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I think you may be overthinking the process. From your post I am assuming we are talking about a towered airport. In that case, I contact the tower at 10 miles out and give them a my call sign, what I am, position report, which ATIS I have, and my intentions. In return, they will tell me...

Also a bit more nose heavy which has caused quite a few pilots quite a bit of angst on landings. Also their may be insurance constraints. When I got my 182 as a newly minted ppl my insurance required 5 hours and 10 landings with a cfi. Could not fly passengers til I had 10 hrs solo in it...

Not sure it is available where you are stationed, but when I was in the air force, non flying position, there was a flying club that offered civilian flight training at a relatively low cost. You very well may be able to start learning to fly while on active duty.

Not sure if it applies to you. I have a 206 with huge tundra tires. Bought it that way two years ago. Was retrofitted with a new fork for the tires. When I first got the plane was keeping the pressures in the 28 psi range as I was told to by the mechanic that did my prebuy. Got really good...

I had the same problem at my local airport in Southwest Florida. The FBO has a waiting list that had about 100 people ahead of me. It took about a year before I got my own hangar but one of the things that my FBO did for me was to connect me with people that utilize their hangar's part time and...

See and avoid while in the air, and on the ground. Unfortunately, it does not always work as well as it should.

I made the switch. Not sure it was worth it. It took me about a month of tweeking to get 12 to perform like 11. The issues were how the plane performed and some of the functionality of the g1000 simulator. The graphics are slightly better but not a big difference. Then again the upgrade is...

I use a paper logbook and have a excel spreadsheet I enter everything in electronically. Also do the same to log my plane hours and expenses.

Running Alienware computer, have a G1000 emulator, Xplane 12, upgraded from Xplane 11, 55 inch display. Use it for IFR practice but it is not the same as true IFR. Took me a while to get rid of a lot of the bugs. Parts of the G1000 did not work, landings are very unrealistic, even the way the...

Nice!

Sounds like the beginning of a story for missing persons or murder mystery.

I trained just over 10 years ago and am an older pilot, but I remember a significant portion of training involving making go and no-go decisions. Not only was it part of the practical training but it was heavily covered in all of the didactic training as well. ADM has been hugely emphasized as...

Usually, they do. Cannot remember anytime I was not given a warning but must admit after losing a colleague to a wake turbulence accident (one which has been used as a poster child for avoiding wake turbulence) I am very careful about watching for it anyhow.

Been to both. Personally like Savannah much more. St Augustine seems to me to be one big tourist trap. Savannah in my opinion is much nicer, more to do, and much better restaurants. A second choice would be Amelia Island. It has a lot more to offer than St Augustine, and less tourist trap...

Been there a few times. KSAV. Either fbo is good. Used Uber to go downtown. Walked everywhere. Felt safe. Plane presently in annua l from hell. 4 months and counting. Will be going to savannah when I get it back. Good food, good museums.. Lots to do.

The cup holder is important, however I would propose that without a sippy cup the cup holder only provides for a wet flight and a messy cleanup afterwards. I vote for the sippy cup.

It's actually hard to do in my cessna too. The only window that cab be opened is on the pilots door and no one is getting their head through it without major body contortions. My post was meant as a joke, but guess it was not too funny. On a more serious level, I never had anyone do the...

Open the window and stick head out and vomit.:D

Uh, this can be said about a lot of entities that are not government offices, including where I work. I would change your statement slightly and replace the word retirement with paycheck, and extend it further by saying that the act of doing the right thing and fighting for change to make our...

I think the FAA works on the premise better safe than sorry. Does it protect the public from pilots who can be suddenly incapacitated ? I do not know but I doubt it. Is there a better way to do it. I am certain of that, but do not know how to do it. Do I think that a better way can be...