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Works for the CTA.

I meant the flight sim. ;) Might be a plan for next year.

I'm lucky to be a day-trip away by car, and I have friends south of FLD I can camp at if I want a longer stay, so I've never been overly tempted to fly in. But I should once, I guess. 15 years ago, starting my training,I was completely intimidated by the NOTAM. Now with videos like this and...

Funny, when I put that URL in: https://google.com/maps?cid=0x557b53bcd367742eb9ff09882720557f it gets changed to MY location. Thought you might be on to something there, but now not so sure.

I flew there in X-Plane. Not much going on from what I saw. Lots of trees.

I took a quick look at the CSV. The Location column looks like a proprietary 'Location Code.' E.g.: 557b53bcd367742eb9ff09882720557f Not sure that's readily transplantable. I'm no expert but I've dinked with a lot of location formats. Don't know anything like that. *Googles* Found this...

From my arm chair, that's what I would have tried before pulling that handle. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk

Just to add data - 2004 at C81 (Chicago 'burbs), ground was about 1.5 hours (small delay because the aircraft logbooks were unavailable for a bit), DPE told me I was VERY well-prepared (I had made spreadsheets for pretty much everything, including to show recency of training, post-its in the...

@Rooney Freimund I'd read this thread when I first joined POA, between getting bit by the bug again and waiting to get my medical straightened out. I appreciated having your POV/reminder that the Flight Review - especially after (11 in my case) years off - is not a race. Once I got flying...

Wow, that's a load of horse pucky.

If you do it, make sure you safety-wire those flap connectors . . . Edit to add: I just scrolled through the pics, one of the prop blades is COMPLETELY MISSING (and the spinner cone looks dinged). Lulz.

Would be impossible to tie down without at least a cursory one. I may have left the Avionics Bus on when I shut down last, but that's up to the next person's pre-start checklist to catch. ;)

@Terry M - 3CK (Chicago) The drive isn't too bad now - 15 minutes if I get all the lights and take the expressway, down from 30 minutes out to 5K6. And we were running other errands, so this was just a 'stop by and see if it works,' but I WAS hoping to go up today or tomorrow. I heard back from...

@LoLPilot Thanks for visualizing what I was thinking. ;) @kath That sounds amazing, and a little spooky.

It cleared up decently this afternoon, and my GoPro mount arrived, but apparently I haven't been put back into the keybox system yet. o.O So it's good I didn't have real plans.

Was going to take my 4 year old up, but realized I needed to wait to get a GoPro mount to record her reactions first. :D Oh, and wx is crap.

Thursday was my first time solo since '07. In my recent reviewing/de-rusting I've gotten it drilled into my head to monitor guard when able. I had GND and TWR in Com1 and put ATIS and 121.5 in Com 2 so once I flipped, I'd be monitoring. Made darn sure "Com2 Mic" was OFF on the audio panel. Just...

Not really a successful failure, but on the optical illusion front, I was heading south from 5K6 on a clear morning with my wife over the Fox River 'Chain O' Lakes' (the one in Northern Illinois - I think that term is used a bunch) headed down to 06C to meet some friends and give a few rides...

I guess hooray for noisy DC gyros? I can't imagine walking away from that racket. But now I'll probably do it on my next flight.

This is like when I complain about auto gas prices and my friend in Ireland scoffs so hard it hurts. :D Great advice on 'chair' flying the plane on IMC days. I did that both during initial training and also recently knocking the rust off. It helps for sure.