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Well, welcome to the club and you're more than welcome to the help. Anything that gets more people flying safely is worth it, especially now with the mass media's anti-aviation bias. Do keep us informed and let us know how things go!

If you are worried about "wasting" your money on an AOPA membership if you join and then are denied a medical, don't be. The P in AOPA applies to sim pilots too. They're a good organization to be a member of even if you're denied a medical. I strongly advise you join and talk to them before talking to an AME. If you take the exam first and fail it, and then find something that would have enabled you to pass later, you're SCREWED. The failure will very strongly count against you, and you cannot undo the previous failure. You can get a sport pilot rating without a medical, UNLESS YOU WERE DENIED A MEDICAL previously.

Well, I got it up and running, and FSX doesn't seem to be doing anything untoward with the airplane. I've only flown a 152 and not a 172, but the 172 in FSX behaves more or less as I would expect. The wind does push you around a bit in real life. In the real airplane, though, the yoke moves with the airplane, you feel it, and you have a natural tendency to cancel this as soon as you sense it, which is somewhat faster than you can SEE it. At least it was natural for me, your reflexes may vary. Anyway, in FS you can't feel the wind push you, so you wait for a visual cue, which takes longer. I would assume that's why you're so badly affected. It'd be kinda like being "behind the airplane" in the real world. That's all just me guessing though. I don't even have my PPL yet. I didn't get it to bounce me 700 feet, but I didn't have time to put much work into it, just a few bounces around the patch. I have to work tomorrow. (:()

Any flat land of suitable size will generate thermals on a good hot day by absorbing and then reflecting solar heat. I think darker land generates more lift - It may have been the other way around. Anyway, the open area west of Allen Road does this very well. I've been there in a real airplane and had this problem. I didn't let it climb, because I didn't want to bust Peoria's airspace, but descending was difficult. We stayed east of the road afterward. (If you are one of Adama's students, you have probably been in the same place in the same airplane. :()I haven't installed FSX yet, I just got it, but I'll see what I get and let you know. The Real World does bounce you around west of the airport, but east of it wasn't as much of a problem. The golf course didn't work as well, I guess.PS: 3MY is a unicom airport, it doesn't have an ATIS. The Peoria ATIS wouldn't mention anything at 3MY.

Why 3MY?Did you drift over the field west of the airport on a hot day?

It's supposed to do that. The Airbus is trying to get you to flare.http://www.chipsplace.com/helpful/Airbus/F...%20Controls.htm -- See "Normal Law", look for "Flare Mode"

If the prop is windmilling at impact, it will be stopped by the impact more or less at contact time and bend mostly flat. If a prop is under power at impact, it will continue trying to turn well into the impact sequence, giving it more of an S-bend. This can be used to gauge whether or not the engine was running, and what power it was producing if it was running.

This whole law seems centered around forcing airlines to rush maintenance and take unnecessary risks, which will result in more passenger deaths. I suppose I'll never understand european mentality, but I'd much rather be late than dead, and nothing good ever came from a rushed project.

The Daley machine has run Chicago for years. It won't change soon and probably never will. Some call him "Emperor Daley" here. Even if a Daley isn't directly in charge, some subordinate of theirs will be. They run everything.As far as Meigs, he wanted it gone for years, and now it's gone forever. No amounts of fines or court action will change that. He got what he wanted. It may have been more expensive than he wanted, but that hardly matters. The taxpayers of Chicago will be reimbursing him for that. The only thing he didn't get was his riverboat casino dock, and I'm sure they'll have it within the next 10 years.It's sad and a bit depressing, but that's just how politics work in Chicago. People who start asking the wrong questions or saying the wrong things have a nasty habit of ending up dead in the lake. It's been that way since the days of Al Capone.

Daley lived only a few blocks from the airport and he hated the noise. Rumor has it he washed out of pilot school earlier in life and has a grudge against pilots in general, but I kinda doubt that.

Unless your reciever specifically mentions USB/LSB (Or SSB-Auto) you don't have it. SSB is usually an extra option you have to pay extra for.They aren't in any given "meter band", they are scattered around between bands to maximize coverage. They use specifc channels rather than bands.The HF system is currently being phased out in favor of a new satellite-based system due to the events of September 11th, so I don't advise buying a radio to listen to it.

