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SUCCESS! Thanks for asking! Took the checkride on Friday 9/24. Temp airman certificate in-hand. Pretty awesome feeling to have had this dream for as long as I can remember and now have it realized. Onward to becoming even more proficient in ALL THE THINGS.

"Mock" check ride last night and it turns out that I need to talk more. Talk through what I'm doing. If I'm climbing at Vx, vocalize that. Cleared the obstacle? Announce it and shift to Vy. At little high on an emergency descent to land? Talk through the slip. Getting close to a bust on...

Checkride scheduled for tomorrow at noon. This evening is a last flight with my CFI. I was aiming for a checkride on Saturday morning because 1. no need to take a half-day off from work and 2. calmer air in the mornings. CFI scheduled me for Friday because "that's what you get for being the most...

Agreed. For a few times, I would recite in AGL. At some point, CFI suggested "think about it all in terms of MSL because that's what you'll be looking at." Made sense to me as newish student pilot and it's stuck with me. R12 is most common and tower won't change direction until winds are...

At my home airport (KBZN), I repeat this immediately after the run-up and before I get back on to the taxiway to move to the hold-short line: "If I lose engine power anywhere between rotate and about 4,900', I can land straight ahead. If between 4,900 and pattern altitude [5,300'], I have...

First XC down today, BZN -> HIA -> KRVF then reverse, all with VOR and me "chasing the needle." Smoky, smoky today in SW Montana but all stations were reporting "10sm" vis. Ha! Still, what was there in the air was more than my personal minimums (which I discovered fairly recently). Announced...

OOH. Click around enough and I"ll figure it out myself. Turns out this button Will open a "Favorites/Recents" tab and includes recent flights from the web version. Edit: Boy, that's a big picture. Sorry.

I'm a student pilot and have used plan.foreflight.com to create a new XC route. I am logged into my ForeFlight account on the web. I am also logged in to my account via the ForeFlight app on my mobile device, but I cannot see the XC I planned on the web on my mobile device. I've tried following...

I think I've seen other members of PoA retake the Cogscreen, so I'm sure it can be done. I don't know if that requires time or cog rehab or money, but likely will be all three. As far as better planning and preparation, I was told to "get a good night's sleep and get some food in you" before I...

Yesterday was a great day for a solo. Winds were calm and the smoke had lifted a bit. CFI and I connected around 7pm (I had a late work call; he was giving a stage check). He endorsed me for solo and for night solo, just in case things went late (sunset was at 7:49 or so). Three laps in the...

After two previous attempts, one cut short because of time and the other because of crazy low visibility (but still above VFR minimums which ended up being a great way to help me refine my personal minimums), I finished up a pre-solo stage check today. Ended up with my best crosswind landing...

Sat down after last night's flight with my CFI to map out a plan for the rest of my training. Stage check on Friday afternoon, if that goes well, first solo scheduled for Saturday morning, booked out time on calendars for the remaining solo and some check-ride prep hours. Last thing to schedule...

PPL written at 87%. Was aiming for a low-mid A but I'm not planning on taking the exam again for a better grade!

True, but 10 weeks was how long my deferral took. The HIMS component was longer.

Although your question has been answered, this was my experience: 7/6/2020 - Deferred Early August 2020 - request for more information 9/14/20 - Denied with suggestion that HIMS would be my only option late December 2020 - Admitted to HIMS for monitoring 7/23/21 - SI and 3rd class medical...

PPL written on Monday. Currently scoring on practice tests in the low-mid 90s. I'm comfortable with that. Cut my training costs by more than half by flying with the club planes. Had been training in school rentals ($150/hr wet) and am transitioning into the club planes ($60/hr wet). CFI per...

Now that I have a medical, CFI and I are doing "stage check prep" for my first solo. Fun. Yesterday was stalls, steep turns, simulated engine out. Power-off, steep turns, engine out, no problem. Still having challenges using too much rudder on the power-on. Looking forward to flying more than...

54 weeks. If interested, see the start-to-finish process here: https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/student-pilot-21-year-old-dui-sober-for-19-years-active-in-recovery.126871/

Well, after +1year of waiting for a SI 3rd class medical, I received it on Friday. Now it's studying for the written (I keep getting good scores on practice tests, but don't yet feel prepared to take the test), SOLOING, then working towards the checkride. CFI thinks I could finish up within a...

How likely is it that they issue? I have no idea. I’m sure there’s some probability distribution, but I don’t know what that looks like. I received my SI Yesterday. How did I know I was going to get a 3rd class SI? I wasn’t 100% certain, to be honest. However, because I had a lot of supportive...