For Dave Sclair, that was a great article on John Thun (Bigger than life: The world needs more characters like John Thun, April 20 issue). We are running out of these great people as the ongoing story of aviation moves on. I would like to tell you of another pioneer in the aviation world here […]
Opinion
SANTA’S NEW RIDE
My husband subscribes to GANews and I was just noting the cover on the December ’06 issue. Jolly Old St. Nick was shown standing beside a red Mooney. That prompted me to tell you about our “airborne Santa.” We have a large choose-and-cut Christmas tree farm here in the southeast corner of Michigan between Detroit […]
Pilot error blamed in Lidel crash
WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was pilot misjudgment, incomplete planning, and airmanship that caused the accident last October in which Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger, died when their Cirrus SR20 hit an apartment building in Manhattan. In a hearing to determine the cause of the accident, the National Transportation Safety Board […]
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Here we go again — it seems that around every five years there is a “new discovery” about the Earhart “mystery.” In the one in your April 20 issue (e-Bay purchase sparks new interest in search for Earhart) it seems that, after 70 years, a typewritten copy of a diary has suddenly been discovered on […]
Confused about replacement parts?
Q, I have a Lycoming O-320 150 hp engine with no suffix in my PA-22 Tri-Pacer. In one of your articles you list the O-320-A1A and the O-320-A3A as the numbers to refer to for replacement parts. Lycoming does not list an O-320-A1A and shows the O-320-A3A fitting a Piper PA-23. Lycoming lists the O-320-E3D […]
The real fun at Sun ‘n Fun
A lot of my friends think I’ve got it made. After all, I not only get to go to Sun ‘n Fun and AirVenture every year, I get paid to go. They don’t know the half of it. Attending those shows, the premiere events of the air show season, are a great perk of this […]
TOUGH PILOTS, TOUGH PLANES, TOUGH FLYING
The caption for a photo on page 24 of the April 20 issue (Tough planes, tough pilots, tough flying: Montana Mountain Flying Museum showcases the best of aviation in the Big Sky State) states that “Smoke jumping got its start in Missoula…” I don’t think this is true.There is no doubt the Missoula smoke jumper […]
COMPUTER FLYING
I’ve just read your article “Developing Pilot Skills With MS Flight Simulator” in the March 9 issue of General Aviation News. I am wondering if you’d consider doing an article listing the variety of computer programs available? An overview, including a general reference to how powerful a computer is needed for each program, would be […]
Should we trust the FAA? Its employees don’t
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Management of the FAA and its controllers have been at loggerheads for many months. Now a report in The Washington Post reveals groups of other employees, as well, have problems with management. The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has been pointing out incident after incident where it says management’s actions are […]