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A student's reaction vs a 1000 hour pilot could go either way really. Some people are better at handling stressful situations than others and number of hours of "experience" in normal conditions isn't going to change how they react when it does happen. That being said I do acknowledge, while...

Fair but why does that affect the price of tea in china? If the student is truly not at fault, then why does the fact a student was flying it solo change the cost of the premium? I understand why a student would change the price of "instruction time" since its no longer just the pilot's...

I realize there is likely a good bit of hyperbole/sarcasm in there but food poisoning can happen to anyone at anytime for any reason at any place. Heck, a lot times its not even the restaurant's fault, just the way your body reacts to what you put in it. I've had numerous occasions where I've...

My knowledge of the insurance processes is minimal, particularly as it relates to owned aircraft policies. To me it seems policy premiums and terms/conditions are totally arbitrary. I've flown in places with very liberal terms/conditions, low deductibles and apparently still had affordable...

Pretty sure you're correct that there is no limitation to the questions you can be asked but there are limitations to the questions/documents that must be answered/provided (ARROW, Certificate, Photo ID and Medical), even that though is tenuous at best (they cant delay you so most will try to...

True, there are a lot more ways to add variety and fun to the routine of flying than it is for programming and systems/network administration & security. If I could afford it, I'd probably end up owning 3 planes: A Bellanca Viking for the "I wanna go some where" days A Bellanca Citabria for the...

As you noted, the FAA wont tolerate the aircraft ridesharing equivalent of Uber so as @Salty said, the commercial really doesnt help as much as you think. So long as rhe pilots he hired were commercial pilots and the club was willing to rent to him directly, then that is above board. A...

Youtube changed their monetization rules about a year and a half ago. Ever since then most independent channels seem to have gone "sponsored" with "ads" thrown in to the video content. It sucks because part of what made youtube so great, imo, was the ability to make coin as an independent...

Or worse, will your friend tell the truth and the Gov't hear what they want to hear and violate you anyway (i.e. my other examples where you take your friend up for a local flight for no other reason than because they've been asking you to or my football game example).

No but you can be fined and lose your ticket. Is it likely? Not really but then that's the problem with the FAA's "flight time and goodwill is compensation" policies, especially since they have permitted exceptions (common purpose, incidental, charity/91.146, SAR, glider tow and aircraft...

I have what I call my "Grand Circle Tour of Alaska" plotted out. 10-ish legs covering ~2200 NM leaving from and returning to Anchorage, traveling to all the national parks not accessible by road, along with a few other stops (Wales, where they probably actually can see Russia from their...

This thread is exactly why I havent given up my IT job for a career in aviation... even with the recent pay increases that now make aviation a possible career avenue that doesnt involve taking a 80% or more pay reduction for the next 5+ years (seeing pays now that start at 60% and increasing...

A lot of cards nowadays will allow continue to allow automatic payments on recurring charges. Particularly if the charge happens on or about the same date for the same amount each month. I had a recurring charge that I couldn't get the business to stop (tried multiple times) finally decided to...

Unfortunately, the issue comes down to the same problem I've cited before elsewhere on this forum. How do we measure experience? The FAA and airlines (and many many others) try to quantify that which is an inherently qualitative not quantitative which leads to an insufficient analysis because...

Foreflight lets you create your own checklists and while I suppose its possible, I doubt they'd miss an opportunity to charge for checklists and/or openly assist in violating an FAA policy. I've been creating my own checklists since my PPL days as well. My CFI at the time (and various CFI's in...

Not the safety pilot requirement itself but the “when” a safety pilot is considered required crew. The fact you can be an instrument student flying in IMC on an IFR flight plan with an IR rated pilot as safety pilot and as soon as you remove the hood, one of you is no longer required is quirky...

This is why its important to discuss and establish who is going to ACT as PIC on the flight. You probably have 2 options as it relates to the insurance*: A) You go up as the safety pilot and ACT as PIC in which case you need to exercise your authority as Pilot in Command and take control if you...

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I read the original post by @midwestpa24 as implying IFR/IMC but you do raise a valid point that I had not previously considered with regards to the possibility of a non-rated instrument student being able to fly under the hood and log PIC time for being the sole-manipulator of the controls...

Mathematical 0 is an abstract. It can be up, down, left, right and so on. It has no real direction associated with it, its just drawn as a vector left-to-right by most people for simplicity sake. Magnetic 0 is a fixed point in space. In reality though, even magnetic 0 is an abstract that is...