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Anybody know what happened to chartbundle.com? I've been using their sectional chart overlays for google earth for a while now, it was a great flight planning tool. But the other day they didn't come up, and the chartbundle.com website seems to have disappeared. Or, anybody know of an...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/assemblyman-flying-small-plane-makes-emergency-landing/story?id=97961383 Looks like he did ok until he forgot to flare.

I was taking advantage of today's warm weather to go flying, a rare winter day warm enough for open cockpit and on a weekend. I had just departed the Chester (SNC, an uncontrolled airport) pattern to check out a big smoke to the east, still tuned to CTAF, when I heard: "Chester tower, Cherokee...

I finally got around to editing the video from last fall's trip:

(4 months later) http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2022/03/aeronca-11ac-chief-incident-occurred.html?sc=1670637476639#c1498435488200209493

I had occasion to travel from Connecticut to Toronto on business with my boss and another engineer this week, BDL-LGA-YYZ, first time I've flown commercial in some time, and first time I can remember flying in such a small airliner (CRJ900). I was following along with Avare on my phone to the...

OK, 90 years and 4 days, I forgot to post this on Friday... we had a birthday party for my 90 year old aunt, and they had a copy of the newspaper from the day she was born... on the front page there were a couple of aviation items. 14 planes caught in bad weather, 4 damaged, and one... broken...

So I've been a Comcast customer for years, ever since they bought out the local cable company. We gave up on TV years ago but still have cable for internet. Now Frontier as strung fiber up our street, promising over 10X faster speeds at roughly the same price. The thing is, I've had a...

I'm ready for my flight review and the CFI suggested I do the ground portion online. I see there are several paid options (Sportys, Gliem, etc.), at least one free option, and the FAA's own WINGS course ALC-25: Flight Review Prep Guide. What's not clear if that one FAA course is sufficient...

I had a really nice trip in the Hatz this weekend. It was a trip I’ve wanted to do for over thirty years. I got into serious backpacking a few years after learning to fly and buying a Taylorcraft My first few multi-day backpacking trips were in the Adirondacks, where I discovered that Marcy...

...my wife finally consented to go flying with me. We had a number of flying "adventures" in my T-Craft in our twenties that left her with no desire to fly with me again (stupid twentysomething that I was), and then I had a string of single seat aircraft. But today, we flew the Hatz from Chester...

This has been discussed peripherally before, but... I'm looking for suggestions for an audio recorder to work with the "lav mike in the headset earcup" setup. I want to do it this way because my cameras don't pick up much but wind noise (open cockpit airplane); I want some ambient and engine...

Did something change on the forum? Or is it my new computer? When I hover the cursor over a topic, I used to get a popup displaying part of the first post in the thread. Now, I just get a tooltip saying, "go to first unread message." On other Xenforo sites the contents popup still works...

If I wanted to depart from Katama (1B2) and then make a VFR transition through the MVY class D westbound along the shoreline at or below 1000' before turning NW toward Cuttyhunk and the mainland, where and when should I contact the MVY tower? The D starts only 1/2 mile from the airport so...

I have two DC H10-13 headsets, integrated into the leather helmets for open cockpit flying. They came with the plane and seem to work fine, though I have nothing to compare them to, and it's a noisy plane. The gel ear seals are kind of wrinkly, is that normal? Or are they supposed to be...

Time for another hearing aid thread? I’m reluctantly concluding I need to do something about my hearing as my wife’s been telling me for years… wish we knew 45 years ago that flying without hearing protection and nothing but the cabin speaker for radio was a bad thing? Of course rifles and...

I've wanted to do this trip for awhile but weather and other factors never aligned until this past weekend. Actually I wanted to fly up to Marcy Field in the Adirondacks but the weather there was forecast bad, so this was the alternate... Mt. Greylock state forest in Massachussetts. Saturday...

I have a friend living in Rockland Country, NY (about 30 miles north of NYC) who's interested in learning to fly. His interest is in fun flying, the homebuilt/bush/acro simple side of flying. Are there any flight schools within a reasonable drive that aren't looking to train students to fly...

There is nothing like cracking a cold beer and sitting in a comfortable chair in the hangar after a long cruise along the beach at 500' in an open cockpit biplane on a warm spring afternoon. That is all.

I was adding oil to my engine and saw this in the [clean] funnel: Oil is Phillips Victory 20W50 (with the Lycoming additive). Anybody seen anything like this? The gentle shaking of the remainder in the bottle during the drive home mixed it back in, but it settled out again in a week or so...