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For this specific flight, FF will be a good thing. Most days when I'm really flying it'll be from/to untowered airports through Echo airspace with an option to do some sightseeing along the way. If/when my flights get longer or I start flying over the mountains...yep, FF is the way to go.

Going for Sport, no intention to ever go further. I'm doing this for grins and giggles and to see if I can actually get my cert. This is the first really new thing I've tried to learn in a long time. Day, VFR, good weather, short distances, low and slow suits me just fine. I've tossed around the...

Good stuff. For the kind of flying I've been doing, and plan to do once I get my cert, FF will be overkill. For this flight it'll be a good thing.

I've been queued up to use Greenwood (GRD). My original checkride was scheduled for Sept. I freaked and cancelled (probably a good decision). The DPE has up to an 8 week lead time. Nov/Dec got mucked up with holidays so I was rescheduled for Jan. Cancelled for weather. Rescheduled for early...

Also, I'll be talking to ATL when I leave GVL but on a different frequency. Somewhere between GVL and my final stop at 4J5 ATL will hand me off to ATL on a different frequency who will hand me off to Valdosta. Too bad the DPE isn't riding with me...it'd be one hell of a checkride just getting to...

Sport pilot. I do have to prepare a flight plan but the one I've done was for a different DPE, different airport, and a TBD flight. In my original plan, I was nowhere near a TRSA. The question about the TRSA is actually related to the flight plan I'll need to fly to get to the checkride, not the...

I've been doing just that except in my practice, I was doing a flight that ended inside a TRSA at an uncontrolled airport rather than just passing through. Without looking anything up: Did you fly through the TRSA on the way in? Yes Did you talk to approach before entering it? Yes, I was on...

Thanks. I've read that in more than one post. I just have never spoken to anyone except Unicom. This is more of an 'oh ****' moment that moves my timeline for doing this kind of flying from 'someday' to 'next Tuesday'. I'm sure if I get stuck/confused, my CFI will assist.

I'm flying through the MCN TRSA and should not enter their Delta airspace; the route puts me just on the west of the zone and I'll be above the 2900' ceiling of that airspace.

I'm planning a long VFR flight to get to my checkride that will take me through a TRSA, just outside of Class D (and well above the top of the Class D airspace). I'm likely to be filing a flight plan and using flight following. I know that communication with the TRSA is not required but our...

Well, that got interesting fast... My planned next checkride was going to be early June at KGRD. The cross country I need to plan for the exam is in pretty simple airspace. I can answer questions about different airspace during the oral but I'll never get close to anything other than G/E...

Well that's depressing. Not unexpected based on my experience, but depressing...Now I have to wonder if the 3 SP DPE's out of ATL's FSDO are all too big to fly. My CFI is out on vacation next week so I'll discuss with him after he gets back.

I've been waiting for my checkride since about Nov...we're closing in on the summer convection season...yeah...waiting period is about right! My current plan is to continue working on short/soft field T/O & Landings, get more consistent with making good regular landings (I still tend to land...

Fear of the unknown with a dose of information overload. It has taken me a long time just to get to a point where I'm comfortable managing the plane in relatively uncongested airspace and airports with one or two runways and simple taxiway systems. I don't plan to ever do any long...

Hmmm...I'll have to get this list to my CFI. Toccoa is just around the corner from me. Thank you!

My CFI is poking around. Sport Pilot DPE's seem to be as rare as hens teeth round these parts.

Small world!

Hmmm...I think I just figured something else out. The GA FSDO (where I think I'd have to go for an FAA done check ride) is in Atlanta. I don't have endorsements for Class B/C/D, can't get one (as a student) for ATL, so unless the inspector was willing to meet me at someplace in Class E/outside...

Lanier Flight Center at KGVL.

Is it that the FAA just opts not to participate or are they just too busy to do check rides? <edit> Never mind. I was looking for something else and ran across this older but, I'm guessing, still relevant thread...