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I have, but it has only been for another pilot and I can count the number of times I've done that on one hand. Anyone else, I stop the engine and nobody approaches the airplane or opens a door until the prop comes to a complete stop. I have flown a 152 before that would occasionally diesel on...

Thanks Tim...I got my CFI to validate the work I completed a couple of weeks ago for my flight review and finished the Basic Level last week!

That's a good way of looking at a written test, particularly one that pulls from a general question pool. Though I am expected to know something for the purposes of passing a test, it doesn't necessarily mean that I will ever use that information after taking the test. Personally I am someone...

I'm not disagreeing that there isn't some potential for something igniting, but just that the odds are quite small. Small enough in my mind that it would probably take a deliberate action or freak event (such as the tire being exposed to an open flame) for anything to happen. I'm sure I...

When I worked at a tire shop for a summer job, you always down every tire before taking it off the rim, otherwise it is next to impossible to unseat the bead without using a pretty big hammer. So any potentially flammable vapors are just going to come right out and disperse pretty quickly. I...

Thanks for the input guys. It looks like I will need to purchase some non-owned hull coverage, probably in the neighborhood of $50-75k because most of their aircraft are less than 10 years old. Now I'm off to get my medical renewed...

First off, I made my first flight in over 5 years this past Saturday and it felt GREAT! I took a G1000 equipped 172 for a spin out of FTY, a BIG difference from the airplanes I was used to renting the last time I was behind the controls. I'm getting my medical renewed this week and will be...

If they'd come up with something between a Mac Pro and iMac, I'd agree with you 100%. A Mac Pro is just too much machine for most people's desktop computing needs, while an iMac lacks the capability for someone such as myself who would like a Mac, but likes to fire up Flight Simulator or other...

Thanks Ken. I flew out of Peachtree Flight Center (now Falcon Aviation Academy) at FFC and Sky's Flying Club at CCO when I was flying last back in 2002. That was back when they both still had some inexpensive aircraft you could just go put around in for a couple of hours without racking up a...

Just delete the folders, then run a registry cleanup tool to delete the remaining entries. Sometimes if an application is installed from a network share or is "pushed" through an automated process, some of the executables required to uninstall or modify an application installation may not get...

I think it is a couple of things. 1) Application and hardware compatibility. This is really a non-issue, to be honest. With the exception of perhaps the 95 to 98 transition, MS has never released an OS that was 100% compatible with every application and every piece of hardware that worked with...

Hi guys... I've been lurking for the past couple of months and it looks like after about a 6 year hiatus, I'm finally going to be able to get in a little flight time again. I have looked around at a few places in the area, and the rental and instructor rates are enough to make me faint compared...

I agree with most of the statements for and against, however, with some of the add-on scenery packages available today, pilotage and dead-reckoning navigation are definitely becoming more and more possible in the sim. Previously, it was almost impossible to navigate with references to landmarks...

Were you talking to them through the HF radio on board the 747?? If so, that's pretty cool!

Yeah, its still fairly small, but it is kind of ridiculous for a company like RIM not to have Mac compatible software. I see more and more of them being used in business every day.

K4DHR here. Ironically I use the rig in my car primarily for listening to ATC in the Atlanta area. I talk with a few buddies on some of the local repeaters here and there, but I don't do much else with my ticket. Too many expensive hobbies I guess!

The last flying club I was a member of fueled 90% of their fleet with MoGas, unless you wanted to pay out of pocket for 100LL. :dunno: The only exceptions were a 172 on lease-back (owner didn't want anything but 100LL used in it) and a Beech Travel Air that I never flew anyway.

In training for my PPL, almost all of the simulated engine failures were done at a "public" grass/dirt field that was about 8-9 miles away from the airport I was flying out of. We would regularly land there and I also had my instructor sign me off to land at the grass strip at the fly-in...

As hot as the summers are in Georgia, turbulence was just something I expected to encounter while flying. I didn't think we were really having fun until we hit bumps big enough to start tossing whatever was behind the back seat over the back seat itself or passengers into the roof. :D Like most...

I too got doused with water walking back into the building the flight school was in. I probably would have gotten my shirt tail cut off too, but I was wearing a polo shirt that day, because as with most days I went flying during the week, I went there straight from work. I kinda wish I had...