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Whenever I curse at the DPE, I tell them I was cursing at the plane. This is less effective during the oral exam.

Can you get an LS-1 with two radios? I asked but they never responded to my email.

If you would ideally like to log the time to apply to future USA certificates/ratings/etc., then I think you only can if the FAA recognizes the flight training you received (regardless of what Costs Rica says). Can you fairly log the flight as dual received? Either way, I agree it doesn’t...

If you want to make a bit of a point as a VFR-only pilot, you can reply, “what is a localizer?” They will get the message.

You can try to figure it out reasonably well by testing various planes and looking for common features of affected planes, but you need to install a bunch of directional microphones and the like if you want to confirm the answer.

After all these years, has anyone figured out what the cause is yet? Can't we install instruments all over an affected airplane and determine the source of the noise!?

I think this question depends a lot on whether or not fleet standardization is a factor. For a lone plane, there is no one obvious metric to use for comparing the different varieties of airplane.

Your baggage will be available at carousel #2.

Kind of like accidentally driving to work on a Saturday.

I got my commercial and I still haven’t brought up any non-pilots. Maybe after CFI.

When the FAA issues these chief counsel letters for somewhat ambiguously worded requirements like this case, they really should go edit the regulations to clarify. The chief counsel letter should be an interim solution only unless it's simply agreeing with status quo. Whenever I read a...

I've done cross country flights where my CFI never touched the controls and I believe he logged it as cross country.

More the problem of paying for it. You can definitely argue this isn't an actual "problem" (experience is good) although the big difference between Part 61 and Part 141 here does seem a bit odd.

The irony is part 141 totally avoids this problem. I didn’t need to meet the 50 hour requirement.

I didn't find anything particularly useful in the AIM regarding whether to stay with 7600 or switch to 1200 when proceeding to a nearby airport to land early VFR. Our ATC experts may choose to weigh in, but my thinking is ATC can tell you lost comms because you squawk 7600. ATC can tell you...

Keep in mind there's a big difference between this happening to you in a C-172 and it happening to a large airliner flying under Part 121. If I encountered VFR conditions and saw I could clearly go land at some small untowered airport, I'd squawk 1200, descend, and land NORDO. For an airliner...

I don't think that only the person at the controls during landing gets credit. The flight needed to include a landing that met some criteria, sure. The regulations don't specify who is controlling the plane at that moment. I do agree the overall method is sketchy, but I don't think your...

I use it like in that diagram above on occasion.

I'd do it if I wasn't a federal employee, instrument rated, needing to take a full day of leave, and on the other end of DC from the facility.

I don't think having a current flight review matters. You just need to have a pilot certificate (double check the rules yourself of course, I'm just doing this from memory). The only difference, if you want to pretend you don't already have a pilot certificate, is that you need to take an FAA...