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It's going up a little, but no where near the rate of singles. My 310 and my 182RG are probably worth the same... the 182 might even be a little higher. Jump into a twin while fuel prices are low, make sure you have a solid maintenance reserve and enjoy. You won't want to go back to a single...

I think that is pretty normal, and good practice. I know a few people that work/fly for various companies and they use some sort of matrix/flow chart to assign numbers to different present risk factors. Things like day/night, good VFR/marginal VFR, terrain, distance, fatigue/duty time etc. One a...

I had a student apply for one the first week of January and he was able to print his temp one week later. Non-us citizen, too. They are apparently still processing fairly normally.

I've heard good things about Riggins. I keep meaning to get my seaplane there but haven't gotten around to it. I'm in Rapid City, so not near Iowa but the little flight school I own/operate has 6 airplanes (four here) and a healthy number of students. Most of my students are under age 40, so I...

The other videos are available but you have to watch them on YouTube directly. I cringe at his videos and especially his radio skills, but it's like a car accident and I can't stop watching. He had that 320 with really basic instruments and then gets the 414, somehow decides he now needs full...

I live in Arizona and went to college here, and my first 3-4 years here there was no Uber/Lyft. When Sheriff Joe and Tent City were still around it was a huge deterrent of drinking and driving. They would have mobile DUI trucks that literally just rounded up drunk drivers. You knew if you got...

LAS is easy. It’s a shame people scared you away. The only reason I don’t go into LAS every time we’re there is because Of the fees... which really aren’t that bad unless you’re there for awhile. I think parking was only $35 a night for a light twin, it’s still $15 at Henderson. Controllers are...

This is a great post. It certainly seems the larger and more capable aircraft I fly the less I realize I know. I felt a lot smarter flying the Skylane than I do in the 310. Hopefully in a couple years I can get a little dumber in a turbine. And while the 310 has opened up the operational window...

99% of the time you can get the transition through (RAP tower will arrange it if you don't wanna fiddle with calling approach). Only if they have a bunch of B1s in the pattern do they usually deny it. It does it get windy, haha. If I had to guess I had at least one Archer out, maybe two. If...

It is 7,700 OR 1/2 :) The park prefers AND, but the regulations say an OR.

You're not too far off, though some aircraft have a higher cost-per-hour in relationship to insurance. I forgot to mention that $35,000 premium includes a 7th aircraft that we use on leaseback, but the owner pays the insurance to the tune of about $4,00 a year, so my cost is *just* $31,000. The...

100% of this. I own/operate a small flight school with 6 owned airplanes and 2 leased. My insurance went up 10% this year only because there are fewer underwriters and they are getting more firm. No accidents/incident. My bill was $35,000 for the year, and that does not include work comp which...

The fundamental skills might be the same but a 250 hour CFI is going to have a large experience bucket to pull from than a 100hr CFI-S, that's just common sense. A CFI-S has also never flown at night, much less had to demonstrate proficiency at night (the commercial requires some night solo...

I used to have these opinions and teach that way. In the last year I have changed tunes and now teach what the student will fly. I don't want hem fumbling around in the cockpit their first time with family trying to figure out foreflight. Yeah, they will learn enough paper to be safe if it comes...

If you like the idea of Chandler you can look at P19, too. Super active community but a slower pace than the places with the big name flight schools. Everything is a close flight and you can get pizza delivered to the gate if you want to have hangar talk and eat!

If I had to guess the County's insurance company put the kabosh to it. The County probably has a huge insurance policy that covers anything in the county and has an insanely high limit, so the risk of an aircraft accident with someone not properly vetted/approved is just too much risk for the...

Requesting information via FOIA isn't free, either. They charge based on what the use of the information is, then how long it takes to acquire the documents and how many pages there are. It depends what category your request falls into for the cost though. You also don't know how much it will be...

Garmin's iPad app is really good. That being said the unit is so much more intuitive than the 430/530 and once you start flying with it the buttonology won't be challenging. Grab a safety pilot that can fly while you push the buttons the first time and after that you'll be fairly comfortable and...

1900 for the R182. Unsure on the 172 variant. I want to say zero but I don't want to jinx my own airplane. Just rebuilt the seals and packs though as a preventative measure when we suspected an issue.

I echo most of the things said above. And I'd like to add since you're in Arizona 99% of the places/instructors simply don't have the time to "pad" their wallets. They have wait lists weeks and even months long. I'm actually surprised you found somewhere that could do a pseudo accelerated...