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Hey all- Now that I am newly minted PPL, I am looking for places to fly and new things to try out. I have been looking at some at some strips out near the lake we go to all the time and it appears that almost all of the turf strips are 2500' ~ 2700'. I would consider these strips but I...

Ok, thanks. I just tagged my .pdf of the POH by chapter and imported via Dropbox. Works well enough. Good thing I only had 2500' feet of runway left today to clear the 50' obstacle. :)

While the weather is warming up and me chewing up additional runway length today, I got to thinking about DA and performance calculations. I only know to do it with the performance charts in the POH for T/O and landing distances. Do you guys have a copy of the POH imported into ForeFlight...

It ended up being a great field to land. Well maintained and smooth as far as I could tell. This was my first turf landing and so I have no real comparison but it felt nearly like asphalt. Wife thought it was great so that was a W in my book. The only microphone drop moment was parking in...

The bonus side of Drake is it is going to shave :30 or so minutes getting to Devils Den.

Right up until it was stolen from my garage 2 years ago (while I was home!). I decided to trade in two wheels for a propeller once it's was gone.

I did exactly what you shouldn't do... I kept a running log of every expense. I wrapped up my PPL about a month ago. All in I spent around $11k in 58 hours training time over a 14 months stretch. Many of the hours were just out at the practice area, in the pattern and just enjoying the...

I am considering taking a very short hop over to M09 to Hangar Kafe form 3DW. I have never been to this airfield. 2640x150' runway - turf. When I pull this up on Google Maps, a) it doesn't look 150 wide (I don't need it) but I am trying to figure out why they would list such a wide runway...

So... I wrapped up my PPL a few weeks ago. Took out a friend out for a joy ride then my oldest son (9) for a joy ride. Both great flights - comfortable, confident and the folks sitting in the right seat enjoyed the ride. Now I am working on getting the wife in the air but it's taking a...

I see - that's pretty much what I thought. I thought it strange that they actually had transition points though. So in the case of my colleague, they game him the ELVIS3 departure and he scrambled to get it loaded up on the GPS, only to be vectored (as you note). So why have waypoints out in...

The waypoint is found if I type in one of the transition points. All the other departures are shown (at least as indicated on SkyVector) ... Just not Elvis3. I think it's because it's not a RNAV departure. All the rest are. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I was discussing a departure with another pilot and was asking him why he didn't put the departure in his iPAD along with the panel GPS. He noted that there wasn't an easy way to input the transition... but of course there is. You just spell out the transition in the route and it's there. So...

I figure everything from here on out headsets are going to be cheaper. I have other things to worry about like ADS-B out. EGads...

I couldn't do it... I really wanted to. I stuck with what I know already....A20s. Call me a sucker, I probably don't know what I am missing. I guess I will be happy to be in the air either way.

That's where I am with the headset. This is one area that I can provide a degree of comfort as a given. The question is can I do that same thing with Zulu2 versus A20? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ok, I already own the previous generation of A20s. I am looking at getting another PAX headset. I was convinced that A20's is the way to go but now I am thinking it might not be worth the extra $300 for A20s over Zulu2 (now $800 bucks). I figure I could take the extra $300 saved and apply...

I am in a similar boat - just got my PPL last week and ready to take the wife up. I only have my set of A20's that's worth wearing. The rest of the headsets are stuck in a crappy box in the baggage area. Seeing that I need to make a good first impression on the whole GA thing (to this point...

I scheduled mine almost 3 weeks out and I used every bit of it to get prepared. I wouldn't go so far to say over prepared because there isn't such a thing. I slept like a baby the night before the checkride because the day before was a whole lot of practice and mentally taxing. By the time...

I couldn't agree more! Being somewhat of a cartographer (ok... not really by the hobby or career sense) the sectional chart is pretty much a work of art. I don't know of any other chart or map that so full of useful information. People kind of look at me funny when I say "let's look at this...

Quick question for those using ForeFlight - how often and what are the cases have you lost moving map? In the Midwest between SFC and 6500, I've never lost moving map. I have lost radar (indicated by the hatch). It's my understanding that moving map is based solely on GPS (no ground...