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Was browsing the legend for low altitude IFR charts and I wondered why they still included brown for LF/MF airways. Wikipedia reports the four-course radio ranges were allegedly decommissioned by the 1970s. Well according to this site the notation is still used for some NDB routes in Alaska and...

Of course its possible, just not probable. IMHO of course. The first airport controller in the U.S. was a man with flags at the privately funded St. Louis Airport in 1929. A radio equipped control tower was established the next year at Cleveland. The first (non-radio) airway control (enroute)...

The problem is they could keep the plane under some other pretext so as to not conflict with Federal law. Or they could just keep the plane under their current pretext - who would be in a position to force return of the plane to its owner?

The Xenforo system checks new posters against the StopForumSpam database and flags them for review by moderators. I saw the user as one the new users who were flagged as known spammers and had the system auto-delete the user and all their posts.

Wall Street Journal article on toxicity of contaminated bleed air: https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/air-travel-toxic-fumes-64839d6e?st=LFMBdG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

I think this "gifted" link should work (I'm a subscriber to the WSJ and the article provided me the option) https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-russia-drone-hunting-e2fea5fc?st=yQPDCn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Because I was already over my original budget, I chose not to add the expense of fuel senders so the CGR-30P wont be tracking actual fuel quantity, just estimated based on consumption. One will still need to glance up to the cockpit ceiling where the fuel gauges sit at the wing roots to check...

Well, over six months later I gave up getting on the schedule of the local avionics shop and managed to get a quote back from an avionics shop in the Denver area. The quote proposed a start around September 15. Their hourly rate appears to be above the national average, so that may be why I got...

Both aircraft in the DC collision had transponders on and were tracked by web sites that gather such data in real time and both were in radar controlled space overseen by a controller in communication with both aircraft, so anyone who wanted could see them come dangerously close. Lastly, Flight...

Here's the 717 page document: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/MOSAIC_Final_Rule_Issuance.pdf The FAA announcement: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-announces-improvements-recreational-aviation

Cool!

I read one account that said only surviving passenger heard a bang. Not sure if a RAT deployment would make a bang.

Not bad, IMHO.

I didn't get the memo, but it seems that for the past few years the requirement for compass deviation cards in smaller aircraft has been silently removed: https://www.wificfi.com/post/addendums-vfr-airworthiness-requirements https://www.holladayaviation.com/magnetic-compass-qa/ I found this...

I moved to using iFly EFB several years ago and haven't kept tabs on WingX updates. iFly EFB is under active development and actually maintains a user's guide. And it is multi-platform (available on Android, iOS, and Windows). Case in point is that I recently installed a uAvionix SkySensor...

Nice recently made video of the Goodyear blimp. Looks very neat and modern.

On one hand the report states "The hijacker was fatally shot in the chest by a passenger who had a licensed firearm, police said." And then goes on to report "It is not yet clear how the hijacker was able to get on the plane with a knife, police said." Together they imply either there would...

That's pretty damn blatant.

You mean something like a menu or mode tree?