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just quoting some, though not all of he helpful replies. These in particular helped me. The part that bothered me most was the wrong thinking that the initial “push” as being sufficient. That didn’t seem right. For a student specially the balancing act of the forces in flight can be difficult...

I got that, to a point, but as I noted, air density differences, etc, mean drag is not constant and I couldn’t see how one “push” way back at the time we went to cruise could last for a long distance as we fly. Newton’s laws are ideal, in the real world we would expect imperfection and small...

okay. Now we’re getting somewhere :-) that last paragraph hit home for me. I felt silly writing the complete thought I had which was the rock on ice, if I added a little motorized engine and propeller to the rock, fixed rpm calculated to thrust = friction/drag for a given speed, I would still...

I’ve never quite come to terms with the idea that an airplane flies, at a constant rate when thrust = drag. weight = lift somehow intuitively seems right, no problem with that, but the thrust = drag intuitively feels like the plane ought to have no forward movement. I know it is wrong, but...

I found x plane frustrating, with a good deal of time spent just getting the scenery halfway decent (like decent enough to be able to have a chance to recognize areas and see The airport before you are on top of it) as well as many tweaks to get it smooth, a learning curve also to just use it...

Sounds like you were well aware the whole time about what to pay attention to. I played around with flight sims before starting my actual flight training, and result was I was too glued to the instrument panel. Flight sims, specially just on a laptop where changing view is kind of unnatural and...

yup..like I said, something fishy about ducks!

I always find something fishy about ducks, there I said it. I mean the whole “south for the winter” thing. Something doesn’t add up. At our cabin on the lake, or the small lake by our home in a park, whenever I see ducks they never are flying. They sometimes get away from dogs, or just skim the...

Wow. I’ve heard so much about base to final, and (ok home built...but still) I never would have thought takeoff and climb was so much higher.

Yes. It’s all opinions but I am not a fan of Norwegian airlines. We booked with them recently to take our granddaughter on a trip to Rome. We booked well in advance, but just before the date they changed our flight two different times (both directions) which meant one day less on the way there...

I was wondering, and thinking about asking the exact same thing. Then (not sure if this is THE answer) I thought “difference is in a side slip or forward slip, we are not trying to turn!” seems like the skid part is because the flight path is curved and it is not line with it. In forward slip...

Doesn’t it increase accuracy when you can home in on two different ones though?

Damn, those three sentences exactly as written ought to have been in my ground school books, and the FAA student pilots flight manual! When you write it like that, of course it does. I just had not put it together. THANKS! That makes perfect sense to me, and is exactly how I’m going to be...

Thanks to both of you guys, that helped a LOT! Also realized that yes, still want to “step on the ball” to get aligned again for coordinated. Which also made me realize the typical left bank, if you didn’t use any rudder, would be then a slight slip, not a skid. I think. Somehow I wasn’t...

it reminds me I have to spend some time to figure out the bank indicator ball and what it’s telling me. Like I mention, currently remembering the ball is opposite what I think, and not sure why. Maybe a good time to ask for help here. I’m thinking now, the ball is sliding to the side the...

it’s fine, but still I disagree. When you drive through an intersection you either see no cars anywhere near, cars stopped, or cars still coming. Judging if a car is slowing down or not should be doable. Not every intersection. But Ive already written twice that nobody is saying you can avoid...

That is ridiculous. Really. I’m amazed you think there is nothing one can do. You can look look left and right going through a green light instead of straight ahead, oblivious. I actually have, as a kid I chicago been at a red light, winter, few cars in front of me, seeing in my rear view a...

somehow it always reminds me of blasé teens, on a beautiful sunny day complaining “there is nothing to do”. I also get strange looks when on a flight (like you, when I’m not at window) looking for the limited view both left and right. Worst when they pull down the shade.

God I hate this one :-) from the picture and tail I thought left is a skid, right a slip. But I get messed up by the bank indicator that I seem to recall I think exactly wrong about, just using IT I would think left was slip, right skid. But since I know I think 100% wrong about bank...

“AP: Well I'd like to die like my grandpa, in his sleep.” ... and not like all those passengers in his airplane screaming and crying!