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There were two controllers in Nor-Cal for a while that had opposing views and they both worked the same frequency. Once would give you a lecture is your initial call had anything more than your callsign while the other would lecture if you didn't make your initial call with everything. When it...

Get the PPL. After your first medical go basic med

This pricing is not off for charter. Aircraft location is probably in that model as well. So it makes sense a seneca will be more than a pc-12 if the location isn't right for the seneca. It is really hard to comprehend people are willing to pay this, but they are and they do. Call your local 135...

Likely just a computer software that takes plane price, speed and distance, makes a number, maybe multiplies it by 1.5 and gives a quote. Quote goes to Kinectic air and if they don't want it they send it to other 135 operators. I don't think this is a real time as they make it look. Cirrus...

yes. It wasn't clear over drake either though. It was a pretty unique weather scenario the other day. It was clear over the airport. It was really bad south, and you weren't getting all the way to drake to 10k+ in VMC. If I wanted to depart vfr I either would have to box climb over the field to...

There was poor weather in the initial direction of the ODP I wanted to avoid. I chose to fly the VCOA because it allowed me to avoid most of the nasty stuff.

Yesterday I departed Prescott using the VCOA and when I was coming up on Drake and, thanks to a strong headwind, I was already through 9000 coming up on Drake so I asked if I could turn on course towards HEC VOR instead of making a climbing right turn back to Drake, the controller approved. My...

I have a Piper Archer. I regularly take it to 10500 taking off at gross. If there is a tail wind, 12500 is worth it! Plan for 3 hour legs. You can do 3.5 hours but, if you have stock fuel gauges, you’ll be getting nervous at the back end. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I used to go into KSAN a lot for business in the Archer. Super GA friendly. Everytime they just put me on the downwind and squeezed me in between airliners when practical. Fuel is expensive but fees are reasonable for a Class B. The way San Diego traffic is, if SAN is the closest airport, 100%...

I have a MB with a M1 chip. Its a great processing chip. General issue with Macs is the GPU power just isn't there though.

Some poor cat went into the Sacramento TFR yesterday. The controller I was talking to said "everybody hold on a second, trying to save this guy his license" then tried multiple ways to get a hold of the guy. Looking at him on the map, it was not a success...

I'm usually rolling it there from V111 and when I get there and I see the layer hasn't cleared yet my stomach drops. Not because I'm probably going to be doing an approach to near minima, but because our schedule is getting pushed back another 30 minutes. Our normal guest pickup lives in King...

The Salinas ILS (KSNS) literally doubles my flight time if I have to fly it. Intercept the glideslope at 5000' and take it to about sea level. IAF starts with a 22 mile ARC off the airport based VOR. Bunch of hills around there

In my turbo bonanzas, getting the climb down to 500fpm and reducing power to cruise climb setting is critical to keeping the engine cool. 130 IAS at 500fpm produces an awful climb gradient though. Lucky for me, when I need to follow a departure procedure it, usually, isn't 110 degrees and I can...

If I'm pretty sure I'm going to pick up ice. I just don't go. If there is some potential but unknown I make sure there is somewhere I can go where the MEA will be below the freezing level. On one occasion I started to pick up some ice but I had arrived just a hour earlier (didn't pick up any...

I have used these redbirds in the past. As an IPC "cheat" it is dandy. But I think my X-plane 11 setup at home with just a logitech joystick is a better, simpler, more practicle setup for "practice" I fly 400+ hours a year though so meeting the minimum requirements is very rarely an issue. If it...

I heard a controller the other day cancel a King Air's takeoff clearance because he was taking off on the wrong runway. One that a landing airplane was still on. I was shocked he didn't get a "hey give me a call".

Freezing levels, cloud tops, pireps, Airmets, MEAs, and many other factors play a part in the go no go decision. The more you know, the better chance you won't cancel a in uncertainty. Yesterday I flew through clouds at 5,000ft and 6,000 in an area that had an airmet for icing from 4k up. It was...

I go to Skaggit from the california central valley 5-6 times a year. Potential for ice is always my biggest issue. It takes me 4 hours to get there so I only have a little more than 1 hour of fuel left so when the airport is LIFR, an alternate is a real concern. Twice I have flown to minima even...

My Archer Trues out around 128-132 knots between 6-8k. I generally keep it filled to the tabs leaving me around 3 hours of flying +reserve with just a couple pounds under 800 for pilot pax and baggage. That is really hard to beat. Especially when you consider it is a 4 banger with fixed gear and...