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Most of us know of, and many have participated in the great experience of Young Eagles flights to introduce the joy of aviation to our youth. I've never had a bad experience and it's one of the most worthwhile things I'd spent my time and money on in aviation. To see kids get that experience...

I'm considering a change in agent/company for my aircraft insurance and was wondering if anyone here was anything positive or negative to say about Avemco? I heard a rumor that they'll drop you after any claim. Anyone had that experience?

OK, so I've been thinking a lot about the running debate that's been going on since the FAA, in it's infinite wisdom, decided that a "stabilized" approach was better to teach and safer to fly than a power off 180 to land. I personally think that it's consistent and reasonable to call a 180 power...

Hopefully, everyone that owns a plane knows by now that the FAA is requiring re-registration of your bird. What you may not appreciate unless you've already been through the process is how they're responding to the backlog of work. The FAA has published some guidelines for filing but they make...

Does anyone know if there's a way to use my Garmin 496 as an external GPS and/or XM weather receiver for an iPad? I was out looking at the GNS 5870 or the Bad-Elf devices but the best solution would be for a GPS, terrain, XM weather feed from the 496.

Does anyone know how accurate the obstacle database is in my Garmin GPS? This question is more related to how often it gets updated for new obstructions but if anyone knows of any cases where the obstacle was incorrectly positioned in the database, that would be interesting knowledge also.

here's amature video of the crash here: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1040260 And the tail mounted camera video here: http://www.redbullairrace.com/cs/Sat...ed&refmodpos=3 Watch as he rounds the 2nd pylon. He banks beyond knife edge (90 degrees) and hit the water before...

I'm considering switching my log book over to LogTen Mobile Pilot - it's a native app for the iPhone and will sync up to my Mac desktop. Does anyone have any experience with this app? If you're using a log book app that rocks and runs on a mac I'd love to hear about it as well. Thanks.