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In Florida it's nice to be close to the coast. Often if your origin and destination are near the coast you can count on just going out over the water for safe conditions. However, those over land flights can catch you without a way back home pretty quickly during the day/afternoon!

Absolutely. It's something I haven't heard of prior to that either and I can definitely see how it could help a student at any stage throughout training. He mentioned he will do the same thing again during checkride prep as he thinks it helps to have that one last visual reminder for the checkride.

This could be fun. It'll most likely depend on when I finish my IR but if I have that and the weekend free I'd be interested!

My first lesson when heading back we did two approaches. The first was completely without the hood to help me better understand spacially what we were doing and where we were and what it looked like the entire way from approach to final. Then I went back under the hood and did the exact same...

In my Archer II (180hp Cherokee) I plan for no more than 400 miles per leg which gives me at least an hour of reserve. I usually stop to stretch the legs before that, though. If you got something faster, you could cover that distance you want without the pit stop. Or, if your primary...

I recently started my IR training. I had all of the XC time knocked out already before I started. I have a full time job. I did not take the written first but I did a lot of studying (even took a 141 ground course before life got in the way a couple years ago). I schedule 2 flights a week for...

My CFII started doing approaches with me from the first lesson. Obviously at the time I was just along for the ride and he briefed the plates, etc but I moved slowly toward doing it all myself. Though I'm still doing my training, I should have well over 40 before my checkride, and it may be...

It 100% depends on whether you are alert and in learning mode and it's productive time. If you're not understanding what's being taught or you feel like your ability to safely land the plane at the end is starting to decline, you need to stop. Whether that's 30 mins into the flight or 2+ hours...

Thanks for this reply. I was going to pull the unit this weekend and at least record the serial number and try to clean connections and the like. I assumed it would not be supported anymore, and the entire debate is whether to "try" to get it fixed and run the risk of not being any better off...

I'm a newbie IR student as well and this is what has helped me: First, when you're on the final approach course (or even intermediate leg), try to only use the rudder for any small heading corrections. You'll be much harder pressed to over-correct just using the pedals for course correction and...

I've pitched that to my wife, as well. She's not opposed, we'll probably go that route once it's time to branch out further from "airports we can start a run from and see/do something interesting."

Yep, when I made a downwind call on the CTAF she came on and asked if we needed transportation. We declined (we were planning on running into town) but it would have been that easy to get a ride. On foot I think it was about 1.5 miles from the airport to the edge of town which for us was an easy...

The island had closed their doors for a while during COVID but is open now. My wife and I spent a few hours there Saturday, running from the airport into town, having a nice lunch, and exploring the streets. Not every business is open yet, though most restaurants at least have limited hours, but...

I just learned about this in my IR course. In the Sporty's course, they specifically say that pattern entry method is not a requirement, only that you hold as instructed or charted (which is that the inbound leg is to the point defining the hold and that the hold is on the side you're told)...

Great point. I'm still 9 years out from military retirement and I definitely don't think I have time to be a CFI right now, but I've at least considered the AGI so maybe this is the right time to do it. If I wait 10 years to become a CFI-I I don't mind "re-learning" any book knowledge and...

Thanks for this. I'm definitely still early but I really like that I'm getting familiar with approaches already. I've only "briefed" one completely on my own so far and I had PLENTY of time to do it. It's funny you mention recording information or pressing buttons one at a time. I've...

Is it weird that I'm now looking forward to getting the written done??

I think I have experience a little bit of that as well. I just want to make sure everything is centered and on track and I'm correcting for things that I know are going all wrong every second I spend looking outside!

Ah, ok. I thought it was a Narco product. The antenna says Narco, the equipment was listed as Narco when I bought the plane, and when I looked it up long ago the image popped up with Narco associated. Obviously I did a tremendous job at due diligence.... :oops: Doing more digging, I guess it's...

So I'm a handful of hours into my IR training and yesterday I experienced two pretty incredible feelings. First, I got the leans for the first time as using goggles doesn't actually simulate actual very well. I think it was just the mixture of a slow heading change, then straightening, then...