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Yeah, I should add 5) Taxi/backtaxi on runway [x]

Good thread and good post by the OP. One good thing about ATC phraseology is that they're _very_ precise about the important stuff. So while normal English might slip in sometimes, you can always count on the key things being phrased the exact way each time. So a good thing to memorize is that...

Can't freaking wait!

Sigh. This is so classic GA "business owner." Here we've (presumably) got a flight school owner referring to an inexperienced pilot as a "50 hour wonder." You'll all say I'm overreacting and that it was just a term, but it is precisely the attitude that I've seen at flight school after flight...

I came over here from Red Board (I post under my real name there, but I picked a handle here given that it's all indexed by the search engines and accessible to anyone. Not that it would be tough to connect the dots for anyone on both, but I just would rather it not all come up in Google...

Nah---can't be. Check out post #96. AZ replies to Azure's point about the post not being real with "Intent of post was real, although I should have directed. . . . " Not sure how you could read that any other way. If AZ were talking about the intent of "Alex's" post, he'd have said "he should've...

Actually, he seems to me somewhat like a semi-delusional dreamer. Lot of posts in this account for it to be a joker. You'd have to really want to pull our collective legs to rack up 500-odd posts. I spend a lot of time in the startup world and sold my first startup last year. I hear pitches from...

LOL I think azblackbird forgot to login to his "Alex Siemens" account for post #96.

Or you can fly an Aerostar 700 (not the 601/602/702), which has two critical engines. Piper spun both engines the wrong way. Don't ask. . . .

We're living in the future, guys. You can get your expected route from ForeFlight (or even FlightAware) and load that directly into your navigator via FliteStream. It's not a substitute for calling clearance delivery like CPDLC is, but it's pretty slick. Probably the biggest "gotcha" is that you...

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/NTSB-Report-Pilots-ATC-Need-To-Improve-PIREP-System-228868-1.html

Man it is depressing how a tiny handful of immature people can ruin an otherwise interesting discussion.

Another thing I've noticed with flight schools is that very often the owners are not very accomplished pilots, and so they're completely out of their depth trying to come up with reasonable policies. Opening a flight school seems to be a common move for A&Ps, probably thinking that they can save...

Well, I'd say they're only slightly below average. You're right that most schools _market_ the ability to go fly places, but in reality few provide a reasonable way to use rentals effectively post-rating. Schools lose a lot of students post-solo, and a big part of that is probably that they've...

Heck, I'd much rather have a competent pilot fly my plane for a 1,500 cross-country than a CFI doing cycle after cycle in the pattern, running up the CHTs, pulling breakers to fail the glass, having students accidentally yank the prop back at full MP, putting gear up and down and up and down and...

ugh; that sucks. It's unreasonable but sadly not all that uncommon (although this does seem more extreme than most). It's not about safety; it's about economics. Most flight schools make far more money from instruction than rental. That $50/hr you're paying for instruction? The CFI gets about...

The stuff you need to memorize and understand in flight is what's most critical. I recall thinking that a lot of the questions fell into the "well, if I need to know that, I'll grab the AIM and look it up" category. Although I don't get why so many people here think the HSI questions are bunk...

If there were some way to give PIREPs in flight via some kind of datalink, I'd do it all the time. I'd actually like to have something to do while George is flying. The problem is if you're IFR (which for me is pretty much all the time, but is true for almost everyone when the weather is such...

I don't believe the FAA hit the Delta pilots with anything. Delta suspended them, though it's unclear how that played out. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125816841453048137 The article goes on to contrast the incident with the Northwest one (where they overshot and were NORDO for an hour).

Crew tells you to get off, you get off. Crew tells you that they're CALLING THE POLICE, you get off NOW. It's a private company; it's their airplane. They can tell you get out for pretty much any reason. You can sue them later for damages, but you simply cannot just sit there. Just because you...