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This is March. It's the month that the pickup trucks and fish camps go through the ice when I lived in Maine. Check your insurance policy.
BTW, the reason the Navy doesn't do autos to the ground, only with a power recovery, is because way back when, two or three hit side ways and...
Same story a few miles south here in the Pensacola area. USN signed a contract for 130 Leonardo TH-119's. Navy is replacing 45 TH-57B primary...
I don't think so. Way, way back when, The ADIZ covered the northern half of the state of Maine. Cub, Aeronca, T'carts, etc pilots now and then...
Had a intro to it in ground school. Have never used it except that someone at the glider field would break it out. That was once in a blue moon.
The USAF used the U-17A,B,& C in SEA, mostly Laos back in the 60's, 70's. It was a pretty much a stock Cessna 185. There was a unit with these...
Maintenance is always cheaper than buying extra aircraft to deal with a surge.
My experience w/ manning comes from my job as a Lead Pilot and base manager. Many times the Maint. Mgr and I had to put our heads together to make...
Re: the radar. Probably would not have helped anyway in this instance. Its a big dead weight installed as far up front as you can get. If 8 pax...
Yeah, but! As posted in another thread re: EMS helos, everyone now requires an inst rating to get hired. However the requirement for the 135.293...
Last years report had an annex that detailed the ADSB replies that were picked up around the vicinity. It was amazing to see how completely it was...
Sounded like the FAA investigator was defending his turf and didn't want to be culpable for failing to pull the certificate for Island Operators....
Sublimation. The H2O goes directly from solid to gas. Its important to get rid of the frost on an airplane's flying surfaces. Its like coating...
In the OLD NOLA airlane terminal. Its still worth a visit because of the depression era deco done under the WPA. Consider Bayou la Batre NE of...
Expect morning fog lifting by 0900. Jennings, LA has a motel w/parking that you can taxi to. Good place to stop is KPTN near Morgan City, LA. Stay...
A great topic. The usual wiseass comments on a serious topic. I personally knew a couple of pilots that screwed up the common, standard, well...
I'm with you on that. Everyone knows that Huey pilots have fast hands. An FAA team in Texas borrowed one of my medevac Hueys back in the mid 70's...
I used to run a military flying club that had a couple of dozen Cessnas. Two were certified aerobatic category. Or as the FAA says "acrobatic". A...
There was a ditching in the Hudson river some years back. An S-76 was departing from the Wall St heliport w/ a load of VIPs. Take off was over the...
Some years ago, I flew 135 for the energy industry in the Gulf of Mexico. Good training with the raft, mae wests and trips in the dunker on a...
