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A1Cs in that range will be acceptable to the FAA reviewer. You are not required to submit the glucose sensor readings. By the way, the FAA loves insulin pumps for type 1 DM! I would defer to Dr. Chien as to whether the CBGM readings could replace the hourly in-flight fingerstick...

80 minutes to the club airplanes. Of course, there's a perfectly good little GA airport 5 minutes from my house, but we're in the middle of nowhere, and there are no club or rental airplanes here. If I owned, it would be much closer.

I could be wrong, but I believe Steve IS a tax lawyer...or at least, some sort of lawyer. :) As for PnP trips in general, I've done probably a dozen or so, and have had twice as many cancel for various reasons, sometimes at the last second with pretty lame reasons. But as Mike pointed out...

Unreg, I agree with the above recommendations re Dr. Chien. I am from your area (and am a board member of the largest/oldest Syracuse-based flying club) and I would NOT recommend you engage any of the local AMEs unless and until you've talked with Dr. Chien. Dr. Chien is my own AME of...

I dunno, I just returned from an 11 day trip from NY to the midwest and back, all of it VFR. While traveling that distance does often mean crossing a front, there just aren't that many consecutively crappy days this time of year. Often, just a few hours will make the difference between being...

It opened up for GAP parking Wednesday mid morning as soon as the ground dried a bit. I, and about 1000 other airplanes ended up in the pattern simultaneously. It worked out ok after one go-around and a runway change. Came back on Thursday as soon as the field opened following the Breezy...

Count me in the camp of those who don't fly without them. All three airplanes I fly currently are equipped with front shoulder belts, and they don't move until both mine and the passenger's are fastened. I am familiar with one local case a few years ago, where a Comanche lost power on final...

Well, I am a director of my flying club, with both a C-182 and an Archer, and we require neither. We couldn't really care less about what your credit report says, as long as you pay your club bills. With that said, we don't let members get too far in arrears before asking what's up. We have...

Lol! For real? I live there (no, NOT at the HoJo), and that place has seen better days. 'Course, I guess the smell of weed wafting from some of the rooms, and the cops breaking down a door in a 5 a.m. raid could make for some excitement...

Well, I have done it, and both the passenger and I found it thoroughly enjoyable. Plus, there were no drunks, cigarette smoke or 20 minute waits in traffic to get out after the show. To each their own, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Yeah, I got the exact same e-mail at my flying club address.

The above, plus... As previously noted, find out if it's an equity club, non-equity club or FBO. (As an aside, I am a member/director of a long-standing non-equity club. I am also a member of one of those "for-profit FBOs masquerading as a club". But it gives me access to a complex...

Can't speak for others, but mine does not. Our airplanes are worth a total of about $150k, and we honestly couldn't care less about a member's credit score, as long as they pay their bills to us. We've had no problems as a result of that policy. We've had a few members encounter financial...

Don't feel bad; I had trouble spotting it coming from the NW! I've been there once, for lunch, and thought the food, served on the outdoor patio, was excellent! While it's not exactly a short field, by the time you clear the trees on either end on final approach, it might as well be!

He is, as long as another CFII provides the three hours of checkride prep and the signoff.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through my instrument training, using my club CFII as my instructor. He is a fairly new examiner, appointed maybe 18 months ago. He's been instructing forever, has in excess of 10,000 hours, and in my mind, is a good instructor. He's just assuming I will use him for...

I flew in there last summer, my first time ever, as a 300 hour VFR PP. It was a piece of cake. I watched every arrival video on the web I could find, which was immensely helpful. I arrived over RIPON around 8 a.m. on the first Monday. There were a couple guys in front of me, one behind...

Jordan, did you ever make this trip?

Matt, Not normal, but unfortunately, not all that uncommon either. I don't know anything about the Western NY Flying Club, but as the membership chairman and a director for my Syracuse-based flying club, I can tell you that I nearly always respond to every e-mail inquiry within 12 hours...