I have been reading some old issues of Pilot magazine recently and
read a reference to NOTAMs being published on British Telecom’s
Prestel.

I believe that these days the CAA have no online presence.  Does
anyone know who we should lobby to get something like this on the Net?

I fly a group airplane, and find it a real pain to get NOTAMs because
I don’t really have access to a club that collects them.  Surely
publishing such air-safety info on the internet would be ideal, as
well as cheap?

If they did it then why can’t they do it now, when the technology is
much more capable of doing a good job.

        Dave
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Dave Farley
SSA Object Technology Ltd.
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You have three airport choices for Richmond.

Richmond International
Hanover County
Chesterfield County

I’ve been into all three, and they are all pleasant.  I think
it’s mainly a matter of picking one that’s closest to where
you want to go.  They are nicely evently spaced around the
Richmond environs.

The FBO I use at RIC (there are three I think) is the one up
next to the Virginia Air Museum (worth a stop to checkout)
up on the north end of the field.  They were very nice and
lent us a car so we could go have lunch.

Chesterfield County has a barbeque restaurant in the FBO
building that’s open fairly late (like 10PM).

-Ron

Hi

Does anybody know about any helicopter flight school in the New
York City area?

If so please let me know the schools phone, fax and/or e-mail
adress.

Best Regards
SIMON POSLUK
QRAS…@LMERA.ERICSSON.SE

Hi Rockair in Denver, Colorado is looking for some good CFI’s, MEI’s and II’s
We are based in Denver, Colorado

If your interested please leave E mail …..

rock…@usa.net

The pay is $15.00 to $20.00 per hour.

Only the very interested should respond

Thanks Again
and Happy Flying

Frank Leboeuf
President of Rockair Inc.

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Hello all:

        After few years, Canadian Airforce has started hiring pilots.
        I have just submitted my resume and I may have a good chance
        (being an Engineer and holding a valid P.P.L). However I have
        a fear of the Army mentality and I am afraid not to be fit for
        such an environment. I am afraid to be pushed towards Army admin
        as opposed to flying.

        Are there any Airforce pilots out there who can tell me a bit about
        the life in the Airforce? Is it fun? Is there a lot of bossing around
        by the superiors? How is the lifestyle living in a base most of your
        life?

   Any input is appreciated.
   Mehdi Azali (az…@nortel.ca)

   I’ve been told that BOTH the safety pilot AND the PIC under the hood
   can log time concurrently.  

   This is because it is an operation that requires two pilots per the FARs.

   I’m not quite sure how to interpet the regs on this one…

James

Does anyone have performance numbers on a Cessna 195/450?

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Thanks,

Tim Higgins

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Eric Prebys <pre…@viper.princeton.edu> wrote:
>OK, admittedly I’m being a cheapskate, but I was trying to adapt
>a standard telephone headset for use in a airplane.  The headphone
>part of course works fine, but after finding the elusive
>.206" plug to connect the microphone, it still does not work.
>Does anyone know if there is a fundamental difference between the
>microphone types?  Also, I noticed there were three contacts
>on the mic plug.  I assumed that two were for the mic and
>the third was for a remote ptt button.  Do aircraft headsets perhaps
>use a powered mic?

  Well, I must be a cheapskate too, because I did the same thing
(successfully).  First off, the headphones may seem to work, but the
aviation headsets have a much higher impedance than the hi-fi
variety.  Some intercoms can’t drive that low impedance, and they
load down the output so much that the other headphones (my
instructor’s, in this case) are almost impossible to hear.  When I
discovered this, I attached a small impedance-matching audio
transformer to the side of one of the ear cups (looks a bit
Frankensteinish).  As for the microphone, aviation mics are designed
to emulate a carbon mic.  That is, they present a variable
resistance to a current flow driven by +12 volts.  I was able to rig
up an electret mic to the base of a transistor, and by playing
around with the emitter resistor and collector resistor, I got
something that ATC could hear.  It was not good quality, though, and
I now use Marv Golden’s $89.95 marvel.  You’re right about the PTT
switch.  It switches to ground.

    -Bob Scott

Can anyone recommend their headset. I would really appreciate some
information on DCs especially and any other headset that has satisfied
you personally. Also I would like a headset within the price range of
$250-350.

Thanks,

Wes Padilla

I heard an amusing (?) METAR-induced gaffe this evening on the LGA
ATIS.  The altimeter setting of A2972, appearing where it does now
right after the dewpoint, was read into the ATIS tape as "winds,
two-niner-zero at seven-two."

Hang on to your hats!

-jon