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Hey everyone, I'm trying to make a budget for the cost of getting my instrument rating. Here is my current situation. I have: just over 200 hours total time 81.8 hours of cross country 12.4 hours simulated instrument I have purchased the Sporty's instrument course, and just need to finish...

Who are those four companies???

At my home airport of KCHD, 100ll is $5.44 / gallon. Car gas is $3.69 - $3.89 / gallon. I'm not really trying to say anything about this. Just mentioning an interesting observation. http://www.100ll.com/showfbo.php?HashID=7019e328f5b737f49a8cfa57a59538eb...

According to gasbuddy.com, the prices of car gas around KHHR is between $4.19 and $4.99 / gallon. According to 100ll.com, gas at KHHR is $5.04 / gallon (self serve). I just spot checked this one location, but this certainly seems strange for car gas and av gas to be nearly the same price.

What a beautiful airplane. Thank you for sharing!

Cool, thank you for the information.

Wow! What did you do to 'skinny' it down so much? Is the R just inherently lighter than the S?

This is probably the only plane that meets your exact criteria. https://www.flyingmag.com/pilot-reports/pistons/six-seat-stalwart-used-pa-32-review/ However... "The original Cherokee Six had a six-cylinder 260 hp Lycoming with a fixed-pitch propeller as standard. The fixed-pitch prop produced...

Don't be afraid of the Constant Speed propeller. It's just a blue knob that goes between the black and red ones. Avoiding the complexity of retractable landing gear is probably a good idea though. Go fly a 182. It's the natural progression. 150 - > 172 - > 182. I started off in a 150 for...

This is the one that gets me. This is how you kill yourself.

I think this happened in South Africa. They may have different rules there. Don't know for sure.

I guess it's better to run from back to front than forward to back.

Wow, that's a sobering thought. Found this article with some details. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/23/us/11-die-7-live-as-skydiverplane-crashes-on-coast.html

Wow! It gets really exciting at ~1:20. Another one comes out at 1:43. Yikes!!! -- Copy / Paste from reddit -- PILOT's PERSPECTIVE: The aircraft was inspected and is undamaged. The jump run procedure entails setting flaps 60-80 and bringing back the left engine to flight idle. We also...

As with many things, the problem here is that if you crash a plane, sometimes you'll kill people on the ground, or possible burn their house down. It's the constant balance between individual and collective rights and freedoms.

Pretty sure it's an efficiency problem.

A good follow up question is how much shorter does the pre-flight get when you're starting the return le Great feedback. It's a checklist, not a do list.

I know the right answer is, "you take as long as you need to take". But I guess what I'm really after is "how long do you usually spend on the pre-flight"? I feel like I take forever to get through the pre-flight. I timed it the other day and from the time i walked up to the plane I rent...

Looking at the flightaware data, once the plane starts to descend, the speed also decreases dramatically. Does that seem odd to anyone, or is it just me? If he was incapacitated, I'd imagine he'd slump forward and probably push the yoke forward. That would cause an increase in speed. Once...

You mad the right call. I had a total electrical failure in a 172 in Delta airspace while trying to land because of an alternator failure. You don't want to mess around with this stuff. In my case, at some point during the flight, the alternator field circuit breaker popped and the ammeter...