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Watching that clip made me sick to my stomach. The aircrew didn’t stand a chance. Condolences and best wishes to their families.

There were approximately 70,000 student certificates issued last year, so the answer is no. How many of them are career wannabes we don’t know.

No question that the commercial ops have switched to turbine equipment. Looking at FlightAware here early on a Sunday morning, there are 17 each of Caravans and PC-12s flying, one Navajo, 7 Cessna 402s (5 are Cape Air), and one Cessna 421. I think this changeover was pretty well finished in the...

Earlier this year I started grabbing some numbers from FlightAware on which and how many general aviation airplanes were flying. To be more specific, I was interested in those that are typically owner/renter flown, or user for tra. I pulled down the numbers from FlightAware's Airborne Aircraft...

The Feds have released the U.S. Civil Airmen Statistics are now available. I'm a numbers guy and find this stuff interesting, and if you do too, this should make for an interesting discussion. First up, the total pilot count: The pilot count is up, pretty much across the board, save for the...

We always cook our bacon on the grill, but in a sheet pan. It keeps the kitchen clean and smelling fresh. We also have a bacon press which helps cook the bacon evenly.

Here's one: Aerotrek $130,000 base, your choice of trigear or taildragger. Looks like a pleasant little around-the-patch kind of airplane. If you wanted to get into aviation with a new airplane, you could probably get one of these with the few options you'd need and your light sport rating...

I thought that LSAs were built to an ASTM standard, not any FARs.

If you go back to the mid 20th century, there were many more privately owned public use airports than there are now. As real estate became more expensive, these airports closed and became office parks and housing developments, the revenue they generated wasn't enough to keep the land from being...

So, would a bipolar pilot be better off flying a biplane?

I used to make Steak au Poivre, but I can’t eat it anymore, I spend the next four hours sweating after consuming all that pepper. Sure is tasty, though. Making Chicken Marsala tomorrow, which is another classic recipe that’s gone out of fashion but is well worth making.

That is a BRS. I'd guess that the pilot was trying to land and lost control. To land a trike you fly it close to the ground and throttle back. If his ground track would put a significant side load on the landing gear the carriage could flip, or if he dragged a wingtip this would be the end result.

That's a light sport trike, uses a hang glider style wing and is steered with weight shift, two axis control only. They're usually bought complete as an SLSA, but I suppose you could take one into ELSA rules. They're definitely not something you'd want to fly in a lot of wind or turbulence.

When I take the dogs out, I carry a watering can. Diluting the urine keeps it from burning the grass.

I try to avoid people that are behaving like that. This is the South, you never know if they might start shooting.

Buy a chair base and make an attachment with some square tubing.

I pulled out my logbook, I have six flights in Schweitzers 2-33 and 2-22. IIRC it was not difficult to land, learning to land the Grumman AA-1s i trained in was much more difficult. With the glider, you just fly along close to the ground until you touch down, then put on the brake. The trainers...

Nosewheel?

When it is just about stopped.