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OK this one is totally off the wall. I am working with a business called Radial. Over the course of the last six years certain members of that firm have gone above and beyond and deserve recognition. I was thinking maybe giving them clean parts from a radial engine as part of an award ceremony...

I know there are a lot of IT nerds on this forum (and I say that with the utmost respect) so maybe you guys or gals can help. I work out of my house and I need a good laser printer, a good scanner capable of scanning at least 40 pages at a time without jamming and a good color printer. My...

There some smart tech guys here so I'm hoping someone can answer my questions and point me to the thing I need to buy. I currently use Comcast for phone and internet. I have no other internet choice but I do on the phone and I find the Comcast cable phone less reliable than my cell phone...

I have a Mac. I currently run XP in Parallels so I can use Quickbooks, Quicken and run the Garmin sim. That's all I use it for and it works fine. I own the discs for the XP operating system. I'm getting a new Mac. Should I put a more recent version of Windows on this one, which means I need...

I own my plane. I use it mostly for business. Can I pay a commercial pilot to fly some passengers, which may or may not be business related, in my plane if I'm not in it? The plan is flown under Part 91 with no 100 hour inspections. Does the answer change if the passengers pay for the pilot...

I write this from seat 5D on a Skywest CRJ700 cruising along at 39,000 feet and 428 knots according to Foreflight. 5D is a window. Sitting next to me in 5C is a morbidly obese guy at 350+ pounds. His mass takes up at least 1/3 of my seat. Is this legal? I'm looking through the FARs but I...

A friend wants to get X-Plane for his 9 year old. Does anyone know if it has an "easy" flight mode and has an option to auto-coordinate so he doesn't need rudder peddles?

I find myself for the first time in years having a plane that needs to be flown because it has been sitting for about 3 weeks. This is tragic on many levels. I'm going to take it up today to exercise the engine (Lyc. IO360) today. I'm time constrained so I'm wondering how long I need to fly...

I can't find it in the AIM. I was never a boy scout. I haven't spent much time on a boat. No where was it covered in my PPL or IR training. So can someone point me to a good video or diagram of how to tie those cool knots that everyone uses to tie down planes with? You know, the ones that...

A while back I was on an IFR flight and high above me, ATC was talking to a UPS plane that was dumping fuel. Earlier today I was reading about an Air Canada 777 that lost an engine on takeoff and circled dumping fuel before landing. Does anyone know what happens to dumped jet fuel? Does it...

A guy buys a big hunk of land in the middle of nowhere 35 years ago. He tells everyone what he's going to do with it. Overtime the neighborhood gets discovered and tons of rich people move in. Sound familiar? Fifteen years after telling everyone about an additional building and right before...

So I got this today. If anyone is interested here's a chance to land on a runway so big I often lined up on it as a student pilot since it was so easy to spot. Hill Air Force Base has a great museum and they put on a really good Air Show. It's a huge F16 base. At 135 knots, it's about 2.5...

So here's my deal. I have about 700 hours almost all of it in a DA40 with a G1000 and SVT and most of it with an IR. Each year around this time I have always done a long 2,000 mile plus x country as a learning experience. This year I was thinking of Utah to the Bahamas but it now looks like I...