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Where I live (New York City), this time of year we have negative density altitudes. I’d love to read any comments people have on that.

What I know, as a lifelong sailor, is that I’ve never seen the attitude coming through in this thread. In the sailing community, including in the competitive sailing community that I have been part of, what you people are saying would be dismissed out of hand. If you are representative of...

Sorry, but except for people with very high disposable income, cost is a very real issue. This entire thread was started by someone who is concerned about cost, and the idea that cost vs return would be raised only by people who are anti-aviation, or don’t understand it, is flatly ridiculous...

Whatever you say ...... dude.

If you’re going to respond, at least do so in a way that doesn’t misrepresent what I said.

Sorry for addressing basic, underlying issues instead of towing the party line.

I think that the responses above don’t really respond to the question. For people for whom this is a hobby, I think that this is a huge issue. In my case it is part of a current re-evaluation about how far I want to go with this. I’m in New York. I’ve concluded that I have zero interest in...

This is real simple. If a flight school’s plane doesn’t have a working fuel gauge, and doesn’t get it fixed pronto, it’s time to go elsewhere. Of course, this assumes one is prepared to insist on, and pay for, a working fuel gauge, an assumption that appears to have been wrong in this case...

I do wonder whether “translating” METARS is so easy. The METARS issued by New York area airports during the recent winter storm were fairly nuanced (i.e, they included a lot of codes that you won’t see day to day) and were supplemented by a lot of ATC oral updates, themselves based in part on...

I did hope that you were joking. If so, sorry that I missed it.

Good, then he’ll be happy to tell me which one it is.

Let me know what airline you work for so that I can be sure to avoid it.

The fact that ForeFlight fails to fully decode METARS suggests that it might be less simple than you think. After a month of reading them daily, I find them pretty easy to decode.

As a student, I’ve been looking at the METARS for LaGuardia for the last few weeks, and the only code that was new to me was the NO in FZRANO. Just watch the METARS for an airport with changeable weather, don’t let ForeFlight, etc translate them (ForeFlight, as it turns out, doesn’t translate...

Living in Queens, I just went through considering Republic and decided to go elsewhere. The two main flight schools there are into “programs” and up front payments against “discounts”. I found that discussions with them were convoluted and lacking in basic clarity. Realize that it’s your money...

I suggested that in my original post and was told that an MFJ 1717 was a better option. Time to go buy some copper wire and try it out :)

Hi Half Fast, Only a few hours, which is why I said that I’ll give it a bit more before I make a decision. I think that I need to try a glider before I make that decision. Cheers

Hi Skyries62, Yes, I’m interested in flying but I’m probably going to move from piston planes to gliders. I’m going to give the piston route another few weeks, but right now I’d just as soon be on a boat. Thanks for your comments.

Oh for god’s sake. I suggested that Canada, especially French speaking Canada, might be more welcoming to a French student pilot than the U.S. under the current US administration, and that there are parts of Canada where it is easy to study and work in both French and English. As someone who...

I’m going sailing in the Caribbean next month and it’s really making me wonder about the time I’m spending on a private pilot certificate. On a sailboat, I spend maybe 10 minutes a day on the radio, mostly talking to the marina where we’ll spend the night. On a plane, at least around major...