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Passed my ride yesterday, it sure wasn't easy, but I feel like a "real" pilot now :) Total time for the ride was 2.4 which was pretty brutal in yesterday's heat. I was definitely more exhausted after I got home than I can ever remember being, but super excited to have this one done and in the...

I can confirm that so far the codes I've received in the email were what I was actually assigned by ATC. 3/3 so far, pretty cool feature!

Yeah don't think that's acceptable. The examiner I go to is awesome, my private IACRA was actually expired (due to multiple cancelled checkrides due to weather) and he worked with me and the chief pilot at my school to get a new one submitted, delayed the ride by a couple hours but still got it...

Yup, thanks for the advice! That's what I was thinking too but not sure what looks better, more flights but shorter, or longer XCs but fewer of them.

Need 55 total for part 141, I've knocked out 15 so far.

Just curious about how long it took you to finish from start to finish, if you were 141 or 61, how many times a week you flew, if you took longer flights or more frequent shorter flights, etc. I was hoping to get mine done over the summer (I'm part 141), and get my CFI, CFII, and MEI done this...

I'm at a professional pilot program at a university here in Maryland using my GI Bill, my flight school teaches both fixed and helo, shoot my instructor is a retired Army Colonel helicopter pilot who jumps from helo to fixed and back throughout the day, no concerns whatsoever. Also, I hear you...

Ah took the test again today and got an 85, Sheppard Air for the win

I'm glad someone else feels this way. I know I should know all of the material cold but at the same time, questions that sometimes trip me up (which aircraft position is indicated by HSI 1, etc) are pretty annoying. I've certainly never lost track of where my aircraft is...EVER. With things like...

Trust me my life has been anything but mediocre ;) anyways of course I have failed things before, I guess what I mean is I never fail anything important that I set my mind to (at least in my adult life) But I suppose it's not as big a deal as failing a ride.

That's true and that's certainly one way to look at it. I'm not making excuses but, if we are all going to be honest here most of us know some of those questions are useless and knowing the answer has absolutely no bearing on the type of instrument pilot you will be. But yes I should have known...

Oh I fully expected that, I can take criticism. Like I said I have nobody to blame but myself, I should have spoke up and said I wasn't quite ready but again..lessons learned. Yeah the school is kind of a joke, they have good intentions but the resources (mostly personnel) just aren't there. I...

Oh that was the other thing that really got on my nerves, one of the approach plate questions the bloody image was so bad I could barely read it, same with one of the weather maps.

Yeah I agree, really nobody to blame but myself. I do think that my instructor relied too much on me getting all the necessary material from my college ground class, which quite honestly was a joke. We spent one class going over the entire instrument procedures book which was assigned reading...

There were quite a few questions on GPS topics that I had never seen before, in (no joke) probably 20 practice exams on the Sportys app. I think I missed quite a few of those because of the way the questions were phrased. I hear a lot of good things about Shepard I think I'll just do that for...

Failed my instrument written by one yes ONE friggin question. I feel like an idiot, no idea how that happened I was getting mid 80's on all practice exams (exams for pilots and the Sportys iPad app). Only thing I can think is that because I had a miserable day at work before the test I wasn't...

Hmm...do you guys have to pull it out of the hangar there? I'm not sure how someone would forget to take the bar off if you pull it out of the hangar, but I could see it happening if you just park on the ramp or grass and only have to push it into place, not pull it out.

Interesting, at my school SOP is to put the bar on to push the plane back in the hangar and it stays on till someone pulls it out, wonder if that's bad practice

Ha, I have had my private ticket since January and I've only brought one person up so far, I guess I've been so focused on getting my instrument (fingers crossed next Monday) and knocking out my commercial this summer that I haven't really made much of an effort to bring someone up. It was an...

Wow this thread really blew up! Yes I am in a part 141 University program and I work my butt off. I'll have about 90-95 once I'm ready to go for my check-ride at the end of the month. As for the minimums, you have to have 37.9 at the school I'm at to go for your instrument ride. I actually...