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Maybe it is dependent on the DPE. My ATP check ride was very difficult, and I felt like I earned something by the end. My DPE was a stickler, staying on instruments through MDA/DA not busting quarter scale even as you pass through DA for the localizer and transition to a normal landing where the...

Fair game on the ATP oral is everything. But learning to fly to ATP standards and at one point knowing all the content of the private, commercial, instrument at one time is a pretty big challenge. That is if you study for it. I think some people just study the test question banks which probably...

Welcome back. Love the videos.

Definitely five finger death punch. If you want to start out with FFDP light, Start with their renditions of bad company and house of the rising sun, then move into some of their original stuff

Turbo props Don’t take as much of a hit as jets down low. In the M600, can easily make Naples to San Jose with one fuel stop. The best compromise over ground speed in fuel burn for one fuel stop turns out to be 16,000 feet. 9:47 flight time. Figuring in one fuel stop versus two fuel stops, the...

Sorry the general question about taking passengers not on oxygen up to 17,500 feet.

As a pulmonary Doc, would recommend don’t do it. Someone mentioned mountaineers. Mountaineers tend to be very healthy people, and they don’t go from sea level to 17,500 feet in 30 minutes, it takes hours to days for them to get up there. The FAA regs are quite loose, even 14,000 doesn’t...

Piper kind of still makes the Mirage, but rebranded it the M350. The difference being more tech and automation. Like automatic pressurization, built in pulse oximetry, Nxi avionics, but more importantly full envelope protection, including automatic engagement of the autopilot if the pilot...

Super GA friendly, and cheapest JetA in Phoenix, not sure about Av gas. Just watch for wake turbulence. Getting out is usually quite easy from the GA side. It is typical Class B, if you are not used to it, get your clearance on clearance delivery prior to going over to ground for taxi...

Just to add on above, fuel management in the Piper M600 is also automated.

Probably more often than you think. Think about on a cross country if GPS goes down, how do you navigate and get down? With military jamming and if there is ever a real or perceived national threat the constellation is going down. I have lost GPS a couple of times, can be an interesting time if...

Been a while since I have been there. Really enjoyed my last time. Still no fuel for private aircraft? Still able to get a ride to the tourist events there?

A good physical exam by a physician that knows how to do it, will catch a lot of treatable disease, including disease that is not picked up on a blood test or imaging. Physical exam is a lost art, but if a physician is not doing a good exam, he or she is cutting corners, possibly due to time...

The thing that is most concerning is shortening land leases or not renewing leases altogether. in essence, the previously owned hangars become property of the airport. If they don't renew my lease, my 50X40 heated and plumbed hangar which I purchased, and upgraded with new insulated walls, new...

1 mil can get you a lot more capability, in a used aircraft, but there is tingle in flying something new. Kind of like cars. People still buy new cars, but for the same price, you can get a lot more car used. Nice thing about a new plane, stuff usually works and if it doesn’t it is fixed on...

You do realize, did the TBM started life as a piston airframe. That was the Mooney 301. Mooney had a joint venture with Socata, and designed the TBM700. TB is for Tarbes France. M is for Mooney. So it has a piston heritage as well.

I am a critical care doc. We screen by PCR for multiple viruses, the panels vary by hospital, most have limited supplies. I have yet to have an influenza case this season. That is weird, but we are testing for it. Our panels test for influenza, parainfluenza, multiple corona viruses including...

PC24 is a nice plane. But I doubt that I could ever feel right about getting out of a jet that size by myself, knowing that I just stomped out the carbon footprint of a city block. Probably not the worlds best environmentalist, myself, but that is a little excessive for my conscience.

That would be nice. ;-) About 50 gallons the first hour and about 40 gph subsequent hours. At least JetA is relatively cheap in the aviation world. With fuel cards averaging a little over $3 a gallon. Hanging out with poor folks?? Heck, I spend all my money on flying, so poor right there with you

Yeah. 2019. She just crossed 700 flight hours. My comprehensive service package, Piper ultimate which covers all maintenance, inspections, parts, service ends at 1000 hours, so a tiny incentive to do something soon. Maybe another M600