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I don't know if this was mentioned earlier but the entire camera crew had walked off the set earlier that day (before the accident) because of their substandard accommodations and the lack of compliance with firearm safety protocols. The union rep had brought this to the attention of management...

Don't forget the invasion stripes!

I would think that retired fighter pilots might gravitate towards aerobatic airplanes where they could fly upside down and pull some occasional g's. Not that some gliders aren't aerobatic but you have a different level of aerobatics in powered aircraft. Powered aircraft also provide the...

The Continental claim of 100 HP is at 2700 rpm. I've never flown a Cessna 150 that could achieve 2700 rpm in anything but a dive so the claim is pretty much marketing hype. Perhaps with a prop very finely pitched, you'd see the 100 HP in normal flight but your cruise speed would suffer.

There's an AD for early O200 cylinders that changed the timing of the magnetos to decrease the likelihood of the cylinder cracking. They never said what this did to the rated power of the engine and I wondered how much of an effect it had. I'm sure most of those effected cylinders are out of...

Accident happened in South Africa. Young pilot had just gotten his commercial with the minimum time and had only flown around 3 hours in the last 90 daya. Besides the tied open door, factors included density altitude > 6000 feet, 10 degrees of flaps, three people in a 172E. The accident...

Many years ago I attended an event where an FAA official spoke about the Bob Hoover affair and how the FAA had learned its lesson and was now a kinder and gentler safety partner with General Aviation. After her prepared dissertation, she then opened the floor to questions and quickly reverted...

This is bad advice as a Restricted Area can become activated at any time within its window of operation. Just because it's not active now doesn't preclude it becoming active a minute later when a military flight shows up to use it.

"Mission, procedures and rules" are less all encompassing than "ALL available information."

Is this an experimental aircraft?

The military and public use aircraft operators have their own regulations or operations manuals and aren't necessarily bound by every FAA regulation. Many of the military regulations mirror or may reference an FAA regulation but I don't recall seeing any military regulation using the verbiage...

Sadly, the new owners of Boerne Stage have made it an unfriendly airport. Check out the website 5C1.org that was built by some of the unhappy residents of the attached residential airpark (Threshold Ranch). The owners have a website 5C1.net where you can download their 18 page PDF of airport...

Historically, the airline industry has had ups and downs. My last deployment to Qatar before I retired, you couldn't shake a stick without hitting a furloughed airline pilot who had volunteered to come back on active duty while waiting for their airline to recall them. More recently, there's a...

What makes you think that airlines don't value military experience.? I'm sure they would love to hire military pilots but there's a pilot shortage so they take anyone who has the hours to qualify. I'm retired military and don't know any military pilot who couldn't get a job flying for an...

I wouldn't exactly say that glider flying requires more "flying skills." What it does require is a different set of cognitive skills." The glider pilot, especially on a cross country, has to constantly be thinking of his altitude, the winds, and lift potential in order to reach his goal. The...

The first reports of a transcript of what the tower told the Coast Guard plane to do doesn't sound like standard phraseology was being used and I didn't see any readback of the taxi instruction from the CG plane. Ground told the CG plane to go to the C5 hold point. I suspect the CG plane took...

I can see the fully automated cockpit of the future having a human and a dog seated in front. The human is there to make the passengers feel safe and the dog is there to attack the human if he reaches for any of the controls.

Soon they won't need pilots at least not the human kind.

12 volt for 150, 24 volt for 152--that's another difference.