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10 hours or so and you should be proficient. None of them are even challenging except the power off 180.

The government is not the little guy in this case. Anyone with an ability to leverage pushback would be stupid not to.

Anything noteworthy that wasn’t covered in the video?

Wasn’t pointed at the sky. It was a security camera catching a wide angle and saw him dip down.

What gets me is that they’d bust him for this on a first offense anyway. Even if he weren’t landing, you are going to give someone a 210 day suspension over flying low over private property without a warning first? Seems overzealous and contrary to how the FAA has handled other first offenses.

I doubt he’d risk his entire career to lie about what regs the FAA says he broke. Seems like an overactive inspector and judge. Hopefully, they get smacked down on appeal.

If he’s telling this story accurately, this seems insane. So if you do an inspection pass on private property (with permission) and decide it’s not safe to land, you’ve now busted multiple regs because some Karen sent in grainy, double filmed video and guessed you were within 500 feet? How does...

Well…that’s insane. Pretty sure he isn’t supposed to be grading whether you pick the absolute perfect place to put down but whether you can get to best glide, hold it, and fly it down.

The ASA oral guides are gold.

Used Sheppard Air

If you’ve got access to an affordable plane already and just want to fly, the commercial stuff is actually fun IMO. There are worse ways to burn holes in the sky. But if you are worried about the cost, don’t bother unless you plan to use it.

Road, water, field, any open area. I’d do my best to not have to go into tall trees or rocks. I don’t think there’s any always correct answer. Just don’t stall.

I think he means in terms of how they skewed the market, not their knowledge. CFIs riding for free or poverty wages hurt working CFIs charging a fair price. It’s a free country, though, so I’m not suggesting someone can’t ride for free if that’s what they really want to do. I just wouldn’t and...

Multi-training has become mostly accelerated courses at bigger schools because of the lack of availability of planes and insurance requirements. MEIs with those gigs are getting a bunch of time quickly.

Don’t need CFI training, but man is that a great looking, affordable club.

They should broaden their horizons and seek out better flight schools to work for. No reason for anyone to be riding for free in this environment. I’m a newer CFI and I could go full time (60-80 hours a month of flight time) if I wanted too because we’ve got so much work. Heck, I’ll go further...

Their school is mainly at Addison. But the multi stuff happens up at GYI. They’ve got a hanger and office there.

You'd think there'd be some fight in the flight data, though. If someone is trying to lawn dart me, I'm grabbing the controls and fighting for them.

I figure at the point the video starts, the plane was damaged beyond any recovery attempt or the pilots had just given up. The dive started at 30,000 feet, and the video is just before impact. No attempt to recover at any point is shown in the flight data. 3 minutes to impact. It would seem like...

Seminole. 430/Aspen. Well maintained.