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Bristol is west of the extended centerline into 20R. Not sure what happened. http://abc7.com/4-killed-when-small-plane-crashes-in-santa-ana-parking-lot-police-say/3888883/ Edit: John Wayne is KSNA in Orange County, CA.

What’s the correct technique? Ease in the rudder and opposite aileron at same time? Don’t raise the nose and maintain approach speed?

If it were me, I'd just keep the knife and respond to the "invoice" with a polite written explanation and attached copies of the two receipts. They accepted the card and, after you said it was OK since they already checked on it and accepted it in exchange for partial payment on the knife, they...

Database of DPEs: http://av-info.faa.gov/DesigneeSearch.asp Select "Pilot Examiners." For "Designee Type," choose PE for private pilot examiner. For "FAA Office," choose NM07 for Salt Lake City.

Was I being redundant? I included a link to the FAA Order (good thing for the OP to know about), and and I highlighted additional words in the Order that empower the proctor with the power to make "the final determination."

My simple calculator is an HP 15C which has trig functions on it. I showed it to the proctor several days in advance and, with a smile, explained how it worked, how I was used to it, and how I wanted to make sure it was OK. He was fine with it, but I imagine not all would be. And, since...

Wow. I just listened to the audio on LiveATC.net and tower was coordinating with another aircraft to pickup the student's CFI who was standing between the two runways (usually with a handheld). So, it appears that this was the young lady's first or second pattern solo. On the other hand, she...

Heard this on the way home yesterday: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Breaking-Plane-land-Golf-Course-Orange-County-484358221.html

Where does one find this $3 cable you speak of?

That's actually pretty good.

I think you're reading too much into it. They're not trying to say the cable is awesome because it's somehow "digital," they're just trying to distinguish it from the nearly identical looking "smartphone" cable. That sort of marketing wank is for some stupid company called "Monster Cable."

What Steve said. It’s referring to the digital nature of the “digital audio recorder,” not to the nature of the signal moving over the cable to the recorder.

Cool. Make sure you file at least a couple of flight plans by phone so you force yourself to learn how they want you to efficiently give them the info. As somebody said above, tell them that you're a student pilot and they'll help you out.

FYI, the cable that Steve K. linked above to tap audio off of your headset-to-plane connection will only work with dedicated digital audio recorders, but NOT with smartphones (e.g. iPhones, Androids, etc.) The 3.5mm jacks are slightly different between the two types of recording cables as shown...

Take these notes with a little grain of salt as I typed them up when I was a student, but here are my then "noob" thoughts on how to fill out a flight plan form and various ways for filing, opening, and closing the flight plan. Duat.com is gone, and the "by computer" part should now be...

How did you mount your GoPro in that central position?

Just guessing... While nobody is still using light signals for indicating direction of turn in the pattern (so far as I know anyway), FAR 91.126(b) still allows for both "light signals' or "visual markings". It's the vestigial appendix of the FARs.

Before I was born. I can't find a link to it, but I have a PDF copy of an old AC from 1963 that mentions it, and the 1971 update dropped it:

Joke aside, apparently a flashing amber light was once used as a light signal to designate a right-hand pattern. :)

I'm a recreational flyer, but a number of career-minded folks pass through the Part 141 flight school where I did my training in California: www.sunriseaviation.com. It's certainly more expensive to live around here than other parts of the U.S., and you will burn more $ during training while...