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Preflighting fuel is important. Helps prevent croaking after takeoff.

Hello right back!!

Echo the sentiment on thin sole shoes. Didn’t switch to normal sneakers until around 200 hours.

This is how you introduce yourself to a student returning to learning? Jeebz. So my cfi's tend to say "gear welded down". Who cares? Most of us are enjoying the flight experience safely without worrying about what you are all hot and bothered about. Regardless your personal opinion on the FAA...

Why so judgy? Shizz happens. You don't have the right to say who belongs or does not belong on a bike based on a random personal life experience share. Lay off dude.

Right. But a shoot down could have happened and likely should have happened on that fateful day (noting that the preparedness in place wasn’t any different than Pearl Harbor). In actuality far less. In other words things aren’t much different now than they were in the ‘40s or the ‘00s. The...

Got my PPL in 2015 and still a VFR pilot with low 300 hours but have been working on and off on IFR training. Only one VFR flight was impacted by conditions requiring a 5 hour wait on the ground. Here in the mountain west things are usually VFR, except for smoggy or smoky days. I do want to get...

That is an unfortunate situation with the flaps. My own personal experience with a go-around in a 150 was one notch reduction causes significant sink. Better off leaving the flaps alone and letting the critter fly as best as possible to a safe altitude. Hopefully with enough persistence you will...

At the same time?

Just did a touch and go there two days ago so definitely the airport exists!

It was my impression you want not only horizontal force dissipation but also the same in the vertical which landing gear does provide. The pilot survived, the plane **maybe** is reusable, so arguments for or against are pretty much an academic discussion. I was also under the impression he was...

Well, then this guy landed on his own jump plane after the chute failed. Took the controls and fell out at the top of an ill-advised loop. Jumped out and his reserve failed. Luckily landed on the canopy of another skydiver. Lit up a cigar in celebration and everything went up in flames and they...

I don’t know memorable or not, but if you are flying near Bryce Canyon NP (KBCE) in central Utah there is a shuttle to Ruby’s. Lodge also if you want to make it an overnighter. Gorgeous flying scenery all around there.

Raptor? /ducks

Thanks for the replies all. I’m scheduled with a cfi next weekend for some IR stuff but I’ll bring this up also as something to chat about.

Call me a bad pilot if you want. But I stay off the rudders in the traffic pattern until established on final. If someone has a constructive rebut to that mindset I’m happy to listen. To clarify, I’m not talking about the departure portion. Downwind and base to final. No rudder inputs. Thoughts?

I don’t have my own hangar. But if I did a well-stocked fridge and an A/V system would be up on the list. Maybe a disco light. This is probably why I will never have my own hangar.

I’m probably missing something but privatizing *anything* means adding a cost to cover the profit that managers expect. They aren’t exactly selling a product to do this so the result is a less secure environment and the same problem with finding employees willing to work for dirt wages and...

I sincerely hope this wasn’t an early rotation incident. Personally I had my first take-off scare a month ago. Summer high DAs need to keep the plane on the runway for some additional flying speed. Rotated at book numbers and it wasn’t interested in flying yet. Led to some interesting (read that...

Or felonious behavior? At least the plane can most likely be used again.