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In your opinion, should the instructor work for free/discount?

As others have said, it's school policy. I attended and worked at a school where instructors were required to be at the school if they had a student on a cross-country, and the students paid ground time for the instructor while he waited, unless he was already going to be at work. He/she needed...

I don't know anything about that incident, but looks like LTE. There's a difference between LTE (which is a factor of aerodynamics and power available) and loss of tail rotor thrust (which is mechanical). This looks like the former. IOW, nothing broke on the aircraft, the pilot just got into a...

I went there. I wasn't impressed. Considering that (1) it's advertised as an accelerated program, (2) I scheduled well in advance, and (3) they charge a steep premium for the opportunity to attend their course, I expected to show up and already have my sessions with an instructor scheduled, all...

Since we're not the ones that made the decision, we can't answer the question "Why did they price it at $17,000?". Maybe 17k is full-fare, maybe it's a discount, maybe 17 just happens to be the CEO's favorite number. Since it could be anything, all we can do is address the question "Why would...

That's the answer.

About 7.6:1, by my math.

Maybe this is a tangent, but in general I see a depressingly large disregard for reason-based and evidence-based practices in aviation. I've met so many people in aviation that simply do not care what research and modern knowledge tells us the best practices are. They want to do something a...

I always do one last walk around as part of me getting in the aircraft. If I get out, I do it again before getting back in. If anyone else briefly leaves the aircraft, I get out and do it again.

Nope. 61.56

That's not a current feature, but what you can do is duplicate another flight and then just change the information that's different (date, landings, routes, times).

Not a chance. I'm sure over the last 80 years at least one ASI got in up there, and there's no way they're letting Bob have a medical now.

You're pretty cool.

If you're talking about the school there at KSAV, I was one of those vets. Dude took off to the Philippines or something. What a bastard.

You're not in Savannah are you?

Both, idnit?

Yes, thousands of people.

At 60kts, you travel 1NM in 1 minute, so 200ft/nm would simply be 200 FPM. To calculate your required vertical speed, just figure out the factor between your speed and 60 knots. If you're doing 120 kts, that's a factor of 2. So your necessary VS would be 2 x 200, or 400 FPM. At 70 knots, that...

Not a surprise. Minimum wage (not figuratively, literally minimum wage) in the Boston area doesn't provide for much. I hope you tipped them handsomely.

They offered me the opportunity to interview for a helicopter CFI position. They said they can hire foreign pilots who need to build the hours before their visa expires and would do it for free, so they were only going to pay minimum wage, literally minimum wage. I appreciate that they were...