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Any folks out there that had Zulu 2's and switched to the Bose A20?

If your A20's died, would you spend the money to get them back or would you switch to the Zulu's?

My license cost a little over $12,000 when I added up not just the training, but all of the gear, foreflight, medical, headset, and all the flights/ground sessions required to start from nowhere to the temporary airmen certificate being signed. This is for the east bay of San Francisco in a...

Now that I'm done with my training and moving on as a newly minted PP, I obviously want to throw more $ in the trash. My apologies for those who are annoyed about yet another headset thread, but many of them are quite a bit older and I'm seeking up-to-date information. I've done all of my...

I decided to get my sunglasses redone with polarized Ray-Ban prescription lenses. I found the pain of the sun glare to be more of a distraction than not seeing an iPad, which I was already so used to from my training hours anyway. Thanks for the help everyone!

I never had issues spotting other VFR traffic with my glasses as long as I was using the standard scanning techniques. I could see issues coming around if you're in a cockpit with anti-glare coatings that would result in you being blinded.

I was looking up some of the old forums here and the FAA guide on sunglasses for aviators and decided to update my prescription Ray Ban aviators. I previously had them done in polarized lenses but only had some minor issues reading my iPad. I had them re-done today with non-polarized...

Perhaps the warning you're receiving is to not confuse a standard full stop landing with a short field landing. They're two different things and unless you've briefed the short field landing, you're mixing techniques a little bit. On a short field landing, your flap retraction is part of the...

It depends so much on airport and surrounding airspace. In my experience, most airports around the bay will just direct you to make a straight in and report an X mile final (usually 2 miles). On the other hand, I have heard ATC request "turn left/right, intercept the x mile final for runway xx."...

I use mine for W&B, Foreflight for charts or AF/D, and within Foreflight I have multiple POH's, weather/chart legends, and some textbooks like the Jeppesen and FAA Pilot Handbook. You just need to make sure you don't let it become a crutch. I always carry backup checklists, charts, and AF/D...

Congrats! Enjoy your freedom!!

Just to be sure, the FARs don't prevent us from becoming night current under the supervision of a CFI or do these takeoffs and landings need to be completed solo?

Congrats! Don't forget to study hard for the oral! I've heard from so many people now that DPE's are being careful of people that memorize but don't know how to apply information. You'll do great!

I just got my PPL - I used a tablet almost exclusively for checklists but for the checkride I didn't use any electronics because you can count on the DPE considering it failed as soon as you take off. It's useful to keep multiple POH's for studying and looking up weather but things like the...

Congrats!

I also had a rough time with the test on sectionals. They warned me the sectional wasn't to scale with a standard plotter and it totally wasn't. Screwed up one of my answers! Congrats on passing the written - now on to the serious studying where you apply all that memorization into real life!

I'm not sure if it was the policy of our flight school, but I remember as soon as he started feeling gross, he'd cancel days of lessons. I don't think he was doing it as a courtesy.

During my training, my CFI would ground himself as soon as there was any detectable congestion and would wait until it was gone.

I bought a sportys but I found it always caused the yoke to hit it when turning. Anyone else have this problem? I now just use iPad without a strap.

Congrats. When you do these things for real, you focus in a different way that helps you really do your best. You'll be fine!