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I think the key to his system is that they have to spot the plane before he does. If he wants to keep operating costs down he better scan for traffic better than they do . . . ;)

That's priceless ! Thanks for sharing. I love the quarter for spotting other planes. I think I'll use that when I take my kids up next time.

Pay attention to the last paragraph here. You will need to know how to do weight and balance manually as well as the other flight planning funtions without an iPad for you written knowledge exam. Better to learn it now. As for touching the yoke when taxiing, if you don't the Examiner will not...

Agree, put the iPad away for now and just fly the plane. The iPad can/will cause you to spend more time looking inside the plane than outside, that's a bad habit to pick up when you are just starting your training. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my tablet and all the electronic gadgets and gizmos I...

Some 'thoughts' from someone who just recently completed my PPL, posted the journey on a blog with links here on these forums, as well as videos to receive the aforementioned advice/criticism. While you might not agree with all of the advice/criticism on this forum (I don't), much of it is...

Congratulations!! Many more to come. :)

A couple of pro tips: 1. For a very short flight like that, call ATIS on the phone for the destination airport, before you leave. It's in the A/FD and just about every app. For Brackett, it's (909) 596-1523. You can save a little Hobbs time by calling the departure airport as well prior to...

First passenger flight was Saturday. Just ended up being my wife and one son, the other wasn't able to change shifts at work. http://intothesky.us/2016/10/22/first-passengers/

Not yet... Taking my wife and two boys on a short little hop from CNO to POC for some lunch on Saturday. We'll fly over our home on the way back to CNO.

Check Ride Writeup. http://intothesky.us/2016/10/15/check-ride/

Check Ride writeup. http://intothesky.us/2016/10/15/check-ride/

I have to second what excnsurfer said, quit waiting. I just had my check ride Saturday and I was nervous about the oral. I knew I could fly the plane, but the thought of sitting there for hours getting asked questions had me nervous. What if I didn't know some obscure regulation? I know that...

Passed my check-ride today Will post an update to my blog about the check-ride most likely tomorrow when I have some time. I'll update it over in my other thread about my training. https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/introduction-and-training-journey.96468/page-3#post-2157656

Passed! Write up to follow, maybe tomorrow.

Thanks, the weather should cooperate but we might not take off until later than planned. The schedule is the oral at 9am and flying around 11am. The morning mist/haze hasn't been burning off until around noon-1pm so there might be a little delay while we wait for that. However by early afternoon...

Final write-up of my training prior to the check ride. This was last Saturday/Sunday, my check ride is tomorrow. http://intothesky.us/2016/10/09/final-check-ride-preparation/

This is something that I struggled with for quite a while. A couple of things working against me were that if we were just flying over to the practice area to do maneuvers the owner of the school said to just leave the fuel pump on. His planes, his money to replace the pump earlier, but that's...

Funny, I was doing touch-n-go's with my CFI and a coyote went across the runway and then sat down on it to the left of the centerline. Nice 150' wide runways so we went over to the right side and rolled past it before adding power to take off again. We told the tower about it, they asked if we...

I hope so, but I would rather have it this way than the other way around. Be over prepared and then sail on through...Hopefully :)

Oh, I am always looking everywhere. Taxiing along and anytime I'm coming up to an intersection of hangars/taxiways I'm slowing down and looking for that plane or more often that car that is on it's way to/from a hangar. We always cross 21 which is only an active runway a few times a year on our...