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True, I misspoke. While it technically does count, the only other airport I landed at (besides my departure/destination) was about 30nm from my start point, and therefore I couldn’t count it as XC for rating experience. Nearly every flight I did during my flight training involved a flight to the...

No. Distances flown don’t matter, only distances between landing points. For my first attempt at my long XC, one of my intended destinations was a little too snow-covered for my liking, so I wasn’t able to land there. I flew 180 miles and 2.0 Hobbs and couldn’t even log it as XC, much less count...

Logbook -> Reports -> Experience report. Each type of operation (tailwheel, hp, retract, etc) will be broken down under Characteristic.

My bad - I did read it but I didn’t process that both posts were by the same person.

At terminal facilities, we’re allowed to use something called diverging separation. Basically, if two planes have passed each other and I assign headings at least 15 degrees apart, they’re considered to be separated. While you usually don’t want to cut it this close, you can end up with two...

Yes, at the beginning of my shift, I don’t really have a good sense of what the wind is doing. But I work at a major airport where I sequence dozens of jets over the same ground track, and once I’ve turned a few planes, I get a very accurate sense of what the wind is doing. When I have a long...

A DPE once told me about a wild cross-country that his FSDO had to get involved on and briefed to all their DPEs. Requirements are 150nm total/one 50nm leg. It was something like: Aug 1 - AAA-BBB 51nm Aug 1 - BBB-AAA 51nm Aug 8 - AAA-CCC 8nm Aug 8 - CCC-AAA 8nm Aug 8 - AAA-CCC 8nm Aug 8 -...

There are 60 questions, and for about 40 of them I answered in no more time than it took to read and click because they were very similar to questions on practice tests and the answer was obvious. Of the rest, maybe 10-15 required me to get out a pencil and paper and trace a graph, or measure a...