AOPA Flight Training at The Aviation Weblog

I mentioned the AOPA Flight Training website in an earlier post, but wanted to talk more about it briefly. If you've been wanting to learn to fly, or are already a student pilot, the AOPA Flight Training site is a great place to wet your whistle. There are dozens of tips, and other helpful information. And, if you join AOPA, you get a free six-month subscription to the print magazine [...] Read More


AOPA Reopens Member Forums at The Aviation Weblog

AOPA has reopened its forums (discussion boards) for members. If you've ever wanted to ask someone about the best place to get a $100 hamburger, or if you're looking to learn new flying techniques, get aircraft ownership tips, or find maintenance advice the Aviation Forums is a good place to go. Registration is free but only available to AOPA members. It works just like other message boards in that it [...] Read More


AOPA in Tiff with FAA Over Navaid Decision at The Aviation Weblog

The FAA is considering decommissioning some VORs in the Northeast due to airport construction. AOPA has issued a letter to FAA commissioners calling into question that decision. The letter says the AOPA is "seriously concerned that isolated local studies to decommission traditional ground-based navigation aids based simply on the local need to relocate the VOR on the airfield could have significant negative effects on the National Airspace System..." The two VORs [...] Read More


ATV Safety Training Makes a Difference in Minnesota at Under My Helmet

Some folks don't want to hear it because it will make their cause, their motives and their mission obsolete, but ATV safety training makes a difference. I have been involved in several (albeit short) discussion with people trying to advocate a ban on kids riding ATVs. They always seem to end (not always politely) when I ask them to justify an all out ban of children riding any ATV over [...] Read More


Interval training burns more fat at Are you a beauty?

When I run I always alternate fast sprinting with almost walking, because I suck when it comes to sports. The same goes for exercising on my home elliptical treadmill, where I cycle like a mad woman for ten minutes and than try to catch my breath for another ten taking it slowly. Although I was not aware of this, it seems that interval training is just the thing to lose weight [...] Read More