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Does anyone know if a 530W meets the definition of an MFD for the purposes of the commercial pilot experience requirements? We have an airplane with a G5, 2 axis AP, and a 530W Comparing it to a GA MFD I have experience with, an Aspen: The 530w's default nav modes include a map. The other...

I don't mind if students use other CFI's. Usually its a good learning experience. One exception, I trained someone through private and instrument, and then flew with them a few months later. For some reason she looked to be having a hard time finding the runway on landing, and was touching down...

Eh it might be telling that I left the company/industry, but for years I worked at a place where I started with 2 weeks vacation and only after 5 years did I earn a whopping 3 weeks vacation, where I was stuck at (there is a cap) until I reached 9 years of tenure, and quit. About 30% travel and...

pcpartpicker.com has some builds with current parts prices. You might find it helpful I’m not an expert but it seems like intel and nvidia stuff is worth it. I built an i7-8700k machine with 32gb ram, 1080ti and SSD’s. It’s a beast. I think it will stay relevant for at least another 3-4 years.

One airplane I have a hard time with is the Swift. Very few controllers have heard of it. I have a little elevator pitch I give. "Globe Swift, Identifier Golf Charlie One, Single engine piston, cruise about 140 knots". Subsequent controllers usually start calling me "experimental" or in one...

Thanks for the invite @RDUPilot Usually POA pings me when I am mentioned, somehow I missed this one. I couldn't have made tomorrow anyway, going fishing. Jan 4th I have to work. But please keep me in the loop on future gatherings.

100% agree with the above advice

Crater, smoking hole etc.. I will remedy this one day.

Been to the BVI's several times. Greece is fun if you want to change it up. Its a long ass way out there though! If I go back i'm doing two weeks. For those of you who aren't salty sailors, a charter catamaran with a captain in the BVI's is a really great way to go on vacation, and its not any...

My personal take on single engine hard IFR (widespread low IFR) is that I avoid it whenever I can. Same thing with single engine night flying. That does not mean I do not fly at night or in hard IFR conditions regularly. I do, I just don't do it unless I need to for some reason. A $100 hamburger...

Annnd this is the reason twins don’t have a better accident record than singles.

Did a bareboat charter in Greece May 2018. Me, wife, two other couples picked up a 43' 3 cabin sailboat in Laviron, Greece and had a week to sail ourselves around the Cyclades islands in the Mediterranean. Typical schedule... leave around 9 AM, sail for 3 hours to the next island, lunch and a...

Fortunately the insurance is 2M smooth coverage for members and instructors. For as much flying as the club does, they have an impressive safety record.

Makes sense to me. 500F.. yikes!

Yeah I know how some flight schools will do that, but not the case here. Its a non-profit club and I can freelance all I want. As far as instructing "jobs" go its one of the better deals in the area.

I looked into this. Either way you go through the FSDO and you cover the FOI. The choice is about the rest of material, and what you think you would be better at explaining. I think the reason the big pilot schools trend towards the CFII as initial, is that checkride is more focused on...

Self employed. Sorry that was kind of an important detail for this question.

Well I searched and debated necroposting but decided to create a new one. I am instructing full time as of next week. Here's my question, can I deduct a small amount, say 5-10 hours of airplane rental per year for currency? I don't need the time to be legally current. For example I haven't...

Pumping the throttle on a carb with an accelerator jet squirts fuel from the float bowl into the throat of the carb. If the engine is not running when this happens, the fuel will dribble down from the carb into the airbox (carbs usually on the underside of engine). Get a backfire and boom, your...

I think RDU is down to one main runway right now due to construction and it sounded like they were pretty busy at the time this pilot was coming in. Any time the main runways are busy its pretty much SOP to bring light GA traffic into 32 as long as the weather cooperates. 1600ft ceiling isn't...