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I had another lesson yesterday, I worked on Stage 2 Airwork, which I mostly am doing when I land. Slow flight with 30 degrees flaps. Power off and power on stalls, again with 30 degrees flaps. Almost new to me (I did them with Frank about a year ago) were accelerated stalls, left and right...

Heading to Erie, CO. About 35 minutes north of Denver. CFI recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Thanks. I add a little power if the aiming point starts rising in the windshield, and I have my hand on the throttle the whole time. My most recent 9 landings were all closed throttle (except for when I was too low) from abeam the numbers. Three of them were perfect. Three, not so good, and 4...

I'm moving it. It's not all that elaborate. I have rudder pedals, 2 Saitek radio boxes, an auto-pilot box, and a switch box, along with a yoke*, and throttle quadrant. I also have a Track IR Pro and have Remote Flight set up so I don't have to squint to see the instruments. All this hooks up to...

So, here's another life event happening. I've decided to sell my house and move to Colorado. The awesome hangar home my sister found went on contract, then back to active in a few days. I'm hoping to be able to make an offer while it's still active. I have at least one flight's worth of money...

I'm thinking that if I can get into Tammy's Amazon account that I can find the invoice there. I know her email, but not her password. They sent a one-time code to her email and I'm trying to recover that password. I've also filed a request to Amazon's bereavement department to get access that...

I’m surprised you had enough room for 2 people in a 152. I sat in one along time ago and my right shoulder went to the middle of the passenger seat. I’m 6-2, about 200 and I fly with CFIs about my size in 172s and I’m fine.

I have my Basic Med and the plastic Student Pilot Certificate came in the mail Saturday.

I've had five flights since I passed stage one. I've flown with three different instructors, so far. I think what works best for me is to pull the throttle to idle abeam the numbers, then when the runway is at a 45-degree angle turn base and add 10 degrees flaps. Then when I turn final if I'm...

I hope you are all sitting down. The new support group for Honeycomb contacted me and helped me verify the yoke is bad, by running the internal calibration procedure. If I had the original invoice, it looks like I could have gotten it repaired under warranty. Unfortunately, I've already been...

Thanks for your inputs. I make sure my airspeed is within a 10-knot window, and don't worry about it anymore. I've already made sure the aiming point is stationary in my windshield, and if there's a VASI or PAPI that I have half white and half red lights. I try to wait to put full flaps in and...

My goal is to be on the GLIDE PATH, 75 knots, 20 degrees of flaps, and descending at 500 FPM before I get to the airport fence, Just before the fence, go to 30 degrees of flaps and throttle at idle, if not before. That will slow me down to about 65 knots, especially if I don't let the nose come...

A forward slip to get down to the glide slope is a great idea. Thanks. I'm very familiar with forward slips. The last time a CFI commented on one of my forward slips he said it was fine. I did one to get down fast enough to make the runway when I did a simulated engine out during my stage one...

Interesting. The hills on the straight in approach to 31L/R are about 2000 MSL, so we need to be about 2500 MSL to stay at a legal height. That puts me above the glide slope when I can start my descent. I do know about power for altitude, and pitch for airspeed, but increased power puts more air...

I had my flight with Sergey.I made 8 landings. At least one full stop; the rest touch and go. I'm almost always pretty close to the centerline, not off to the left like I used to do. There are several areas of improvement to work on. Am I a jinx? The first flight after I landed 98485, its...

I was going to start this post about the Ides of March not being so bad for me, but that was yesterday. TLDR: I finally! passed the stage one check, finally, and am more then ready for stage two. I've been doing a lot of flying and working on the stage one check requirements with Liam. He said...

I was able to successfully download and install MSFS 2020. Getting from one screen to another is God-Awful slow. Typical Micro$Loth Bloat Ware. The yoke had problems in Prepar3D. The previous session it had no issues. I tried adjusting the sensitivity with no success. I tried the yoke in...

Thank you both for responding to my post. I read something about the developer getting the shaft. There's no telling if, nor when, I might be able to get my yoke repaired. Unfortunately, my wife, who gave it to me, is deceased. I've gone through all of her paperwork and there was no receipt for...

My Honeycomb Alpha yoke recently broke. I currently have Prepar3D Flight Sim and a CH Products Eclipse yoke, which sticks when pushing or pulling. I found what looks to be a good replacement for the Honeycomb, it's a Turtle Beach yoke, about 50% more than the Honeycomb. The Turtle Beach yoke...

I "flew" an earlier version of X-Plane and I was able to keep a Skyhawk in the air well below stall speed. That is probably why you were able to land in all of those places. FSX and P3D stall about the real Skyhawk stall speed, so I doubt you'd be able to land in all those places using either...