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Owning vs Renting... ok, I just figured out my own analogy since I like to go diving. [and btw, I'm in a similar boat of considering my first purchase of a plane] If you go buy your own dive gear (BC/Regs/Tanks/Wts/Wetsuit/Fins/Mask/etc.) you know exactly when the last maintenance was done, who...

Flew up there today Brad and got a couple hours in the plane - GREAT plane. Really liked the plane a lot! Thanks again for the heads up! I'm going to make one more trip up there and take the Six out again and hopefully will end up with my high performance endorsement and be checked out to...

^^^Very cool!!

I've definitely enjoyed the club so far Ed. I just took a look at our 3 planes' schedules all the way out to January - no reservations at all. One thing that is limiting though is we have nothing with more than 4 seats (which is fine most of the time). So with me recently finding a Cherokee...

This thread has been a great read as I contemplate potential ownership in the next year or two (hopefully if the market settles down). I like the comment - the only thing worse than owning a boat is owning a plane. Yikes! I've owned boats for almost 30 years with the last one being a high...

A quick Google came up with the following. Reading it leads me to believe it moves in one direction. "The magnetic North Pole is the location in the Northern Hemisphere where the planet's magnetic field lines point straight downwards, penetrating the surface of the Earth. Its location changes...

LOL, point taken. You missed my subtlety above. I was thinking the deviation goes "back and forth" and might almost wobble over time, not really continue in one direction. But yes, 56 years is some time for sure. So the deviation that's created over time continues in one direction - is that...

Wow! Good find! I guess I just assumed (I know, bad on my part) that magnetic would change, but only slightly, and guess I was thinking it might go back and forth more and be "around" what it was originally. 7 degree change is pretty impressive.

Seems it was the former in my examples (declination never set, as these are all exactly the magnetic variation 'off') but was thinking along the same lines as you described. I haven't found it to be of consequence, just makes my numbers look off enough that I've gone back and said - what the...

Something I've been meaning to ask... and I noticed it originally when I was doing some solo XC's a few months back for my PPL. Now I'm planning a flight about 150nm away and was planning my route to/from some VORs and noticed it again. Most VORs are aligned as I would expect - with Magnetic...

Hey Brad, thanks again for the link. I've got a reservation for this Friday and they talked me into going on and getting my high performance endorsement through them since I'm paying for the plane and instructor anyway. It's about a 1.5 hr flight up to Jacksonville in our Club's 172, so that's...

AWESOME! Thanks Brad! If anyone finds any others, share those too. I'm going to shoot them an e-mail, thanks again Brad!

Hey Tony, I've flown over to SFB a couple times, but that was with my CFI when I was doing some XCs for my PPL. If flying to KISM, approaching from the SW or SE, is there an issue with just staying under the Bravo and then flying direct to KISM and only contact KISM tower? I'd normally have...

Good to know... I'm planning a flight down there sometime in the near(ish) future (one of plenty with it not too far). Pretty new with my PPL, but was looking at my Sectional for Key West and there is a Notes/Info Box that says "INTENSIVE MILITARY JET ACTIVITY CONTACT KEY WEST APP 124.025". At...

@Salty - I did come across that one as well. Same plane, just with RG I believe. If nothing else, I may fly over and check that one out. I don't know if the RG will make it fly much different (aside from being a little faster). That's a huge bummer, I would have definitely taken you up on...

I googled but couldn't find anything. Anyone know of any place in Florida to rent one? I'm fresh out of my PPL and have about 150hrs. I will be getting my high performance endorsement in the next 3-4 months in our Club's 182. But I'd like to get a couple hours in a PA32(six) with their local...

This had been on my list of to-do's - get a PLB, but originally not for flying. As a diver, and doing a majority of dives as drift dives here in Florida, a PLB is just a sound backup plan. But with recently acquiring my PPL, there seems to be another good excuse to finally go on and get one...

Checkride complete this past Thursday, oral portion was done the week prior (discontinuance for the flight due to WX at the time). Next day after passing the checkride, took my wife up for an ocean shoreline cruise. Thankful for her patience during the past couple years and 135hrs of seat...

The FAA Examiner said similar. I think he said something like this... today you are towards the top of how safe of a pilot you'll be. You're prepared for the checkride and doing all the right things. Somewhere between 300-500 hours pilots can become complacent and become lazy. So I spent...

Good on you too @TommyG ! I'm sure you run into those situations where someone is wanting to get through things as quick and cheap as possible. Personally this was not where I wanted cheap nor quick. In part, that contributed to my pretty high number of hours going into the checkride. My...