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I took the family down to Colorado Springs today to get some 100 dollar hamburgers at the Airplane restaurant and got to see a V-22 Osprey do a very short takeoff. Check it out. (I don't have zoom on the camera phone so its a bit small, but cool anyway) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Nk3E--E1U

Hey fellow Colorado aviators, The Colorado Pilots Association has joined up with On Laughter Silvered Wings to have a special screening of Red Tails with four Tuskegee Airmen! We're going to go! You've gotta sign up by 1/14 though, so don't delay. Here's the scoop: And the link...

This METAR says vis is 3sm and then it says that SFC VIS is 8. What the heck does that mean? The METAR decoder I found didn't help much. METAR KAPA 012153Z 03006KT 3SM -SN OVC012 M07/M09 A3043 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 8 SLP353 P0000 T10671089

http://www.37000feet.com/report/121383/Small-aircraft-pilot-landing-on-grass-strip-at-390-knots-hits-ditch

Well, I've finally gotten sick of having my plane at Platte Valley (18V). Its close to my Dad's house and had cheap hangars/gas, but the pigeon s**t and the 50 minute drive was getting really old. Then the airport owners sent out a letter stating that they are planning to resurface the runway...

antenna? There's huge antenna about 30 miles east of Denver International Airport (KDEN). Its 1995 feet tall. Anyone got a bigger one? :nono:

Kayso, we were planning a trip around AZ just for fun this May. Then some friends of ours said they were going down to Puerto Penasco, MX in May. So I got to thinking that maybe I should add Mexico to our flight plan and meet up with friends South of the border. Route might look a little like...

So, I dropped The 6 off at the avionics shop again this morning. I had a new GNC-420W installed in January and the GPS doesn't read the OBS properly. At East and West the unit reads correctly, but anywhere else it is off by 30 degrees. I showed the shop owner and he ran the "calibration" again...

Anyone have a few childsize headsets you'd like to sell? I need 2 girl's headsets and one boy's headset to go with the new intercom in our ride.

What are folks paying for their database updates? I'd like to compare the updates costs for the KLN-94 and the 430. You can't find this info on the manufacturer's websites (at least I couldn't).

This morning I was doing some IR training out of FKTG (Front Range Airport Denver). We were ready to go at runway 26. We checked the ATIS and it had been updated, so we thought the Tower would be open. So I called tower and told them I was ready to go. The response I got was that the tower...

They fly lots and lots of holding patterns. A couple of weeks ago, we were hiking down in Manitou Springs, just northwest of Colorado Springs. 4 F-15s flew over us at about 3000AGL. Then, they flew over again about 3 minutes later. And again and again and again. This went on for about 45...

Does anyone know of a good mag shop in the Denver area? We're still having trouble with the left mag. It crapped out a year ago on a trip across Texas. We had it rebuilt in Amarillo and it worked great for a while. Replaced block, coil, condenser, points ... basically everything. One spark...

The wife and I are heading up to Yellowstone in "The Six" tomorrow. We'll spend a night in Thermopolis, WY (KTHP) to steep in the hot springs, then to West Yellowstone (KWYS) via Old Faithful. We'll be camping at Madison Junction and Canyon. Weather looks good in the mornings!

Hey Colorado POAers! The Colorado Pilots Association is having a Fly-in to my Home-drome this weekend. It is at the Van-Aire Airpark (CO12) just north of DIA. Brats and fun begins at 10:30. Check out the CPA website for details: http://coloradopilots.org/ I'll be there!

I like military aviator callsigns, but I like the stories behind them even more. So, here's a couple that I've heard. First, my uncle flew F-4s and F-15 for almost 20 years. He dutifully protected the eastern US from marauding Bears and such. And you can imagine the fear that must have been...

Thought I'd throw out a few anecdotes from growing up on an airpark. If you've got some good ones please add to the thread. #1 - There were some guys who used to come buzz the airpark in their T-6s. I guess they had friends who lived on the field, so they'd zoom by to say hi. One day I heard...

Well I put 9.87 hours on the tachometer flying around New Mexico. We left CO12 around 1030 on 3/30 and headed almost due south to Santa Rosa, NM SXU. We landed on old Route 66 straight into a 22G33 wind. It was a very short landing. Got gas and checked out the local A-7. We wanted to see...

So on Sunday, I flew from Albuquerque (KAEG) back to Brighton, CO (CO12, just north of KDEN). I got flight following just north of Albuquerque, and had hand-offs all the way to Denver. About 4 miles south of Denver's class Bravo, I realized that I hadn't gotten clearance into the Bravo, nor...

We are taking a family vacation around NM next Tuesday (3/30). Here's the plan: CO12 (Home) SXU Santa Rosa, Land on Route 66, Check out Blue Hole, Grab some lunch CNM Carlsbad, Caverns, Caverns, Caverns - 2 nights 5T6 Santa Teresa, Check out the Warbird Museum ALM Alamogordo, White Sands - 1...