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ahh yes, James strikes again. It's always amusing to see a beginner attacking someone they'll never equal in a lifetime of trying. Mr Lyons, I'll not only echo Jeff's comments but add to them. It's time to lay out your business plan. As a pilot you are a contractor, you have costs, you have...

I went into airline carriage after the military. I spent nearly 4 decades flying heavies. I went through the transition from pistons to jets and helped pioneer the jet airline routes between South Africa, South America, and the far east. I made a lot of money, met a lot of good people, and saw...

One of my grandchildren lost all progress on her minecraft game after upgrading to 8. Life as we know it is ended.

Ahh yes, very serious. Failure is not an option. We are supermen, us professional pilots. Except for when we aren't. By that way that hobby pilot, back when he worked for me, flew this route in a pilot's seat 7 times a month and spent the time in between exercising his other hobby license as...

they chose a "modern machine" dating from the 1950's

I reject the notion of flying single engine aeroplanes in the dark but when I was young, I didn't have the choice of when or what to fly. Faced with an engine failure in an F86 in the dark, it was not a difficult choice to decide to read the sheet.

Criminy, is there no end to your whining? There, joined, hope you feel better.

In that case you would miss out on a great machine, as that fellow has some of the best looking, well kept aeroplanes you will find anywhere. At the same time you would not need to worry about it, I doubt he would be selling to anyone quite so full of themselves when there would be plenty of...

what is going to break on the 310 is the nosegear bellcrank. It will total the airframe but you will be unharmed. what is going to break on the neglected PA28 is the corroded wing spar. That will total the airframe and maybe take you with it. But it is easy to inspect for. So why not pull a...

This was already an old worn-out gag when I first saw it tacked on the bulletin board in flight test school. Spring of 1958.

I was in the service, a corporal serving among the few remaining cavalry. I hated every minute of it. One day I saw a sign for a “flying sergeant” programme. I didn’t know the first thing about aeroplanes but I liked the idea of being a sergeant, better yet a sergeant who didn’t have to clean...

I'm not sure what type of answer you are looking for as to how to "handle this situation". I guess it is fair to say that if it was your 310 you could park it however you like. On a related note, I cut the thistles from my paddock at the ground but my neighbor only cuts off the flowers from...

That is good advice. One of your own, JHW on this board did that very thing in one of my 421's with one engine out and one partial, in some of the most unforgiving terrain imagineable. A couple people died but a couple survived. One could clearly see from the path through the trees that they...

Best job: Flying a single seat jet seeing the world from a point of view no one else saw at that moment. Worst job: Using that jet to kill people.

Re: Would you rather learn to fly a real GA airplane or a extremely realistic flight To paraphrase, if interested in "aviation" should one practice "aviation" or engage in video games ?

Why would you think that numbers in a little book correlate with making mistakes? This morning my wife's nephew and I flew my B200 up to his weekend home to check on a reported broken water pipe. Taking the runway I forgot to turn on the strobes. Midway there he responded to a handoff for...

This time it was my yellow aztec, but yes. Again there was a young lady involved. He has been begging me for a turn in one of my harvards, I am thinking that can wait for another 20 years give or take. In the meantime I will keep their mag points in my desk.

compare an O-300 powered cessna 170/172 to one with a 4-cyl. The control hinges, instrument mounts, electrical switches, everything that moves will be worn out on the 4-cylinder version pushing 7-8k hours.

If I had such a software from someone other than jepp which covered my corner of the world, I would give thanks for it and not nitpick the edges of the paper.

Prop has either a spring or an N2 reservoir to push to flat pitch in case of loss of oil pressure. That is why the engine rpm winds up when kids do poorly-executed inverted maneuvers in airplanes without an inverted oil system. On some propellors air loads can balance other forces and it will...