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Recruited By AOPA

Yes, yours truly was ‘recruited’ by the AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) to join their new initiative called ‘Lets Go Flying’ aimed at getting

Real-world

Want To Know The Cost?

Well, not talking about our Flight Simulator add-ons here…. you KNOW what they cost! No, rather I am talking about the cost of real aircraft,

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Great Flightplanner From AOPA

If you’re a member of AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) you may have already read about this…… but f you’re NOT a member then

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Don’t Try This At Home

Found on the Avweb news flash this morning a little article about a private owner of a beautiful F-86 Sea Fury, coming in for landing

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A Great Airbus Photoshoot

One of our most avid readers, found us a link to a great website showing a bunch of 360 degrees pictures of the new Airbus

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Pilot Suffers Stroke And Is Rescued

An amazing ‘rescue’ was carried out by the RAF, as can be read on the BBC News site here. “…..A plane was scrambled from the

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FlightAware’s Free Flight Planning Tool

FlightAware.com is a web site for ‘real world’ flying, but like many of these sites it also has its value for sim pilots. FlightAware’s new

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A-10’s Still Grounded

For our military buffs out there: a large number of A-10 Thunderbolt  ‘Warthogs’ are still grounded after cracks were found in one aircraft. It turned

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Electronic Failure In Qantas Airbus

As you can read on AVweb the accident with a Qantas A330-300 last week that made two sudden dives or ‘drops’ and injured a large

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Photos Of The Fossett Crash Site

One of the rescue/investigation team members took a bunch of pictures while they were searching the crash site for clues as to what might have

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