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A while back I was doing an online safety course (ASA or FAASafety, I do not recall*) that stressed the point that unless the aircraft was actually out of control due to flight control failure or some other structural anomaly that prevented the aircraft from being able to be controlled, the...

My favorite way of expressing this actually started in my motorcycle life but transfers easily to my airplane life. There is a big difference between 10,000 hours (100,000 miles) experience and 1 hour (10 miles) repeated 10,000 times.

Poser....

It means he is a newbie Iron Butt Association member... :D (IBA #11465)

Easiest way to make a small fortune in aviation? Start with a large fortune.

Looks like three hours, three approaches, and a 100-mile cross country to me... :confused: (2) Forty hours of actual or simulated instrument time in the areas of operation listed under paragraph (c) of this section, of which 15 hours must have been with an authorized instructor who holds an...

By the time I got to the first (and only) checkride I failed (my initial CFI) I fully understood that and when it happened, it really was no big deal. During the Oral portion my brain froze up and for whatever reason I simply could not explain how to fill out a nav log for a cross county flight...

Do not become a CFI. The dropout rate for Private Pilot is high enough already.

"Cabin"? :confused2: :rofl:

:yeahthat: Cannot even begin to imagine what it would be like to have an instructor so driven by perfectionism. The dropout rate with this one will be significant.

I do not understand why instructors sending an applicant to a check ride do not stress the point that the DPE must tell you the moment you fail the ride. Rather than concentrating on what they are doing, they are often sitting there worrying about whether or not that last maneuver busted the...

It will come up to pressure faster if, as soon as steam starts escaping from the pressure indicator, you lift up on the lid and push it back down quickly. You can shave several minutes off the "waiting for pressure" time.

Nearly 20 years ago I joined AOPA with the free 6-month student pilot intro promotion. When the six months expired, I continued my membership and selected "Flight Training" over "Flying". Still that way today. Even as a multi-rated CFI, I still prefer the "Student" version over the "Real"...

One poor fellow spent 40some years driving the same tractor and simply could not overcome that problem. It was not just high stress situations. Even at cruise when wanting to climb, he would pull back the throttle instead of push. :(

I have had students come to me after years of operating tractors. Apparently some tractors have hand-operated throttles that are completely opposite of airplane throttles. Primacy and muscle memory combine to find them pulling the throttle to idle when faced with a "GO AROUND NOW!" situation.

...and can speak the English very goodly.

Easier to replace the breaker with a GFCI breaker.

Translation: $3-$3.50 per liter. $11-$13 a gallon. Yah... We got it pretty good here.

It is events like those that keep the light in my refrigerator shining on food... :p