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As a CFI I find teaching them to fly is the easy part. The harder part is getting them through the knowledge test and the Oral test. Many just don't have the life experience to already have a basic knowledge base to build on, so it is all new and foreign to them. I would start working with them...

Trig, Micro Air maybe Becker are about the only ones that are low enough power to run off of a battery and small enough to fit in a in a glider panel.

I have the Trig TT22 in my glider running off a 9ah LiFePO battery. I prefer the Trig equipment over the Microair. But mostly based on my experience with their radios. With an electrical system with enough capacity you can pretty much pick any product. The Trig is just the one I am familiar...

yes this one is a pet peeve of examiners, i.e. student pilots showing up for checkrides and not meeting the experience requirements. This one is a bit less common of a problem, but Logging Night Takeoffs AND Landing to a full stop is common one, Along with not meeting the Cross country distance...

I have 5000+hrs of instruction logged, my thoughts…. 1. If a pilot tells me a control doesn’t feel right, the 1st thing I do is take the controls and check it for myself to figure out if there is really an issue, or if it is just the pilots perception. This instructor probably should have done...

My 1st speculation is a control problem. Looks like it happened quite early in the tow. Not sure how the controls on hook up on the ASH26. it is new enough design that it probably has automatic hook ups now common in modern gliders, but older gliders like mine it was possible to forget or not...

oooooooh, I am imaging Jet Cri-Cri and an Amphibious float, sort of a cross between the Jet Cri-Cri and a Grumman Duck would be Multi-Engine, Turbine, Amphibious, Tail wheel time. Sorry my photoshop skills aren't quite up to making a composite image.

Sadly Airports that receive FAA funding are prohibited from allowing overnight camping on the airport. I am sure that Oshkosh just gets a waiver or this requirement is just ignored. Smart airport managers pretty much just ignore it and if the FAA challenges them they just ask for a written...

I always like the insurance forms that ask how much tailwheel time I have. My sailplane is a taildragger. I typically do up to a 100 hours per year in my sailplane, but rarely do more than 25 landings per year in my glider. They rarely specify time in an Airplane. Same with Retract time. Brian

Just to say it again here, figure out who you are going to use for your 1st annual, have them involved in the purchase of your 1st airplane. Best if they can perform and annual inspection and document in the log book they inspected the airplane before or just after you buy the airplane, Then...

yep, pick a topic from the PTS and start talking. You are just practicing you spiels that you will give to the examiner when he asks and then to your students as you go over each topic. Brian CFIIG/ASEL

That sounds like a great plan. One of the huge benefits of having instructed for a lot of years is you have a great network of pilots to network with. Keep your CFI up to date, there will always be pilots that would love to log some PIC time with an experienced instructor, and even better if you...

Probably means I will start using Foreflight, as that is what I recommend for students that are planning on flying professionally as it is the one employers are most likely to provide IMO. I thought they might get a pretty good in, in the Android market for Recreational pilots, but their...

My logbook shows I had 7.6hrs in gliders and 15 logged flights + 2 that weren't logged (Just flying with another glider pilot) when I completed my Private pilot glider addon check ride. I would have had less hours, but I caught thermals on a few of my 10 solo flights. My 1st solo flight and 5th...

Not entirely true, but more true than it used to be. Prior to the rule changes is the 90's. My friend transitioned to Airplane Single Engine Land with less than 10 hours in a power airplane, a tailwheel (Cessna 120) at that. Cross country time, done in Glider. Tower/ATC, done in glider I don't...

That is my take on it, and the numbers I have been able glean from various sources tend to back it up. Way more total motorcycle and car accident accidents/deaths than airplanes they just don't make the news. But hour for hour.... Single engine airplane = Motorcycles (i.e. one hour in an...

This was my 1st thought once you said it was normal on the next take off/climb. I have climbed at 2000+ft/min in my glider sustained for 8000 ft. What goes up must come down so somewhere there was an equal mass of air coming down. The secret to soaring is loiter in the up and race through sink...

IMO, and probably depends on state laws, the Liability Waiver can help some, but is not a catch all. A determined plaintiff and/or attorney can probably work around it or at least make it very unpleasant trying to defend it. Once upon a time I worked for a Kit plane company that had a...

or maybe he didn't take the canopy cover off.

Looks like I come up with 26 days back in 1999. flew 10 different aircraft model, one was a glider. logged 59+ hours in that 26 days. Most of it was providing instruction. Brian CFIIG/ASEL