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I used to say "with you" when I'd first check in with a new controller. After reading this thread (months ago) I started thinking more carefully about what I say. It depends mostly on how busy the frequency is. I've adopted the format I hear most often, which is "Who I'm calling" - "Who I am"...

What bugs me is describing your color and type instead of using your call sign, especially at a relatively busy uncontrolled field. What the hell are people trying to do? You hiding from the man? There's a reason we're supposed to use our tail number. It's a unique identifier so that there is no...

Not trying to resurrect this thread, but I though I'd post a follow up report. Seven months after the incident, I got a call from a very nice Aviation Safety Inspector from the Juneau Flight Standards District Office. Not being as busy, he apparently inherited a lot of California's cases. I...

Ditto: I expect I would've done exactly the same, and for the same reasons. Thanks to you, I'll know better if it happens to me.

I love my AP and wouldn't fly IMC without it. I don't rely on it, but rather I use it for times when my attention needs to be on other things, and dividing it too many ways increases the risk of losing track of something. I tend to hand fly from takeoff to about 3k agl, then use the autopilot...

So, we moved to Fairview TX a month ago, and I flew my plane from my old home drome in central CA to TKI. It was a pretty easy trip, really. Now I've been here a month, and I'm feeling a bit apprehensive about going up, despite 600 hrs PPL, 100 of it with IR. (But only 10 hrs IMC) I've flown...

I'd say cost-of-living and job-market are the two most important things to look for on arrival, with cost/availability of flight training in the area as a close second. Heck, if I were that age with $15k in my pocket, I'd find a minimum wage job and the cheapest studio apartment I could find and...

I just started keeping my plane outside (TKI) for the first time since I've had her. I'm using both the chains that are there, and the non-ratcheting cinch-tight straps from HD. Probably overkill, but...

I write SciFi novels. I get up when I want, usually around 8 or 9. Coffee, breakfast, then sit in a recliner for for 3-4 hrs (taking a ten minute break every hour) and write. In the afternoons, I play golf, or I fly, or I play ice hockey. After dinner, I go for a walk with my wife, or play...

My 6 is doing fine. No way Im paying 1amu for a phone

My instructor did this to me. And without warning. However, it was at 700ft, non-towered airport with two runways, so I had a second runway that I could make if I couldn't make it back to the one I had left from, and it was a calm day with no traffic about. (Also in a wide open flat area, with...

At only 600 hrs and holding only a PPL/IR, I'm not as qualified to advise you as most on this site, but I did buy my plane about halfway through my PPL training, so I have a bit of experience with training in rentals vs your own plane. First, if you think you're going to save money buying a...

So, I can maintain IR currency by shooting approaches, by myself, on moonless nights, in VMC? Even if I'm flying over a populated area with lots of lights below? So, if I did this on a regular basis, I'd be current? (Current, not proficient.)

I wear white socks. My wife checks the bottom of them regularly to determine when it's time to clean the floors.

While I'd love for everything to be free, I don't really have a problem being charged a fee to use someone's ramp, or to land at someone's airport. How else is the runway going to remain in good condition so that I can land? How else is an FBO going to remain in business so they can provide the...

When I got my PPL, I was all about waiting for a while before getting my IR. A couple of brief inadvertent encounters with IMC changed my tune. I wish I would have done it earlier, as I truly enjoy the utility of the IR. I don't understand why some people are acting like getting your instrument...

So I moved my plane from a hangar at KSCK in Stockton CA, to a tiedown spot at KTKI in McKinney TX. For the first time since I bought her, my 98 Archer III is an outdoor girl. I have cowl plugs (with the little flags) and an old but still usable canopy cover. (Tiedowns are chains here, BTW.)...

Nothing great. How do you post pictures?

After getting all our possessions to our new home in Fairview, I flew back to Stockton CA to pickup my plane. (N9294Q) Departed Stockton Sunday morning around 0630 and flew to Lancaster (KWJF), then Blythe (KBLH) and then Tucson (KTUS). Millionair in Tucson got me a hotel room and rental car...

Per AA baggage rules, I remove the battery from my laptop, leave the laptop in my checked bag, and carry the battery in my carry-on. That's fine with me as I never use my laptop in flight.