not meet the requirements of an IPC. The PTS TASK table for an IPC calls for "ALL" for TASK VI. TASK VI(a) contains the following: NOTE: The applicant must accomplish at least two nonprecision approaches (one of which...

"Manage Attachments" now appears the one place I tested where it didn't before--I'll take your word for it that it works everywhere else. Thank you.

Troy isn't the only victim--I have the same problem, although I don't have 5 posts since the change, but I thought that was for new members only.

CAP is the FAA/US gov. authorized SAR unit. They may not be able to actually legally dismiss/forbid another SAR group from the search, but they can request that the FAA post a NOTAM closing the airspace to non-participant aircraft; AFAIK CAP does have that authority, and, at that point, the...