Last week-end few of us had joined for hanger chelo-kabab. Thanks to Reza and his great food. I should thank Mehdi as an assistant chef.  All I could tell you that we couldn't fly after that food due to over gross weight.

Congratulation to David Rastavan for his contribution and making his old countrymen proud.

KNX Heroes 2008

David Rastavan / La Habra
Feb. 21, 2008

David Rastavan is a successful businessman, pilot and citizen volunteer with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Aero Squadron. He spent Super Tuesday in a Cessna Challenger, shuttling between Needles and San Bernardino on a ballot run. Rastavan has been flying for 27 years...he loves it! And he routinely volunteers his piloting skills and his own plane to search remote areas for missing people or aircraft, help deliver supplies, transport VIPs or shuttle ballots, whatever is needed. It's his way of saying thanks to the country that welcomed him 30 years ago.

http://www.knx1070.com/2008-Honorees/1680709

The difference between a duck and a co-pilot? The duck can fly.

A check ride ought to be like a skirt - short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover everything.

Speed is life. Altitude is life insurance.

It only takes two things to fly: airspeed and money.

The three most dangerous things in aviation:

1. A doctor or dentist in a Cessna.
2. Two captains in a DC-9.
3. A flight attendant with a chipped tooth.

• If it's ugly, it's British.
• If it's weird, it's French.
• If it's ugly and weird, it's Russian.

Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another very expensive flying club.

The similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies. If ATC screws up, the pilot dies.

It's better to break ground and head into the wind than the other way round.

The difference between flight attendants and jet engines is that the engines usually quit whining when they get to the gate.

New FAA motto: "We're not happy until you're not happy."

If something hasn't broken on your helicopter -- it's about to.

I give that landing a 9 . . . on the Richter scale.

Basic Flying Rules:

1. Try to stay in the middle of the air.
2. Do not go near the edges of it.
3. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly in the edges.
   

Unknown landing signal officer to carrier pilot after his 6th unsuccessful anding attempt: "You've got to land here son. This is where the food is."

from: www.ashreshteh.com