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Yeah, I do understand his concerns, at the same time like RyanB said, it is part of the business if you ask me and if you aren't willing to risk that happening occasionally then perhaps you shouldn't own a flight school? I dunno, it does suck because my instructors are great and most of them...

Yeah it does, but you get to use it for random flights if you want as long as it can count towards a rating which, in most cases it counts towards your 190 TT needed for commercial. Also the GI bill pays out a set amount to the school for each rating (10,200 for example for my private) but ended...

GI Bill covers any flight I take since it counts towards PIC time and time towards my commercial

So, I guess in a way there was? There have been two incidents lately, one of which involved a student pilot somehow taxiing into not one, not two, but three civil air patrol aircraft destroying one of my schools planes and 2 CAP planes (the third seriously damaged) in the process. Don't ask, I...

Yeah I suppose I could look elsewhere for rental or a club, problem is (I forgot to mention) I'm using my GI Bill so if I do only rent somewhere else it would be out of my pocket which seems sort of silly. I guess I just need to look around more but I can't recall ever seeing limitations put on...

So, my flight school just implemented a bunch of new rules which I think are pretty ridiculous but I wanted to get everyone else's opinion before I start looking elsewhere. I am a private pilot just about finished with my instrument rating. The new rental rules say that as a private pilot I can...

I traveled to mine, only about a 20 minute flight each way though so not a huge deal, and actually kind of liked it because it gave me a little bit of time to fly off any jitters before the test.

Yup! I've never flown it below a simulated 500 foot ceiling but I think that's about where you would end up if you took it down to minimums

Martin is my home airport and have flown the LDA 33 quite a few times, fairly certain you are correct in that it's because the LOC is off to the side of the runway.

Welcome! I am doing the same thing, though not walking away from my current job till I get my CFII, which will hopefully be around December. Life is too short to play it safe, congrats on realizing that and going after your dream

Thanks everyone! Sometimes still kind of hard for me to believe, very excited to take some friends and family up soon though.

haha well airline pilot is the plan, but no worries the 7th time was a charm and I crushed it out.

Passed my check ride with flying colors yesterday and man does it feel good. My examiner was great and honestly I really didn't have any problems with anything, granted I had plenty of time to study and have been working on my instrument about 15 hours or so which probably didn't hurt. A lot of...

Yeah that's only during the day, but I still think its overkill personally. Is it really that hard to see other traffic taxiing around during the day? At any rate if it's one of those things that makes my examiner happy (and doesn't compromise safety) I suspect it's probably best to do it. I...

Local DPE apparently wants them on anytime the engine is running so that's how my flight instructors have told me to do it, when I'm flying by myself though I only turn them on when entering the runway, turn them off when I clean up the plane after exiting the runway. I think its a little...

haha true, actually I know he does discount a bit if you want to get your instrument/commercial ticket in the same day, but that would be one hell of a long day o_O

I am part 141 at a university program. I'm at about lesson 8, my flight school is restructuring the curriculum a bit and coming up with a new syllabus so not sure EXACTLY where I am per say, I think I've pretty much covered everything at least once (except circling approaches) so at this point...

No, sadly for me I have to fly to my DPE (about a 30 min flight) and I don't have enough vacation time to take a day off just for the oral (not to mention the cost of renting the plane). He doesn't like to split it up anyways. Part of the problem too is he takes the entire day for your...

Haha, that is super frustrating I think. I mean I know my stuff but I still study up in the days leading up to the scheduled date. I'm kind of tired of going over it but since I'm planning on being a CFI and going to airlines eventually I suppose it doesn't hurt to continue to pound the basics...

Solid advice, yeah I think part of my problem is the fear of not being perfect since I can be a perfectionist at times, I know they have some wiggle room but it seems to all be up to the examiner as far as how much they can give which I suppose is what makes me nervous. I think you guys are...