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I had the weirdest sensation this year while towing gliders in the Pawnee. I had already done about thirty tows and on one of the last...

That shows small numbers over a short period of time (one year) so it's not particularly meaningful, but I was dazzled today to pick up...

The SES rating is all fun and almost no work, IMHO. It's mostly about boating in an airplane, no so much about flying one. I think...

Really tough in New Jersey. They don't allow them in public waters. Good thing it's a small state and you can just fly over it. (I...

Ask your CFI how the interview went. :rolleyes:

Not really. That implies that every pattern will be flown perfectly forever, which is far from the case. Perhaps even the OP's...

I took my pulse during taxi on my first solo. It was 64 bpm - very relaxed. On my second solo I taxied to the hold short line and...

Someone should talk to this CFI with a synopsis of this thread, with many posts by experienced and high time flight instructors as well...

The only thing my instructor said before my first solo was, "Do you have your medical with you?" Your instructor just created a level...

My hangar is on land leased by the state, and they inspect the premises frequently for compliance with the regulations, one of which...

I've lugged literally hundreds of five gallon cans of AVGAS from various airports to the floatplane (straight floats, not amphib) and...

That's great news. I hope for the sake of future pilots that this represents some degree of softening on the part of the FAA.

My initial CFI check ride was done in a glider over 40 years ago with an FAA examiner, not a DPE. But it wasn't actually done "in" the...

Ded reckoning is still current . . .

We didn't use those for dog hearing protection but we started using them calm her down for the flights and it really seemed to help.