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Next time, try hitting VFR again.

Random guess: many FBOs leave the keys in a lockbox or the office for after-hours access. There's nothing preventing a club member from taking out an aircraft in which she's not checked out. (...other than club rules, insurance company rules, common sense, good aeronautical decision making...

I found it, though I cannot imagine how you typo'ed Roselawn so that it was bowdlerized (I did amuse myself trying to guess, however): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eagle_Flight_4184

Never heard of THIMK so you inspired me to look it up: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=720433

"the G in humps" is pretty good ;). I was just talking about this issue with my CFI today while finishing a checkout in the Cherokee Six. Some tidbits: - Definitely we should think carefully about when to replace a known-working source of fuel with a probably-working source. At a...

FWIW I did my primary training with Rainier Flight Service back when they were still a 2-person outfit at BFI. I'm still alive :) and would be happy to answer questions.

Serious question: how do you propose to assess whether a potential passenger -- or her family -- "can't accept the risks involved"? Not picking on you Jordan, as a few other posts said basically the same thing. (sixpacker I have often wondered this myself and look forward to some deeper...

I think you got these backwards. I appreciate the challenge of a good xwind landing but I think the most I've actually faced was 25020G25 for 30 at SQL. It is my habit to make at least three landings any time I go up (sometimes I need that 90 day currency window), but on that day I was...

And on a 182 you do a pretty good simulation of a ground loop ;)

http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=77993

What happened when you called the phone number?

Ok cool, looks like this is the pub I linked in my last post so I guess I found the right resource. Thanks. I agree with this. I saw something that I had questions about and I'm asking them of a group with a lot of experience. If that makes me an airport cop then you have the right to...

Maybe you're talking about 3-10-3. SAME RUNWAY SEPARATION in https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ATpubs/ATC/atc0310.html Uncontrolled field (sorry, I meant to include that in my OP; thanks to flyingron for answering this also). Unsurprisingly the ATC publication doesn't seem to...

Today featured some of that fine California "winter" weather that drives up the local cost of living. It was so nice that Half Moon Bay (HAF) wasn't buried in fog, so I popped over the hill for a few landings. (There's no diagram in the A/FD so refer to...

I can't decide if I think this is metonymy or synecdoche.

I'm a relative noob and I'm not sure I understand exactly what was happening with the cowling but... This doesn't sound like an emergency to me. I would not declare mayday, squawk 7700, get on the ground immediately, etc. Depending on how bad the flutter is, I would consider slowing down a...

How far were you from your home airport (or any airport) when you noticed? After you noticed it, did it get worse or stay the same?

This is my favorite part:

Hi Reno, I have a similar amount of experience as you and got my HP endorsement in a 182 this summer. The process took longer than I expected, almost all of that time focused on cleaning up my landings -- faster groundspeed, big heavy nose, things get interesting fast if you get behind the...

Four. Fewer if you or the "pax" is an amputee, more if you're using the ice in the back to transport flatfish. Edit: I'm too slow but at least I added a bonus fish joke :)