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Now? When was it ever not? Buy his books, buy his ground school, he sounds like a used car salesman. It also drives me nuts that, for every new sales pitch and idea he has, he gets a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT web address for it. I swear the man must own 1,000 URLs by now.

The number one reaction from friends and family, upon hearing about my new private pilot license, was some variation of this: Congrats! So…what can you do with it? So, I thought I’d share what I can and can’t do, and what a private pilot license means and doesn’t mean. (All of you probably...

Am I still allowed to post in here? I'll go with the old "my license is a license to learn" thing and say yes. Went up last night to get checked out in a different flight school/rental place's Warrior, because that's who I want to rent from in the future. It was a PA-28-161 Warrior II, whereas...

Not cheesy at all. You'll find we are all passionate around here; aviation is a calling. I got over feeling cheesy a while back, I used to write about my flying very technically, until I realized I wasn't really helping friends/family understand the magic of flying. I think I'm a little better...

OK I finally wrote a short post-checkride blog. You may have seen my technical write-up about the details of the checkride here: https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/so-student-pilots-who-are-we-and-where-do-we-stand.61619/page-56#post-2344628 Here are some...

We should start a group: Pilots Against Fencing. I'm only half-joking, because I totally agree. There is no reason for small GA airports to have this style of security. Those fences do their job, which isn't necessarily to 100% prevent access, but to be visually off-putting to discourage...

STFU that is INSANE. Wow. I guess it's easy to forget how much power these things have when everything is purring smoothly.

He did "you have an engine fire", so obviously, that also counts as an engine loss because you want to stop introducing gas into a flaming engine (at least I do). So it was the same essentially, except since it was a "fire" I had to get the nose down and the speed up, instead of going straight...

I should key up Guard when they're yapping, channel my friend's old Cajun mama, and yell what she used to yell at her kids when they couldn't stop the foolishiness: "HEY NOW, CUT OUT ALL THAT FOO YAA YAY!" (I really want to figure out what original French phrase got mangled into "foo yaa yay")

Someone tried to "warn" me about this when I was talking about flying there. I said, "Look, I'm from New Orleans, I think I'll be OK. I've seen some sh*t."

Let me know if you need any NYC recommendations for food or non-aviation things to do.

"The FAA and FCC want aviators to remember that a specific radio frequency is for emergencies, and that's it. The FCC made clear in a notice Tuesday that the frequency isn't for "false distress or emergency messages, superfluous communications, messages containing obscene, indecent or profane...

OK I promised you guys and gals a write-up, and I've had a few days to digest, so here we go. It’s…uh…long. I may have forgotten some things, so go easy. Oral: This checkride had been a long time coming, and I had talked to a LOT of people about it. Towards the end of my training, some of them...

Would it take that much longer to go around it?

5 days in, and I'm apparently still a pilot. I've decided to divide time into BP (Before Pilot) and AP (After Pilot). Day 5 AP is going OK so far.

The DPE was FANTASTIC! (everyone, Frank and I used the same DPE, and Frank was really helpful and encouraging in private messages). So, thanks! I'll probably hit you up for information about rentals at ISP in the future, because FRG is just....so...FRG. And if I'm taking the train, ISP isn't...

Seriously, though, thanks to everyone on this forum for being so helpful and supportive and offering up so much INVALUABLE information. I'll try to get a write-up together soon.

Soon, hopefully. I was so focused on the checkride I literally had not thought about or planned for ANYTHING past Thursday, so now I have to reset and figure what to actually DO with this license.

I feel...different today, somehow... Maybe because yesterday at 11:30 AM I became the WORLD'S NEWEST PRIVATE PILOT!!!

I kinda like how Google Maps interfaces with my Google Calendar...