Recent content by NorthEast Ohio

Why not? In the FAA book a 70% is a PASS. Take the “W” and go home victorious. If you scored in the high 90s, that simply tells me you have mastered the FAAs -illogical- testing logic Things like: out of date questions, irrelevant questions, questions with more than one correct answer...

That’s because Vashon put the wrong engine on it. *cough needs-a-rotax cough*

Are they currently accepting applications? What are their hiring mins? Do you need a four-year degree?

As Southwest flight 147 makes its final approach, the aircraft goes off course, flying east of the runway, and reportedly gets dangerously close to the air traffic control tower

I never thought “boom” would leave the ground. Boom Aviation’s XB-1 took a giant step forward in its mission to become the third civilian-built supersonic jet today when it completed a roughly 12-minute sub-sonic test flight in the skies around California’s Mohave Desert Source: Boom’s...

I keep getting alerts from flightaware.com that my N number has been flying all around Europe in the past couple weeks. I’m assuming some bizjet is spoofing my transponder code. Is there anything I can do about this? Because, I know my airplane has been safely locked away in its hangar during...

The most useless things in aviation are runway behind you, altitude above you, and fuel you left behind.

As a CFI, who has given dozens of sign offs over the past couple years for written exams, I find two-year-expiry date to be capricious and arbitrary. In fact, I find the exams themselves to be capricious and arbitrary. They are chock full of trick questions, The best answer/the least worst...

I have a glider, that counts as a plane, right?

Six yards of Flightline, a Bucket of Propwash, and left-handed monkey wrench. (am I doing it right?)

The Alpha trainer does have centering springs - so the rudder will return to neutral. But that doesn’t mean the ball will center. The alpha trainer being a “pod and boom” design doesn’t have a lot of surface area aft the CG — therefore not a lot of natural Yaw stability. I find flying the Alpha...

True, it might corrode away. … or your temp gauge is reading 10 to 15 degrees low.

I had to stop into a tower controlled field when I did my long XC back in nineteen-eighty-*cough, cough*. Not sure if it was the regulation at the time or a rule at my part 141 puppy mill.

NOT end of story… 61.65 allows for instrument rating concurrent with private pilot practical test. § 61.65 Instrument rating requirements. (a) General. A person who applies for an instrument rating must: (1) Hold at least a current private pilot certificate, or be concurrently applying for...