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Even a $10 headset for a computer sounds better than a $1000 aviation headset with the Flight Sounds adapter. So I would definitely recommend against getting one to avoid buying a separate headset for your computer. I agree it's a great way to test aviation headsets on the ground, and it's also...

Before I became a student pilot I wore in-ear headphones for many, many years and thousands upon thousands of hours while at home, work, running, bicycling, playing drums, etc. I've used them all from Etymotic Research, Shure, and various other brands of universal fit models to Sensaphonics...

I can't tell if that's a suggestion to forge entries, to spend more time carefully logging your flights, or if it's a recommendation for a specific type of pen :)

I would recommend buying a copy of the actual test supplement, which you can get for about $8.50 at various places such as http://www.sportys.com/pilotshop/computer-testing-supplement-for-private-recreational-and-sport.html It makes it more realistic to take practice tests where you need to...

My feelings exactly. Unfortunately I'm already very far along learning on nosewheel, and I already did something similar (yet opposite) by switching from 172's to SR20's. My theory is that they're all equally demanding. At any given point in the training you do as much as you're able to handle...

I was far more terrified the first time I drove a car in Driver's Ed in high school than the first time I flew a plane a few decades later (I'm probably still more terrified driving on ice than flying due to very limited experience). I had aced the classroom part of the class and was one of the...

It's probably not worth arguing whether it's conscious or subconscious recall, but obviously once you've learned patterns you can recognize and perform that pattern much more efficiently and be able to devote more of your attention to other things. If you learn the finger pattern for a...

Try playing polyrhythms between all your hands and feet on the drums :) Or try playing the chords for one song with your left hand while strumming a different song with the right hand and singing a third song :) I think few people (if anyone) can operate on multiple complex tasks completely...

My theory is that if you want to manage N+1 tasks simultaneously, you need to be good enough at managing tasks 1-N that you can do them almost subconsciously. Only then do you add the N+1st task and practice that until it's very comfortable and then add the N+2nd task and so on. If too much new...

My instructor likes to tune one of the NAV radios to the SFO VOR, which lets us keep an eye on how close we are to the Class B independently of any waypoints we've setup.

I was expecting you to recommend "Don't Fear the Reaper" given your avatar :)

Icon has a flight training center in Sarasota: https://www.iconaircraft.com/flight-center

Do you mention your destination to ground control? At my airport, specifying a destination is an implicit request for FF without actually having to say "flight following." Also, in my case if you ask for a left downwind departure from the primary runway it pretty much guarantees that you'll be...

My CFIs have me use FF maybe 50% of the time on average. On the way out it's easy because if I specify a destination in my taxi request to the ground controller I'll be put on FF automatically. The only tricky part is that sometimes I don't get the squawk code for a couple minutes and it comes...

Well, in the seventies my income was zero and in 82 I think I was making $3.35/hour, so as a percentage of income it's still more affordable for me to fly now than it was then :)

Yeah I wasn't even counting the startup, taxi, runup, hold time but just the time in flight before we start any practice maneuvers or landings. I'd guess probably close to 30 minutes on average before practicing any maneuvers, landings, emergency procedures, etc., and another 30 minutes to get...

At the flight clubs I'm familiar with, they charge an hourly rate for the simulator exactly like they do for real aircraft (I think it's around $50-70 per hour). Students also pay a monthly membership fee which I would assume covers the overhead of the facility (maybe CFIs do too). The CFIs...

That's why I mentioned that I wasn't sure about the fuel gauge in particular. I guess I was just quick to overgeneralize and hypothesize that students might be required to have some equipment be operational that would otherwise be optional. I'm pretty sure if I were asked directly I would have...

I'm not sure about this particular situation with the fuel gauge, but there are certainly a lot of extra restrictions placed on a student pilot when soloing that wouldn't be applicable to the CFI or a certificated pilot. Weather minimums for example. The flight school/club or owner is also free...

I guess one thing you have to correct for is how much actual practice time you get out of a given number of Hobbs hours. In my case, for example, we fly an average of 15-20 minutes each way to practice landings, and almost that far just to practice maneuvers. I assume it's because my airport is...