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Eh. CFI's or their equivalent that are like this have been around since the dawn of aviation. It's the old timers on the couch that peer above the newspaper when you're about to do something stupid that you probably want to listen to.... Richman

I've played around with this, and depending on what you use, a standard brief & filing takes anywhere 25-50MBs. That's using L-M's graphics heavy website followed up with Garmin Pilot's radar depiction. I've tried using CPCs iPad app, and it's so slow and unstable for me I've found it...

You can surf through old copies of Flying on Google Books, and it's interesting to see how avionics have progressed. It was essentially VHF NAV and COM for decades. Dialing a freq without tuning and having more than a few channels were big steps, as was being able to communicate and navigate...

Early 90s is when they starting popping up in droves. When I started in 87, it was still mikes and speakers. I remember thinking that headsets were insanely expensive for what they seemed to be...a pair of stereo headphones that you could get at Radio Shack for $19. I even thought about...

Every successful guy I know in the industry had some sort of personal connection to the area. He/she's from the area, related to people or some similar circumstance. In a way, it's more similar to corporate flying than anything else. Once you have the training, you need to embed yourself in an...

FltPlan is geared towards the corporate user. Not so much 'bling' as FF... or Garmin Pilot, for that matter. It's true strength is the highly accurate flight planning and performance information. For example, FF only has 3 performance points...climb, cruse and descent. The FltPlan "advanced...

I would check out the Beech Aero Club. Well worth the $50 membership, and the wealth of knowledge about Baby Beeches, including Skippers and Duchii, is legendary. http://www.beechaeroclub.org/forum.php If you are seriously considering any type of aircraft, I wholly recommend joining a...

Dunno about Foreflight, but Garmin Pilot has it built in for the iPhone. I've got an iPad that I mount on the yoke for nav/maps, and a glareshield mount for the iphone. I leave the iphone in traffic mode unless it's IFR, then it switch it to attitude (panel). The GDL39 talks to them both...

If that's a concern, you can "backdoor" it.... Go to your local Community College for the first two years while living with the folks. Use the money you save for your ratings at the local FBO. At the end of two years, transfer to the school of your choice, meet their "minimum credits in...

Social media is the new bugaboo. The various airlines have people who can and do monitor that stuff and what their employees post and say. You might go years and years, but scratch a fender or make the news in any way, and the airline will start pulling on those threads. Then the fun...

This topic has been beaten to death both here at over on the AOPA Board (and I'm sure other places). I'd do a pretty careful search on this topic. You'll probably see there are only a few VERY specific circumstances where a "modern" leaseback works out for the owner, and that's mostly very...

I'd throw MOAs, R-space, and heck, Class B, C & D in there as well. I've seen some Class B airports where you can see the tumbleweeds blowing across the runways. I will grant you that most C & D space is pretty innocuous. Richman

You run the real chance of getting BBQed by your company and losing their JS status if you use either travel benefits or JS for business purposes. Most companies have VERY strict guidelines about using travel benefits in this way. Same for the JS. There was a fairly sharp guy over at...

If you cab it from KNEW, be sure you use the cabs the FBOs call on the way back to the airport. There is supposed to be a flat rate to/from KNEW just like KMSY, but not all cabs do that. Going to downtown/CBD/The Quarter cab/uber is the only way to go. Driving yourself is...well, a challenge...

According to the intrawebz, Richard Collins has resurrected it as a internet journal. It's a different day age to be sure. The issue with most magazines is that they recycle the same topics on a loop that seems to be 24-36 months long. Back in the day when you had new people getting...

Re: What is Plane&Pilot? Judge for yourself.... https://books.google.com/books?id=XKEb3xG0UR0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false The "Big three", when I started flying in 1987, was Flying, Plane & Pilot, and Private Pilot. Private Pilot and Plane & Pilot were just as glossy as...

It happens. I had a Sony headset that was much nicer than the garden variety Telex 750s at the time. Sony pulled out biz...I was able to get them fixed one time after that , and after that, no longer. All the spare earpads I had purchased turned to dust in their bags. - R

Neat. No airspace worries. Make sure you got your LF radio warmed up. Richman

I use FltPlan.com/FltPlan Go for flight planning and the Navlog. Makes a good backup to Garmin Pilot. I've got a TCed bird, so having the correct TAS is essential to good flight planning. I have the "Advanced Performance Model" filled out, and it's darn accurate. Sit at home, sip some coffee...

Pretty much this. Any 40 year old airplane that hasn't flown enough to have SOME kind of DH probably means it sat around a ton, which creates it's own problems. Richman