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I'm guessing that he was maneuvering for the surveying, not in "level cruising flight".

Was just a joke. Hence the :D

Let me be the first to say congratulations! The percentage of people that have flown an aircraft solo is very small. The percentage that have done it in a helicopter is even smaller. To have solo'd a helicopter places you in a very small (elite, and superior) group of aviators! :D

There's more than one way to brief an approach. I brief the entire plate, top to bottom, left to right. There's important stuff all over. Things in the limitations box, for instance, can be really important and potentionally relevant limitations should be verbalized.

Of course it does. Sure, it may be over diagnosed in children, but to say it doesn't exist is incredibly ignorant.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/266954/flight-ban-on-r44-helicopters-lifted

I believe it was determined that the blade failure in that accident was post-crash.

If you're referring to the AD that became effective in January, it's only a certain model of the blades that has that 5 year limit. It's not something you have to do every 5 years.

Where are you learning to fly helicopters Geico?

Thanks for the replies! RV8 certainly seems suitable. I'm trying to research the differences between that an the RV4, but haven't found a direct comparison. All I've gathered so far is that the RV4 takes longer to build, and the RV8 is bigger. I don't plan to build (yet), so if the primary...

I hope, in a few years time, to be an airplane owner. I'd like to start getting an idea of some of the models that might fit my mission. There are two missions I want to fill with one plane: a good cross-country commuter for one, and a fun weekend plane for two. I'd appreciate some...

Let's say you are departing from a non-towered (Class G) airport. You pick up your clearance and then switch to CTAF. You chose to fly an ODP. When can you break off the ODP and turn direct to the first point in your flight plan? Do you have to fly either the whole thing, or non at all?

The yellow trapezoid is the city of LaPine. It does exist :)

Light pattern of the city at night. This is near my AO. Are you in Central Oregon?

How so?

To be clear, A is the correct answer. The question is presuming that you're at a higher elevation than the weather station you've set your altimeter to. Your airplane is higher than the weather station, so it's reading lower pressures. The altimeter converts that to an altitude reading. The...

The original premise doesn't provide sufficient information, because you didn't tell us if the barometric pressure is the same before and after the temperature drop. If it's the same, the altimeter would read nothing different. Now, chances are, the pressure would change as the temperature...

In what regards? I don't have either, but it seems like WingX has a lot of features.

WingX looks like an impressive package, not as pretty as Foreflight, but nice features. Still no vector maps though, it appears. Not sure I could give that up. That's a feature of Garmin Pilot I'd really miss.

You had time between when you saw the 73, and when you dove... that would have been a good time to get clarification from ATC about the traffic.