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I did not know this. Thanks!

Point taken. :)

And there you go. You're a peach.

Have fun. Learn stuff. Listen more. Be a bit more humble and less combative and condescending.

It's kind of odd that you went so quickly from asking understandably naive questions about starting flying lessons to sharing such strongly held opinions and self-determined wisdom about so many aviation related topics.

Hi dmspilot, we're probably dancing on the head of a pin here, but the POH defines endurance as "allowing for a 45 minute reserve at a specified cruise power." I don't see that any reference to an "actual" endurance that recaptures that 45 minutes reserve. Honestly, that doesn't seem like a...

It sure sounds like improper fuel planning. Assuming for the sake of math that "about 3.5 hours into the flight" means exactly 3.5, as opposed to 3.6 or 3.7 etc., and ignoring fuel burn due to start, taxi and climb, the pilot flew 0.4 hrs into the 0.75 hr reserve referenced in the POH. 0.75 -...

Yeah, my logbook has two columns, one for "ALL" and one for "OVER 50 NM": I liked this split approach because it tracked time flying somewhere other than the practice patch, even if it was less than 50 nm. Under FARS 61.1(4)(ii) and 61.109, of course, the DPE only cared about the...

Not sure it fits all the data points, but I found this potential lead in an online copy of Flying magazine (1977): Maybe it was intended to provide a digital frequency indication when used with one of these analog, hard to tune dinosaurs (Narco 31 ADF):

Larry, got a cite, or a link, to the definition?

What is your assumed meaning of "S" and "F"?

What one MUST legally avoid doing and what would SHOULD wisely avoid doing are not always the same.

Doing the math to confirm you're in W&B is important, and I always know I'm in the envelope based on having done it once before for a particular scenario (e.g. me and fuel to the tabs) or because I redo the W&B check for a new scenario (e.g. me, my fat friend, and two cases of craft beer for the...

I thought the W in "AROW" referred to the weight & balance report that's often part of the POH - the one that indicates the empty weight and location of the empty weight CG, and is occasionally revised to reflect equipment changes (see below). Are we required to immediately produce a weight &...

W-9s are used to gather the information that a person or entity, engaged in a trade or business, needs in order to issue a 1099 to report to the IRS payment of more than $600 to another person. It's designed to keep people honest. Personal payments are not reportable. While the W-9/1099...

I'm a low hour guy, but my general thought process would be to fly a straight line unless it made sense to do something else: From a bird's point of view, that straight route would look like this in Google Earth: Note that the 10 (yellow) and adjacent railroad tracks (blue) that curve off...

NOTE: this comment is responsive to jeremyk13's off-topic question which only relates to IFR flight. And, just a student, so take this with a grain of salt. The FAR includes a definition, 14 CFR 1.1, that says a military operations area (MOA) is “airspace established outside Class A airspace...

I'm very curious about this. I'm VERY inexperienced with this, so take my thoughts below with a grain of salt. I just reviewed a friend's "special issuance" and it's really an "Authorization" for AME-assisted special issuance of his medical certification. The authorization expires in five...

Thanks!

Even for one who wants to grow up someday and earns his instrument rating?