Recent content by BobS

White Plains (HPN) is my favorite, and I commuted weekly to NYC from upstate NY for 11 years. It's been about a month but Millionaire (formerly Westair) provides rides to the MetroNorth for free. Panorama also used to provide this service. Avoid Signature. It's a 35 minute ride on the train...

I hit Send too fast. It's a great story but it's an urban myth: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

Taken from Edmunds: "Two California Highway Patrol Officers almost taken out by an F/A-18 Hornet" "Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15 near MCAS Miramar. One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles...

I'll be there Friday and Friday night, leaving Saturday morning

Another part of the initial response raised a question with me. Tarheel's last reply was "Squawking 2801..." I never repeat the squawk code, and a controller never has asked. I was taught that they see the code on their screen, so the entry of the code acknowledges that you've received the...

Thanks for the history. Despite breathing aviation most of my waking hours, I still find contractions I don't know in the RMK section of METARS and PIREPS or NOTAMS. I also here call signs for other planes, like "Bluestripe 123" (United Express) or "Skier 123" (National Guard C130 ski...

I think everybody goes through this while learning to land. The problem with landing is that you only get a few seconds of practice each time. One way to get more practice is to do a low pass. Get down to about 10 feet off the runway, right as you'd normally flare, and hold the plane about 10...

I have a 2006 Prius, now with about 10,000 miles on it. We find that we leave the Honda Pilot SUV parked a lot and fight over the Prius. It's a real hoot to get mpg, and the video display of instantaneous fuel flow has trained us to be more fuel efficient. The car is comfortable, drives well...

Thanks all for your comments. My prop shop was able to find a 2-bladed Hartzell in their inventory. I just need to check that it conforms with the AD that started all this. The prop shop, New England Propellor (subs. of US Propellor) was the dealer that ordered the original Black Macs from...

Congratulations! People who haven't been through it have no idea how big an accomplishment it is. A couple of things about your story surprised me. I'm surprised a DE would actually put you in a spin--the airplane was a 172 and not certified for multi-turn spins, correct? Did you placard the...

My 2-blade Hartzell prop failed inspection and I am now faced with buying a new prop. The two-blade Hartzell's are delayed in delivery and I can't get one until April, so I'm faced with a conversion to a three-blade. I can get a McCauley Black Mac for $9,698 or a Hartzell Top Prop for $8700...

Bob Miller wrote a good article in this month's IFR Magazine. The legal answer is that flying in visible moisture at or below the freezing temperature is prohibited for planes not equipped for known icing. Snow is visible moisture, so flying in snow is technically prohibited. For those of us...

Lots of good advice in this link so far. The only thing I have to add is to recognize that there is a transition as you decide toward the threshold. When you're half a mile out and achieve the holy grail of a stabilized approach you feel right on top of it. You've got just enough rudder to...

The Fox News report makes it seem like the energy is coming from water. Rather, it requires electricity. It makes a lot of sense for welding, where there is a large and reliable electric supply, but in a car he's dependent on a battery to electrolyze the water to Hydrogen and then burning the...

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