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We are moving. My wife and I, both 700 hour, commercial rated, single engine pilots, are moving from LNS and leaving our favorite club Saratoga behind. We will be at Southern Vt Regional, RUT, and we need to find something to fly. Does anyone know of planes for rent, or of a club, or of...

http://www.comcast.net/articles/finance/20090116/BUSINESS-US-TOYOTA-RECALL/ I needed to rant on this one. I own one of the affected vehicles, a 2008 Tacoma. I really LIKE the floormats, they are thick and comfortable under foot and have two anchors that hold them down. As a pilot on...

In exchange for a piece of paper that says ASEL Commercial. Been working on the rating for about 6-8 months. The last month, of almost constant work on the oral and manuvers has been rather crazy. The ride went pretty well, I did it over at Cap City CXY with a DE. I'll be glad to not...

From Av-Web: "A Cessna 172 and a Beechcraft Bonanza were flying in opposite directions last Friday afternoon, according to witnesses, when their wings clipped and both airplanes fell to the ground. All three men aboard the two aircraft were killed. Several people called 911 after they saw the...

I'm no longer a renter, and my username has been changed to "Saratoga-Driver". I am now a confirmed, insured, checked out and soloed 1/12th of a 1981 Pa32-301 fixed gear Saratoga. I've joined the local flying club. With my short cross country flight today, from LNS to IPT and back (for...

A thread by Ben on renters getting run out of town by new glass panel cockpits in the rental fleet got me thinking about training new pilots in glass. Let me take my first stab at a poll. I'm biased here. Having trained both PP and IR in round gauges, I favor training in these more...

I decided to start a new thread to get some opinions in followup. I flew the plane on Sunday. It's an 81 or 82, I forget which. Club seating (don't know if that was standard or not on this model so I throw it in). 3 blade prop, fairly recent engine and prop overhaul so lots of TBO left...

Next question in the quest to escape renting: What do you all think of the Piper Saratoga fixed gear? Don't know the year yet, I'll post that after I fly it on Sunday, but it appears it will have to be one of a narrow number of years, because they didn't make them for all that long. It sounds...

My wife and I are in the early stages of looking beyond renting. It just appears to be that time now. We don't want the costs of full ownership, so a club or partnership seems the best route, particularly a club. Our mission profile is as follows: Two IR, 300 plus hour pilots. We are...

On Saturday August 12, Smoketown, S37, in Pennsylvania, will host our first ever "Fun fly in". For anyone who hasn't heard of the place, we are on the 155 radial of LRP, at 6 miles from LNS, Lancaster Airport, in South Central Pennsylvania. Rain date will be Sunday, August 13. From 10 am...

You ok down there in Tennessee? Looks like you all had some really nasty weather and I'm not sure exactly where you are relative to where the twisters were. Jim G

Thought this might stir some discussion on the Cirrus, parachutes and "pilot error". http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2002-CIRRUS-SR-22-DAMAGED_W0QQitemZ4626440557QQcategoryZ63677QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Let's see if the link works. "PILOT ENCOUNTERED ICING EN FLIGHT, SHUT DOWN ENGINE AND...

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/21303 This link should take you to the article in the Lancaster Sunday news. For anyone on here who doesn't recognize the name, Troy was the student pilot at the controls when Jim Schaeffer had the incursion into the ADIZ that prompted the AOPA Magazine...

I am just starting to learn to use the Garmin 430 in our fleet's rental Cutlass. I've got what is probably a stupid question, but haven't been able to figure out the answer by reading, and wasn't able to find the solution in my most recent trip up behind the unit. So here goes. I'm on a...

As some of you heard at the time of the "Great Lancaster Fly-In", my wife Janet was just past her IR written test. Well, yesterday she finished the oral and flight test and is now IR. It was a heck of a weekend for it too. Winds aloft were in the 30-40 knot range, even at 3000, and the...

I went to fly the Champ on friday. 1946 7AC with the standard 65 horse continental. I have been taught to start it by turning fuel on, mags off. Pull the prop through maybe 4-5 times, turn the mags hot (throttle cracked throughout exercise). Pull the prop til he catches. This summer...

"instrument airplane" I followed Ben's weather review with interest because I too was looking at a flight on Saturday. My flight was much easier though. My wife, still an IR student, needed to get from LNS to Pottstown Limerick (PTW) for a 99s meeting. Saturday morning out, Saturday pm...

I flew some approaches on Friday, and then my wife and I flew the gutless Cutlass on Saturday over to New Garden to help with the airmarking (Janet is a 99s member, and it came out quite nice if I do say so myself). When I came back and roughed in the time, what with all the circling for...

Some basic questions. So far, my training and my wife's training has all been done without the aid of any sort of flight simulator. But her current CFI has recommended that she try some IFR practice on MSFS as part of her training for her IR. So I have some stupid questions. First, we...

Anyone else watching the national radar this afternoon? Not a good day to go from the east coast to points west, I am thinking. I have to get my inlaws from S37 back to BWI tomorrow mid-day, and hope this stuff gets through by then. That is the longest strong line of storms that I have...