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Maybe this will bring some sanity back to the used airplane market. I mean 80k for a ‘68 Skyhawk with an original VFR panel and 2300 SMOH...yeah that seems reasonable :loco:

I picked up a set of A20’s a couple of weeks ago after owning David Clark ANRs for years. My first reaction to Bose ANR was the same as your’s, eman. It is almost too good! Of course now that I’ve used them a little more, I’m not complaining. They are awesome. As far as comfort, compared to the...

There will still be a pilot shortage on the other side of this event. Surely hiring will slow or stop until people start flying again. The question is how long will that be, and what will staring pay/signing bonuses look like when hiring resumes. Ryan, the good news is that you are young. If...

Didn’t you guys host a Improbable Turn video with Rod Machado a while back talking about this? Might have been SAFE or NAFI. At any rate, that was a very enlightening discussion. It gave a much more thorough treatment of the subject.

I don’t know the guy other than what he’s put out through the internet, but from what I’ve seen...well...my momma always taught me if you don’t have something nice to say about someone...

Where’s the option for full tail number every time? Or at least an “other”? Help, help, I’m being repressed!

Commercial single checkride passed today! Spin training scheduled for later this week but the weather looks like it will postpone that plan. Any advice on how best to train for CFI?

Great meeting everyone there today. Thanks, eman, for organizing! (From the back row, 3rd from the right)

Honestly, the home sim played a huge role in building my instrument scan. I initially starting working on instruments back in the early 2000s. As what I now realize was a barely competent VFR pilot, I was...well... an awful instrument pilot. I ended up taking 17 years off from flying, but...

Don’t feel bad about the landings. By the time I took my check ride, my landings had gotten so bad the DPE said had I not flown everything else so cleanly, she would have failed me on the landing ....and then assured me that most instrument students struggle. Don’t worry the landings come back pretty.

I don't know if I can justify the expense of flying all the way in from JQF...but could probably spring for enough gas to drive over ;)

@denverpilot, like you said, a sim is a tool. I can tell you from experience, though, that they do provide a huge opportunity to rehearse that theoretical white board knowledge. I stopped flying not long after I got my PPL when I got married and started a family. I actually got bitten by the...

Picked up guitar in my early teens and still love to play....primarily electric with single coils if you couldn't tell by my screen name :) I started building tube amps 10 years ago and enjoy that almost as much as I enjoy playing. My best is a true point to point Matchless C-30 based amp. One...

There are advantages and disadvantages to training from a busy towered airport. Some place like CHA will definitely encourage you to deal with any mic fright early on. That's a definite plus. Longer taxies and holding for traffic can eat into some valuable flight time (and money), though. The...

Again this is just my personal preference, but I think of it this way. Even if I get flight following, a VFR flight plan is one more opportunity that at least someone will be looking for me if I don't close in at my destination. There are times when flight following may no longer be provided...

Very interesting to see the opinions and convincing arguments for and against both services from some very experiences pilots here. Despite most of my training being done under a Bravo, none of my instructors covered flight following in any depth. In fact, my instrument and commercial instructor...

I crossed the magic 250 hour mark today and have my commercial single check ride scheduled in 3 weeks!

Yeah it was really sporty around here too. I decided it was a good day to challenge myself with power off 180 practice. I learned a valuable lesson. Spot landings and gusty crosswinds are kind of hard :)

Yeah...felt like I cleared by a couple of feet. So did they displace the threshold before or after the tree grew into glide path?!? :yikes:

Well I made my landing at Wilgrove this morning. Glad I got to do it as the whole short field landing over a 50 ft obstacle thing was just academic until actually having to do it on today’s approach to runway 35.