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I just broke 200 hours total time during an instrument lesson. We're past the basic attitude flying stage and beginning to fly approaches, and I've already blasted through a localizer after forgetting to hit the CDI button and switch to VLOC, which I understand to be a rite of passage. Both...

61.129(a)(3)(iii) and (iv) do not specify whether the cross country training flights need to be performed under VFR or IFR.

They'll look at the ADSB track and see which property you keep circling before returning to the airport. :biggrin:

Gell-Man Amnesia Effect In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" to describe the phenomenon of experts reading articles within their fields of expertise and finding them to be error-ridden and full of misunderstanding, but seemingly forgetting those experiences...

Perks of living in a frozen wasteland: the county plow eviscerates every mailbox on the road, so my aircraft is registered at a PO box.

Only 100?! What are you, a savant?

"Earnest attempt" is such a slippery term. I know a few people who would swear up and down that they're serious about training, but in reality they're lifelong student pilots who dabble, taking a lesson here and there, and will never commit to flying frequently enough or studying hard enough to...

An Icon A5?

Imagine my disappointment when I clicked the link and discovered it was not the Bagger 288 video.

Another thought: I wonder if we're looking at his attempt to make the impossible turn. Look how he departs from his typical path to the right, and then begins a turn to the left prior to his typical crosswind turn. All while he's trying to stretch the glide.

His altitude seems to be 100+ feet lower than it was in previous laps, too. Lots of variables there - maybe he touched down further down the runway on his last landing, maybe it was a partial loss of power on climb out. Sure looks like he was making a desperate attempt to maintain his best...

Guy definitely flew a very tight pattern. Looks like he got pretty slow on the final climbout, compared to each pass that preceded it:

That was echoed by a few locals in the Reddit thread (can't find it now... possibly deleted from r/flying.) They said he rarely left the pattern, did lots of short approaches, low altitude flying, zoom climbs, etc.

He's so upbeat and wholesome it makes me feel like he's hiding a terrible dark secret.

You're going to be so disappointed when the warm weather finally arrives and you experience the performance of the airplane without the current -4,000ft density altitude. :biggrin:

I thought I'd take a break from IR training and knock the rust off by practicing some maneuvers. Didn't know the guy sitting beside me would be snapping photos, now I can't hide from that 250 FPM descent. Rookie move. :fingerwag: The Fisher Celebrity is pretty much ready to go, just...

You're neither a certificated powered nor glider pilot at the time of posting, correct?

When I first learned he was a pilot, I was reading an article that mentioned "Holland circumnavigated the globe in a small Cessna." I thought, "damn, I need to read more about this journey," dug a little and found that he had completed the trip in a Citation. :raspberry:

I'm taking advantage of this currently, and using the IGI/AGI credentials to access the Sporty's instrument ground school videos. Feels like I cheated the system, despite having blown $525 on PSI exams in order to avoid spending $299 on the Sporty's course (which is less informative than all the...

Man, this guy signed up just to resurrect a 5 year old thread. (Track up on the GPS, north up on the iPad. Obviously.)