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    Commercial Checkride Today

    After two weather cancellations last week, I took my ASEL Commercial Checkride today and passed :D Write up to come.
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    Aircraft down in Delaware near KEVY

    Looks like at least one fatality :( http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=7365309
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    A question about the revised aeronautical experience requirements for commercial cert

    The latest rev to 61.129 (4) (Aeronautical Experience for a commercial certificate) allows an instructor to be on board the airplane for the 300 nm X-C and night TO&Ls at a controlled field. So a commercial candidate could meet the requirements by flying the entire 10 hrs either solo or with an...
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    Hey..That's Ted!

    So I'm sitting here looking at the pictures in the Windwood thread with the 11:00 ABC news on the TV and I hear the News Anchor say something about lucky dogs. I look over at the TV and there's Ted and the Aztruck! It was just a teaser for the upcoming stories. I'm waiting for the full story...
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    T-34 time

    I recently joined the flying club at Willow Grove NAS mainly to fly their two T-34 Mentors. The past two weekends I got some dual as part of the checkout. To be checked out I’ll need a minimum of five hours time in type and flights with two instructors. Before the first flight I had read...
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    Skydiving at N10 in PA

    For those of you who fly in the Philadelphia area be aware that skydiving operations started today at N10 (Perkiomen Valley). This is the outfit that used to be at Kutztown until the airport closed and the operation has been moved to Perk Valley permanently. I was there today and they already...
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    Departing after TFR expiration

    I'm scheduled to fly in the vicinity of KILG from 3 - 6 on Monday but there's a Presidential TFR in the Phila area on Monday that's scheduled to end at 3:45. Its a traffic watch flight, so filing a flight plan isn't an option and I'll have to loiter in the area.Obviously I'll have to wait until...
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    NTSB Report - Predator Crash - Pilot Error

    Interesting article about the first UAV accident investigated by the NTSB (you'll need to log in). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101602040.html?sub=AR Huh:dunno: ???
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    Hot Master Switch

    I had an experience last weekend which will lead me to be much more cautious in the future when turning on the master switch. I had heard of hot mags, where the mags can fire even with the mag switch in the off position, but I wasn't aware, until last weekend, that its possible to have a "hot...
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    Blue Angels lose one

    CNN is reporting that a Blue Angels jet crashed into a residential area during an airshow in SC.
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    Track Up or North Up?

    What's your preference?
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    Bungee Powered airplane

    Wow..... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/24/giant_model_plane/
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    Simflyer add-on avionics for MSFS

    Anyone have any experience with this..... http://www.simflyer.net/gnsv4.html It looks pretty good and it would allow me to shoot approaches in MSFS with the avionics in the Archer I rent.
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    Washington Post Article on NTSB backlog

    Interesting article in today's Washington Post. Apparently the NTSB is sending Investigators to fewer accident scenes than in previous years, and there is a concern about the potential impact on aviation safety...
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    Logging PIC if without current medical or BFR

    Logging PIC without current medical or BFR I don't have a current medical or BFR. Today I flew with a friend in his plane and I was sole manipulator of the controls for about 2.3 hours. I'm rated in the category & class of the airplane. Can I log this as PIC even though I'm not current? Lee
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    Firefox won't stop loading

    Lately when I open Firefox the pages seem to just keep loading. The little circle in the upper right hand corner that spins when pages load just keeps going around and around and around and It doesn't stop when I click on the stop loading page. It doen't seem to effect the content the page...
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    Banner plane down off Cape May NJ

    http://www.kyw1060.com/news_story_detail.cfm?newsitemid=47532
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    Instrument training with a glass cockpit

    In another thread involving options for instrument training in the Phila area, two of the recomended FBO's have aircraft with glass cockpits. This got me thinking about the relative advantages/disadvantages of training with state of the art glass cockpits versus traditional steam gauges. I...
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    Blimp down in Fla

    You don't see many of these crash... http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/17/blimp.down.ap/index.html
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    Civil tiltrotor resumes flight test

    After a two year delay, the BA-609 has resumed test flights... "Bell/Agusta test pilots reaching milestones on BA609 flights Fort Worth Star Telegram 06/16/05 author: Bob Cox Copyright 2005 Test pilots for Bell/Agusta Aerospace Co. have begun the long process of flight tests on the...
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