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Agreed. I'll give my passengers, usually girlfriend and mom, the fancy noise-cancelling comfort and use the backup passive DC's for myself. Kinda pointless hyping up flying with me as a wonderful experience, just to make them listen to the loud(to their ears) engine drone through relatively...

Same! Took a while but eventually saw a glimpse of Whiplash, and the light bulb clicked on!

I took the King course as part of my checkout for my club's 172SP. A little dry (As the Kings go) and long-winded but thorough. Helps a lot to be familiar with traditional Garmin buttonology and menu structures, as this system follows many of the same basic principles just with a lot more...

lol there’s been plenty of knuckle-rapping and wire-jiggling. Was hoping it was just a bad ground or something, but after cleaning and tightening them there was no change. thanks for the write-up. Luckily all the parts and wiring should be fairly easy to access as this engine uses a cam angle...

Hey all, Shot in the dark here, I've been trying to run down a problem with my old '95 Nissan Skyline's tachometer(electronic, not cable driven). Sometimes it's dead and resting on the stop, sometimes it's jumpy and random, and most often it works kinda "normally" but chooses an arbitrary zero...

Sled Driver. My girlfriend surprised me with it a while back and it instantly became my most prized addition to my office. I'd read many excerpts online, but the physical copy is too awesome for words. 15/10 highly recommend both the book as well as watching the author's (Brian Shul)...

You can fly with any CFI your heart desires. I'd actually encourage you to fly with a few different CFIs if you can. They all have their own styles and ways of explaining/performing things, so it sometimes helps broaden your understanding of certain concepts and maneuvers as each may fill any...

Idunno. I really loved it as a whole. As many have said, it's a movie, not a documentary. I found it had a near-perfect mix of plane porn, entertaining throwbacks, fan service, and an actual plot arc(something the original was severely lacking). Something to sit back, suspend your disbelief...

Yup, real easy to get sucked into confirmation bias when one of the magic boxes still “appears” to work. I’ve had my phone GPS glitch out on me too many times and show false locations, to trust it over certified equipment failing integrity. It’s a tool in the bag in case SHTF and I lose...

Agreed. My girlfriend is a therapist. Not only does it really bug me that they “need” to diagnose you with something for insurance purposes, but I cringe hard whenever she talks about the local rules she’s under and that everything immediately goes on patients’ official medical record. She gets...

Nasty indeed. A few years ago i had a faceful of guts all over my motorcycle helmet. It was a wet n' chilly ride, so I got lazy after getting home and didn't clean it 'til a day or two later. Oh man, I was not ready for the STENCH. Before that, I had never associated dead bugs to be just as...

I'm honestly surprised that wx radar array stayed attached, and didn't get ripped off or hail/rainblasted to moondust.

Obligatory "This is why we don't screw around with storms, near storms, or anywhere even remotely close to storms." Cue the crusty old ex-bomber CFIs yelling about "you call that severe!? That's moderate at best! I've had bumpier rides on the toilet!":raspberry: :biggrin:

Amazing what adding a little heat to the equation will do most of the time. Follow up with some wax or rain repellant spray. The scenic operation I used to hang around a lot would continuously wax/polish the crap out of the leading edges. Keeps em nice and slick for much easier wipedowns...

I also recommend going with the newer model. I finally upgraded from my 4 to a 6. It did okay storage-wise on 32gb(I typically only keep 3-4 states downloaded), but it IS a 2015 model, ancient in tech terms; the battery life was starting to suffer a lot, and it was getting slower and glitchier...

Apologies for going MIA for a few days, I really appreciate your responses. I'm definitely on board with everything you said. I'll start sniffing around for an A&P course. I've been told about the VA's vocational training programs so I'll have to research how/if I can use them being that my...

In my humble experience, there is very little chance of a stall that is not pilot-induced. For me, once the fan goes quiet, the plane has always promptly nosed over and descended at at least the airspeed for which it had been trimmed. There are variables such as different configurations, CG...

Already using the GI Bill for flight training Yeah, that’s about what I figured. And I use the “apprentice” term loosely, referring to simply working under supervision to build the hours. I feel like I’d do much better getting spun up while on the job and getting paid, rather than diverting...

Hey all, Thinking out loud here(as usual). So I'm exploring a career change in the near future, and starting to put out feelers in aircraft maintenance land. A bit of my background: I'm currently a satellite communications technician with over 10 years' experience between Army active duty and...