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People are trying to position FPV racing as the next extreme spectator sport. They just had a huge "national championship" or something here in NYC, on Governor's Island. I didn't go, but it sounded pretty involved, different levels of ticketing with different levels of access, bars, food, etc...

Firstly, I tried to re-find this thread by searching "chachbag" but it didn't work for some reason. Secondly, a few days ago MrCaptainAviation10101010101Man uploaded a short film about a flight from Oregon to Texas. I start watching, and it is different from his usual fare. Really well shot and...

Well I know what I'm doing at work today...thanks for giving me something to read! Gotta catch up!

My leg was pretty much always pressed against my CFI's leg in that little 152, and then once it got cold and we started wearing more layers, our shoulders rubbed together.We got to be pretty close.

I tracked all my expenses in a Google Spreadsheet, including transportation costs, as I live in NYC and had to take a train an hour out to the airport, and then a cab to the airport (ugh). I was THIS close to finishing, at 57.2 hours, and I was up to just over $13K. My rental (Cessna 152) was...

Just look for the guy dressed like a member of Run DMC. Only if you're in a helicopter, though. No joke, this is legit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_marshalling#Helicopter_signals

Reading is almost always free for this stuff, because of the official FAA books. You can get PDFs of them for free on the FAA website. So start diving into the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (PHAK) and the Airplane Flying Handbook...

And remember, a good...

Oh right, another thing, about the Session, if you're planning on recording longer flights/days of flying, they have a downside vs. the regular GoPro - you cannot switch out batteries. Th entire session has to be plugged in to charge. So, say you make a XC, you can swap previously-charged...

I use this puppy: https://www.amazon.com/Nflightcam-Aircraft-Audio-Power-Cable/dp/B00OP8RYY8 You don't need an extra audio recorder for it, you can plug it right into the GoPro, and it records the headset audio onto the video, no syncing required. You don't get as much ambient noise, so I...

Wow, I can't believe I never thought about this before (still a student pilot operating only out of KFRG), so thanks for this thread. FRG has named run-up areas, near the departure end of most runways, but looking now on the airport diagram, they aren't labeled as such on there. KAPA has one...

That must've felt great! It IS so weird at first to not have someone giving you a set of tasks from the right seat. Congrats and good luck on the rest of your training!

So everyone else gets a character based on personality or knowledge, but Cajun gets one based solely on her gender. Hmmm. So those dudes are older, you'd think they would be mature enough to have a reaction OTHER than "OOOOOH SHE HAS BOOBIES!" to her discussing serious topics like TFR procedures.

If I had a penny for every hour I've spent on Skyvector, planning imaginary cross-country (like ALL the way across) flights, I'd have enough money to actually fly! :p

That'd be a great book title: When The Silence Descends

This might be a symptom of me having more money ($0) to plan imaginary flights than I do ($0) to make them. And when I plan imaginary flights I get GRANULAR. Because slapping a Direct-To in Foreflight is no fun when I'm killing time playing on my iPad and daydreaming. Another symptom: posting...

Looking back now at the discussion thread (which I suppose I should've done in more detail before posting), I see they are thinking about a bit of a circuitous route towards the end, to come in through a valley, rather than going up and over. Maybe it was just the general attitude of the...

I recently heard a newly-minted PPL was making a new-to-them XC flight, and they were asking the aviation hive-mind for tips on the flight and approach to the airport, located in mountainous terrain on the East Coast. Curious, I asked if they had planned the flight already, and what route they...

Post-wedding/honeymoon and with my wife's job hunt not going well, we are broke. Stupid broke. Flat broke. It has been 6 months since I've flown. I was THIS close to my checkride, and I can feel my skills slip-slip-slipping away. My CFI moved on to a small charter/airline operation, and I just...