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You may certainly have more luck with insurance as a first timer flying with a group. I’ve flown with Sam and I have a few transatlantics… I was planning to fly the Greenland Air Trophy as a CFI accompanying a pilot couple of years ago, but the trip was cancelled by Covid. However, the pilot...

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Digging deeper into the chain of events... Accidents like this are the reason that I don't teach GUMPS in a fixed gear/non-complex airplane. This pilot was doing a "GUMPPCCS" checklist, and ignoring most of it, just as he was trained. Here's how you'd perform a GUMPPCCS checklist in a 172... G...

There is a little more to this story than an iPad blocking the gear lever... read the pilots statement here... https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=98998 Relatively low time pilot, with very little time in type. He had always trained to do a GUMPS checklist in his fixed gear trainer, and his...

Let's say you had 4 days to fly around and enjoy the Northeast USA (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, etc...) in the winter. Where would you go? What would you do? I'm looking to plan a four day excursion... interested in aerial scenery, challenging airports, and fun places to stay. I will take...

Every. Single. Word. Keep it coming!

I know you asked about Subaru, but I don't have any insight into that particular make. I can, however, tell you the best way for a pilot to buy a new Ford at a no-haggle price that will be about as good as you can get. 5 simple steps. Step 1: Join EAA Step 2: Visit the "Ford Partner...

Do you have the option of flying any of these legs VFR? Or is everything IFR under the direction of ATC?

https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/emergency-crews-responding-to-reported-plane-crash-at-elizabethton-airport/ Developing story... Citation jet ran off runway, fully involved in fire. Reports that Earnhardt and his wife were both on board, taken to a hospital but "OK"... Elizabethton, TN.

Yes, once you're in, you're in (until you leave, then you gotta get back in again). From Toronto/Regina, you'll be much closer to the Alaska Highway route. It is a completely different set of scenery vs. the coastal route, and it is also a safer route (particularly for a first timer). Getting...

I can't comment on September weather, as my trips to Alaska have all been in June and July, but VFR is quite likely doable year round as long as you are VERY patient with the weather. If you don't get the weather you want, just be prepared to wait a day or five while the weather improves. I've...

After witnessing the experience and rescue of a friend that recently crashed in the wilderness, I immediately went out and bought a Garmin inReach Mini. Two way communication is essential to a timely rescue. Two-way text messaging capability is the only reason why my friend is alive.

According to this, the change explanation is: 5. UPDATED CHART NOTE: RWY 29 STRAIGHT-IN AND CIRCLING MINIMUMS NA AT NIGHT TO STRAIGHT-IN AND CIRCLING RWY 29 NA AT NIGHT. - IAW 8260.19H 8-6-11 PARA O.2(G).

I'm confused... Please interpret this note for me... https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1906/05901R29.PDF On the RNAV 29 to Burlington WI, the following note applies: "Straight-in and Circling Rwy 29 NA at night." What else is there other than a straight in or circling? Does this note mean that the...

Schaumburg has some psychopathic neighbors... I flew out of there years ago, and there was a guy that used to stand in his back yard with binoculars writing down tail numbers and sending nasty letters to the airport and to the city.

Venture North Aviation in Cloquet, MN. I've done two checkrides there (Comm and CFI), headed back for a third next month. CFII is a 5 day program (4 days training, checkride on the 5th day). Very good program. http://www.venturenorthaviation.com

The story of the Cirrus ditching in the Bahamas last week got me thinking... In his case, he knew the situation was critical. Oil pressure had fallen, and it was only a matter of time before the engine stopped revolving. He was over the ocean, cruising at 8000' and the closest airport was...

To circle back to the original topic of this thread... I grew up under the base leg for runway 34. As a little kid, I used to love watching airplanes fly over my house at 500'. My parents still live in the same house. The airport boundary used to be smaller, with Wolf and Hintz roads squared...

Chicago has two airports, neither of which is a GA airport. Chicago bulldozed its only GA airport in the middle of the night on the order of a self-serving and fear mongering mayor who said the iconic airfield could be used to launch terrorist attacks. That same mayor subsequently pushed to...