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I’m going to have to go back and try Curtis’.

Yeah you can taxi over there.

Maybe the dog place is in town, but there is Hummingbird Cafe at the airport. They had hot dogs too, I think.

Necrothread, but I finally made it to Cumberland also, and this thread title was far more catchy than what I would have come up with. It was a cool airport to fly into nestled in a valley. I took the family out there for some breakfast. You can taxi right up to the restaurant. The food at...

Neither of the two insurance companies I received quotes from asked.

I got my private pilot cert at 47. Don’t think you have to be taught by a 3000 hr former airline pilot. I had two instructors during my private pilot. One was an older former bush pilot from Alaska and the second was a young local fella just trying to follow in his father's footsteps and get...

Maybe it’s cheaper where the OP is too. I did check and you can get a Skycatcher at the flight school at my airport for $120. Mid 1970’s 172’s start at $160. $130 still seems pretty good with an instructor included. They run at least $65/hr in the DC area.

Yeah, 55 hours is pretty aggressive, but $6500 for your private pilot is not bad if you can pull it off. If you break it down, assuming "Max Hours" are flight time, you're paying 130/hr for aircraft and instructor if you use the max hours for the entire 255 hours. That seems like a pretty good...

My family loves Uncle Bill’s Pancake House for breakfast. It’s a short walk from 26N. I haven’t been to Flight Deck Diner, yet, but I hear it has great food.

FTFY

Change the range “Find restaurants at other airports this many Miles from airport or course:” and “Furthest Restaurant Proximity to Airport:”. I entered “EMT”, with 100 mile range, and “short drive” and found Waypoint Cafe(CMA), Airport in the Sky Restaurant (AVX), French Valley Cafe(F70), and...

It would be good for 5 years for “private pilot operations”. It’s good for 1 year to fly operations requiring ATP certificate. from ATPFLIGHTSCHOOL.COM: “After the duration of a medical certificate has elapsed, it does not expire. Instead, a pilot may continue to exercise the privileges of...

First time flying there with the family last Saturday. We had a great time. Been driving to Jersey beaches for years. It was nice to not be forced to have someone pump gas for me and steal my credit card number this time.

Is this the common result when the governor goes bad, or can it be more “catastrophic”? I was told by a friend with same year/model as me to check my governor as he just had to replace his. Seems like this failure was pretty benign if he kept flying for 2 hours. Should I preemptively overhaul...

Is there an minimum hour requirement to fly? I tried a search but couldn’t find anything. My kids fall asleep every time I take them somewhere. Might be fun to see the awe and wonder side of it.

Does your wife not fly with you? I did the first one day beach trip with the family today. 1 hour flight instead of 3-4 hour drive. A couple landed ahead of us and offered us a ride into town. Married 51 years, flying to their beach house every weekend. It really excited my wife for the...

My O-540 will foul the plugs pretty quickly if I don't lean pretty aggressively on the ground. As soon as it starts I lean and soon after landing as well. I used to have issues on mag checks during run-up till I started that practice. My CFI taught me the lean run-up. Similar to the article...

I think it was a 737.

Looks better than the wing of the last airline I flew on. Gotta wonder what my AP woulda said if my junk looked like that at my annual.

@NordicDave which one did you get? The results look great.