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Can you redo your calculations to exclude professional pilots? A good proxy for them would be pilots that have an ATP/Commercial license with a current First or Second Class medical. Because Basic Med really only affects those of us flying GA in small airplanes. You might also want to do a...

I don’t think so. A flight review requires that you do one hour in an aircraft in which you are rated. Your training in a different category of aircraft doesn't count. § 61.56 Flight review. (c) (1) Accomplished a flight review given in an aircraft for which that pilot is rated by an authorized...

Do you remember what the correct answer was? Because I am not aware of any FAR that requires reporting an arrest involving marijuana unless it involves operation of a motor vehicle while impaired. If you get a medical that is not Basic Med you need to report convictions for misdemeanors or...

Not to be pedantic, but the Ercoupe has a rudder coupled with the ailerons. It doesn’t have rudder pedals.

My brother has a 1977 Turbo Arrow and I was curious about whether the gear required any extra maintenance. Looking through the books I found one replacement of downlocks, something about the emergency gear extender R&R, replacement of the nose gear door rod ends. replacement of nose gear limit...

I actually read his post and answered the question he asked. “I have held an Advanced Ground Instructor rating for over 50 years…”

Advanced Ground Instructor is not a CFI certificate.

That’t not how it works for Ground Instructors. Ground Instructor certificates never expire. There are conditions that you can meet in order to provide instruction, one of which is to complete a CFI renewal course. § 61.217 Recent experience requirements. ( c) Completion of an approved flight...

If you read the FARs there are several ways to remain current as a ground instructor. One way is to take a CFI refresher course. Sporty’s is free but quite boring. AOPA has a more interesting one that costs around $140. You don’t have to tell the FAA that you’ve completed the course, just save...

If you get it transferred to your on name there will be sales tax to pay when you register it and capital gains tax to pay when you sell it. It’s part of an estate so the estate manager has authority to sell it. There are escrow companies that will handle the sale correctly for a few hundred dollars.

Unless it was seriously neglected before the owner’s death that’s still a good airplane. The cheapest ones on Trade-a-Plane are in the mid $60,000 range. Get a good corrosion inspection, including the wing spar, and a good inspection of the engine. If it checks out, complete then annual and...

Well, not exactly. The woman who murdered her husband takes Columbo up for a ride and rolls her Bonanza (twice). I have no idea why that was part of the plot, but we got to see a few minutes of flying. It’s on Amazon Prime Season 1 Episode 2. IMDB I did not know you could do that but...

Sporty’s course is free, but it’s not very good. They have a paperless renewal for $49. AOPAs is much better and $124 including the paperwork. I haven’t used any others.

If you want to learn the material, instead of just passing the written, I’d say it’s probably more like 50-100 hours of study and reading. I know I put in way more than that for each of my ratings.

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You are training pilots so that counts. § 61.217 Recent experience requirements. (a) Employment or activity as a ground instructor giving pilot, flight instructor, or ground instructor training; § 107.7 Inspection, testing, and demonstration of compliance. (a) A remote pilot in command, owner...

Nope. We were talking about his with my A&P today. According to her, he’s apparently a 40 something commercial pilot based at KSBP who was hired by the owners of the plane to fly them. The owner’s family and their dog were in the back of the plane at the time.

A sea level pressure 950 would be reported as 950. Only the 1000s is dropped off. “It means the Sea Level Pressure is 1008.8 hectopascals. If the value is below 1000 then you will see it written like this: SLP952 or 995.2 hectopascals. If there is no SLP available you will see SLPNO.” More...

I can see how annual *maintenance* can be done and then the plane flown (pack the brakes, clean the plugs, replace filters), but not the inspection. The IA is certifying that the plane is airworthy as of the date in the logbook. But if he inspects the engine and prop and then you fly it, how...

I believe that you can also start teaching (or restart if you haven’t taught for a while) by completing a CFI refresher course. Sporty’s FIRC is free but boring. AOPAs is much more interesting but costs $124. § 61.217 Recent experience requirements. Completion of an approved flight instructor...