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Holds always had a maximum altitude, it's just it was never included on the chart. It was, however, documented on the Form 8260-2 for the intersection/waypoint. There was just never a requirement to chart it. The maximum altitude would almost 100% of the time NOT be established through any real...

They would have to do that, or move UVCEH further to the SE (to make the segment longer).

And I assume quite thin. I fit in Mooneys just fine at 6'2" (and thin), in fact with the seat all the way back I can stretch my legs out and just barely touch the rudder pedals. Of course at that point there's no room in the rear seat, but what do I care about that? :D

Good stuff!

I am rather embarrassed that I missed that. I must be slipping. The maximum descent gradient for the intermediate segment is 318 feet per nm. So 10000 at UVCEH exceeds that and would require the PT (i.e. it doesn't qualify for NoPT). It still doesn't exceed it with the 9500 from HASSL to UVCEH...

While you're flying, do not use 100% of your attention trying to fly well. The examiner already knows you can fly the maneuvers within standards, after all, you've passed at least 3 checkrides by this point. For example, the examiner asks you to demonstrate steep turns. So you focus on nailing...

Absolutely. I can't understand why anyone with any kind of questionable medical history at all wouldn't do a consult first (other than not realizing it's an option). Heck, I did one before I got my 1st class for my current job just to make sure there weren't going to be any surprises - and I...

I agree, generating a personalized, airplane-specific P-A-C chart for the student's plane should literally be in Lesson 1 of IFR training. Takes what, 10 minutes? Especially with anything with a constant-speed prop (like the 182 in the OP). Every pilot needs to know how to do this, and any CFII...

It is 100% legal for an owner to completely disassemble his own plane. He can remove inspection panels, remove instruments, take the engine off, even remove the wings. Oh, sure, it's now unairworthy, but so far it's perfectly legal to do. People parting out airplanes do it all the time. Insurers...

I cannot find a reason these shouldn't be IAFs. Your best bet is to contact the FAA TERPS office and ask the same question. As this procedure is also being amended (as noted above), it would be a good opportunity to have some input into the amendment...

Same. Leading off with "Public Aircraft logging of flight time" likely caused me and many others to just skip it since it didn't apply.

Mark, is that necessarily correct, though? The interpretations themselves were rescinded, but (at least in my mind) that doesn't automatically make the conditions stated in them become not valid. Much like when the Part 61 FAQ was disavowed, it didn't mean the answers in the FAQ were necessarily...

Well if you were weightless, in other words gravity had no effect, then you'd have a temporary decrease in speed due to increased drag during the pitching down (or up). But once you're established in the new attitude, you'd have the same drag as before and therefore would resume your previous...

As the NPRM has not become a Final Rule yet, does that leave us in a vague neverland? Taking as an example the "CFI and pilot are not passengers with respect to one another, so they can get night currency without either one being night current" situation/interpretation, as I understand it, this...

That's exactly what they did in the NPRM.

The 2025 ASA FAR/AIM is available right now. So you are saying it incorporates the April 2025 changes?

Why can't you walk? I've walked from the visitors center to work a few times for various reasons. Is it a "escort required" type of issue? When will you be there? If I'm around I'd be happy to give you a ride. But the chances I'll actually be around are pretty minimal. I pretty much only go...

Others have alluded to this, but it's important to realize that the "FAR/AIM" book that you buy from Sporty's or wherever is just a reprint of the existing AIM and the FARs that the company feels pertain to most pilots. The book is not published by the government and is in no way "official". And...

Do you have a question with all of this? What are you looking to get out of from posting this thread? I don't see a question or even a suggestion for discussion anywhere, are you just trying to update us on your own personal investigation? Basically, what's your point with all these posts?

As a practical matter, it probably doesn't much matter anymore. I got out of the AF in 2007, and at most of the bases I was at, pretty much nobody went to the clubs anyway. Typically just some retirees at the lunch hour. They were constantly having membership drives to boost membership. The...