My flying club requires an annual checkout with a CFI to keep renting planes, which I just did this week after a hiatus of several months. I flew just fine, and want to keep practicing enough that I can take my family on adventures without worrying that my skills are rusty. I'm thinking I should set a goal to fly every other week or so, or at least ( Read more... )

I think this is a really neat story. Wish I could be there. (Not that I have a seaplane rating ... !)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14898762

Hello aviation! I am a newly minted private pilot in search of a headset. The fancy ANR headsets are a bit out of my price range, so I am looking for opinions on passive headsets. Any favorites or models to avoid ( Read more... )

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Anybody been catching the Flying Wild Alaska show on Discovery the last month or so ( Read more... )

The language of flying is English. I expect this community to be in English. I can't even believe that after 10 years, I even have to say that.

But since I was over here I cleaned up all the deleted accounts. We have 479 members. Doesn't look like a lot of you are flying though. We've certainly died since October.

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A friend of mine passed this along to me, knowing I have done dog rescue flights before. However, I don't live anywhere near Missouri so it would be pretty impractical of me to try to do this but I promised her I'd pass it along ( Read more... )

Ryanair pilot Morgan Fischer's response to Michael O'Leary's most recent fabulous penny-pinching idea, scrapping co-pilots on commercial flights:

"I would propose that Ryanair replace the chief executive with a probationary cabin crew member currently earning about €13,200 (£11,000) net a year. Ryanair would benefit by saving millions of ( Read more... )

flying for the first time in two and a half years--a trip across Scotland to the Isle of Mull with a friend. He flies a Pitts Special S2A. Thought I'd share the spectacular pictures of the outing if anyone's interested--They are here on Photobucket... The Highlands & Islands don't need photoshopping ( Read more... )