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As much as you're spending to get your ticket and your worried about having to spend a few extra dollars for a new chart or two?

Proper prior notification/training. From my earliest days with my wife when I was in the Army she knew not to call me unless it something important/urgent at my office. This was before cellphones. Even as a Commander, when I had a direct line, she called very infrequently. As cellphones...

When someone has anxiety with a prop strike on wheel landings, trim the plane a bit nose down so you have to hold back pressure on the stick. That way, instead of having to push, you simply relax the back pressure to stick it. Once they get comfortable with that, have them trim normally and...

Touch and goes are okay if you are doing full stall/three pointers. Even for wheel landings it is okay if you have room to allow it to roll until the tail settles. I've done a bunch of both. What touch and goes does help with, even better than full stop landings, is developing the "bubble...

Airplanes aren't what folks breaking into hangars around here are after. We've had a few broken into. Tools and gas are typically the objective. That is why my hangar is alarmed. My Cub, located elsewhere has no keys. Just a mag switch with a handle.

That is exactly what I told the guy I was talking to as it took off. He agreed...and told me one is the closest he ever came to buying the farm.

You're supposed to remove the keys to a plane? Yikes, I get jittery when I take mine out worrying I might misplace them. I rarely ever remove them since I have a hangar, with an alarm.

Saturday I attended an EAA Fly-In at a friend's private strip. It is a pretty good place, but the runway is sloped a good amount south dropping to the north end. It wasn't that bad until his neighbors decided the airplanes were scaring all the deer and ruining his hunting so he built a 15'...

OSO and DSO (Defensive Systems Officer) are or at least were pilots. I knew a USAF pilot back in the 80s who was going to B1 as a Systems Officer (can't recall offensive or defensive) with expectation of moving to pilot at some point. That could all have changed by now. I was also an Army...

That would be illegal. OP doesn't yet have his ticket. :D

I mentioned this thread to my wife this morning. She said, "you just told me not to make you choose. He needs to do that." She agreed that the grooms role is basically to show up on time wearing what she chose. She finished saying, "He really needs to talk to her about this or he will never...

It was just a little slip up. Not really a flap.

I have a pilot buddy while a USN Aviator flew a foreign exchange program with the Germany Navy flying F-104s. He said it was a blast. He is now a retired FedEx pilot with a nice Clipped Wing Cub.

Tailwheel endorsement requirement began April 15, 1991 IIRC. I started in 1978 in a J-3. I've also logged complex and high performance before the requirement for endorsements which began August 4, 1997. Yep, despite having no grandkids, I'm grandfathered with the FAA. :D

My next door neighbors are too busy with kids (and having more) to bother us. They now have eight kids, having just dropped twins a couple of weeks ago. They aren't totally reclusive, but do keep to themselve and the kids haven't been any problem and seem well behaved. Time will tell. My...

I've logged over 1800 tailwheel hours with no endorsement. :cool:

Does the same instructor make sure you fly a pattern close enough to make the runway from any point in the event of an engine failure?

Oops. Didn't know that was a "bad" thing. I add flaps when I feel they are appropriate and that is sometimes in a turn. On my Swift the flaps were all or nothing with no intermediate stops. They frequently were added on final, but if I was a bit high, I would add them on base to final turn...

No reason to pay aviation prices for FAA acceptable parts available elsewhere. Despite my RV-4 being Experimental and being able to use about any brand, I opted for a new NAPA (Gates) alternator belt (old one had run a couple hundred hours safely) when I had the starter ring ring off for...

I wasn't really suggesting for the engine application that you could find substitutes under AC 23-27. I was addressing the comment about the identical part number and identical air filter element another post mentioned for a PA-28. It would be an easy direct replacement for the poster and save...