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Additionally, it gets CRAZY crowded on the weekends, if you don't start EARLY you will burn a ton of Hobbs on the ground behind a line of Farmingdale State or Ventura planes. It felt like the conga line at LGA sometimes. and the majority of those planes will be pounding the pattern, so you end...

How was Fisher's Island??? I'd love to make a landing there, looks like a challenge!

The cabbies say it is illegal (city ordinance, I guess?) for Uber to pick up from the train station (not FRG, sorry for the confusion), but no clue if that is actually true or not. A cab was $5 or $6, and Uber usually ran $10-$13. If my CFI couldn't give me a ride back to the station after...

I trained at Long Island Aviators at FRG, and you're right, it is a challenge. Taxis might show up, or might not, and the taxi dispatcher WILL be a d*ck to you over the phone, but GOD FORBID you call an Uber, if the taxi guys see it they will take picture of the license plate and harrass the...

Once when I looked out over the south shore of Long Island on a hazy day, and my eyes mistook the haze for the water, or the water for the haze, basically my eye focus kept jumping around trying to figure out what the actual horizon was. It was only momentary (i just shifted my eyeline back to...

Are there any drone-focused study guides or guidance? I have a non-pilot photographer friend who will need to take this and is asking me. I don't want to just hand him the PHAK and say good luck, you know?

That's really nice of you to create this photo with the text for her! What a great souvenir!

If you make that Lafayette trip for gumbo someone suggested, I'm coming with you!

I was the one checking the tanks by sight AND with a manual fuel guage (the kind you dip into the tanks) from my second lesson onward (after following him along on the first and learning everything). I can't imagine ever NOT checking the fuel level; this is utterly baffling to me. In the...

I've got one of the Dual GPS receivers and it's great. Never had a problem, I stick it on the far left side of the glareshield. Plus, if you're worried about battery life, and don't mind having another gadget in the cockpit, grab an Anker battery. They are ALWAYS on some sort of sale on Amazon...

Hahah true. I just didn't know if the organization wanted you to have your own plane, or if they had had rental places complain.

Is this possible with a rental, or do you need to own an airplane?

Is this even an argument we have to have? It seems like every fuel starvation incident I read about can be blamed on a COMPLETE LACK of planning, not on a paper vs. electronic problem. Understand the calculations, DO THEM, make sure they make sense, build in a safety margin, and go flying.

Exactly, playing with maps is FUN. It's much easier for me to explore with paper rather than electronic, because you don't have to zoom in and out. I used to have sectionals on my bedroom wall (welcome to my bedroom, pretty impressive, right LADIES?) long before I started flight training. And I...

That's essentially what I asked in the emails to the FAA. I was hoping they had the actual GIS layers for the various data sets (airports, airspace, roads, lakes, etc) available; I wanted to "declutter" the map and use those visuals for a blog post about airspace classes. They told me the...

We will ALL be here all week, folks! Tip your waitresses!

I had a delightful email exchange with someone from the FAA Charting Office (or whatever the official name is) about something unrelated, but they were incredibly nice and helpful and we ended up chatting about my flight training. I bet would love to hear info like this, so they can add useful...

Sounds like high school when my parents weren't home. HEY-O!!! I'll be here all week, folks. Tip your waitresses.

I feel like it has less to do with "when the batteries fail" and more to do with understanding the process and how the inputs result in the outputs. Like one poster said, would it be any use at all to have a calculator if you didn't understand the basics of multiplication and division? It...