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Gold seal's web site is: groundschool dot com. Just private for now; instrument "Late Fall 2022".

Agree that voice commands have an immediacy that text messages can't match.

There are always issues. This is real life. My professional opinion: the voice grade comm channel is surpassed by techno-economic progress. Long winded phonetic readouts of waypoint identifiers--not necessary, error-inducing, channel-clogging. Send me a text. Those off-by-a-digit frequency and...

The FAA's reliance on voice-grade communication channels is dismaying in these days of high-speed data networking. We all carry around portable comm terminals with 4 UHF and microwave transceivers, and high-resolution graphics displays. Call them tablets, smartphones, whatever; they are...

You gotta follow your bliss. Make the offer. Worst case, things don't work out, you suffer a bit of financial pain. And you don't have to sit on the $50k. You can always speculate on genetic oncology microcaps; maybe get 3X over a year (or 1/3 X, it's tough to make a buck these days.). As for...

Austin, X-Plane's designer, recently released a progress report on Version 12. More than a "Next release is gonna be great" exercise, it's actually a detailed engineer's notes writeup on the hows and whys of aeronautical modeling. Search "X-Plane 12 Flight Model Report".

FYI, flywithpat.com helpfully lists US-based airplane raffles.

Sold 3500 by lunch time. They used to sell out in minutes. Priced themselves a bit high, trying for that $500k figure.

This is truly a spooky, tragic, report. A healthy and recently experienced private pilot, flying a perfectly good airplane from small town airport to small town airport, over flat land, on a beautiful Summer day, lasted about 30 minutes before losing control and spiralling in. Huh? What...

Maybe someday, I can blow off a third of a million bucks on hobby travel. Such a sweet-looking plane... I'm by the Leaning Tower Y.

Controller dot com has a listing for a nifty Cirrus SR22-G6 Turbo at PWK. Looking for 2 partners, $299k per. Every addon imaginable.

It's a bit ambiguous, but Table 2-6-1 is in the "straight-in" context. Lemhi County is Circling, Step-down, and Offset, so differing (and not fully defined) rules apply. I think; I'm not instrument-rated yet. The approach plate begins at 14000MSL; the airport is at 4044. Must be an absolutely...

Perusing mountainous area airports, looking for extreme values of Vertical Descent Angle, I ran across Salmon, Idaho, Lemhi County: SMN RNAV (GPS)-D. Charted VDA is 8.91 degrees. Using simple math (i.e. no correction for curvature of the earth), I get 8.86 degrees. Descent: 7020 - (4044 + 40) =...

If trained professionals observing him every day for 18 years missed it, it's not clear that an FAA-inspired program would do any better. I think this tragedy is an outlier, and the guy was a future Germanwings disaster.

Perusing the Chicago sectional, I ran across a surprising notation within the E-G airspace boundary transition around Platteville (PVB). Foreflight to the rescue. Switching Maps view from "Sectional" to "Aerial", and zooming in, revealed the truth: there really is a "M" constructed at ground...

Great shots on a perfect evening. No 1 looks like it is picking up an approach into O'Hare.

No that was more of a corporate policy issue. Watch Dopesick, actually pretty true-to-life.

Keith Smith is the sole performer in this production. He is a careful and deliberate professional. His preflight briefings are thorough; postflight debriefs recap decisive moments of the flight. The flights are fast-paced. Keith is flying his Lancair in real-life, or a simulated Bonanza...

Bitwarden paid version, with Yubikey as "something you have" to protect your password manager, and for 2 Factor Authorization on whatever individual accounts allow it.

Kathryns commenters are reporting the pilot departed KMWC under special VFR. So he had a plan, and the tools.