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As others have said, it depends. How many people, what altitude, what type of cannulas/masks? O2d2 or whatever? My family often refuse the o2, so its just me. as mentioned, filling it up is generally a flat charge regardless how much o2 you take. I bought the 22 whatever bottle, seemed...

The great thing about Cirrus is you can readily rent the airplanes and train in them before you plop down the cash. The bay area option is at KSQL. https://jatoaviation.com If seriously considering a Cirrus, I would recommend doing your IR training in one. Worst case if you have a bunch of...

If you do the flying portion, is the route fixed or does it have some flexibility? I'd love for someone to go into kase with me.... Is it capped at an amount of time?

I did mine in a 152 at night. I logged over 8 hours. I always find weird the solo part, but i get that there are pilots that always cruise within 100 mi of their home airport and wouldn't venture that far without some mentorship or instruction from another pilot/CFI. I just got done with a...

I wish it was my Cirrus!!! Alas I'm just a lowly renter. I would consider buying one, but it will only fit the family for another year or 2 and then the amount of fuel we can carry will become annoying as the kids grow (and that factors in me loosing 30 lbs!). We'll then have to jump to a...

Back from our trip. I'll do a detailed write up in the coming days. But, some quick stats....20.3 hours logged, 2513 nm flown, 8 new airports (including a class bravo), 0.7 actual, 1 approach. Thanks all for the input and help.

Trip plans are firming up, leave next Tuesday. I'm going to fly into ogden, ut to pick up the family. We're then going to take a day to do south rim of grand canyon. I've been and hiked to the bottom (i think my wife has as well), but we're just introducing our girls to it. I can't imagine...

I fly at 14k all the time, dip to 12.5, back to 14. Of course, i usually spend my summer vacation hiking and climbing mountains in class a airspace. I still follow all rules, but flying high doesnt worry me. I worry more about being hulk slammed into the side of the mountain in a down draft...

Their main problem is the death of shelf properties. I started my career in the Gulf (as an engineer drilling, fracing and producing wells). I flew PHI many times and they were always a classy outfit. Ultimately, the company i ended up working for ran their own fleet. I have since shifted to...

Please don't just make up phone numbers. I had a girl just do this to me when shopping for health insurance. I literally got over 100 phone calls and 50 text messages over 3 or 4 days. Many of the calls were back to back to back. And they use multiple phone numbers from various area codes so...

Oceano looks cool. We may add that as a lunch stop, but I'm too chicken to commit a night time stop (with advance reservations) with the cirrus loaded up with the whole family. I can give it a couple tries and we can find lunch somewhere else if I'm not feeling it. Im used to field elevations...

Martha....sweet, sweet Martha.....

Going on a spring break trip w/ the family. I'm going to pick up the family in SLC and then fly west. We have both the Bay and LA areas on the list (as well as SEZ). We wanted to overnight in San Francisco. Seems KSQL is a safe bet? From my research the FBO is friendly, close to the...

Lazy question....Do the 172 G1000 birds come equipped like the Cirrus perspective/+? In other words, do they have dual bats, dual alternators, dual adahrs, dual flight computers etc that Cirrus has? Dual parachutes?

The other night i decided to head KCOS to knock out my solo night landings w control tower. I figured springs has a nice big runway for the most part dedicated to GA traffic and it is rarely busy. Well something was up with the main runway because i got the, "I'll call your base" then at...

As a note, i thought i was going to fail my checkride because i didn't know how to load a victor airway. I did all my long xc ir training on a 430, but tested on a 650. I was loading all the waypoints along the victor airway when i got, "its a 650, can it load airways?" After i said "yes," i...

Congrats! Were you in 3GS?

In colorado i rent from 2 places. One has over 20 planes and has excellent availability. The other has 15 planes (cirrus). I carry a $5k policy to cover the deductible at both places. There are no restrictions in terms of night/imc at either. Ive been surprised how little restriction there...

Fair enough, but i wouldn't have bought them if it wasnt for flying. Slap it in what ever category and account for it however you like. If we're pilots talking to other pilots about "total cost" to get ppl (see title of thread) or if we're giving our wives training only numbers, we still have...

I was just (barely) north of $10k with bose a20, ipad and the $700 "dpes gotta eat" fee. Took my ppl ride may 2018 at 55 hours tt. Good luck!