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does anyone know Rick Vargas? wingwalker pilot The FAA airman database is your friend here, with records back to the 1970's. go to https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/Main.aspx enter *your* name, address, etc. to access the database enter 'vargas' for last name and 'ri' for...

Whoa. Is this "screening" just going to be some mindless BMI calculation, or will it be by some other hopefully evidence-based method? My own experience is that excess weight was a consequence of sleep apnea, not a cause of it, gaining 1-3 pounds a year over a few decades. I got on the...

I try to be very careful with the word "clear." Around Bravo airspace, particularly in the DC SFRA, you have the phrases, "cleared into the Bravo" and "remain clear of Bravo" which I think might be confusing with the use of "clear" in both phrases. I tend to prefer "remain outside Bravo"...

This was how I was taught, too. But the last time I returned to my base and made this request, the FBO's operator, who in this case doesn't have line of sight to the runway, was completely confused as to what runway was being used. There's my nomination for something I don't care to hear on the...

This is pretty much my thinking - and as for being on your game, in my case, I first went out and flew a flight plan through a few waypoints using the GPS to make sure I had everything set up right, since the GPS is still new equipment for me. Looking at the recorded track, it appears I was...

GAI is pretty much your only choice, which I haven't found to be busy except maybe late afternoons and evenings during the week lately. Suburban is short and surrounded by trees, and Leesburg has its own simplified procedures coming in from the west (just a squawk code). The one other nit I...

Well, if it counts for anything I'd agree it is intimidating, but after a few times through it gets to be routine. I'd taken over 10 years off and the new procedures with the SFRA were daunting on top of coming up to speed on everything else at the same time, but being based at GAI I had little...

Never. Avoiding those boundaries is *my* job, just pointing out the ostensible reason we're having to file flight plans and talk to ATC outside Bravo space in the SFRA, where allegedly 3 pairs of eyes are following our every move.

Since we're now all required to be in contact with ATC while flying through here, I would think the whole point of that is that I'd be warned away from the FRZ boundary in short order if it looked to anyone at a 'scope that I was on a course to penetrate it. The same may not be true of the Bravo...

I learned to fly in this area in the late 90's and without a GPS, and back then accepted practice as taught to me was as Ron says: make your way through the widest areas of the flyways at 1400 feet or so. I prefer to fly higher than that over "congested" places whenever possible, so I was...

I take from this (the four words I've bolded) that you're proposing that the hazard is not that of someone actually doing something that is in reality harmful. Instead, you propose that the hazard is that, if certain actions like flying over private property are permitted, someone might say they...

Not to trivialize the impact of so-called "animal rights" activists, with whom I've personally tangled at some expense... but the idea that mad cow or any other infectious disease would ever be spread by ultralights flying over feedlots is absurd.