Also, it seems they got a new airplane, with appropriate callsign:http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1062899/M/

To tell the truth, I wish it were BS too. The problem is that unfounded rumors don't make it far, whereas I've heard this one from two or three different people. Too many people are repeating it for it to be entirely untrue.

The rumor mill, of course. Someone observed them loading their helicopter and then unloading it when they learned she had already been notified. Said newscrew then complained about being scooped to the airport staff.

The really terrible part was that his wife was out on safari and could not be notified before the press found out. The (censored) at (large American news organization, three letters long, use your imagination) were planning to fly a newscrew and a helicopter out to her location so they could be first to notify her and get her reaction on camera. Fortunately a group of ham radio operators were able to ruin their plans and contacted her first.He will be missed.

Wait, now I'm confused too - Is Bader in the name of both airports as well?At 1544, ATC informed the pilot that "the airport is 12 o'clock and 4 miles." The pilot responded that he had the airport in sight, and the controller then cleared the pilot for a "visual approach at Bader airport."

I'm impressed that the FADEC managed to relight the thing with all that water, the engine managed to actually produce power while ingesting that much water, and the horizontal stab survived all that water striking it. That was one tough bird and it just wasn't going down without a fight! :(I know it was written off, but anyone have any idea what became of it after?

Sorry, false - The NTSB found the approach plate for KAIY clipped to the yoke in the aircraft afterward.From your link, I quote:"Additionally, the airport diagram for Bader Field, was observed attached to the pilot's control column after the accident. A notation, which read, "airport closed to jet aircraft" was observed on the diagram."

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Personally, I don't care what Wilco does. After what they did to Anticyclone and the people who bought A320PIC they don't deserve my money.

The important parts to being an Airbus pilot is you have to be flamingly homosexual, hate Americans, democracy, and freedom, support terrorism, and always be prepared to surrender to anything at any time. At least that's what all my friends at Boeing tell me. It sounds a lot like any other modern office work environment to tell the truth.(sarcasm setting eleven, folks! :()

Flight is dangerous. Occasionally, people die. Trying to forget or ignore this is futile. Most of us accept that the risk is worth the reward. Those who are unable to do this don't, and try to get legislation passed to prevent those of us who are from flying. For example, the space shuttle has had a 2% failure rate. Only 2% of shuttle flights flown have resulted in the death of the crew. However, those who are unable to accept this risk as acceptable are clamoring for a halt of the program and screaming that it's too dangerous. You can either accept that flight is dangerous and people will die, or join the crowd that wants us chained to the ground.

There are two types of airline pilots; Those who have issued a PA over ATC, and those who will.

Well, we're not trying to crap on your parade, or say "You're a dumbass unless..." or something. (I know some people are like that, but I'm not.) After all, I'm pretty sure you don't make RC because you like the attention. Most people I know that work do so because they like having food and a roof over their head. You might like your work, but at the end of the day, you do what pays the bills. Bandwidth is not cheap. I work for a computer school, and right now we are looking at internet delivery of our course content. I'm in charge of the development of the software and servers we'll be using to do this. In our case, we don't have the benefit of a unique product like you do - We all sell the same knowledge. If more than one of our competitors (or just one major competitor) gets a decent web-delivery system working before we do, they can concievably put us out of business, and definetely harm our ability to turn a profit. It's a very cut-throat business, so we have a bit more motivation to go to online delivery than you do. On the one hand, it drops our delivery overhead through the floor, so we make more profit, which means we can drop our prices and undercut the competition - but on the other hand, if people start pirating our content all over the place, we've just shot ourselves in the head. There's a lot of really great benefits, but an equal number of really great pitfalls. There's not much middle ground, at least not that we've found yet. It's definetely not a decision I would encourage you to rush into. There's a lot of really great technology out nowadays that can make it a lot less trouble than it used to be, but a lot of the big fundamental pitfalls like piracy and compatibility are still there. (If you could find a 100% solution to one of those big problems and sell it, you would be a very rich man indeed!)

I don't know what sort of anti-piracy protection RC has, but if it's good enough, it could be distributed via BitTorrent - That's how Blizzard distributes upgrades to the World of Warcraft software, and also how X-Plane and lots of other stuff gets distributed. That would greatly reduce the bandwidth cost to the publisher and make the size of the software a non-issue.