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More required ground school, fewer required flight hours. More paperwork. Nothing terrible :cool:

If it was factory built outside the US with no registration agreement, it will be very difficult (likely impossible) to get it registered as EAB. A friend tried to do that with a Pepistrol (sp?) and had to go the ‘demo aircraft’ route, with lots of restrictions. If SLSA, the manufacturer has...

If you want the bug to go to your current heading, I think you can just push and hold the button for a couple of seconds...

When I take students into the clouds for the first time, I tell them to be ready for a ‘semi-religious’ experience. It never fails to deliver.

Did you figure out how to make it 'stick'? (remain the same after a power cycle)

I recently replaced my halogen landing and taxi lights with Fly LEDs lights. MUCH brighter! And only $50 each. I also got their wig-wag module (the one for halogens won’t work with LEDs). I’ve had numerous pilots remark how visible the wig-wags make me. Experimental planes have plenty of...

I meant, but didn’t say explicitly, that getting the plane and pilot from the same business entity requires Part 135. My bad. If the passenger brings (or owns) the plane, any commercial pilot can do the flying.

If you are hiring both the plane and pilot, that requires a Part 135 operation. Making it a flight lesson makes it ‘legal’ but a thinly veiled way around the regs. Especially if it is a one way XC ‘lesson’. :cool:

I have a T-Mobile pay as you go plan - $3/month (cheapest deal I could find). The biggest pain is you have to put the SIM in a phone to activate the account (support was not able to do it any other way). Once it was activated, I've never had it fail. I put money on the account once in a while...

If the Telex is already wired, that will work great. What kind of audio panel do you have?

It should interface to the Aspen! You may need an ARINC 429 module for LPV. RS232 will get you LNAV.

You can fly solo - but you need a XC sign off just like your other solo XC’s. You should get a sign off for the way back, just in case :cool: Hmmm - ForeFlight says that distance is 49 nm, so technically you don’t need a XC sign off - but it wouldn’t hurt :D

Yeah, but does it have a 300XL? Finding DB sharing partners is getting damn tough :cool:

Hit the Direct button, enter the ID for an airport (or any waypoint) and hit enter. If the CDI doesn’t immediately center, you have a problem. Turning the OBS does nothing except stop the annoying messages :cool: When flying, go to the screen that shows the internal CDI. Your external CDI...

The chief pilot (at the time) at Cessna checked me out in the 162, and told me to pump the throttle. I questioned that, and he said the carb is a horizontal draft so no fire hazard like the 150 & 172’s.

The 3 approaches are typical ON a checkride. I believe the intended question was ‘how many approaches have you done in training prior to the checkride’ I’ve never counted, but my students have 3-4 per lesson, times 20-25 lessons...

The regs don't specify 'why' you are training, the hours are all that matters. The complex hours are good, and as long as the IFR training was with a CFII, it counts. (Don't let the DPE tell you otherwise - have him show you the reg that says training has to be notated 'for commercial...

I stand corrected about the medical. I think I was thinking about the 2 year renewal requirement for a CFI, that does not apply to the ground instruction certificate. Used to be (45+ years ago when I got mine) that no renewal was required for ground instructor certificate, but that has changed...

The advantage is that you can do ground instruction if you ever lose your medical. Get your AGI and IGI and you are good to go for anything. Your CFI technically requires you to have a medical (any medical will do) to exercise your privileges, even for ground instruction.

Get cats :cornut: We don’t have any so we put out poison. Keep food closed up as well as towels/rags - they use them for nesting.