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Generally speaking everybody demonstrates the flight planning and cross country flying skills necessary for safe flight for their checkride. However, it's common for pilots to revert back to what the author was talking about afterwards unless they are working on their Commercial rating or...

A few months ago KRJD established the following permanent NOTAM to keep aircraft north of the field: 08/499 - RWY 30 RIGHT TFC PATTERN. 26 AUG 20:45 2020 UNTIL PERM. CREATED: 26 AUG 20:47 2020 In addition, KRJD has the following NOTAM indicating parachute jumps within 3nm of the field: 07/407...

Ahh this is making more sense now. I think I also understand why a CFI was telling me I don't need to get 10 full additional hours of hood time post instruments checkride. I believe my flight school's approved 141 program is to strictly follow the Jeppesen Instrument+Commercial curriculum...

What you both said is what I was expecting from the beginning when I first read the requirements. However, that does not seem to explain the magenta text above. If you have to complete ten hours of hood time, why does it say that only five of them must be in a single engine airplane? What can...

I've found conflicting information online, but I find even CFIs are sometimes confused about this issue. I'm specifically discussing qualifying for the ASEL commercial checkride, but the principles likely apply to Instruments when Part 141 and other 141 courses. The flight training...

I'm in a bit of an unusual situation in this regard where I'm looking to skip the FOI exam. Recently, a 1 credit FOI course was added to the program for the associates degree I'm working on (professional pilot airplane). The FOI course is a pre/co-requisite for the required CFI flight training...

My favorite part was when I blew my nose for two seconds and they nearly went ballistic. Apparently I need to immediately throw out my tissue in each case...

For my recent commercial exam they gave me pencils although I used a CX2 calculator instead of an E6B so it wasn’t a problem anyway. The transparency and marker they gave me were really insufficient for the takeoff and landing performance graphs though. They really should photocopy figures on...

My Dad heard the engine sputtering over Jericho. The other engine was not running while returning towards KFRG.

I have been working full time while training for years. It has been slow going. I’m in the final phase of commercial pilot training (part 141 / GI Bill) and have four lessons scheduled for this weekend. I lose at least one weekend a month due to the Reserves so I will need to negotiate with...

The representatives at Transition Goals Plans Success (TGPS) are nuts about encouraging separating service members to apply for disability benefits for various medical problems even if they are a stretch, without considering the downstream consequences to the service member or undue cost to the...

What do you think would drive the cost? The sensors and FAA certification? The integration to ADS-B Out equipment? The ground portion of this setup? Being able to avoid icing and turbulence, and knowing if you can avoid imc in general can be very valuable. Airliners already do some of this...

Certain weather-related information can be challenging to obtain for general aviation pilots. Cloud tops, icing conditions, and turbulence are generally reported verbally by pilots. I know ATC has rules and policies regarding soliciting PIREPS when weather information is needed, but good...

Unfortunately there are two answers to your question. One answer is what you should do for your student pilot training and checkride. The other answer is what you should do when you are not in a training environment. In theory, they should be the same, but generally they are not. If you want...

I've certainly never flown it but the ILS Y RWY 22R at KDTW (Detroit) does permit simultaneous approaches to parallel runways. If the FAA can't fix the issue with taxiing planes blocking the ILS signal in the short term, they could at least NOTAM out the simultaneous approaches allowance. The...

Are you Part 61 or 141? The requirement is a little different. I did mine recently. Even though I am Part 141 I made sure my flight also qualified for 61 just in case.

Are you going to use the HSI to shoot instrument approaches? If so, there are a couple of special considerations you need to understand because HSIs behave differently than VORs when flying back course localizer approaches and the like... if that doesn't apply to you then some familiarization...

That's true, and I will vote/etc., but the individual impact will be so much less than 1% that it rounds to 0% for conversational purposes, in my opinion.

Neither the virus nor the vaccine care about who is proved right or wrong. What matters is what will actually happen if say, 80%+ of the population gets the vaccine due to voluntary choice or some type of mandates. I provided my own rudimentary explanation for why it's necessary for a sizeable...

How is it circular logic? That's the part I'm hung up on.