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Yes; also odd that 61 requires residential address in the case of PO Box in a weirdly worded provision (they care about residential address, but you only have to report if mailing address changes?) but 65 makes no similar mention. I suspect it came about to address some odd situation that came...

But, notice from the wording of 61.60, you don't have to inform the FAA of your address if you're no longer flying. Your license doesn't expire, you just can't fly ("exercise the privileges") after 30 days, until you give the FAA your address. Why make things more complicated? If you're done...

The rain/snow boundary is about the worst place to think about flying. You have the possibility of super-cooled or peri-freezing water, which will freeze on the control surfaces quickly, you will have fully saturated cool air going into the carb (admittedly holding less total water than warmer...

Yeah, unless you're doing something crazy (building a cluster?) I don't see you getting much advantage out of that. Even for 99% of uses of a local NFS, 10G-BaseT with Cat6/6A cable is more than enough. I would be tempted to put in Cat7 or Cat8 if I were building a new house for future-proofing...

America being what it is, I suspect that's a long way off (for recreational use, anyway). But if/when it ever does happen, they will probably adopt something similar to the Canadian rule: no marijuana within 28 days before flying.

I have lots of comments about this, but, in no particular order: 1. Of all of the diagnosis codes to continue an anti-depressant medication when moving from another state, 32.9 -- "Major depressive disorder, single episode, unspecified" -- is a relatively benign one to pick. The fact that it...

I don't think anything has changed on this front from two years ago. Two basic options: Basic PLB: the ACR ResQLink family is popular and well-reviewed. Allows you to send a 406 MHz emergency distress signal that gets picked up by satellites and sends the SAR teams for you. You have to register...

Pretty sure you can't get a type rating without having a pilot's license to attach it to, and I'm pretty sure you can't get any license without flying an actual plane at all. (If you already had a pilot's license, there are ways to get restricted type ratings with simulator time only, but you...

I think it would be hard to argue that time reported in a job application wasn't being used to fulfill 14 CFR §121.436 or §135.243. Unless you have employers who say "okay, show me your logbook to apply... okay, you're hired, now show me your real logbook to prove you're allowed to do the job we...

Though I'm sure this post was more sarcastic than anything, and based on the responses this may be the one area where the FAA is less conservative than modern medical practice: ED can be and often is a sign of vascular disease, including vascular disease caused by undiagnosed diabetes. If anyone...

That's true! I was about to add seventeen caveats about the inherent issues with projecting a 3d(ish) world onto a 2d plane when defining terms like "turn" and "accelerate" and "velocity," but then thought better of it. And wasn't the whole "if I fly halfway around the world, will my attitude...

I guess in aviation purposes I consider a "turn" something that would require a bank or yaw movement in otherwise still air. For example (again, assuming no air movement), if you fly to the North Pole at a heading of 360, and then pass the North Pole, you are flying south at a heading of 180...

A great circle route doesn't involve turns unless you're accounting for the interactions between the earth and the atmosphere, Coriolis effect, etc. But in the simplest Earth-is-just-a-sphere approach, a great circle route doesn't include any turns. (To prove this to yourself, take a globe and...

Very much agree with this, but anything with exports satisfies my trepidation here. (Especially because I export my log regularly to make pretty pictures, so even if the export feature somehow went away, I’d have a recent export.)

Eventually pay for the ongoing costs of flying, or eventually recoup the costs of training? I’m sure others will correct me (I’m no professional pilot) but my understanding is that given your circumstances, the first is possible (but likely only just, via instructing etc) and the second is...

Thinking about switching from Pilot Pro to ForeFlight for logging. (No particular unhappiness with the former, but I use the latter for planning etc, so why not logging too?) Question: I fly a plane that became a TAA after I started flying it. Is that something ForeFlight logs can handle? (I...

Don't leave us hanging; how did it go?

Also, even though you have your private pilot certificate now, nobody says you can't call up your flight instructor and ask to do this exact thing as an instructional flight before going with your wife.

Yes, I think the misunderstanding here is that you absolutely need to be talking to MTN tower before crossing the magic class D dotted line. That's true in general, but if you're talking with Potomac Approach and they know where you're going (ie MTN), then you can wait for them to tell you to...

I'm sure you'll get lots of good advice, but a few points up front: 1. LSAs are great, but their speed and passenger limitations might someday cramp your travel style. Just so you know, you can fly LSAs with a private pilot certificate too. The best reasons to get a sport pilot certificate are...