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Someone please tell me why the moon is bigger in some pictures than others. Is it based on quality of the filters? I don’t think the difference between ground and 5,000 feet in the air would matter much Someone sent me a video where the moon was basically a dot blocking half the sun (like a...

Just fly upside down!

Pass your instrument check ride is an audio book ($5 iirc) with hours of typical questions and answers. Good luck retaining anything you don’t already know at 2x though

At 6’5” it’s likely that your knees block the yoke (fully extended) and your feet block the rudder pedals. I recently flew in a 172 with no shoes so my feet were under and out of the way. Pushing the seat all the way back to get legs/knees out of the way means that the seat isn’t locked in...

Doesn’t the airport also have requirements? They require that you have xyz on your plane but joe pilot may not have that coverage when borrowing your hangar Right?

I have a stack of these awful books (IFR for me) and progress has stopped on all of them somewhere in the first few chapters. For a pretest my friendly cfi asked open ended questions. Yikes, it’s like going back to college 40 years later. Labor of love is the only answer for me. Otherwise...

Is it the same part number for 1966? Mine seemed to be longer tia

Yes I flew with a test pilot a few times in my plane and it was certainly eye opening

AOPA has a podcast called ask the a and p or something. Anyway, it’s Mike bush and two others with a format similar to the old car talk on npr This topic came up in the last month or two so it might be worth a listen. Documenting past work, taking the exams, etc. Fwiw

To be fair, they added new characters all the time since so many died or became pows I think that’s one reason why the show seems disjointed. Might have been wise to delve deeper into many fewer characters. The lady spy character arc was ridiculous too. I say watch it since there’s little...

Full flap extension: what am I missing?

Why does the airport care if I’m in a friends hangar? He’s insured, it’s insured, I’m insured the annual is up to date etc. Are they concerned about personal property taxes for state or county or something?

Passed your medical? There are many threads on this topic which describe what and how (and why) to go about it

Over driving his headlights = 100% his fault out of the gate. Anyone who has ever driven a vehicle knows it’s foolhardy to drive blind I’m amazed that he’s alive (what’s the source for 65mph?)

You mean taxied into the wall or door or something of the hangar? That seems bad

My only comment is IFR kinda blows without an autopilot. Even if you don’t install an autopilot now, you should plan on doing it some day. So, plan accordingly

Are you tied to multiple ski resorts? If it were one area (park city for example) you could leave your gear there and not transport back and forth. No bag flying (just computer/phone/toothbrush for example) gives you hundreds of pounds of fuel.

To the beginning of time. I’m guessing no one but maybe the govt has old radar records. Just curious if anyone has figured it out. My buddy wants to buy a plane and doesn’t trust the broker. It’s a 1962 so that’s 62 years of service. I never looked at the oldest log book for my plane until...

Flight history for a single plane…just use flight aware or is there a better source to pick up all flights going back to whenever records began? Tia

I had one in the 80s and enjoyed flying it around…can’t imagine fitting in it now though. Probably need helium balloons or something to lighten the load enough to take off