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https://apnews.com/article/3df4ebd69fed235e5100cb78c8ee8983

Was a great day for soaring with good marker Cu. Looking south along the Palo Verde mountains. Hidden Valley airport to the right and Millar airport to the left. Looking north along the Sierra Estrella. The white spot on the main ridge to the right is called the "White Spot" by the locals...

Interesting - though I am always skeptical of this sort of claim. https://thedebrief.org/nasa-veterans-propellantless-propulsion-drive-that-physics-says-shouldnt-work-just-produced-enough-thrust-to-defeat-earths-gravity/

How old is Dan Gryder? Over 60 presumably as a retired airline captain. Seeing this sort of behavior at this age always makes me think of oncoming dementia.

Next attempt at exploration might be late 2024 or early 2025. https://nypost.com/2024/04/19/us-news/what-would-recovery-of-amelia-earharts-long-lost-plane-look-like/

One minor nit. The phrase “dead reckoning” likely did not come from “deduced” but more likely from “dead right” and similar expressions, though this is a commonly repeated explanation. https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/before-gps-how-did-pilots-navigate-in-the-early-days-of-aviation.php

Related - https://archive.is/6RDh2

Update - I tried again online a few weeks later and still not working. Then. Month or so later received a printed copy in the mail. Filled it out though half the questions don’t apply to gliders.

Copyright at end says 1988. Apparently an episode from a TV show at the time. Just around 13:00 that is Les Horvath flying near the Sierra Estrella and the Estrella sailport. That is sort of my home gliderport. Les founded it with his brother in 1969. A lot of this is shot at Estrella actually.

I have read the cockpit transcripts. It strikes me that these junior pilots were not very well trained and were basically clueless about what was going on. Are we not all taught that if the plane is stalling you lower the angle of attack to get the wing flying from about lesson 3 or so? Then...

I agree that the evidence points strongly at pilot suicide / murder. I don’t know that we will ever know for sure. It’s an awfully big area where it may be. I suspect there may be some wreckage even decades from now. It is cold and deep there.

I agree Richard, it does sounds suspicious. It doesn't strike me that it would be worth it to Boeing to arrange this, but others have pointed out, it could be some political thing. OTOH, lot's of people who say things like that who do end up actually committing suicide. I don't know.

Superior WI which I know reasonably well being right next to MN. The Sky Harbor airport there is fun to land at - basically on a spit out toward the main harbor. https://apnews.com/article/b9bfcbf584d7e6987f65d0cc6d571bde

Have you asked Costello Insurance who they would recommend?

So I started some training in the Aeroprakt 22S this AM. It has rods coupling the steerable front wheel, the rudder, and the pedals, rather than a bungee. The speed with which you will start running off the runway after landing in a side-slip when you don't immediately change the rudders is...

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-boeing-737-toy-features-wings-that-really-fall-off

Yes, but isn’t any difficulty opening a cockpit door related to differences between the cockpit and the cabin, other than he locks?

Just finished this book by Captain Brown about his and Alcock’s flight in 1919 in a Vicker’s Vimy. They flew the shorter route from St. John’s Newfoundland to Ireland 7 years prior to Lindbergh’s famous flight. Crashed in a bog in Ireland. He spends some time taking about the future of...

Because people will panic on this sort of bad news, despite the fact they will likely be bailed out.

I think that sort of thing is not at all covered in the normal training materials for a starting private pilot.