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My wife and I will have four days in Anchorage (after a cruise from Vancouver with a land tour option at the end) at the end of August. One bucket list item I have is to take a back country flight there. Any suggestions on companies/pilots who can take us back country flying? Also, any...

George asked this be posted around ------------------------------- Update to the Power Point / Seminar on Tuesday at Sun and Fun. Recall, after a long string of previous broken commitments by FAA Senior Management as to the conclusion of the FAA's "Special Cert Review" (finished successfully on...

As I get back into exercise, I know my heart rate lags when I start working out. And then stays elevated longer after the workout ends. The second part makes sense to me. But not the first, it would seem that if you are out of shape and start to exercise, your heart rate should spike really...

So, a non-pilot friend asked this question and I did not know the answer. Mostly because I never considered it :) Assuming you can find an A/P or IA who is willing to oversee and certify, is there any regulatory rule which prevents an owner from performing a tear down and rebuild of the engine...

My wife has decided she no longer wants her son to take her car to work almost every day. :) So, she would like to buy him a used car for roughly 10K, figure 12K max after tax, tags, dealer stuff... My step son, drives roughly 45 miles one way to work, so 90 miles round trip. So the...

I mostly read PoA on Tapatalk, however recently the ads default to audio on. Which is very annoying and also can disturb others on conference calls. Is there na option for PoA to block or default the ads to silent? If not, it likely means the end of my mid day PoA browsing. Tim Sent from my...

Hello, My plane is currently at Cedar City (KCDC), planning to head east back towards Boston on Friday morning. I expect to spend 3-4 days flying home; so good food/fuel/hotel stops appreciated! My original route was a southern route which I have done before. However, looking at the current...

I have seen previous estimates that likely between 60 and 80% of the population needs to have "immunity" to break the epidemic. Most have stated there is not enough evidence to pin it down further yet. With about 95% effectiveness for the first two mRNA vaccines you need between roughly 63 and...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/women-crew-delta-flight-takes-120-girls-nasa/story?id=66182206 Cool feel good story. Tim Edit: Remove tracker

Last week, I had to take a commercial flight on an A319. The first flight, on take off the pilot pitched up from the runway very quickly and the left wing dropped a fair amount, then the pilot over corrected and the right wing dropped followed by the nose dropping a bit. Basically it felt like...

In the log entry screen, there is a boolean option called "Track Nav Aid". What is this? And why would I care (or not)? I cannot find any definition in the FAA stuff; and the Garmin help does not cover it. Tim

Here is a question I just thought of. I could find the answer online. Either on the way to your PPL or after, what is the lightest/smallest plane you can log? If flying an LSA is loggable, what about an ultralight? A part 103 plane, a gyrocopter, a powered chute? Tim

My grandmother is 100, had a recent stroke, but is mobile (somewhat) again. Now she would like to move from Phoenix (Sun City West) to my aunt's home outside Minneapolis. It has been suggested the doc may require a cabin altitude lower than 8K. This means, no commercial flights. So, any leads...

So my daughter a few nights ago had just boarded a plane to come see me when the airport lost power. With no power, they stopped loading the plane. Then the backup generator, right near the front the plane caught on fire, so they evacuated that part of the terminal. Once the fire was out, the...

Ok, here is one that stumped me since I do not really look/know much about sea planes. But my younger brother asked (I think as a hint for my next plane); what planes are good for travel which are amphibious (he lives a couple miles from the Chesapeake bay, parents are lake front in the...

I would like to get my PC Simulator up and running again. But attaching the yoke and throttle quadrants to the desk each time is rather annoying to say the least. And turning a couple monitors is also up there on the annoying level. Therefore, has anyone seen anything allows the yoke and...

The wife is trying to convince me when we retire we should be snow birds. So now I am kinda curious. 1. How do you manage the plane? Do you end up with hangars in both locations? Do you accept higher risk in one location over the other? 2. How do you manage the logistics of moving cars and...

As I was landing today, passing all the jets and a few planes tied down, I had a few random thoughts: As a percentage of value, a hangar for a jet is a lot less then the hangar for a most piston planes. Especially the older planes. Most jets are parked outside. In large metro markets, a...