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The flight school will give discounted flight time to CFIs so that will be be a benefit after my ratings. I also planned to use my future CFI income to pay for ME and MEI ratings later and having that time go towards the 1500 ATP requirement. I agree doing ME now would get me to the 250 hr...

If the total cost was 18k, then having 3 friends pay their pro-rata share would mean I would only come out of pocket 4.5k for the flight time. I’m saying it’s not realistic though to dream of that. The cheapest plane at the flight school is 18k although for block time if I could pay it all at...

Let's call it a hypothetical scenario. I want to be an airline pilot and I'm doing flight training part 61 at a local flight school because I've heard that's the way to go to save money. So far I'm on track and I've been happy with the experience. I've completed my private at about 40 hours...

What is fair pay for a CFI by a flight school? For example, a flight school says they're charging $60 an hour for an instructor's time and $130 for an airplane, but turns around and pays an instructor $40 an hour for flight time. 1. Is this deceiving the customer since they think they're...

Thanks dtuuri, that's exactly what I was looking for. The Federal Register document really clarified the points I was looking for. I was toying with the idea of a cost effective training aircraft for a flight school, specifically for commercial/CFI training. To retrofit a 172 with all the...

http://skydiverdriver.blogspot.com/p/current-jump-pilot-jobs-a.html

Answers seem mixed so far. Might be a FSDO question after all.

61.129 (j) defines TAA but I have some questions about interpretation. 1. Does the MFD have to necessarily be separate from the PFD? For example, a Dynon can do split screen which shows moving map one half and the PFD on the other. Could this be a PFD/MFD even though it's only one screen...

Absolutely not. There’s no possible way. Knowing aircraft systems, weather, reading SIDs, STARs, ODPs, using charts to calculate required climb performance to follow an ODP. Approach plates and symbology, regs relating to alternates, fuel. IFR equipment, when is a procedure turn not required...

Thanks. Have a follow-up question. Is there any significance to how the DME requirement is displayed? For the ILS at KFZY it's shown in small print in the top left. https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1909/05518IL33.PDF For the ILS at KROC it's in big bold letters in the plan view...

https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1909/05518IL33.PDF Based on the plate the VDP is 1.7 DME. According to the profile view though the MAP is a little further than that. Normally there is a time from the FAF to the MAP but there is no time on this plate for some reason.

It's a really specific question but I can't find the answer. As a helicopter pilot who went through Army flight training I was issued an FAA commercial/instrument rotorcraft. I'm looking into doing my fixed wing private and instrument in a Cessna 172. For an instrument rating 50 hours XC are...

The note on the plate says NA for using SYR Vortac when southbound on V29. If this is the case then how can I practice full approaches coming from the north? There are no other IAFs. Thanks for the responses.

It's a tri-pacer, nothing fancy. I've never flown one before, most of my time is in 172s. Ought to be interesting.

I bought an airplane and did the registration with the FAA. I got it back and my name is misspelled on it. I was planning to get transition training with a CFI but I don't know if the airplane is technically airworthy. Of course safety isn't affected, but if something happened could insurance...

From the north we cross the VOR, do the procedure turn and come back in on 043. From the south we go north and turn in towards the 053 radial, changing to 043 after crossing the FAF. My question is, why doesn’t the plate just have you turn in on the 043 instead of the 053? There are no...

So I know that you take off before a jet or land after their landing point. How about if you're holding short waiting for a landing jet before takeoff. Would you try to take off before their landing point or would this take you right through the wake turbulence? The alternative would be...

Got it for the LOC and ILS. The issue was just with the VOR approach. With only VOR equipment and no GPS my understanding was that I had to fly airways, since that'd be my means of navigation (no direct). Since direct WUMSO is out of the question I guess there is no way to use the SYR IAF...

Assuming VOR/DME equipment, no GPS. On the low alt charts V29 goes from SYR to ART using radial 018 from SYR. If I wanted to do the VOR 7 approach into KART, SYR is shown on the plate as an IAF but the radial to the VOR approach is 010 from SYR to WUMSO. How do I bridge this discrepancy or...

My research shows GSS is a tacan but it doesn’t show up on the sectional. When input into skyvector it shows a tacan but places it on the rome airport. I also can’t find anything about it being decommssioned. Can anyone shed some light on this ghost tacan?