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We have a full-motion Redbird at my home field — they're not financially out of reach for a medium sized flying school, but the motion is garbage, and a lot of instructors just turn it off anyway.

It would have some value for practicing flows that the student was having trouble with in flight, because the instructor can set up controlled scenarios, pause when necessary, and restart them quickly (so you could you repeat them many more times in the lesson). But agreed it couldn't be more...

Regardless of the regulatory answer, once you're no longer flying a SID, they won't expect you to fly below MOCA or MSA (as applicable) after losing comms, so climb to at least that.

It's the physics of flight. Assuming a non-canard/non-delta-wing plane, the further back the CG (and the closer to 0 load on the horizontal stabilizer), the weaker the airplane's aerodynamic tendency to revert to its trimmed pitch after a disturbance. If you move the CG forward, the horizontal...

Like laser printer toner cartridges. That makes sense.

And with less pitch stability (so turbulence will seem a bit worse). It's a tradeoff.

That would have been better than the reality. When the War of 1812 started, the Mass militia had mostly pikes rather than muskets. The NY state militia initially refused to cross the Niagara River into Upper Canada because their mandate was to defend the U.S., not to invade other countries. And...

I pull it out when I need it. :)

"What's your go to concealed carry weapon?" Empathy for the people around me, rather than fear.

I don't know, Speedo makes great tiny swim caps. I just don't understand why there's a big hole over each ear.

Not a problem — I've experienced both. White coat hypertension is an involuntary response, not a panic attack.

I don't want to judge — like everyone, I get stressed by some things other people would consider trivial, and cope easily with some things other people might find stressful.

Is that true even for VFR in class E/G? Just curious — I do always keep my assigned code after the termination of radar services, but I hadn't realized there was a rule about it.

I know someone who faints from sudden changes in position, like standing or even sitting up. They wear a multi-layer cloth mask all day at work by choice (even though they'd qualify for a medical exemption), and have had no problems so far. Again, I suspect stress is the main factor...

When people say that sims reinforce bad habits, they mean people using consumer simulation software (like Microsoft Flight Simulator) at home unsupervised, not a simulator that's part of a flight-training programme. That said, a Redbird — even the full motion one — is mainly just a procedures...

I recommend not starting a winery. ;)

I've come to enjoy VFR pilotage during the pandemic, putting along at 1,500 ft AGL following roads and rivers, but in 1 sm viz, I'm filing IFR. I've done my contact approaches and SVFR in 1 sm at various times in the past for various reasons, and while it was never frightening and I always felt...

That's fine in CAVOK when the towers are easy to see, but then, if the weather is CAVOK there's no reason to be flying lower anyway (unless you're doing something like pipeline patrol).

Unless the mask was air impermeable (which would be a bizarre choice), I suggest any blood pressure rise was due to stress, either from having your blood pressure taken, or from worrying about the mask. I always suffer from what they call "white coat hypertension": both my major blood pressure...

Excellent point, but if you're below tower height, all bets are off. I prefer to maintain at least 500 ft (preferably 1,000) above the highest tower anywhere near my route. The OP was asking about following roads for navigation, not scud running (which would be a death wish in the cell-tower era).