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if the weather into JAC is scary flying into in a turbine, the pass from Driggs to Jackson is not much less scary in a car ;-). But IDA is a pretty good alternate. Still the roads can be a little scary during a winter storm. Need a good 4-wheel drive with good tires.

A night low IFR departure is far more difficult and unforgiving than the poor young CFII probably realized. So many potential illusions, and you cant believe anything your body is telling you. Have to believe the instruments, and if the instruments are lying for some reason, not much time to...

Speed limit out here is 80 mph and our plane cruises 260 KTAS. Will be taking my partners DA40 next week as my partner has a better need for the Turboprop. So about half the performance. Will still beat the driving time, by a little. But way more fun, and way more relaxing. Just glad I have the...

Not sure if that is 120 miles by car or plane. I have a milk run I do Ogden UT to Pocatello ID, 120 nm. Not only is the plane faster door to door, but more fun, I personally think is safer. And I don’t like to drive that kind of distance, especially on the winter roads. home to airport 15 min...

The only other thing I would add is there are too many avionics platforms out there to talk specifics, but learn where the weak points in your system lie. You may have 2 GPS/ADC's/ADHRS/glass panels, but if they are all tied to the same 30 amp breaker, what happens if it trips and won't come...

You can lose all GPS, one or more ADHRS, one or more ADC's, magnetometers, and have power failures. So mimicking those modes by covering up relevant parts of the panel, or pulling CB's to those devices can mimic real life failures. Real international flight. Military GPS jamming took out both...

AOPA is one of the few organizations fighting for our flight freedoms. Fly outside the US and you can see what a difference there is. There are tremendous pressures on all fronts from developers, green minded individuals and groups, government, airlines, home owners on and on to get rid of...

pretty interesting math. A similar airframe (PA46 variant) the Mirage/M350 and the Meridian/M500 is a pretty good experiment there. M350 at normal cruise 75% power (263 HP) at 25,000 feet will give you about 210 knots true. The M500 at high speed cruise power 550 ESHP will give about 265 knots...

Just some comments to above. The chute as of yet does not have a quick disconnect. I think this version of the SF50 did not have autoland. That is a relatively new feature available only on the later models.

Looks like from the timed radar overlay, he hit a thunderstorm dead center. There are no planes certified for penetrating a thunderstorm, and few GA airplanes that can survive the stresses from a real thunderstorm. Take care of your Piper, don't. fly into TS, and you will be fine.

Looks like the plane started a climb and gained speed at the same time. If that is correct on FA not many things do that, but a thunderstorm can. Nexrad delay? Looks like they were at a VFR altitude.

I have never had trouble hot starting a DA40. There are some planes that are hard like the turbo Cirrus. But the DA40 seems to start up nicely. Tragic indeed.

There are several markets in aviation, so the answer varies. Prices will likely soften, but not for some time. But aviation medicals expire, and you never get back the memories you didn’t create. If you can afford it, get a good plane now. If you are like most, it will probably be a good...

both people up front were multi, IFR rated pilots

in a class D the controller has 2 primary roles. Keep planes from bumping into each other on the ground, and to sequence planes so that they don’t bump into each other on the ground. They do not separate planes in the air. They can be nice and point out traffic, but the planes are see and avoid...

It is high and hot so high density altitude. So yeah, mountain flying knowledge could be useful. Don’t know anything about this accident though.

Yes there are. When you work in any healthcare organization you have to obtain privileges, which is as far as I have experienced the most painful complicated and onerous set of documents to provide and populate and that is coming from someone that spent 18 years in the military and has most of...

What is the old saying? If you absolutely have to be on time… fly GA? ;-)

Ever hung out with birders? Feathers vs. flaps??? Same thing I guess

Once you breathe air, your body quickly saturates the air from moisture in your resp tract, and then gives the air a partial pressure of water of 47 mm Hg, that is consistent regardless of outside humidity. Temperature is likewise controlled by your body and the air becomes roughly 37 C. Your...