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These are great products (Verizon has a similar one) as long as you are in/near major metro areas. Elsewhere, your speed can drop to 40-70kps with 144 kbps bursts ... not very impressive, so check the coverage maps to avoid surprises.

While I don't have advice for profitable aviation activities, I can strongly recommend charitable flying groups such as Angel Flight as a way to use your aviation skills. Your medical background could also be very useful in outreach activities for such organizations. Perhaps you'll find some...

Just some new highs & lows: New High - Flew 17 Angel Flight missions New Low - Flew only about 120 hrs, well under 140-150 avg past 5 yrs New High - Met Ed Frederick during his stop in the Big SKy! New Low - Cost of my annual this year!! Happy New Year to everyone!!

From AOPA... Rocket Engineering Corp. recently announced that it is halfway through the supplemental type certification (STC) process for its Turbine Pressurized/Baron and expects certification in about a year. Right now, the company is preparing to install the Pratt & Whitney PT6A engines on...

Anybody else having difficulty looking up N-number with Yahoo Search? Previously, you could highlight an N-number, right click and select an option to "Search the web for xxxxxxx". That would return a link in the search results to search the FAA registry for the N-Number and if you clicked...

I was not aware that you could enter multiple times. I hate to tell everyone this but the individual that won my current plane (99 Archer) in Flying Magazine's giveaway submitted 3000 entries! That was $1K in postage then and a whole lot of time writing/mailing. The US Postal Service will now...

I just take speed at face value...nothing fancy...change in distance/unit of time, dx/dt. If you travel down the runway at 30 kts you cover roughly 50ft/sec. If the conveyor moves you backward at 50ft/sec. you still have 30kts relative to the moving runway but 0kts relative to an outside...

Again, picture this in reverse. Let me start the treadmill backward at 5 kts. You add power to maintain a stationary position. What is your speed? Are you moving? Have you not matched the "speed" of the belt, just the reverse of the problem? You are moving relative to the belt and have a "speed"...

Great stuff! Agreed but if I can always move the treadmill fast enough, I can offset that. On face value, the problem said the treadmill moves backward to match. I fully agree with Missa that the question leaves out enough so that we could debate this forever :( But key here is that the...

My 99 Archer was Flying Magazine's prize plane to another individual. I purchased it in 2000 and unfortunately I failed to ask him how much he had to cough up to the IRS and how it was valued. I was reading the latest article in AOPA and it shows past planes and their "current" owners. Most...

OK, hang with me Chuck, I'm really trying to understand this and your input is great. Let's take an airboat in Florida. It floats but has propulsion from a prop just like our airplane example, hence we don't need to get hung up on motive force. Lets put the airboat in a fast flowing stream with...

Clever guy Ed ;) Hey, are you flying that Bo yet?

I know that several here are already expecting to take delivery. When you do, how will you determine the market value in order to settle up with the IRS? AOPA typically posts a figure "valued at $xxxxx", but in reality, who would pay that much? Usually the prize planes are loaded with goodies...

You said that this would bring a good debate and indeed you were so correct. Rather than responding to all the individual posts, I’ll try to consolidate here. Unfortunately, the fan/skateboard video posted by Nav8tor is not a very well controlled experiment (Nav8tor just offered it without...

Well Michael, I had hoped that my Socratic questions would illicit a different response...so you see it must be hemlock, not hanging ;)

But you said...A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the...

I still have a question: If the airplane gains airpseed while on the moving belt (yet is stationary with repsect to ground observers) the second it lifts off the belt it would have to accelerate instantly to liftoff airspeed to remain flying even just an inch off the belt, right? That would...

Thanks for the acronym enrichment ;) DH

After seeing several posts mentioning FlightAware's flight tracking site, www.flightaware.com I visited the site to check our daughter's flight back to U of A, Tucson yesterday. Pretty cool I thought! Then I checked my local airport, Glacier Park International (KGPI) and got an error that the...

Annual direct costs for my 1999 Archer over the past 6 years have run about $10K, with reserves I'd guess closer to $14K. Annuals have run $2K-3K, generally closer to $2400/yr. I fly 130-150 hrs/yr and get things fixed when they need it. Yr 5 was the most expensive annual as most pumps (fuel...