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Just finished a check ride prep flight and ground school with my CFI and all went well. He's scheduling me for next Tuesday and I plan to go up once or twice this week solo to practice maneuvers. I'm also planning to go up with my CFI Monday afternoon for a last minute sanity check.

I was thinking about you yesterday on my flight. While in cruise I had my iPad on Forflight sitting in the passenger seat and it overheated and shut off. I instantly thought of you talking about electronics failing. :) I just moved it out of the sun and was only using it to watch the little...

I completed my long cross country yesterday and now officially have all my checkboxes completed. I had been planning to go from KLNK (Lincoln, NE) <--> KAMW (Ames, IA) <--> KMLE (Millard, NE) <--> back to KLNK but the winds turned almost direct crosswind for KMLE so that one became marginal...

Congratulations!!!

I do. Maybe it's better to say I was more mindful of my airspeed.

For me, getting to know a little about the people makes it sink in more. I've read a few crash reports where the families were of similar ages to my family and those REALLY sink in. With the Cirrus crash yesterday, I'm flying a near identical plane as the pilot and it really hit home and is...

For sure, I don't know all the info about sales tax and it's very dependent on what state you live in. Next year when I start shopping for my plane I'll be hiring an Aviation tax consultant to aid me in the structure to make it as optimal for my situation as I can. I had researched (on my own)...

If the use is 100% personal then you are correct because the personal use would not be deductible.

With a spin it would have still been a low probability survival that low. Caps needs over 1000' for a spin and that's if you hit it instantly when you spin. Cirrus teaches to start turning cross at normal caps altitude which is 500' agl so she was likely around that altitude or maybe just a...

I fly an SR20 almost identical to this one. The demonstrated crosswind is 20kts. You can go higher of course, but it takes higher approach speeds and likely 50% flaps. She was struggling to get down which she mentioned and if you look at the flight track posted above you can see the following...

You can say that again. :D

I think that part is fairly easy because the personal use money is "after tax" money. Meaning I have to pay myself from the business and send half of it to the IRS. Then I'm paying for the airplane use. It's really no different than the rental I'm doing today where I take my "after tax" money...

I'm not a tax attorney by any means, but here's my understanding. Personal purchase: Buy $1M plane All money spent on plane is post tax, so you have to make $2M to buy the $1M plane (after taxes) Pay $70k Sales/Use tax on plane Most expensive way to buy a plane Direct Business Purchase by your...

Boeing 777 are pretty good I hear. ;) There's a lot of great options out there for sure. Personally, I found the comfort, automation, and safety features of the Cirrus to be unmatched so that's the direction I'm going.

It was on left cross for 35. Here's the spot where she went down:

In my experience of driving rescue dogs around (not flying) it's not the noise that's bad it's the smell. Virtually 100% of the time somebody decides they can't hold it and of course has a nuclear explosion in their kennel.

I had some struggles with the rudder early on and here's what helped me mentally. The ailerons are for staying on the centerline and the rudder is for staying aligned with the runway. So, when I have a crosswind I kind of repeat that to myself as I'm coming in and I'll lock in my slip at the...

I'm fortunate enough to have a 128G iPad so I just downloaded everything for every state and airport. I did folders for the plates and populated every plate for every airport I may frequent, but I tend to just look them up from the airport when in the air. (seems faster) I also make sure my...

The number one reason I follow forums like PoA. :)

This seems like it may be a notch worse than SLD. More TKS please