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I admire your perseverance. One thing you can look forward to, once you have your PPL, is the fact that on days with gusty surface winds, it may indeed be a clown show at 2000ft, but you can typically climb above the mess. The majority of my time is on 500-1200nm XC flights. As a result, I've...

Heart breaking. "I don't know what to do..." pretty much screams of a lack of effective training. Whether or not the instructor could've reasonably known that the student wasn't able to perform under pressure, I wouldn't want to speculate. It's one thing if the instructor failed to cover the...

Just looked at the sample work on your site, it's outstanding. Will happily use you if I'm in the market for air to air shots!

"...before I taunt you a second time." You were so close. I'll allow it.

That's even more painful than it initially sounds when you consider that if he was decent pilot following non-towered procedures due to a brain fart, the chain would've been broken when he went to dial the CTAF and realized a) it didn't look like a normal CTAF freq, and b) oh looks it says here...

Is anyone else slightly saddened by the notion that someone has been avoiding airspace or shooting approaches because they didn't have WAAS? Glad it got sorted out. OP, you've been missing out. I spent around a decade flying IFR, filed as /G without WAAS.

Been simming for 39 years. One thing is clear, you don't necessarily get what you pay for when it comes to fidelity. FAA Certification means almost nothing in terms of quality or fidelity. The cost difference between an BATD and a reasonably-configured home sim is around $6000 (using a $2000...

Umm...sure it is. Pick up any object within a 10ft radius. You're more likely to pick up more about instrument procedures from that vase, coaster or USB type A to type C adapter than you are the Jepp text. I was SO excited as budding instrument pilot when my Jepp text arrived, having sold a...

I was overlying Ft Rucker on the way to Columbus AFB for work last December and asked a question of the Ft Rucker approach controller regarding PARs. He spit out his coffee and basically begged me to bang out a few approaches for his trainee. This is a pretty common story from what I understand...

It's not reasonable to expect a VFR pilot to be familiar with a localizer, or where to obtain the frequency. It's not published on VFR sectional/TAC charts. The only way to pull the freq would be from your GPS database, and you'd need to be familiar with how localizers work (similar to tracking...

Regarding how to clear the in-close obstacles, the original post did say: The most important takeaway is that despite meeting the DER crossing restriction and published climb gradient, there are potential obstacles within 1nm of the field which can still bite you if you're unaware of their...

That 500ft of vertical separation only applies in Class Bravo airspace, and can be replaced with 1 1/2nm lateral separation, or visual separation. In Class C, they can use target resolution, too (ie, targets don't merge on the scope). In Class D/E, there is no separation provided.

I've never been so happy to be wrong. I hadn't processed the very specific definition of the word 'passenger' in this case. Since both are required crew members, there are effectively no passengers, hence 61.113(a) doesn't apply. Thank you, I'll delete the prior post, it's entirely irrelevant...

I know where you're coming from, but it's not just that. It opens the door to social day trips if the two pilots are friends, which aren't necessarily a thing if you take your CFII instead. I definitely found it beneficial from a training standpoint, too, watching another pilot fly IFR when it...

Are you saying that the Part 61 reg regarding acting as PIC without paying at least the pro-rata share doesn't apply at all...or are you saying the FAA doesn't enforce it? The latter I would agree with. For the former, though, I'll need help on that.

Glad to hear that's been the case for you. N90 (NY approach) still asks me for aircraft type every single time if I'm VFR. That said, their equipment is from the Eisenhower administration, soooo.....

I was under the impression that "request" was helpful so the controller didn't spit out their coffee and start reviewing their strips to say, ".....SHOULD I know who this guy is?". The VFR part is implied. Regarding MOAs, definitely better to be talking to them. There are times where a vertical...

FWIW, I've served as safety pilot for someone who was working through their instrument training at the same time I was. It worked well, we did the pro-rata share thing. It was a 2 leg trip, we swapped roles on the way back. We were in the same flying club, at similar stages of training and our...

Pilotworkshops was running a sale. $129 is the regular price.

Russ, I'm happy to be wrong on that one! They had planned and deferred the roll out so many times, it seems, that I failed to notice that they actually had it stick this time. I moved to ICAO plans a long time ago with ForeFlight and failed to notice that they actually pulled the trigger on the...