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Heard from a fellow pilot that a well known flight school on Long Island (Ventura at Republic) appears to be liquidating. See this announcement: Anyone know the backstory there? On the surface a flight school shutting its doors wouldn't be odd, but I had always heard they were very busy and...

The ask: Please drop a quick note to HPNMasterPlancomments@westchestergov.com and ask that light GA is better included in the airport's master planning process, and to ensure access to the light GA facilities is preserved. If you've personally used KHPN, please state that and say why it's...

Called flight service (WX Brief) this morning and was bombarded with a survey that you're forced to complete before they play the normal menu and let you push a number to get to a human. What kind of nonsense is this? Anyone else getting this? Asking me to do a voluntary survey when I done or...

When on IFR flights I frequently get asked two questions by controllers when en-route that seem a bit silly and I'm trying to understand what's going on: 1 ATC: Are you an IFR flight? Me: Affirmarive ATC: Roger, thanks 2 ATC: What route are you on? Me: (read off the segment of my flight...

Apparently a textbook missed approach on a crosswind landing is news: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3818049/Nerve-wracking-moment-plane-MISSES-runway-forced-try-second-landing-getting-caught-crosswind.html Keep in mind this is the same fine publication that thought a photo of a solar...

You are cleared for takeoff by tower with the instruction "turn right on course." Airport is in mountainous terrain and has an ODP that says fly runway heading till 2000' AGL before any turns. Your flight plan has a VOR about 40 miles away as the first fix. Because of the mountains there's no...

I've noticed an odd pattern recently where there will be like 5-7 airplanes with filed flight plans all arriving/departing the same airport to the same desitination at exactly the same times (i.e. 7 small jets all departing at 5:37 am). Closer inspection shows these aircraft are all registered...

Sad situation. Initial indications are that the pilot was in hard IMC and had a vacuum failure. The plane then broke up mid-Air and fell over a 2 mile stretch of Long Island. Seems possible the pilot lost control and overstressed the airframe, but of course the NTSB will do their thing...

Filed an IFR flight plan with ForeFlight the other day and was surprised to see it come back saying it was filed via "CSC DUATS" using the ForeFlight DUATS account. I thought ForeFlight was filing via Lockheed now unless you log in with a DUATS account (and I'm not logged in with a DUATS...

Was discussing with a fellow pilot all the things that happened during or shortly after training where we said "that wasn't designed to happen, but great that it did. Too bad that can't be an official part of training." A lot of it falls into things that one should have experience with handling...

Discussion came up today and interested in a clarification. Pilot flies from airport A to B (more than 50 nm apart) via an IFR flight plan. Pilot coordinates with ATC to do an intentional missed approach, continues into the hold and does a few laps there then comes back and does a second...

Was in the east last week and was pleasantly surprised by the great service I got from NY controllers. Two examples: 1) Few a flight VFR from Western NJ to pickup a friend at Republic (KFRG) and had flight following from NY TRACON. Got towards the edge of the NYC super-bravo on the northwest...

Just a curious technical question. Com radios typically have an output of 10-15 watts but I was surprised to see that the transponder radio has an output of around 250 watts. Why does the transponder put out such a strong signal (relative to comms). Would have expected a bit more perhaps but...

The following NASA report (465074) is quite interesting, both because of what happened but also because the person that wrote it seems to not have understood what really happened here even though all the evidence is right there in the text. What really happened here was the airliner in Class...

On a recent vacation a family member rented from an FBO. Rentals were made from this FBO before so the transaction and flight were smooth. After the flight the aircraft was returned and checked back in by FBO personnel without incident. Invoice was paid and that was that. No issues with the...

Long story short a colleague of mine recently had a mid-air encounter with a bird. Flight landed safely without issue. Likely not the same for the bird. Impact caused some minor damage to the leading edge of the pilot-side wing, although with no detectible change in flight performance. The...

Most family and friends are supportive and excited by my interest in aviation. Of course occasionally I get accosted by some that seem to thing I'm nuts. I assume I'm not alone in having friends/family tell me: "You're crazy, do you know how dangerous that is!" (says the person that drives a...

I've heard differing instructions on the point of should the transponder be switched to standby when changing codes and am curious to hear input from others, especially a controller or anyone with knowledge of what ATC sees. I've seen some that as a habit switch to standby, enter the new code...