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Yes I do. make yourself an expert on FARs and IFR procedures. Most of the headaches I got as a controller during my 35 years were pilots who were incompetent (by the clinical definition...I.e. not competent) procedurally. And this can be accomplished for free at home in your easy chair...

Can an IFR pilot fly an IFR flight in uncontrolled airspace without a IFR flight plan or a clearance from ATC? 91.173 requires a flight plan and clearance in controlled airspace but can you infer the reverse; that no flight plan is required and no clearance is required, therefore, in...

FAA order JO 7300.5E paragraph 7.13 “NOTE: Local displays of wind direction are always in reference to magnetic north. Automated weather observing systems also show direction with respect to magnetic north locally (when the AUX/WX page is displayed), but adjust wind direction to "true" for...

“ If you read it it’s true, if you hear it it’s magnetic”. Remember that? Add the different sources to the mix and no wonder students get mixed up. ASOS is usually configured to true. The ASOS usually gets transmitted to the system directly and the METAR (you read a METAR) reflects the true...

In our 141 operation which has a couple of hundred students the most common problem is glide slope tracking. The concentration on the glide slope distracts from flying the course. I teach everyone this...glide slope tracking is simple precision descents. The skill set you need is one of the...

Yeah, well, there may be some who seem to think that establishing communications is the golden ticket and the only other authority the controller has is to issue clearances to use the runway. tex

Make no mistake about it. you operate within a Class D or C only at the pleasure of the controller. he has the authority to require Or allow The pilot to remain clear of, enter into, fly through, the Class D or C that HE controls. And that begins with the requirement to establish...

it must be....because you simply say so. Why is it ALWAYS. The point of the original question is to find out why pilots believe it is so. What is the justification for their belief. I’m not saying whether it’s right or wrong. But why do we do what we do? Is it because our instructor told...

1. Yes establishing communications is required to enter into Class D, C, B (for that matter, step one of two steps, the second being the actual clearance). But if the controller responds with your call sign and instructs you to remain clear of the Class D or C or B you darn sure better...

what about 91.126b1?

Lots of good answers. here’s the question again...this time more succinctly. Is left traffic the standard default regulatory VFR pattern at an ATC controlled Class D primary airport? And if so what rule defines that? tex

Let me clarify. Here’s an example... A VFR aircraft has been cleared for touch and go at a Class D primary airport. The plane touches then goes and is now at the point where he needs to turn crosswind. Still no instruction from ATC in the tower. Does the pilot assume that the standard...

Does 91.129’s requirement to comply with 91.126(b)(1) mean that there is a standard left hand pattern for airports in non-Class G with control towers? tex

How about... “...(tasks) performed since the first day of the sixth calendar month preceding the calendar month of the flight.” then for the 6 month grace period... “...until the last day of the sixth calendar month following the calendar month of the flight “ this give us the 6-1-6...

I think we’ve had an interesting discussion. The good thing is that there are enough Interpretaions and guidance that we all know what the intent is and what is expected from us. Thanks for the input. Tex https://www.ncsl.org/documents/lsss/2013pds/rehnquist_court_canons_citations.pdf...

the point of this entire thread is not that we need to change the interpretation but that we need to change the language to express the true intent of the FAA which we all know. the rule does not say “within 6 calendar months”. It says “within THE 6 calendar months.” My limited knowledge...

I think what we all can agree on (most of us anyway) is that the language does not really express the intent. Even an example in one of the GC interpretations kind of glides over the language as if to say “of course it says that”. bottom line is that it can be better written and perhaps we...

the analogy is not exact. Your analogy should read “within the 24 hours PRECEDING the current hour”. tex

Found the guidances. Thanks tex

No one has called anyone names yet. And asking someone to simply give the source of our interpretation doesn’t warrant name calling. Can you point us to that general council guidance please. tex