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Congrats! I was too cheap to pay what they wanted toward the OH, so I walked. 5 months later I had to pay 100% toward the OH on the plane I eventually bought anyway....d’oh!

@Archer Jack I don’t mean to hijack the thread. Do you own the plane in your profile picture? I made an offer on it last fall, but the engine turned out to be bad. I was wondering what happened to it after I went in another direction.

It looks they did actually swap the aircraft; the aircraft that flew into CHA early this morning did a CMH turn prior to flying JIA5160 to CHA. This is assuming I have the correct flight information. In any case, there are a lot of factors. Regional airlines run on razor-thin margins and get...

Not rude at all. I left the hydraulic base behind, so no full motion capability. I am using Lockheed Martin’s P3D software. There was a lot of engineering on my end to wire switches, potentiometers, LEDs, etc....to get them compatible with modern technology. The sim as I took it was run by a...

I believe the thing about the sims....a few years ago Delta auctioned off all of their DC-9 sims and I was able to snag one. The cockpit was on a hydraulic base with several bundles of wires that went under the hallway and into a huge room full of racks with 1960’s era technology. Once I got...

Agree or disagree, it is unrealistic to expect humans spending several hours together in a small room to not chit-chat. Every word spoken from my mouth isn’t recorded (and I am an air traffic controller). Either are police officers...surgeons....astronauts....or anyone else’s... Why should we...

After longer flights in my Arrow, I get the same smell when I drop the gear. It freaked me out the first time....now I have an almost reliable second way to know that the nose gear came down :)

121.9 has to be the most common ground control frequency in America. When I worked at SMO, the ground freq. was 121.9 and we would have airliners at LAX call almost daily after landing (their freqs were .65 and .75, I think).

For the other married members among us....are you not going to see your husband for a year? I think if I proposed a trip like that to my wife, she’d make me sign the divorce paperwork and hand over a gigantic check before I took off!

I think the main issue here is that each Charlie is a little different and it is impossible (from a practical standpoint) for a pilot to know how each is set up. GRB, for example, has a tower cab and a separate TRACON, but they are the same facility, so you wouldn’t be wrong by calling the...

As someone mentioned, it’s not an automatic transition approval. As an approach controller, if I see 8 VFR targets flying around within the Delta, I will tell you to either stay clear or call the tower...it is rarely a good idea for two controllers to be working airplanes in the same airspace...

I have worked with some former military controllers who came to the FAA. Some of them have had....interesting phraseology and techniques.

The “maintain VFR until established” phraseology leads me to believe the approach controller thought the OP was requesting a practice approach under VFR. But, their phraseology should have been simply “maintain VFR”. The “until established” part implies that once they are established on the...

I did the same thing! I looked out the window and saw ENW airport and realized I boo-booed. Fortunately I realized just in time to turn away and miss their airspace, but lesson learned....

It’s funny, when they took out “flight watch” from “HIWAS, flight watch, and flight service frequencies”, it took everyone in my TRACON a month to get their cadence back for that spiel.

It’s a really good idea to be at 2000’ or below from just north of GYYs airspace to the navy pier for this. The 22L approach into MDW crosses the shoreline at 2500’. Plenty of 737s to dodge in that area.

You are right. I was thinking about the OP in pretty general terms. The straight-in segment starts at NRMAH. The approach starts over 40 miles from the airport, which is still an impressive amount of airspace for an ILS.

https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1904/00166IL27L.PDF VOGLR is 43.5 DME...IAF for ILS 27L at ORD

So no oil on the hangar floor, I add about a quart every 10 hours (for the 30-ish hours I have owned the plane). Do you take the bottom cowling off every preflight? I admit that I don’t. I didn’t say that oil was pouring from the engine, I said that there was oil leaking from the crack, which...

My preflight is fine; how’s yours?