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This morning I had a meeting in the Sacramento foothills. I was running a little bit behind but still made time to preflight and stuff. Then right as I put the tow bar on nose to pull the plane out of the sun shade a Tesla rolls up to a hangar down my row and starts to pull a cirrus out of the...

This is a really good thread

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"Procedure turn means the maneuver prescribed when it is necessary to reverse direction to establish the aircraft on an intermediate or final approach course. The outbound course, direction of turn, distance within which the turn must be completed, and minimum altitude are specified in the...

Great! And help me out here while I put all the puzzle pieces together. So if someone asks the controller “hey man can I go straight in” and the controller says anything other than “I need you to do the procedure turn” you aren’t breaking any Fars? That was my question to Astro and he said that...

Just curious, what is the FAR would you be breaking if you did go straight in?

I don't know why, but I clicked on this thread thinking I may see a picture of a King Air

Remember, you can always ask the ATC controller. "Can I get a straight in?" The worst thing that will happen is the controller telling you they can't approve that. Communication with ATC solves most PT questions.

If you don't know something, admit it, and share how you would find the solve the question if it came up in the real world. When you act confident in your wrong anwsers you will get burried.

“I passed a mountain course” can create a false sense of ability. Time is better spent with an experienced guy pointing out all the places his buddies crashed, and telling you how he’s still here.

OP, why do you need a cfi? Take a friend with mountain flying experience on an airport tour through the Maxwell MOA. Hit Dinsmore, Ruth, and gravelly valley. You’ll figure out the mountain flying stuff quick. Go to south lake on a warm day if you want to experience density altitude.

Really bad answers because there is nothing wrong with answer #1 either... if they wanted you to cross bemxi at 4600, the plate wouldn’t say at or above

I don’t see why the answer they gave is wrong? You absolutely can stay at 7000 feet and wait to descend in the hold. There is nothing wrong with that unless the controller instructs otherwise. and I can think of various weather reasons why someone may opt for that. What were the other 3 options

After a few “we don’t have anything on file for you”s, they’ll figure out the callsign is wrong. Sort of annoying in the meantime though

Somebody is running drugs from Portland to Seattle using your tail number

I my buddies Duke, the VGs winglets and tail cone thing make the plane fly significantly better. When the plane was advertised some of the marketed abilities were deadly if an engine went out. With those three things added an engine out is just an expensive inconvenience. Haven’t thought about...

I tried to wiggle the wings on my Archer today. I don’t have a flapper fortunately

That is true. I have wondered the same thing. If they push small aircraft around for jets too much nobody is going to want to talk to them. Then they’ll have a handful of small aircraft crossing over their airspace at 4500-5500. It’s not our job to save the airlines money. At least for now...

Albuquerque May have fixed their problem but it appears the bigger problem hasn’t been addressed or this topic wouldn’t be coming back up over and over again

Now going into double eagle airport once (KAEG) the ABQ Approach Controller (not center, approach) dropped me after I had entered the class D extension. The tower blasted me. He said that he does not have a line to the APP controller and I shouldn’t have entered his airspace. “How is a transient...