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A commercial pilot without an instrument rating is limited to carrying persons or property only within 50 NM of the departure airport and then only during the day. If you don't have an instrument rating prior to your commercial, you'll still have to have at least 10 hours of instrument training...

Check your winds aloft for temp inversions on days with a decent CIG. What you'll want to look for are temps above freezing in the clouds and you can fly in those without too much worry, just monitor the OAT and PIREPs. For example, I was training a student a few years ago with an inversion...

No. If you have the certificates and ratings that's all you need and none of them require a degree. Aviation isn't a degree-required profession like medicine or law. Having a degree is definitely an extra feather on the resume and might give you a leg up for a position in a particular...

Moving from a 430W to a 650 is pretty easy once you realize that the 650 is basically the same box, but the interface is just a better resolution touch screen and you get to the virtual buttons by hitting the "HOME". However, a pilot experienced in using a device and imparting that knowledge to...

Repetitive procedure practice on a sim is cheaper and faster than repeating the ILS at KRWI 6 times in a row. I see the usefulness, but I do all the training in the plane. The one thing I found rewarding with 20 hours on a ATC610 was getting an almost perfect plotter track before flightaware...

The diagram is useful, especially if you planning to circle and in actual, you’ll now what to expect to see, REILs or ALS, VASI PAPI etc. If you find that data useful, and it is, you’ll have to look up the diagram chart .... it’s an unnecessary step...like someone else said...a solution looking...

If it’s not broken, then don’t fix it.

That’s likely more an STEC issue than the G5. The STEC 20,30,40 units have never been know for their solid CDI capture like the Century APs which are pretty brisk at the task.

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A Garmin 430 (non-WAAS) would be a reasonable upgrade. You get ILS/Localizer/VOR all on one unit with capability of LNAV GPS approaches and a legal substitute for ADF and DME. LNAV GPS approaches will get you on the ground reliably with CIG as low as 500'. A GDL-82 is a reasonable ADS-B...

Commercial is fine...it is a wholly VFR rating. Unfortunately, if your instrument endorsement isn't written right, your flight training provider may tell you that you'll need an additional 10 hours of instrument training even if you have an instrument rating on your PPL. If you have an...

When I am doing my 7-day IFR program, I always put "IFR TRAINING" in remarks. They'll expect approaches, missed procedures and holds, etc.

Sporty's is great and less expensive that John and Martha. I used Aviation Seminers for PPL and Instrument and then Gleim's online ground school for my FOI, Commercial, AGI, CFI and CFII and did fine. I don't think it is as much about the program, but how much you put into it.

"I plan to purchase a plane and get my IFR Cert." If the intention is to purchase an experimental and get your instrument rating in that plane, you can hang it up. You can fly an experimental in IFR if properly equipped, but you can't take your check-ride in your experimental aircraft.

BLUF...Teaching is an independent skill. If you have that skill (teaching), then you can teach someone any body of knowledge that you know well. If you can't teach, then you shouldn't try...everyone probably has a teach in some venue that really sucked at it. I think the use of a CFI-S would be...

You can toggle it on and off in Garmin Pilot, so there should be a way to turn it off in ForeFlight.

I don't understand why one would cancel IFR when flying into a tower-controlled airport. That's makes NO sense.

Twice. Both times during training, but they were both training flights conducted in actual. Once, we held for about a hour. The worst night IMC we flew, we departed and went to a nearby (30-ish miles) and missed on the ILS (below minimums), and on the climb-out, ATC asked our intentions and...

When logged as "satisfactory completed the flight review required by 61.56" then the minimum flight and ground time would be implicit.