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Are you talking about one of those proverbial "forked-tail doctor killers". If so, we had a flight surgeon who stayed in the ARNG just to keep his 0-6 paycheck in so he could afford to keep it flying, It was a nice plane though, back then the MEL for IFR flight was a much shorter list, and the...

I have to admit that I am interested in your progress. Contingent upon regaining at least a Class III Med. Cert. I will be looking around for an airplane myself, so I thought that I might throw out a couple of my own ideas to see what you think about it, and to see how others on this board may...

What a great concept. It sounds like what I wish I had known about last year when my working dog was dying from Osteosarcoma and I needed to find a way to get him out to Colorado State University's Canine Cancer Center. By the time I could get things worked out to get a NetJets flight that...

Still, it beats "Needle, Ball & Airspeed" & the CFI hanging a string on the windshield.

Is there no WOW-Switch on the aircraft to prevent activation on the ground?

The S-76 is a very capable helicopter, particularly when properly equipped for IFR flight, to fly into IMC. Perhaps this comment is a bit late but experience in forensic examinations and investigations has caused me to be a bit more circumspect when commenting on the operations of an aircraft...

I would be somewhat skeptical that the aircraft was brought down by gunfire from a 5.56mm rifle unless it was the most (un)lucky of all shots. Earlier versions of these aircraft seemed to withstand multiple small arms caliber penetrations of the airframe in combat operations with few, if any, of...

This is fascinating. I never knew that these still existed. Probably as a result of too much time behind the Garmin "Looking Glass". My ARNG CH-47 unit did Mountain Flying Course at Ft. Carson, CO more than 20 yrs. ago and these were never mentioned even way back then. Personally, I would have...

I am pleased to not be an anachronism on this list. I am developing a program for disabled Vets using GIS, GPS, Charting (like the old DECCA (sp) system in some of the UHI-1D & H series airframes), geocaching, and precisely locating historical sites. One of the things that I am most looking...

First, let me tender my apology to this group as it seems as if I have arrived much like a "bull in a china shop" with perhaps an excess of enthusiasm and a dearth of manners. Of course, I should have introduced myself to the others, and given you a small bit of background so that you could...

Something about "Brother Al" and his mega-Kilowatt radio station right across the border in Mexico (Del Rio, if I can remember correctly). That and trying to plan flights in West Texas, New Mexico and Western Kansas and Oklahoma so as to reach the destination before sunset to be sure that the...

Iresh NDB is the worst navaid I have ever used and most of those Copter NDB 351 approaches ended at the shopette instead of the airfield. I have given hundreds of instrument evals between Hood (HLR), Temple(TPL) and Killeen(ILE) and I always ended the eval with that approach in order to get...