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Which handbook? There are several. You would be better served if you went to your local pilot supply shop and bought one of the many test preparation books for sale there. I realize that FAA publications are free, but for your purposes they are not helpful. Test prep publishers have a pretty...

For more fun, ask the student to stop the prop. They will be amazed at how difficult it is, and amazed again at the pitch attitude and airspeed required for it to windmill on its own for an air start without using the starter. Bob

I used to make it a practice to kill the engine in cruise with the mixture to show the student that it was a non-event. I also shut off the master switch, to prove to non-believers that doing so would not, in fact, kill the engine. It always surprised me to learn how many students are afraid to...

No high-density altitude takeoffs in Norway, Bob? The club's checklist is just dandy at or near sea level density altitude. Start adding zeroes to the density altitude number and it becomes dangerously misleading. Bob Gardner

"Some CFIs" should have their heads examined if they do not teach their students to check that the power controls are set properly before adding takeoff power. Sheesh!! Bob Gardner

http://www.alfako.be/SAFETY DOCS/lycoming---flyer_key_reprints.pdf Read the section on leaning. Your instructor is wrong about leaning for taxi. My rule for descents, after leaning for cruise, is to leave the red knob alone at first. As you descend into denser air the mixture will become...

My reading comprehension leaves something to be desired. :( Bob

I am going to disagree with Jim Carpenter insofar as instrument training in Seattle is concerned. If you want to experience real-life in-the-murk flying, come to Seattle. My happiest days as an instrument instructor were those when the bases were at 800 agl and the tops of a stratus layer were...

Radar shows the controller where you were (when the radar beam rotated past your position)...ADS-B shows the controller where you are. Bob

I never owned a Seneca II, but I was an MEI and PA-34 examiner at a Piper school and flew a lot of 135 trips for the same outfit. Didn't have to pay for fuel or maintenance but I didn't have to worry about one leaving me high and dry, either. I have had engine problems with other twins, but none...

Radio. If you have any idea what state you are flying over, just get up on 122.2 and call the biggest city that you think you are near...or even "Any station, Bigbird 1234X listening on 122.2, request, over." Respond to the strongest signal. Bob

122.2 is the common FSS frequency. Ask them. Bob Gardner

Bad idea.

Definitely not. Instruction is given to a person who intends to learn to fly, or at least who wants to test the waters, and an instructional flight should be preceded by a discussion of what the flight will entail, even if it is simply "I am going to show you how the flight controls are used to...

Thumbs up on this one. When I was a designee back in the day I had to send several applicants back home because they did not bring the aircraft and engine logs. Bob Gardner

I trained my MEL students until an engine failure was an annoyance, not an emergency. Bob

Taxiing was no fun, though, right? BTDT. Bob

Yolk instead of yoke for the elevator control is a common error. Bob

IMHO the difference does not lie in approach speeds but in off-center thrust if you lose an engine. The preponderance of MEL training time is spent in killing engines in various situations and recovering to controllable flight. Primary training is not the place to encounter that problem. I have...

Watch what is happening overseas...shutting down theaters, restaurants, bars, anywhere people congregate....and it is working (except in Italy, which got a late start). I think that Americans are going to have to give up some of the freedoms we cherish for a brief period of time until we get...