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The flap indicator on our C-150 is inop, though the flaps themselves work fine. What little secondary info I could find suggests that an inop indicator makes the plane un-airworthy, while ironically if the flaps themselves were inop a simple placarding would maintain the plane's airworthiness...

Never watched his videos, but from what I heard second-hand he often invented things. Yet he had some sort of non-trivial following on Youtube.

Looks like about 36% of airplane owners wont shell out a few thousand: From: What a difference ADS-B In makes—or does it? That article links to FAA current ADS-B equipage stats: Current Equipage Levels As of July 1, 2023 One local data point: The local flight school has two airplanes, only one...

There are vastly more birds than drones - but that argument was first made years ago and didn't affect the FAA's thinking at all. I haven't read a Nall Report in years, but I recall in many years that midair collisions were so few in number that they were lumped in with miscellaneous causes...

That reminds me of a 9 year old Weird Al Yankovic video I only just discovered this last month. Guess I'm falling behind on contemporary culture.

This guy captures my own observations of some of the science and technical articles in Wikipedia. It hasn't become unusable, yet, but caveat lector is essential.

Probably for the same reason they did nothing to help the mother and daughter - either didn't care or piss poor decision making. The guy who eventually exchanged seats with the daughter reminds me of a flight I took several years ago. I was flying alone for work in an aisle seat on the left...

Since the EAA and AOPA have been backing it and the FAA has applied several years of effort into it, I'm guessing some variation of it has a better than even chance of being approved. Allegedly it is a consequence of the "FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018". Possibly under "Subtitle B--Aircraft...

It looks like that the proposed regulation changes in MOSAIC would pretty much eliminate the need for medicals for most of the flying done by pilots. A sport licensed pilot, having only a driver's license and self-certifying with respect to medical fitness, would be able to fly most common...

Three weeks ago my wife and I visited northern New Mexico. We visited Taos, Santa Fe, and Los Alamos. In the latter we visited several Manhattan Project sites and related museums. There I learned that a Hollywood movie called Oppenheimer would be coming out soon. Didn't pay much attention...

After reviewing the NPRM and giving it some thought, I don't think these changes will accomplish anything useful beyond letting sport pilots fly legacy airplanes like Cessna 172s and its competitors. The proposed rules don't seem to have any impact on the cost of new aircraft either. That's...

Story here: https://bydanjohnson.com/mosaic-news-faa-running-ahead-of-schedule-unbelievable-proof-here-now/ It's a big deal! Edit to add that according to the copy of the NPRM on Dan Johnson's web site the actual NPRM will be published by the FAA on July 24 - during Oshkosh. The FAA will no...

I believe this PDF is the entirety of the 1926 regs: https://ia800904.us.archive.org/12/items/1926USDeptOfCommerceAirCommerceRegulations/1926%20-%20US%20Dept%20of%20Commerce%20-%20Air%20Commerce%20Regulations%20.pdf

Medical requirements appear in the 1927 regs (see pages 29 and on): Air Commerce Regulations Effective December 31, 1926 But those regs appear to have been developed from the Air Commerce Act of 1926. As far as I can tell, prior to that act civil aeronautics was self-regulated. Edit to add that...

Nice photos! However, even without struts the wings get into the pictures. I think you need a plane that doesn't have those things. ;)

The size of the fine seems rather small - perhaps low enough that OSHA hoped the airline wouldn't find it worth contesting? Have no idea if it would affect the success of any civil wrongful death lawsuit by the family.

Perhaps it is meant for CFIs who want to build time toward airline requirements. Just need any student who may also be a CFI who wants to build time, so one is in training while one acts as instructor. Dubious, but that is all I can think of. Somebody asked a question about that scenario here...

From https://apnews.com/article/virginia-plane-crash-victims-sonic-boom-8ae61275a56d4b5b64b03047f7f9d84c?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#lil26qj14vvbtjx8q3j: "Rumpel also said it is common practice for pilots to put their destination, along with an “emergency return...

I plugged in N611VG into https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ and overlayed the IFR High Route chart and found that the plane started its turn at the SARDI intersection (you'll need to manually switch the map to IFR Enroute High mode)...