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Hawkins and Powers Aviation

I’ll preface my first post on this sure to be ongoing subject with a quick run through of what the whole story is. We bought a new laptop on Saturday evening, a spiffy new Intel Macbook. I̵

When I started flying a year ago my instructor told me about a test pilot and instructor from Tennessee named Bill Kershner. Kershner was an combat

What I now know about the-airport-formerly-known-as-McClellan-Airforce-Base (KMCC, in suburban Sacramento), an airport I've never seen before today: it

While developing NOTAM Ace, I've run across a lot of different Notices to Airmen. Understanding NOTAMs is important for conducting a safe and legal flight, however a lot of pilots have only a vague un

Student A wants to go over some maneuvers that he feels he didn't do very well on the mock checkride. We practice slow flight and stalls -- they're perfectly fine, so who knows what happened earlier.

Mystery Runway

Oh my God! Scorpions on a Plane!

Saturday last I went flying again. The mission: wear the most uncomfortable contraption in aviation (a hood) and go flying using the instruments only. Flying by instruments is probably my favourite

While developing NOTAM Ace, I've run across a lot of different Notices to Airmen. Understanding NOTAMs is important for conducting a safe and legal flight, however a lot of pilots have only a vague un

Since airplane problems prevented Student B from starting pattern work last time, we're going to CBG today (the one in the U.S.). There isn't much wind, but there's enough so that we can fly along a

How are these things related? Well the simple answer is that they could save your life. An other answer is that they are all complex technologies which aim to solve pernicious problems by alerting hum

The plan is for a Fly-In to the

Mark Steyn has a scathing article about Sen. Barbara Boxer's comments to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as well as comments on the ego trip of Boxer's fellow Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.Alas, not

A Day in the Life: CYUL - CYVR - CYUL (4)