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The local vocals were trying to shut down all student flying at our airport at that time. If they found that Fred was flying solo, unable to get a license, after so many years, they would have called the FAA to punish his friendly instructors and ground Fred. I will repeat, he could pass the...

Same piece of paper. The secret was that he was still a student plot after 40 years. Everybody on the field thought he was one of the best pilots there. Me included, even after flying with him.

Saying that he was only a student pilot would break the secret that the instructors were keeping him in the air, and legal. Secrets must be kept secret, or soon every one knows, then the FAA checks. All of them are dead and gone, 10 years or more, so no longer a big deal. The instructor did...

Three comments, The 3 month endorsements allowed phone approval for individual flights. Verbally, he knew all that was on the written, just froze up on the actual documents in the test center. Legally, our flight would have been fine if he told me his status, I was qualified for his...

The thread about the "Instructor" who had a fatal with his student and personally survived, with all his privilege's revoked brought a friend of mine to mind. Fred Flintstone, NOT IS REAL NAME started flying just before WW 2, but was one of those people that panic on tests. He never passed the...

Museum of Flight. I have been to both, very much enjoyed both, but the museum is the winner.

If you are hand flying, the mile based limits can be used to allow refreshing your brief of obstacles near the approach path, and stepdown fix altitudes. Maybe even noting that there are potato plant smoke stacks very near the ILS inbound. If the weather conditions imply even a slight...

Dumpster diving for copies of credit card receipts is profitable. Recovering items returned for credit or exchanged for functioning replacements is also profitable. Local Police arrested two guys having a fist fight over which was going to get first dive of a bank dumpster. A lot of reasons...

Raisins. Maybe gummy bears? JimK is a farmer, keeping active traps in non occupied buildings is important, even if there are no mice there, as the future may change to many mice moving in. Rodents, not just mice, can do amazing damage to electrical and electronic equipment in a short time...

Back in the day, a friends uncle had a bakery in a medium size town. It was near the airport, and when the airmail plane came in and unloaded its mail, the pilot removed the wooden prop, carried it to the bakery, which was heated all night, and they placed it in a corner near the ovens. In the...

Plus 1 on the giant 6 foot slide rule at the front of the room. I wore out my cheap first slide rule before I finished 20 semester hours of engineering college classes, bought a Keuffle and Esser, and wore it out before calculators became available. Next, the company bought me a log log...

dtuuri, in an early post pointed out that a completely new ADF concept that was microprocessor based, did all the thinking inside, had a data base of all the USA broadcast stations, and a fixed but directional antenna, could solve the problem. Operationally, when you turned on the radio power...

At least now we know 3 airports that do reserve crew cars, Sparta, Harbor Springs and Gaylord Michigan. No use to me personally, as my friend who had a house in Michigan died, but others can use it. Keeping such secret harms your fellow pilots, as they may pick a different airport, and fail to...

I think we are missing something important here, SkyChaser mentioned it. When I went for my check ride, I needed an endorsement from my CFI that I was ready. That was 2.4 hours tach time, and included everything the DPE normally required applicates to do. The check ride was nearly an hour...

Orca64, the PAR at Andrews was decommissioned, and moved to Davison, in Virginia, so I did PAR there. Dulles had PAR, but the controllers hated staying qualified. When it was removed, they had the contractor just drop the cables into the conduit, making it impossible to replace them. Twice at...

Country flyer, I haver read carefully twice, and still do not know which airport(s) provide reserved courtesy cars. A secret deal that only you are allowed to use? Or just too much trouble to type that into this thread, while concentrating on belittling a site that tries to have free...

Orca64, I have a high regard for PAR approaches. With my CFI, I made 2 at Andrews AFB, to 20 feet, at night. I flipped up the hood, to see runway centerline lights going on 'Forever' from the viewpoint of a Cessna 150! My instructor, meanwhile, pushed throttle to firewall, keyed the mike to...

Velocity, I think you are describing the difference between a real, dedicated pilot, and a seat filler with an eye on the top. I have been very fortunate that I had outstanding instructors for my first 4 flights, flew only once with my first dunce, and finished up with another above and beyond...

Websites are used with a wide variety of devices and web browsers. Your issues other than non up to date data, is something he cannot see, so you need to alert him. I have had such problems elsewhere, and an email to the site owner has usually fixed the problem. I have never been able to...

I have owned stock in a pure aviation simulator company, and much later in Boeing, which packages simulators with their sales of actual aircraft. The prediction of half the flight training, and most of the proficiency training in simulators would be the norm makes safety and financial sense...