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I've been watching some local anti-airport groups, and they've taken some new strategies to try to shutdown or curtail airport activities recently. I thought I'd pass them along here so others can be on the watch for them. On one local airport's noise roundtable, the chair of the group is...

(No politics) I saw a headline that Trump is planning on doing a TV event or something from Air Force One during Biden's inauguration. Would AF1's call sign change as soon as Biden takes the oath of office? That would be interesting if AF1 was in the air when it happened -- I wonder if they...

Is there a site that will show you the tracks (from radar or ADS-B) of all the traffic at an airport for a given time period? I looked at FlightAware and FlightRadar24 and they have lists of flights (tail #, destination, etc), but I'm more interested in the actual ground track? Something like...

I found a phone case for pilots who really want everyone to know they're a pilot -- a case with a VFR sectional printed on it -- and the cool thing is you can pick which airport you want the sectional centered on. So if my gps goes out on the way back to my home airport, I can just whip out my...

KBJC 031345Z 310221G26KT 6SM OVC009 04/03 A2993 221 knots gusting to 26 kts! It makes for an unusual wind barb in Garmin Pilot. Probably see a corrected METAR soon.

I was registering on a website and had to enter my gender. Here were my choices (full disclosure: this was for an event in ultra left wing Boulder): Male Female Transgender Gender-fluid (huh??) Non-binary (huh??) Prefer not to answer Now I'm confused....

I know we've had a lot of threads on the legality of ride sharing apps... Roadie is an app that matches someone sending a package with someone driving to that same city. The rate is based on distance and urgency (I've never used it so I don't know what rates are). Would the FAA still frown on...

Sorry the picture is so bad, I took it quickly as we drove by.

The thread about medical reform mentioned GA is in a death spiral. I decided to look at the actual numbers: 5 year trend 2010 to 2015: Total pilots -5% Student pilots +3% Private pilots -15% Commercial -18% ATP +9% Note these numbers are based on the highest certificate, so if a private pilot...

What is the CFI checkride like? Does the applicant demonstrate maneuvers, landings, etc like in the private and commercial checkrides, or does the examiner do the flying while pretending to be a student and the applicant demonstrates teaching? If it's the latter, does the examiner...

I was reading the July Never Again column in the AOPA magazine where the author had inadvertently violated a TFR because he misread the DUAT briefing and the TFR was not correctly depicted on his EFB. What surprised me was the author stated the FAA made these rulings in his case: Even if a...

I saw this NOTAM in the LM briefing system today for unmanned aircraft operations: 'NOTAM UAS Operating Area DEFINED AS 3NM RADIUS OF GLL300004 SFC-5500FT DLY 1400-2300 1506241400-1506252300.' That 800 ft AGL -- I thought UAVs were restricted to 400ft? It's also interesting the LM...

After digging through the couch cushions, donating plasma, and stealing lunch money from high school kids on their way to school, I can afford to add a GDL-39 to my Garmin Pilot setup, but I'm not sure which version. It looks like the more expensive version adds attitude information, but I...

The thread about forgetting to squawk VFR reminded me of a question: I was flying from a class D airport, through class B airspace, landing at another class D airport -- all VFR. Outbound I started with 1200 as the transponder code, was assigned a code by the class B controller, handed off...

I saw that Cessna is a sponsor of the McDonald's monopoly game. The big prize is a vacation in a Cessna Jet, but they're also giving out 2 hour discovery flights as an instant win prize (I assume these are in a single engine piston and not the jet). Maybe this is the way to revitalize GA...

Does the NTSB eventually publish a probable cause for every accident? I see some accidents from a year or two ago that only have Preliminary data. I wasn't sure if these accidents were in a backlog to get worked or if some accidents are never investigated enough to determine a probable cause?

I've flown out of an airport with a part time tower (6am-10pm). I've never had the opportunity to fly during the transition from controlled to uncontrolled (or back). I was curious on how that is handled? If you're already in the airspace when the tower opens, do you need to immediately...

I was looking at the A/FD for the Air Force training areas around KCOS and KPUB. I've only gone from Denver to KPUB on a weekend when the training areas aren't being used (or used as much). What is the best strategy for transiting the area during the week with heavy training? Does KCOS...

We went to KGXY last weekend and while we were having breakfast, we saw a bright yellow Hiperbipe land and taxi in. I didn't know what it was, it's a funny looking airplane, so I had to Google it when we got home. Apparently there are 22 of them flying. Has anyone here flown one? What are...

The thread from the Alaska pilot with 400 hours and no PPL reminded me of a urban legend I heard when I first started flying: An old, long time commercial pilot flying (charters or cargo with his own plane depending on the story), is discovered to have never had any pilot certificates. The...