Robbie Culver submitted the following photo and note: “My friend Kirk took me on my first trip through the Hudson River VFR corridor in his beautiful Cessna Cardinal RG. NY approach, LaGuardia tower and Newark tower were all incredibly helpful.”
“As we passed the Freedom Tower I captured this photo. If you look close you can see the Ground Zero WTC memorial reflection pools.”
“What an amazing GA experience!”
Q: I am looking to purchase a Cherokee Six. I would prefer a 300, of course, but budget-wise the 260 looks more appealing. Can the horsepower be increased on the 260?
Would a RAYJAY turbo increase horsepower or just increase performance at higher altitudes? I don’t need altitude, I’m a flat lander in northeast Arkansas, but the added power would be nice. [Read more…]
From the Crave Life YouTube Channel, Dmitry Kudryn and friends fly a Cessna 182 from the Wolf Lake Airstrip to frozen Lake George to explore an ice cave in the middle of the lake in Alaska backcountry.
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Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 534, based at Leesburg International Airport (KLEE) in Florida, is offering its free Flying Start program to those folks who always wanted to learn to fly, but never quite got around to it.
The program will take place at the airport’s administration building Saturday, May 25, 2019, and will start promptly at 9 a.m. There is no charge for the program, which will be run by chapter members and flight instructors from the area. You should be prepared to spend the morning at the airport. [Read more…]
The Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) has partnered with BarCharts Publishing on a guide for remote pilots outlining the rules and concepts for the commercial operation of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS). [Read more…]
The National Transportation Safety Board has released a Safety Alert: Stabilized Approaches Lead to Safe Landings, which discusses how failing to establish and maintain a stabilized approach, or continuing an unstabilized approach, could lead to landing too fast or too far down the runway, potentially resulting in a runway excursion, loss of control, or collision with terrain.
The alert, which includes several examples from accidents, provides tips to help pilots avoid these situations.
The pilot stated that, during the second low pass over a friend’s grass airstrip, the airplane was “low and slow” and unable to maintain altitude.
He applied throttle, however he “got behind the airplane, and it got him.” [Read more…]
Lance Coppin submitted the following photo and note: “On a clear and crispy early November morning VFR flight from Oklahoma to Indiana, the sleepy city of Springfield, Missouri, is beginning to awake. The city lights from 5,500′ MSL and the reflection off the wing of my 1972 Cessna 177B Cardinal was a photo I just couldn’t resist.”
When pushing a huge boulder up a large hill, the work is made much easier when loads of people show up to help.
Oh, and it is usually a lot more fun.
Everyone gets to celebrate as new plateaus are reached. [Read more…]
A new video on YouTube compares the North American P-51D Mustang against the Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 flying at the same airshow. [Read more…]
