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I looked long and hard at using PIC or GATTS to do/finish up my IFR. In the end it was much cheaper for me to find an independent CFII and contract in our plane booking several days in a row. Push came to shove and some days were canceled by super low ceilings, but we made more days than not and...

good job!

Should be a new LOA coming from them sometime this year to carry the certification forward.

You should list under Aircraft Type PCATD or whatever that simulator is listed as. Under Aircraft Type, it should be the specific on you are using. You should record somewhere on the line where the simulator lives (flight school name is good enough usually.. the FAA would like to know where to...

Kathy (@texashikergal02 ) has a most excellent Tiger and she and I have flown grummans together for more than 10 years out of GPM with great success. We love our airfield. GPM is very GA friendly. Good field, good tower guys, good FBO. Fuel on the truck as well as self-serve fuel. We do have a...

@texashikergal02 actually is the one who has handled the hangers at GPM and can answer housing questions. It does appear to me that there has been a short list lately for people getting into hangers around there though. I know several that have seemed to get a hanger lately that I don't think...

I sure hope a new ipad mini is coming. Our 2s are getting doggy with ForeFlight in the plane. I had my 2 crater and stopped showing IFR plates, then totally crashed ForeFlight requiring a restart in the air a couple of weeks ago. Luckily we weren't in a place where it mattered, but it surprised...

That's what we did in the tiger. We have a pair of G5s (with the magnetometer), a 430W, and a GFC500 autopilot. It meets the requirements for us. It's what I'm planning to use this year to complete my commercial.

Bill, don't forget to get the magnetometer with the g5 installs. That's needed in order to finish things out for the TAA from what I understand. You can't just use GPS for your heading indicator.

I used the King Schools kit for my first and refresh passes at learning the material for the IFR written. I didn't feel it was enough and also picked up the Sporty's IFR kit which I feel gave a bigger picture beyond just the written and highly useful for me. I supplemented all of that with a...

Grummans are a JOY to fly! Not that I'm not game to fly just about anything they'll let me in the seat of. But Grummans are very nice. Flown by a proficient pilot they are great airplanes.

14 CFR 61.129(j) supports that the combination of a G5 PFD, GFC500 2-axis autopilot, and GNS430 (whose GPS-driven moving map displays aircraft position) makes our Tiger a TAA for my CP-ASEL and ultimately CFI-ASEL purposes. In our case we have a pair of dual G5s(that gives us fail-down on the...

I used Sheppard Air and The King Series for the commercial, and actually had to buy a new Sporty's E6B because my ancient one somehow ended up with a cracked screen. Was all good enough to score in the 90's on the commercial written in mind January. Now to find a local CFI and start on the dual...

I remember that term! Mischa (my long term CFI) trotted out phugoid one day during one of our cross countries back when I was first working on my PP. We'd nudge the yoke and watch the plane go through the phugoid oscillations and settle back in. A great lesson on positive dynamic stability on...

I did my PP in a Cheetah AA5A back in 2006. Flew an AA5 Traveler for about 10 years, and recently we upgraded to a Tiger AA5B a couple of years ago that we've since upgraded the panel. I completed my IFR in that last year. I'm 6'4" and on the hefty side and we fit just fine. As our plane now...

most everyone I've heard that has someone else paying the bills likes the Jepp charts/plates.. That being said, I learned on the FAA charts/plates and I'd rather spend the extra money on AVGAS and gaining more experience than paying for Jepp on ForeFlight. As others have said, if you want to...

I can't second this last part of what Mike says enough. You've already got your plane, it doesn't get much cheaper than earning your ratings in your own airplane. Go out and fly now. You need a wide range of exposure to weather and different fields and conditions... Pick your goal and work on...

I went through the monovision medical flight ride several years after I had already received my PPL ticket. In my case it was required because of a CRVO event that took most of the vision on the right side. So my experience will be slightly different than yours. I already had my ticket, just no...

checking in late on this thread... thanks for starting it... Walt..... You know I was just going to start bugging him about his oshkosh plans next week... that and getting checked out in the Citabria so I could fly out and land at his strip again. Walt was always there for everyone. I've flown...