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I learned basic aerobatics in a Cessna Aerobat with the Texas Taildragger conversion. That was a setup that made you work every inch and degree of the way… all that fixed-prop power management! Nimble's not the word. Moving up to a Super Decathlon felt like entering another world…

I got one flying into Van Nuys (KVNY) a few years ago from San Luis Obispo (KSLO) in an SR20. OHIGH.FERN6, if I remember correctly, which I probably don't.

Apple's own iPad Mini specs at https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/specs/ clearly contradict this. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where it clearly states that "GPS/GNSS" features are available only with the Wi-Fi + Cellular models; all models get Digital compass, Wi-Fi, and iBeacon...

My review of the first — in-browser web app! — iPhone version of Foreflight was noted on the official Foreflight blog back in early June, 2008: https://blog.foreflight.com/2008/06/04/yankee-alpha-foxtrot-bravo/ Sadly, all the links are broken (I moved my blog). An almost complete version of my...

He's already said — ten days ago — that he lives in Western North Carolina, and that his nearest airport is KFQD. That should be enough to get at least some idea of what the expected weather conditions would be — if he hadn't already given some idea of those, too.

Not taking anything away from the rest of your post, but in a very real sense the KAVX manager is definitely on his own in a case like this. It's a rough, winding, forty-five minute drive from Avalon (the town) to KAVX; I'd guess the lone deputy on the island would think that by the time they...

Firstly, I'm not defending their decision making — I very much doubt I would have done what they did. I would probably have overnighted in the plane, because that's the kind of person I am. Secondly, as MauleSkinner and doubtless others have said, a lot of the factors I'm talking about here were...

There is no FBO at Catalina. All the buildings there — a restaurant and a gift shop, plus a couple of private buildings owned by the Conservancy — are closed and locked after 1700. It's a rugged ten mile hike into town (nothing's flat on Catalina (and never mind the wildlife…)). There's an...

Yeah, there's all that :) But the Owens Valley on a quiet day between the Sierra and the Inyos is breathtaking. Oh well. And yeah, Furnace Creek any time that isn't winter can be a little … warm. I've actually been snowed on in Death Valley near Furnace Creek itself, but not in October (sadly).

Another couple of airports you might think about are Lone Pine, CA (O26), literally right next door to a decent Best Western on US 395 in the beautiful Owens Valley, plus (IIRC) as a bonus there's fuel there (but it's a fairly sleepy airport). And there's always Furnace Creek (L06) in Death...

Shelter Cove, 0Q5, on California's Mendocino coast. The tiedown area is an easy walk from a couple of hotels — and pretty much everything else including cafes, boatyards, the beach, etc. in Shelter Cove. One of my fave flyin destinations for overnighters (hotels or camping) or day trips. But...

My grandfather, by his own account, pranged maybe five aircraft to total destruction (and I have his own photos to prove it :-))… but that was in the First World War, he was flying with the Royal Flying Corp (RFC), and that sort of thing seems to have been expected (but not necessarily more...

Maybe not quite to your taste, but here's my photographic take on the bits of Route 66 through the Mojave desert in California between about Barstow and the Arizona border — there's lots to see there, including the original Bagdad Cafe (if you're into 1980's Indie European films), Amboy Crater...

As I pointed out upthread, it was also common and respected usage in the mid-late twentieth century, at least in the English-literate places I grew up and was educated in. I don't know why people find this so hard to understand or believe…

I've said this before, but I'm an old dinosaur from the heartlands of the English linguistic empire, born into the sort of accent most Americans would think of as rather Proper, and millions of years ago I was taught — in the sort of school that would never have stooped to calling itself...

Nah, it's just easier remembering that in Region A (i.e. the rest of the world) you keep the vessel's red light on the same side as the channel's red lights or red buoys or markers when heading for port… That was so ingrained in me for my first thirty years it was a bit of a shock discovering...

Unless of course you're in that large majority of the world (Region A) where it's the other way around. If I remember correctly it's only the Americas and sundry other places (all in Region B) that your rule will work. After decades of sailing in both Australia and Britain, it was difficult at...

The original ForeFlight (of which I was an early adopter) was an in-browser app (as were all iPhone apps back then) and had very limited capabilities. If you really want to go back to the original ForeFlight, be my guest :-). For a reminder of just how far things like ForeFlight have come, read...

Indeed not. Long after Flying Wild Alaska she used to host a program called Native Shorts with Bird Runningwater on NFX (in this part of the world, at least), introducing and showing First Nations and Native American short films and videos. Not exactly the high-profile stuff you'd get from just...

True enough, but a friend of my father had an Amphicar (a couple, actually, over time) in the late 1960's and early 1970's and put it to good use for his pharmacy business in the part of Australia I grew up in, which wasn't well served by niceties like bridges at the time, and where having the...