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If you're looking for a 6-seater, the PA-32's are your best bet. The -36 series Bonanzas can also take 6, The PA-24 Commanche can also haul 6 people (you'd be looking at a 260B model. You can get your complex and high-performance endorsements without an IFR rating or commercial certificate...

Fall in eastern NC starting at the end of the tropical season and runs into winter (which is usually pretty mild) and early spring. Lots of moisture in stable air makes for good instrument training. Here are a few photos:

I upgraded to ADS-B out in 2015 with a KT-74 squawking my GPS position from my 430W. The transponder and install were around $4500 total. I use a GDL39-3D for my ADS-B In. There are much less expensive options now. If you have a UAT, such as the GDL 82, you don't need mode S at all. Uavionix...

All approaches involve intercepting and tracking an electronic navigation source, so the “intercepting and tracking is implicit in the six required approaches. The currency refs may as well just say, 6 approaches and holding procedures. The “intercepting and tracking” verbiage is superfluous.

If you hold an FAA PPL Pilot certificate, then you should be able to add instrument rating to that certificate in the US.

On the 430W, if you're getting a "glideslope" the your unit will annunciate LP+V. The "glideslope" will take you down a slope at or above the published "step-down" altitudes. However +V also means that the piloy is still responsible for ensuring that safe altitudes during descent on the...

INOP = No. However, the standard is that the fuel gauge cannot show usable fuel in the tank when the tank is empty (conversely, it may have usable fuel in the tank when the gauge reads zero).

Mostly you're getting free weather and ATC services below levels where radar might pick you up, as well as traffic. Keep in mind that, with ADS-B out, you have the advantage of seeing all the traffic, not just those that also have ADS=B out, but also radar TIS-B traffic where-ever ATC can see...

Shorter flights, planned and executed A-->B flights to other airports, ending with an approach to landing are far more interesting than droning for hours under the hood going nowhere.

Congrats.

Somebody wasn't coaching properly.

I replaced by old Sporty's SP-200 with a new Yeasu, which came with all the accessories.

Typically you get "descend and maintain x000," or possibly "cross (fix) at of above x000," but these instructions will keep you at or above the MVA or MSA until reaching a fix where you will transition to the altitude guidance on a published procedure or airway segment.

Not useless, and here are the reasons. First the flight plan provides some protection in case of an accident. Flight plans will ensure that someone takes notice if you don't arrive at you destination and that SAR will be activated if you cannot be contacted. There is no inconvenience in...

If you're getting flight-following, you'll just be turned over to the TRSA controllers. If you're not getting flight-following, then you can call up the TRSA on the appropriate published frequency, and request flight-following. If you don't want flight-following, then stay outside the Delta and...

Generally, I'll just use the nearest TAFs and extrapolate from there.

Piper makes some great planes.

Agreed.