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No the DPE will confirm that he has a complex endorsement before the test begins

don't be shy about getting extra training too. Make sure you're ready. My record giving Private Pilot Multi checkrides...is not good. I can't exactly explain why. It is a small sample size.

twin cessna fuel systems...make sure the transfer pumps in the main tanks are working when you do your preflight!

Martin & Doug's videos are better ground school than you'll likely get with almost any MEI who is teaching in a Travel Air. Know the Systems. Crossfeed on the TravelAir can be a gotcha. Use drag to slow the airplane down, not power reductions. Find the single engine power setting that works for...

A friend of mine from Brooklyn attended Pace University in NYC. Incredibly he was unaware of Pace Picante Sauce!

one day was cancelled for mid air collision too...

Nice! My friend David was flying for the USA there. They had great weather!

Since January I've had about a dozen balloon flights in Kansas. All have been very fun. Some had steerage, most were pretty fast. About half of the landings were stand up. Most landings were good. I just got home from crewing at the Hot Air Ballon National Championships in Scottsbluff, NE. My...

120 days...

My disqualification rate for 2022 is hovering right around 10%. That is only the cases where I find a problem before the test begins. Does not include any issues found on preflight that prevent a flight and result in a discontinuance.

i commute all over the midwest in my 75 yr old plane...

250 miles from Original Point of Departure! Is BVT250 miles from HPN?

I have friends who tow their glider trailer with a Challenger. I don't think its a hellcat, just a plain jane one. Although glider trailers are pretty streamlined and low profile. For the balloon I got a 5x8 enclosed utility trailer from Trailers Plus. It is the smallest possible trailer that...

surprised the DPE didn't catch it...

my experience here in the flatlands is that when ATC vectors me to final they are vectoring me to the faf. i activate vtf when being vectored. i usually am either navigating to destination or activated on an approach. rarely am i in a situation that the approach is loaded but not activated...

Just needs a towhook!

yea the cessna 120/140 manual says > 5000 MSL for the Stromberg. My experience has been that trying to lean below that brings an immediate reduction in power, so you end up back at full rich. Above that you end up at a lean position. About 9000 Feet I am *almost* to the full lean position in...

Stromberg Carb mixture control only effective above 5000 MSL. I was happy to get the mixture reinstalled on mine though, but I cruise the 120 at "high altitude" often.

Not personally. I see no reason to take PIC responsibility on the flight especially when the FAA has strongly encouraged me not to. Those sort of conditions are about what I did the commercial multi with. Single had higher ceilings so we could do the 8s on Pylons and stuff down low but needed...

I have zero interest in conducting an instrument checkride in IMC. IF I were to do it though...Unusual Attitude recoveries are a required task so there is no way to avoid doing them. Another reason I'm not interested in doing an instrument checkride in IMC. I Have done a couple of Commercial...