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I get a lot of people asking me the same thing. This is my standard answer. You can still have an aviation career at 48, but you have to be committed full time to getting all your necessary credentials. If you are trying to keep your full time job while working on your ratings and hours, then...

My first plane was a Tomahawk. I really enjoyed it. For awhile, I leased it back to a flight school, but students never wanted to fly it. They were all scared about the stall characteristics. I had a very high time CFI train me in it. He never flew one before. The first stall we did, he...

This is only applicable to 601 XL. The 601 HD did not have the problem.

Since you have a 1st class, you probably want to be an airline pilot. The airlines have to do a background clearance check on you before hiring. Marijuana is still illegal federally, and the FAA is a federal organization. I don't think it is okay to commit a crime because maybe sometime in...

Now I Know why I keep running into these ads. I contact the seller. We exchange questions and answers, but when I ask them when I can come see it with intent to buy, the seller ghosts me.

My visual fields test had to be no more than 30 days old. I don't know if that applies to your situation.

You are wise to recognize what you will be getting into. I see so many people buy a nice airplane thinking they will only do "x" to it, but once they do it, the rest of the plane starts looking average compared to the update. Before they knew it, they wound up doing everything anyway. They...

100 hours per year. The perfect number.

A Cherokee 6 with only 4 seats. Sounds like a Dakota or Pathfinder to me.

What is dummy listed?

https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/ocular-hypertension-medication.141567/#post-3362440 See Dr. Bruce's answer in the above. IMO, ocular hypertension could cause glaucoma, so having the 8500-14 form filled out to prove you don't have glaucoma is necessary.

You can take the Light Sport Repairman Maintenance course. It is a 15 day program. Afterwards you can legally work on customer's S-LSA and E-LSA aircraft and perform the annual condition inspections. It's the fastest way to become a certificated repairman. The experience you gain working on...

My understanding is there is no option of combining 2 approaches. Either you have to graduate from a qualified A&P program, or you have to have the required number of hours/months of practical experience. You can't do 1/2 at school and 1/2 work experience, unless you want to split the Airframe...

Even after you get an airplane, keep the commercial flight option open. Unless your schedule is extremely flexible, flying your own airplane can be challenging to fit in safe weather margins for this kind of travel.

Like you said, accidents are very very rare. I don't think studying what causes crashes before you even start lessons will help you prepare at all. Start your lessons with a good instructor and he or she will go over all this during your training. Much of your training is going to be...

I have a 150 gallon fuel tank with a 12v electric transfer pump in the bed of my truck.

I didn't say a test flight with the owner. This friend wanted the mechanic to test fly it himself.

I had a friend that would not let any mechanic work on his plane unless the mx was a pilot, and would agree to do a test flight after. The theory being that the person who is going to be flying the airplane is going to be more scrupulous. This might apply to owner performed maintenance.

I agree about owner maintenance of experimentals, and don't forget about experimental light sport owners that can even do their own annual condition inspection after taking a 2 day course.

Sounds like they are just fishing for people who flew their airplanes out of annual. I wouldn't be surprised if they asked to see the pilot log too. Otherwise, anybody can see the annual dates on the logbook and know when there were periods it was out. Not rocket science.