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"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Not original with me, but it is so true. Insofar as takeoff briefings are concerned, I make sure that the right-seater knows how to open the door "in case I am busy (or unconscious)." Bob

"Weather Flying" by Bob Buck, oldie but goodie. "Severe Weather Flying" by Dennis Newton. Bob

Yes. You never know when an opportunity to fly a different airplane will arise, and when one does you do not want to say "I can't." Never stop learning. Bob

Right, Dana...I jumped to the conclusion that if the OP is a new student the trainer will have vacuum instruments. Full disclosure: I have a mag compass in my glove compartment. Doesn't look anything like an airplane compass. Bob

As a VFR pilot, the only time you will refer to the mag compass is when you are setting the heading indicator to agree with it (in the absence of a numbered runway). Wet compasses are notoriously difficult to read when there is the least little bit of turbulence. IOW, getting one for your car...

I agree with velocity. Tempest in a teapot.

Don't do it. You must explain any and all doctor/hospital visits to the FAA, and they are paranoid.

"In the U.S., the bureaucracy has been updating the isogonic lines on VFR charts on a regular basis..." Depends on your definition of "regular," I guess. I have a very long email from the FAA with lots of details with regard to magnetic variation and isogonic line/VOR orientation as they apply...

https://www.asa2fly.com/Apps-C369.aspx See anything you like? My book The Complete Advanced Pilot is an ebook: ASA-CAP-6-EB for %44.95 Bob

Answer number 2: WAAS ground stations rebroadcast signals from the GPS satellites. You could have a WAAS ground station on every street corner and they would be useless without operating satellies. Answer number 3: GPS accuracy is great laterally, miserable vertically. Your GPS altitude is not...

I was telling my wife about your CPAP-phobia and she reminded me that when I was originally diagnosed in the late 1990s the machine was indeed loud...but that was more than 20 years ago. Sleep science has advanced by leaps and bounds. When I lay down to sleep, my head is about 18 inches from the...

Could it be that your experience is with an older-technology CPAP? My ResMed AirSense 10 makes no noise....none. When i take it off in the morning I can hear the air rushing through the mask (in my hand) but it quits in about ten seconds. If your doc wants a sleep test, you will go to a place...

Given what has been said about the height of the T-tail and the lack of deicing at the airport, I'm guessing tailplane stall....not engine related in any way. Bob

To emphasize what Murphey said above....do not let the doctor's nurse begin to fill out any kind of FAA form...a consult is just a conversation with no record (and a bill).

I'm fairly certain that you will have to fly to the FSDO location...the FAA does not have planes or funds to travel to you. Your instructor will have to cool his heels (or ride along, with the examiner's approval). I have had monocular students and paraplegic students. I know of one-armed pilots...

The last time I flew a P-Navajo I had a fuel controller problem on climbout from OAK and almost turned back but soldiered on to Seattle...the plane sat for six months with the left engine removed then I never saw it again. Not my favorite. I have some pressurization tales to tell as well. Bob

If we were going cross-country, I wanted my students to dress as though they would have to walk home. I vividly remember giving a BFR to a kid in his dad's Seneca. He was wearing flip-flops, and we had to push the plane up a slight slope into its parking slot. It was a sight to behold. More on...

I haven't researched that specific approach, but you will find many, many places where you have to use both the approach plate and the LO chart to find all of the fixes. Not unusual. Bob

There is real value in XC time if you do not limit yourself to flying from A to B and back again. The reason behind the requirement is to expose the commercial applicant to a variety of weather systems, terrain, and airports. Try to avoid going to the same airport twice; expand your horizons...

VORs will be around for the foreseeable future as the "Minimum Operating Network: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/techops/navservices/transition_programs/vormon/ Is you surmise, the MON is intended to be a backup for the GPS, which is as prone to...