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Student A:-10 degrees windchillStop & gosRwy 27 PAPIs are in service!Nice and consistent landings after a few warmupsIn the hangar, heated air blows by the wall next to the helicopter's tail

Both Punxsutawney Phil and the UCAP gang are peeking out to see if it'ssafe. They compare notes on unusual fly-ins they've known, answer someserious listener mail, and give a wing-rock to the PPSEL wh

COPA Flight Log - Electronic Logbook. Part 1.5

The insurance for one of the airplanes I'm

Sometimes we get

Dear FAA,

Just because controllers at LAX and other large airports can't figure out how to keep airplanes from getting too close to each other on the runway isn't a sufficient reason to scr

According to an e-mail from the NTSB that was in the IFR Pilot's In Box yesterday afternoon, the Board plans on Monday at 11:00 a.m. to release "a series of factual reports" on the Cory Lidle accident

My first ill passenger. They were not a squeamish nor nervous passenger at all. It was the fact she was wearing too heavy clothing for the day and the effects of the sun shining into a Cessna 172 ca

I passed the ground portion of the test. I decided against doing the flight portion because: 1. The TAF was showing 3SM visibility and Snow during the time of the test.
2. The upper winds were

As mentioned in previous posts, I found gun owners to be pretty scary before my own interest in guns surfaced. As I've talked to other gun owners and read their online forums, I've become more under

I needed a photograph of me and the plane to go alongside an article I wrote for a US magazine. It was an amusing photoshoot at Elstree i

Jim sent me an interesting notice he found about departure procedures in the Fort Worth, Texas area. Rather than have it buried in a comment on the previou

Sometimes we get to fly the painless trip. That is when nothing goes wrong and everything else happens so e

In lieu of Aviatrix’s recent post on navigation, I thought it might be worthwhile to post these World War II

I guess I had to throw my hat in the ring for the whole William Arkin

A while ago I met a gentleman who was trained to fly airplanes during World War II. He went through the basic training, was certified to fly, and slated to be sent overseas. I don't know how man