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Anybody familiar with area? Debating btwn dsm and Kikv.

Looking for new places to explore...within an hour-1.5 hours flight from the Illinois/Wisconsin border (based at 5K6)....More then a lunch stop, some place we could spend a few hours checking out? Sort of like a Galena..(unfortunately there seems to be no easy way to get to Galena from Dubuque...

Unfortunately I think it happens every year.... single engine piper, en route to Oshkosh from Racine,WI..crashed a few miles offshore into Lake Michigan...possibly 4 people on board..2 bodies recovered so far...

Haven't seen this posted yet so hopefully it's not a dupe...poor newscaster just doesn't get the joke. http://youtu.be/Xocs-LHzoV0

I'm cheap, so I figured I'd ask before I go buy a new one...Anyone have a RAM Yoke Mount X-Grip for the iPad Mini they wanna get rid of?

Now that I'm no-longer training I'm at a lost at what to put in the remarks common in my logbook...What's everybody? I was debating putting the WX Info for that flight (What the crosswind/etc was) to keep track of my minimums/abilities...

Stratus 1st Gen price dropped to $699 http://www.sportys.com/Pilotshop/product/17165 Stratus 2nd gen now $899 http://www.sportys.com/Pilotshop/product/17996 Maybe this will finally put some cheaper used 1st gen stratus's for sale on the market to help us guys out who couldnt afford...

I'm studying for my oral prep...the DPE provided me with a bunch of areas of study/review/questions/etc....and I'm stumped on this one..which I'm sure i'm just missing the obvious... "Do you understand that an MEL (Minimum Equipment List in this case) is unlikely to apply to you as a Private...

Anybody know where I can rent one? I've got a long-distance flight planned for this summer/fall..and don't know if I can justify $800 for something I'd only use at most five times a year...Just think it would be a nice extra safety layer to have for my longer-flights and wouldn't mind playing...

Student pilot, solo...i fly out of an uncontrolled airport so my atc-interaction experience is very limited. I flew into a class D yesterday to do 3-full stop landings. First landing, no issues..taxi'd back..on initial call-up to the tower i advised I wanted to stay in the pattern to do some...

Interesting story...Jasper,Alabama...Student-pilot (sounds like a teenager) and 2 of his friends steal a twin Comanche in bad weather late at night and ends up crashing it killing everybody.... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/deadly-alabama-plane-crash_n_2397265.html Guess they...

Ok..I'm going to take the plunge and pickup a iPad as a gift for myself...I'll probably mostly use it for flying but occasional web surfing/time-passer.... do I get an iPad 2 or iPad mini? I fly primarily a C172... I can get a refurb ipad 2 32gb w/3g for $479 or an iPad mini 3g 32gb for...

This was in my local newspaper, regarding a flight center at my local airport Lake in the Hills/3CK... Thought it was interesting... Article can be read here at http://www.nwherald.com/2012/11/07/fired-lith-pilot-awarded-500k/a4udogf/ But, basically in 2009 this flight center fired a...

Hey, its this guy that solo'd yesterday! (sorry, its cheesy but it makes me laugh)...Just got my videos back from my CFI and posted to YouTube...Hopefully I can get some worthy critism other then just YOU SUCK! I felt I needed to flare more..I came in a bit high, and as a result of trying to go...

After 35.7 hours and about 130 landings I have finally solo'd! Winds were calm to start the morning out with...I did two decent landings, on the 3rd/4th my instructor pulled the engine to idle on my downwind/start to base legs and established best glide speed and coasted back tot he airport...

I'm having a horrible time remembering what directions to put the ailerons while taxing..does anybody have any easy way of remembering it? Very frustrating to be struggling with such a basic thing I just can't seem to remember! Especially when i'm already fine tuning my landings and hopefully...

I've got 9 landings under my belt so far..and I'm just having a horrible time maintaining the center line..my instructor said I'm letting the plane fly me instead of me flying the plane and I need to be more authoritive on my inputs. My last landing I used the rudder more and that helped a...

I think this is the 3rd crash within a week in Chicagoland.. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/aurora/chi-officials-no-one-hurt-as-plane-lands-in-aurora-cornfield-20120725,0,4356975.story Bonanza en route from Cali to OSH..lost power after departure...

I was doing my pre-flight the other day and I was thinking about the exterior lights on the airplane. Why is it that I never see anybody turning on all exterior lights during their pre-flight to verify they are all working? I'd think this would be a good idea..i'd rather find a light bulb thats...

Hey All! I'm about 7 hours into my flight training out of Westosha/Wilmont,WI and my instructor & I were working on slow flight yesterday. For some reason I was having a very hard time seeing any drift and using the rudder to correct it during slow flight training. i've got the concept of right...