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Oh, wait. The only jobs that are worse for BS than flight school are charter booking agent and maybe the sales department at a jet brokerage.

Nope, it's been discussed numerous times on various forums, especially the part about the friend who's involved with the plane. And I could be mistaken about the location as well, could be some other NE spot.

In fairness to the guy at the school, I wouldn't have one of those jobs up my whatsis if I had room for Salt Lake City. They gotta listen to more BS in one day than most people hear in a month. They should know to expect it, but there's no way to see it coming in advance. I probably...

Stamped on them, or in a parts manual for your plane.

Is that the one in Maine? If not, the situation is very similar. If so, they've been trying to sell it for a long time.

Aviation businesses have historically been able to get away with "the customer is always last" mentality, and you unfortunately encountered one of them that think it's still true. Over time their attitude will change or somebody will change the locks on their door.

How is that economically different to the pilot than requiring the pilot to sign a note for his training that ostensibly "should be" paid by the employer?

Slit a piece of foam pipe insulation or pool toy foam and slide on the trailing edge.

Bruce says it's because they're "frangible."

That's how I've planned it . . . well, the plane part anyway. The chapter about the diapers hasn't been written yet. Hopefully a few more years of big-boy potty, but who knows. But we were able to buy some pretty nice underwear while flying around around the world in big biz-jets, so maybe...

It sounds like you already know the numbers as well as the performance that results. Your situation is a classic example standardization deficiencies within GA. CFI's don't know or care, so students don't learn what they need to know to avoid the traps.

Dude. You gotta get over that whiney-ass "somebody should be getting paid" wannabe low-time pilot BS. The operators are going to do what they perceive to be in their best interest and that they can sell to their POI. The morality play might work for sharing the swing at grade-school recess...

Has your CFI ever seen the performance section of your POH? That's where I would start the discussion, followed by the realization that "over the fence" speeds aren't part of any manual (that I've ever seen, anyway) but instead the published speed in landing distance charts is 50' above the...

Will you practice last-minute go-arounds?

Denny, Allen's post is five years old. He's flying Lears and Citations now.

If it's not local why would you spend any time or effort to look at it without knowing the ask price?

It's a losing battle for CFI's. They're going to fly a whatever speeds they like "because it feels better" and whatever happens happens. I carry a POH for both the A-36 and T-210 that are highlighted with the approach, landing, balked landing, stall, landing distance and associated...

Just trying to get a feel for the economics. The trainee would reasonably expect to incur lodging and travel expenses to wherever the plane is based, so if a pilot wanted to accumulate 20 hours would that take two days or two weeks? Along the same lines, if a m/e-rated pilot is sitting in...

What's the reasonable expection of hours per day?

Maybe we could just have an art shop make one great big "Awesome plane, Dude!" with the name of everybody who's currently logged into the site attached. :P