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Apparently FedEx is asking the FAA for permission to add anti-missile laser defenses to its A321s. Buried at the bottom of the article is a statement that American Airlines was part of a trial for the technology...

I recently switched to using ForeFlight’s logbook primarily. It has the ability to tag flights for currency, so if I tag a flight as an IPC, for example, it will automatically calculate my IFR currency. Do you think it’s enough to tag an entry with the IPC or Flight Review tag, or in the...

Today I had some free time and the weather was conducive to logging some approaches. I drew up a plan that involved 6 approaches at 6 different airports in the area, two ILSs followed by 3 VOR approaches in quick succession, then an ILS back into home base. The first approach was definitely an...

Is it me, or do these hold short lines not make any sense. This is at BKL in Cleveland. There are parallel runways, one shorter than the other. The hold short lines to the longer runway past the point that the shorter parallel runway ends are confusing. This is a close up of the lines. I...

The instructor who taught me to fly IFR and some other members of my club are taking the club Bonanza around the world. They're actually almost done at this point, they're in Alaska now, but it's simply amazing what they've been able to do. They flew direct from Japan to Alaska. They're posting...

This has happened to me twice, so I figured I'd ask and see if it's a problem, and if so how I can help fix it. It seems that if I file IFR between two airports on a non-direct routing, a controller midway between my origin and destination doesn't know about the routing. The first instance...

This morning Facebook asked me how I was celebrating National Aviation Day. It must know me well. It happens that I had a flight planned this weekend, so I got to get out and celebrate. Fight aware track here: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/N9685Y-1471632336-12-1-76 I'm not sure why...

An interesting thing happened on a recent commercial flight. We taxied out from the gate and had to be deiced. I assume we taxied out on one engine. After driving, as we taxied toward the runway I heard them trying to start the second engine. We were on an A320 and you can hear the "wah wah...

I'm flying a Bonanza S35 with an IO520. I was cruising at 8000, WOT, 2600 RPM and about 13 GPH LOP, which should have been between 65% and 70% power. All the EGTs were 30 or 40 degrees LOP, and all but one of that cylinders had CHTs of abou 300. The #5 cylinder, however, was reading 400 or more...

I'm looking at making a weekend trip to Boston later this year. Any suggestions for flying in? KBOS looks like it's very close to the city (we'd be staying downtown), but also looks very expensive and has security issues with GA. Do any of the surrounding airports have public transportation...

I'm interested in seeing if there was a Notam issued for an event I was involved with over the weekend. Is there somewhere I can go to look up historical notams? The event was Sunday night and included a laser show. It was inside the KCGF class D and would probably be filed under KZOB and...

I just an hour and a half ago passed my IFR checkride. I realized afterward that I've been working on this rating for nearly 2 years. I started in 2012, then got married, bought a house, had a kid, and largely dropped it until this spring. The checkride actually started at 1pm, Saturday, July...

Just this morning I managed to pass my IFR written. 92%. In studying, I came across a number of questions dedicated to VFR-On-Top. So, I know that the rules are that you must be able to maintain VFR, you must stay on your filed or assigned route (you can't just flit about like you could under...

Came up with two questions last night while doing some IFR work to which I didn't get good answers. The first is on the VOR-A into 2G1. How can you identify the FAF without DME? Secondly, the SKY VOR recently went off the air. We tried to do the GPS overlay of a VOR-A approach off it, but...

Thursday night I took a friend of mine out to dinner at Primo Barone's out at KFKL, Franklin, PA. He had an early flight out Friday morning and had a room booked at one of the airport hotels at Cleveland Hopkins, and asked if I could drop him off there after we landed at Burke. I figured we'd be...

I'm in the midst of my Instrument training and I'm at a point where I can fly to PTS standards, but I still need to burn off about 18 hours of instrument time before I can take the test. I went ahead and did all my training for the HP/Complex endorsements, but still have to burn off a bunch of...

Apparently someone hacked into the EAS system and broadcast a bogus message over KRTV in Great Falls, Montana. The station maintains that the alert did not originate from them. http://www.krtv.com/news/bogus-emergency-alert-message-transmitted/

I was having a conversation with my instructor regarding icing, and specifically what our outs would be on a particular IFR lesson. Cloud bases were from 3000-4000, with tops around 8000. Temps on the surface were below freezing. He said that if we started picking up ice, we would descend...

For my entire flying career I've been tooling around in 152s and 172s. Now as I'm close to getting my Instrument I'm going to start training for the HP and Complex endorsements. On Wednesday I'm going to go for my first ride in the club's Bonanza BE35. I know the thing is going to be wicked...

I'm planning a flight on Friday from Cleveland (CGF) to Gatlinburg, TN (GKT). It looks like I'll have to deal with the remnants of hurricane Isaac. I'm VFR only, but proficient in dealing with MVFR. Can someone tell me what type of clouds and rain is normally associated with a hurricane...