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I thought I did even better than submitting a correction, I personally engaged in a dialog with a member of the PHAK review team that meets periodically. A former DPE, she assured me she'd bring it up at the next meeting because she agreed. Never heard another word and it's been about six years...

https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/advisory_circular/150_5340_5d.pdf (6) Right-Turn Indicators. The use of the segmented circle airport marker system is encouraged. Only the “L” shaped indicators, formed by using the landing strip and traffic pattern indicators referred to above, are...

The figure indicates a figure eight. Hint: The legs are supposed to depict departure paths too, according to long time diagrams explaining the symbols and the current AIM. Not to mention an Advisory Circular on the subject.

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Lazy eights aren't under discussion, just sayin'...

I don't think it's simply push and pull. To really learn something, you need to just do on-pylons, no 8s. Hang in there around and around a few times and see how it goes. Chances are, you'll wind up losing the pylon all together if you aren't good at it. Rolling out for an "eight" is like cheating.

Depends. One time I wanted to study the area around my house as I returned from a trip, deadhead. I had my copilot figure the pivotal altitude, around 3000' MSL, IIRC, so I could circle without looking inside at all. I thus avoided a stall/spin.

I have a good memory of how hard it was to keep from skidding the wing into position back when I worked on my commercial license. It took enormous restraint and self-discipline, an awareness I often forced myself to invoke in subsequent years when making turns low to the ground under the effect...

Says you.

I supported the assertion. :) If you skid around a pylon, you could bust. If you skid around a turn to final, you could die.

I'll agree to that. Learning to "resist the urge" is the main advantage and never mentioned as the main goal. Circling while studying a small area on the ground without taking your eyes off of it is the accepted objective, but that doesn't transfer to any other application like resisting the...

Not bad looking wallpaper. I used to have wallpaper like that when I was a kid only it had balloons, clowns and merry-go-'rounds on it. Gave my kid brother nightmares, though.

OP: Get a used one on eBay written around 40 years ago, then update yourself with current info in Advisory Circulars and the AIM. The current FAA texts are all crap. EDIT: My fave from the AFH: So then, should you turn left or right on takeoff for closed traffic????

"KSUS as a fix" was not a clearance limit, IMO. You had no reason conveyed to expect a delay, no holding instructions nor EFC. Like on many STARs, I'd expect a vector at the last fix. Lost comm? Go shoot an approach.

Does anybody know where to download the yaw simulator used in this video? Anybody doing VMC demos should be interested in the material covered — it might preserve their life. To cut to the chase, skip the first 40 minutes or so, then maybe go back to watch it all. Pay attention to the green...

I wouldn't be adding any thrust at all until the airflow is back to normal and the wings are unstalled. I'd be pretty aware of any secondary stalls during the dive recovery, too, and wouldn't be adding power while pointed toward the ground. That's me. I'd try to avoid being a test pilot in the...

Of course. That's why you shouldn't do them in a normally aspirated twin at 8000'. Unless I overlooked it, nobody opining so far has mentioned that specifically as a possible root cause. Up there, actual VMC may be below stall and you may reap the whirlwind, so to speak.

To be clear, I was "wondering about the wisdom" of blocking the rudder and musing about it from the standpoint of me being the one tested. Putting on the hat of a CFI, I'd probably back up the student with my foot in position to help if needed, not block, except in the case described by the FAA...

How do you define VMC? loss of control? I agree intentionally going below that is unsafe. Going below the red mark on the ASI? Well, you might need to for an effective demo. The FAA says if you "need" to block the rudder because VMC is below stall, do it at least 20 Kts above the stall speed...

Gosh yes, but not a lot of multi training. I have been through sim training at FSI for a Cessna 421 and owned a PA-30 for a while. I wrote my own 135 LOC and then took an FAA check ride in that Twinkie. An FAR 135 check ride in a PA-31P Navajo in the '70s and I flew a Turbo Commander for a...