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I put this in the flight training section since it involves CFI's. A friend who has recently been looking for a place to fly with found a school that states that even with a PPL you cannot do touch and goes in their plane without carrying a CFI and also no flying in more than a 5 kt crosswind...

I have been advised of glider traffic by Denver approach on FF. Not sure if they had transponders or not.

We heard today that the other occupant of the crashed plane was fine and the male we saw them take to the shore yesterday apparently got out of the hospital today. Again all second hand but that is what rumor was down here today.

Been working over at Lakeland all week so we went over to the Splash in base this afternoon. Right as we were walking down to the dock we saw a large group of people looking towards the end of the lake. A Sea Ray has just crashed on takeoff. It wasn't entirely clear what happened. A couple...

Re: Should there be a sport pilot/LSA advocacy organization? What's your take on thi Can you cite some specific cases of S-LSA's "falling from the sky"? I own one and know of many others who do and know of exactly one failure in air and it was a propeller that came apart in air. This is not...

I was curious about the comments saying military aircraft couldn't train at fields without towers? I know at least here in the Springs we get quite a few trainers from the AF Academy who come down and do pattern work at KFLY with no tower. We also get guard copters through occasionally too. I...

I would go for a self launched glider .. motor glider. I checked out the Xenos from Sonex about a month ago. Cool plane and my understanding is that it can be flown by a glider pilot without medical so long as they have a self launch endorsement. I am not claiming to be an expert on it but it...

I flew to Oshkosh when I had about 65 hours and my co-pilot had about 45 hours. Maybe just too crazy to know we shouldn't :) We had a great time.. well until we got pretty close to the show and had a fuel leak and landed at Portage and drove to the show. I then flew from Colorado Springs to...

I am wondering if attendance will be down this year? It seemed to me that Airventure attendance was down last year. In looking at hotels in Lakeland I noticed that the Hilton Garden Inn at the airport and Hampton Inn right down the road are both still available .. even using Hilton points...

The folks out at Rainbow Aviation who teach the LSRM classes have some great info on their web site about the rules. One thing to note is that the operating limitations in S-LSA's define who can repair them as well. Here is a discussion that talks to that...

I am looking to get mine to just be able to do preventative maintenance on my S-LSA. One difference between part 23 and ASTM aircraft is that S-LSA's require the factory to specify who can do what even for preventative maintenance. In my case owners can't do anything. I don't think I would...

Have him check out Aspen flying club at Centennial. They have a great selection of planes from multiple LSA's, multiple 172's, a Citabria, Cirrus, and a twin. As a flying club they offer social events too. We do monthly fly outs and yearly fly outs to Oshkosh. Carl

I am assuming they made the news since these were a little more spectacular with the crash in Florida hitting cars and causing a pretty good fire and then the crash yesterday into a house. I agree the numbers are probably not far off average. Good thing the news guys did see this PIREP last...

The audio on Live ATC doesn't really offer a whole lot of clues. It is kind of eerie. Carl

As a 250 hour sport pilot who got my ticket in the last couple years I can say glass was most comfortable option for me. I had the opportunity to fly the exact same aircraft in two different configurations during training. One with a six pack and 495 and the other with a Garmin G3X. To me the...

I flew three months after getting my sport pilot ticket from Denver to Oshkosh (had a fuel leak and had to land short in Portage and drive to the show) but we still made it fine. Between my co-pilot, newly minted SP and I we probably had 100 hours total. We planned and planned and then...

I almost always get FF and I always ask for bravo clearance when I fly around the Denver area. I get it about 90% of the time.

This is clearly the best way to me to do it. In the military we learned radio communications techniques and aircraft "controlling" even though we weren't formally qualified to control via listening. I fly as a Sport Pilot with a B and C endorsement and get cleared through the Denver Bravo...

I learned out of KAPA - Centennial airport in south Denver. It definitely needs a tower. It has an absolute ton of business jets and turbo props, helos, and most importantly a lot of flight training activity. That is all mixed into an environment with parallel runways and a crosswind runway...

I agree with the requirements for day VFR, but and this is a big but.. those are minimal requirements for day VFR. When I fly my LSA from Colorado to Florida it sure is nice to have the Garmin 796 with weather in the cockpit. I know some folks argue cost. The 796 was $2500 and couple hundred...