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I watched this video about landing without primary flight controls the other day, and it demonstrated something *almost* like the auto-land you're describing. They just use the trim for a late flare. https://youtu.be/yqPFfTRn5So?t=11m7s

And this is surprising because??? Of course shiny planes with new panels sell faster. Getting a plane that's mechanically sound is a bare minimum for most of us.

I live in Commerce, TX and fly out of Greenville. This is my lovely forecast:

Any pireps on flying in southern New Mexico in the summer? My sister lives in Deming, and I'm wanting to fly the family out for a visit this summer from the Dallas area. It looks like lots of interesting airspace around El Paso and White Sands Missile Range. I've never flown in the desert or...

Ever have long stretches where Mother Nature and the maintenance gods have conspired against you? I'm a newly minted pilot who got my ticket a few months ago. I want to fly every freakin' day. But here in Northeast Texas, it's felt like monsoon season all spring. We had a two-week stretch of...

Nice! A Cherokee 180 is on my list of potential first planes. I'm still piling up money so I can write a check for it in a year or so. What's it like flying a new-to-you airplane on a long trip like that? I've only flown the plane I trained in, an Archer, and would feel pretty intimidated...

One of the potential scenarios for LAHSO involves two planes landing on intersecting runways at approximately the same time. That's one of the big reasons LAHSO exists, as I understand it. So I got to thinking ... what if both aircraft had to do a go-around? Two planes on final to intersecting...

Awesome! People a lot older than you have successfully become pilots, and I've seen several people around your age on this forum starting or re-starting their training. You're definitely not alone. Yes, it's hard to understand the controllers at first, but it gets better with experience. I...

Henning, you're wrong. If the vast majority of people knew how amazing it is to fly, they'd be more willing to pay the $9,000 entry fee. Videos like this barely scratch the surface of the deep satisfaction that comes with controlling a machine in the sky. That kind of woe-is-me attitude is the...

Pilot locked out before crash "The cockpit voice recorder indicates that one of the pilots on Germanwings Flight 9525 was locked out of the cockpit when the plane crashed, a senior military official tells The New York Times." Apparently the voice recorder shows one of the two pilots beating on...

My best piece of advice is to pile up enough cash to finish your training before you begin. I know that doesn't have anything to do with flying a plane directly, but it will clearly impact your learning curve if you have to stop or slow down your training from a lack of funds. Get a handle on...

OK ... I haven't even started instrument training yet ... but I didn't think you could use the iPad to fly IFR. I thought it had to be a specially approved, panel-mounted GPS to be legal. Am I misunderstanding?

Welcome! I just got my license in October, and it cost me about $9,000 total. Some have done it for less; others have paid more. The costs for me have gone down since I finished my training because I'm not flying as often. When I was training, I'd try to fly twice a week. Now I fly once a...

Congrats! That's one of the best feelings in the world. And it only gets better from here!

THANK YOU! That's what I was wondering. You saved me from calling it and sounding like an idiot :)

La Porte doesn't have a tower. Just CTAF. So I think it would just be clearance, CTAF, Houston departure. But my bigger question is trying to understand when it's required, not just the mechanics of how to use it. I'm guessing it would be legal (not necessarily wise) to just call on CTAF and...

I'm a new VFR pilot who's getting very comfortable with radio work and flight following on my cross countries ... but there's one thing I've never done before, not even in training: getting clearance delivery from a Class B airport. My instructor explained it to me. At the big airports, it...

Good advice! I should have added a few knots for the gust factor, too.

I got my PPL in November and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It's so much fun being able to go places faster and take friends and family up for sightseeing trips! Since then, though, I've had two landings that really sucked, both in crosswinds. I *think* I know what the problem was (taking out the...

Why? For navigation or because you want to land on them in an emergency? I've heard before (and I think my flight instructor mentioned this) that roads make terrible landing spots because of power lines. You can't see the wires until the last second. And the roads you'd see lit up at night...