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(I thought I'd find a thread already. Didn't.) What is National Defense Airspace vs a vanilla TFR and why would it be used in the case of this civilian-appearing bombing? I'll admit to looking at pictures vs reading the original text of TFRs, but I don't remember that they include threats of...

it came from another nonprofit member organization that I belong to. Several months ago, the magazine devoted several pages to advising its members of the Board of Directors nomination and election process. The material included a detailed explanation of how members could make BoD nominations...

After all these news stories over all these days, the media still has not figured out what the US and the Chinese both know: The drone was mapping the seas around the disputed islands to improve safety and effectiveness for attack subs that might operate in the area. In addition to mapping the...

I don't think the FAA Safety Briefing is widely read. Probably a good thing, as it mentions a rule that could kill POA! It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. -- Arthur Conan Doyle

This high-grade receiver has only flown three or four times. If I told you it was brand new, you would believe me. It is that nice. I won't insult your intelligence by pasting a bunch of boilerplate in this advert. The technical information is here...

There was a recent thread about an obnoxious AOPA renewal letter. With today's mail I think Flying has topped them: Like all magazines, Flying begins bombarding you with renewal offers within a month of your starting a subscription. None tell you when your current subscription expires, so I...

Well, the label on my McMurdo FastFind 210 says that the battery should be replaced by January of 2015. The unit cost me just under $300 IIRC about 5 years ago. In checking the internet for replacement batteries I am finding battery change "services" that begin well north of $100 but no actual...

I have long since quit AOPA over their greed and profligacy, but one question I have always wondered about was whether their lobbying was really effective or not. When I received it, the magazine was always packed with self-promotional puffery but I didn't/don't know about any third-party...

Here is a snipped version of something I saw posted in another thread: When I read this, my reaction was: "Huh?" I like these tablets; they are great toys and the in-cockpit weather is wonderful. But ... when I'm shooting an approach the last thing I'm going to be doing is playing with a toy...

The thread on who can sign off W&B reminds me of a question I have always wondered about: Many of these old airplanes we fly were weighed 30-40 years ago with different paint, different interior, different avionics, ... etc. Also without all the crud that has accumulated over the years. The...

This month's issue is exceptionally good. If you don't regularly see it, I recommend a look. Excerpt: "The Captain rounded out a bit late, touched down, and skipped back into the air. He was also tired and, not realizing we were airborne again, he pulled the speed brake lever. This time we...

I have a friend looking for a prebuy inspection of a Warrior next week. Can anyone recommend a good guy at/near KBWG for this? The airplane "seems" to be very clean and nice, but the engine rebuild was done quite a while ago and the airplane has not flown much since, so we are especially...

A few months ago, I posted some results of experiments with 12/24vdc chargers and cables. The experiments were stimulated by a situation where my Nexus 7, while connected to a car charger with the GPS running, still lost battery charge and eventually died. I found a car charger that eliminated...

I have decided to drop my Garmin Pilot (Android/N7) subscription and go with iFly. I like the iFly interface better and, unlike Garmin, they are investing in development of their Android app. iFly also does not lock their users into a single proprietary ADS-B product. While making the...

After a $100 hamburger flight today, I am impressed! (Background: I started beta testing EFBs for one of the major vendors in about 2004, using first a Compaq TC1100 and then a series of Fujitsu tablet convertibles. So I have seen a lot of this software come and go. More recently I have a...

From my amateurish attempts to understand TERPS Order 8260 it does not appear that approach lighting systems are explicitly required for ILS or LPV approaches, but that rather their presence allows minimums to be reduced. Does anyone know if it is possible to have an LPV with a 200 or 300 AGL...

Pages 92 and 92. Novel concept: "The NRA Board of Directors ... elected by mail ballot by the membership." "A ballot will be mailed to all members ..." These words included in a two-page spread giving detailed instructions how to suggest board members by making a recommendation to the...

On a recent road trip I discovered that running GPS mapper Copilot Live (http://copilotlive.com/us/) at full screen brightness with the Nexus 7 plugged into a charger rated at 2.1 amps resulted in a slow battery discharge (3-5%/hour). This was the case with either of two chargers I was carrying...

http://www.avweb.com/news/skywrite/eaa_pelton_pilot_aviation_flying_208642-1.html Interesting. Looks like Pelton is trying to capitalize on AOPA's/Fuller's problems. Good ol' capitalistic competition. It will be interesting to see where it leads. I have always thought of EAA as a family...

I invested two or three hours playing with this app on my Nexus 7 yesterday. On the surface, it has a lot of promise. It will run stand-alone, but when a data connection is available it takes advantage of the large fltplan.com web site. For example, flight plans created on the site are...