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  1. IK04

    Total Solar Eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024

    My house is in the 100% totality coverage area and the Killeen (ILE) and Lampasas (LZZ) airports are inside the 100% area, too. There are several other airports in the totality path, such as Burnet (BMQ) and Horseshoe Bay (DZB). The ability of these airports to handle an overflow of parked...
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    Concrete circles marking old airfields

    NAS Beeville had a gigantic round "runway" with a wind sock in the middle of it, so the cadets could always land into the wind. It is long gone now. Marine Corps Outlying Field Mile Square (MCOLF) was named after Mile square farm, but it did have three runways and an apron that was nearly a...
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    Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

    I had a passenger die while in flight from a small village in Alaska. I called and changed the souls on board and requested an ambulance. There were no questions asked...
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    Concrete circles marking old airfields

    If you look at some of the WW2 era airfields, you can see concrete circles. They were the reinforcement for the dirigible/airship touchdown area and circled the mooring mast. Look at Houma, LA, Lakehurst,NJ and of course, Akron, OH.
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    Previously Owned Aircraft--Do you stalk them?

    It's a resized 800X600 JPG file. I'll see if a different file loads OK, then give up ;) Update: Nope. nothing works.
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    Previously Owned Aircraft--Do you stalk them?

    I found the C-150 in which I did most of my PP training in Iowa. It also has a spiffy new paint job in the Flightaware photo, but the FAA registration page shows it expired. I tried to post the photo, but I get an error every time I try. What's up with that, admins?
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    4th Annual Mount Toberfest Fly In and Campout

    Looks like a well organized event. Tragedy it was canceled.
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    Life-Changing Bands (or Songs)

    Not life changing because of the song, but what was going on when I heard it: Parthenon Huxley- "Guest Host For The Holy Ghost."
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    Previously Owned Aircraft--Do you stalk them?

    I found my STOL 1976 C-150. It has a normal paint job now, since the hideous baby **** brown factory color was changed immediately after I sold it. Cessna called it "Antigua Gold." OK, how do I resize images in this new forum software?
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    EPA Finds Small Airplanes Cause Dangerous Lead Pollution

    The local criminals have been trying every angle to close Reid-Hillview for 40 years. The lobbyists have worked their way up to the equivalent criminals in the federal government and the out of control EPA has yet another crusade to save us all from those evil airplanes and the poison raining...
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    Maryland - Aerial Jettison of Cremated Remains (over water)

    I built a "ash dispersal container" out of a plastic bag and a sock. The plastic bag lined sock had two lengths of 550 cord, one tied to the inside end and the other wrapped around the sealed open end. The bag would be slowly trailed behind the airplane until it was aft of the tail and then...
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    IFR Cessna 140/120

    My C-150 was IFR and I flew it in IMC a few times. I flew a C-120 IFR once. That was back when large parts of the Central Valley in California was non-radar and I had to make full reports. Never again!
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    Does the >150NM Solo Cross Country require 3 landings at controlled airfields? Is my CFI wrong??

    Well, of course, we had more common sense and a virtuous belief in honesty back then... I was well into my instrument rating before I found out people were putting bogus hours in their logbooks. It never occurred to me.
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    Does the >150NM Solo Cross Country require 3 landings at controlled airfields? Is my CFI wrong??

    I had my logbook signed by the fuel guy on my first solo XC in 1978. I didn't ask him; he volunteered to do it when I told him it was my first solo XC. Later, I don't remember if I even suggested it to my students. It just doesn't matter. Your log book is an official record and you can add...
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    Chinese passenger seat display showing knots and feet

    If it was a Boeing product, they provide that display, so it is in English. It costs extra to add a customer's language. Airbus is probably the same...
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    Hover Training

    I think it all boils down to whether "lateral boundaries of controlled airspace designated to the surface for an airport" applies to non-movement areas on a Class D airport. There are all kinds of tricks that can be used by helicopters to get in some hover time while it's IFR; some of them are...
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    Daily Pic

    Humbug... Internal combustion engines were supposed to be compression ignition. If they hadn't killed off Rudy Diesel, all this gasoline nonsense would never had happened. Spark plugs are for losers... (IMHO) ;)
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    Comfortable silence?

    I once did a nonstop, non-refueled IFR/VFR flight of over 800 miles and never heard a peep except for frequency changes and the occasional "Say destination?"
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    What attributes do you think new MOSAIC compliant LSA aircraft should have to return General Aviation to 10,000 aircraft sales per year?

    There were over 13,000 Cessna 120/140s built and sold in 1946 alone and production didn't slow down much the next model year...
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    PA-44 down in Oregon

    Not sure how a Seminole cane be forced to spin like that, but having the video will help in the investigation. With the exception of a severe aft CG, I am out of ideas. The Seminoles I have flown were pretty easily recovered from improper Vmca recovery control inputs (from students, of...
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