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Sure, until you forget to land at a third airport and suddenly it doesn't count for your long cross-country! Haha! I recently did a coast-to-coast and was happy that it would knock out the Commercial long cross-country requirement. Totally forgot that it requires three landings (duh) and...

Basically what you experience when you fly solo instead of a CFI, but in the other direction. Your take-off acceleration is going to feel slower (because it is, due to moving more mass with the same power) and your take-off roll will be longer. Climb performance will be less. More weight in the...

Well, after the first 200 hours perhaps! I just had an engine overhaul and did a coast-to-coast after about ten hours of local hard flying for break-in. I have never been more suspicious of an airplane engine than I am of mine right now, even though its running flawlessly. If something is going...

I really, really don't like DPEs choosing their own adventure. The regulation is clear on the requirements and doesn't require any additional interpretation. One leg at least 50NM. Inventing additional requirements for applicants should be grounds for an inquiry into their suitability to be a...

Sure, horses for courses and all that. There's a large contingent of people who need to be in-person to do their work. I'm usually one of them. There's also a large (probably too large) contingent of people who genuinely don't need to be physically present and in fact may do better work for less...

There's perhaps something to be said for the practice of switching fuel tanks after take-off while still within gliding distance of the airfield, to ensure that you have access to both tanks. Not something I ordinarily do, I admit, but potentially something to consider prior to a longer cross...

Precisely, and I think that goes to the point made by StraightnLevel, which is that the FAA leadership (especially the medical department) has very little incentive to take risks, and some perverse incentives to avoid innovation. The FAA budged essentially because the responsibility for the risk...

Without wanting to derail too much, I'm curious whether these numbers are just accidents or fatalities. If it's accidents, then it's going to include people laying down their bikes, losing control after wheelies, and other such tomfoolery. I suspect (without evidence, I admit, but from some...

Sure, and yet there isn't any political impetus to heavily regulate motorcycle use despite the public perception that they're death-traps. In terms of fatality rate, autos are safer than GA aircraft and substantially less safe than airline transportation. In terms of absolute numbers, however...

I think that's generally true, although the existence of BasicMed suggests that some level of risk tolerance exists at the higher levels of leadership. The carnage we're willing to accept on our roads as the price of the minimal training and relative freedoms of driving in the USA are another...

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2007/03/21/long-ago-charge-to-cost-man-his-home/ There you go. Weirdly, didn't involve California which was my first guess. Stupid that it's even a consideration, but public urination does fall under indecent exposure laws in a number of states, with the...

Yeah, especially since that now has a good chance of landing you on a sex offender list in a lot of places.

As someone who is still on active duty and currently flying a desk in a headquarters building, I can confirm that keeping expenses as low as possible and being a good steward of money is a major concern. Maybe there are some places in the DoD where they're diving into swimming pools of cash, but...

NTSB Report: A77383-NS Probable cause: Pilot's decision to read a magazine in the flight-deck toilet while the autopilot failed due to a system bug which swapped airspeed for AGL.

Indeed. If you only get to have one bad idea, you're highly motivated to ensure that your ideas are good ones!

I have a reasonable amount of respect for a CEO who is willing to put himself on the line to prove his product. That's a fairly unimpeachable demonstration of belief in what he's trying to bring to market.

If the plane is otherwise a good fit, perhaps the seller can reduce the price by the sum of the title insurance premium and the quiet title action (presumably about 5 AMUs off the top). You don't lose any money in exchange for assuming a small amount of risk (mitigated by the insurance), and the...

I've been an Android guy for as long as it has existed ("Drrrrrooooiiiiddd"). I had pretty good luck previously with Samsung tablets and concur that something in the region of 8" x 5" is probably the sweet spot for a yoke mount or suction cup mount. I fly with Garmin Pilot, which does a really...

Didn't this blow up as a story a few weeks back and the FAA backed down? They're keeping at least some of the meteorologists, I believe.

I think I got a guy ramp checked once, completely by accident. After my forced landing at a restricted field, the local FSDO guys needed to come talk to me and look at my plane because--during the post-event follow-up--they incidentally discovered that my transponder check was a couple months...