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I flew into San Antonio KSAT late last month VFR. I was coming in from fredericksburgh so I was heading east into San Antonio. Approach told me to vector to the San Antonio VOR then upon reaching it follow the 180 radial. I had foreflight Vfr charts up on my yolk and for some...

Theres nothing for me to cry about sour grapes. I wish i had won it. Congratulations!

thanks Harley, i'll contact kevin later this weeks as my gf and I start working on our itineraries for the trip. looking at the PIA website it looks like they already offer sightseeing tours. it's a tossup between renting a plane (and the cost of the corresponding check ride) or paying...

What great pics! My gf and i will be up there at the end of this month formthe lobster festival. Where would you recommend we book a discovery flight to get an aerial view of the area? The airspace doesnt look complicated up there but id rather concentrate on sightseeing. Thanks!

Thanks! Will look into both

I'm sure I'm simply not looking hard enough but I see the manager and ASIs telephone numbers for some airports in the AFD but I don't see where the telephone number for the tower or center is. I'll need this for ifr clearance when I'm at a non towered airport and another thread suggested...

Obviously we don't know yet what happened but I think one person in this thread mentioned landing when at minimums. I just started my ifr training and what we practice each flight is to confirm the minimum and stick to it. If my cfii wants me to do the holding pattern he says the clouds...

A half hour discovery flight cost me $21.65 In hindsight I should have pushed through and gotten my ppl back then. $21.65 in 1991 dollars is like $2,000.00 now. ;) And it's a shame Andrau isn't there. I used to think how far it was to drive 10 minutes to get there and now it takes 30...

Well, so far neither my gf nor my brother have expressed the appropriate level of awe that I feel for this tidbit of news. I was clearing out my papers and got to the box labeled 1992 where I found my receipts for my first discovery flight and few hours of flight training. Due to...

I'm planning a trip to a small airport without tie downs. I presume they have hooks in the ground and will verify. But what is considered a good tie down kit? Straps with ratchets and hooks? Rope with a carabiner for the ground hooks and just tie off the plane? Chains? Static...

I'd love to hear the communications with atc to hear what that's like. Great vid

You're correct. I just read the POH and it's a 14v system. To be certain I may spend the premium and get the apple branded cigar adapter Thanks for the input!

I think the plane has 24v. Would that be a problem in selecting an adapter. The scosche site shows their adapter being 10-16v input.

I'm flying the club's archer which has a 2 amp dual USB cigarette adapter for powering the stratus. 2amps should be enough for charging the ipad 2. I've plugged my ipad 2 into both of the adapter USB ports and still have a battery drain on the ipad. It would be ok if it simply...

All fine and well but what about the poor folks who eat some bad Mexican food. I had that happen once when drivin home from Dallas and zipped off the freeway and in the gas station bathroom within 2 minutes of feeling the sudden need. Can't land and get into the fbo that quickly.

The $260 savings would be eaten up, and then some, with the hours used by the new school to check you out. You'll have to do ground reference maneuvers and stalls all over again so that the new cfi knows that you can actually do the xc's to his standards.

I contacted the Greek chapter of aopa about flying in Athens and was put in touch with an aopa member who offered to give me an hour instruction with a choice of two routes in a 172. I was surprised to learn that Athens international is a class d airport although the training flight would...

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The return leg showed overcast and high probability of rain for Sunday so had to ditch the plans to fly and drove instead. It's 6am Sunday and if there aren't thunderstorms and fog mid morning I will be very put off about the decision to drive. Makes me kick myself for not starting my IR...

during my PPL training I was always advised to use flight following or file a flight plan when not in the training area... I have my PPL now and wonder about what to do when just flying around... yesterday I took the plane up with nowhere in particular to go so I couldn't file a flight plan...