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https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/catalina-island-airport-california-intl/index.html *News (oops)

Bristol is west of the extended centerline into 20R. Not sure what happened. http://abc7.com/4-killed-when-small-plane-crashes-in-santa-ana-parking-lot-police-say/3888883/ Edit: John Wayne is KSNA in Orange County, CA.

Heard this on the way home yesterday: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Breaking-Plane-land-Golf-Course-Orange-County-484358221.html

It was a little windy out there, but yesterday I had a nice flight to Palomar (KCRQ) to bring back some fancy beer from a nearby brewery called Lost Abbey.:)

I had a physical exam setup with my regular doctor, so I filled out a BasicMed form and showed it to him to see if he would fill out his portion and counter-sign it. Had my physical. No problem. Even my anus is qualified to fly it seems. So, Done. The privileges from BasicMed are fine for...

POSSIBLY true statement: "When using aileron deflection to roll-back to wings level on final approach at the end of the base to final turn, you can have a stall spin accident by failing to use coordinated rudder with the aileron because aileron drag will yaw the plane into a skid." I think...

Relative to FAR 91.213(d), and assuming daytime VFR, what are examples of instruments or equipment that can be discovered at the plane, deactivated, and placarded "INOP" right then and there without a logbook entry?

I'm embarrassed to ask, but if you fly into an airport, what's a good "Plan B" if all the transient spots are occupied? (other than flying away, ha). What's the etiquette here? Find a vacant patch of dirt next to the paved ramp? Towered vs. non-towered? Thanks!

I bought a power washer and my friend directed me to a subreddit where people oddly and surprisingly bask in the glory of their power washing conquests. And, while there, I stumbled across this aviation related GIF...

So, this was a new one for me. I rented my favorite Cessna 172 to fly from John Wayne (KSNA) to Redlands (KREI) to buy beer at Hangar 24 - a righteous mission if ever there was one. The preflight was fine, including my making sure the trim wheel was in the “take-off” position. I moved the...

Hey all. Sorry if already asked, but I can't find anything. I am trying to use ForeFlight on a new (to me) iPhone 6S Plus. It shows me the "Menu" and "FPL" buttons when oriented vertically, but they go away if oriented horizontally. Do I have to rotate it back to vertical to access these...

I'm going to fly from John Wayne (KSNA) to San Luis Obispo (KBSP) to visit my son at Cal Poly. I'm planning to use the “Special Flight Rules Area” to fly northwesterly through the LAX bravo at 4500 AGL (see below), and then head up along the coast. Oddly, I've flown several other transitions...

Hey all - A friend of mine is training in a Beech Skipper. Do any of you have a generic POH in PDF format, or a link to one? Thanks!

I made a fun flight today to Big Bear (L35), a little mountain airport in Southern California. It’s located generally to the northeast of my home airport, John Wayne (SNA). The peaks are 1-2,000 feet higher on either side, but Big Bear valley is about 7,000 feet, so the eastbound altitude...

My friend’s high school son wants to learn to fly. This fall, he's going to start at Pomona College. I figure he'd be well served to learn at Brackett Field (KPOC) or at Cable (KCCB ) since they're so close to school. Can any of you recommend any flight schools or instructors based out of...

The photo below shows the autopilot circuit breaker ("CB") in one of the Cessna 172's I'm now training in. Isn't this CB supposed to be "pullable?" To my untrained eye, the autopilot CB only looks like it's designed to be pushed back in if it pops opens, but not manually pulled out...

Under "Securing Airplane," in addition to items like tie-downs, chocks, control lock, etc., my flight school's Cessna 172 checklist says "Prop... VERTICAL". Why does this matter? Is there some substantive reason for proactively doing this? I'm not super excited about hand turning the prop...

Yet another dumb question. One of the school's rental 172s has a GNS 530 and I'm trying to figure out if it has WAAS capability. What's the easiest way to tell? Do these manuals from the plane make it clear that it does have WAAS?, i.e. does the "W" stand for WAAS, as opposed to Weather?

Hey all, I'm confused about this. The excerpt below is from pages 5-20 to 5-21 of the FAA’s Instrument Flying Handbook. I am confused by the highlighted assertion that “[t]he inclinometer … does not indicate slip.” Is this true? Or, is this whole sentence a confusing mashup of needle...

Courtesy of my kids...