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A little over a year ago, I was in a similar situation as you are now. I was so close to the checkride, I could taste it. And yet I felt I was getting nowhere with my CFI. I joined PoA and shared my experience, as you did. I had similar responses as you did: some thought I was a troll, some...

Your tower controllers keep me on my toes and they have a sense of humor! Last week I was flying back from C73 and decided to make a few touch-and-goes at DuPage. 10 miles out: Diamond 6US, enter midfield right downwind 20R. 6 miles out: Diamond 6US disregard, fly over the tower, enter left...

A year ago I earned my PPL. Since then I've been trying to make up for all the time I lost waiting to become a pilot. I logged 100 hours as PIC (55 of them solo), 322 takeoffs -- and, in case you are wondering, an equal number of landings. What did I learn in the past year? What am I looking...

I know this is last minute, but the weather in Chicago today is beautiful and I am taking the Diamond from 06C to KRPJ, departing 1245 local. Anyone around for lunch?

A few months back I purchased a Dealgadgets Tablet Car Mount Holder for $13 from Amazon. It worked well and help my iPad mini both within and without its case (an old, tattered Bear Motion Leather Folio case, also from Amazon). However ... the mount works fine in a Cessna 172. Not so great in...

With at least two more threads on the 737 MAX here, why am I starting a new one? Because the article I am about to post is more about the engineering culture at Boeing than about the two accidents. I have a lot of respect for the IEEE and its flagship magazine IEEE Spectrum, where the article...

If someone gave me a 55 I wouldn't even log it :rolleyes:. True dialog (20M SSB QSO): other station: your callsign agn? me: kilo-charlie-niner-golf-lima-india, kilo-charlie-niner-golf-lima-india, QSL? other station: K9-golf-delta-india? me: negative, kilo-charlie-niner-golf-lima-india...

It is true that neither Midway nor O'Hare are exclusively GA, but they do serve GA traffic. My argument, however, was whether Chicago loves aviation; not GA exclusively. I wrote that argument because a suburban legislator's objections the expansion of a suburban airport where assumed to reflect...

Thanks. I just dropped them a note.

Are there any members here who can recommend an upset recovery school/instructor in the Chicago region, preferably not based at KPWK? Proximity to Chicago is highly desirable but I am willing to drive a bit extra and spend a couple of nights near the instructor's home airport, to complete the...

I said, freshman class; not graduate level course :-) And @dmspilot is right because one student whose father is an A320 pilot said that the pilot who performs the takeoff may not be the pilot who does the landing. Then he asked for extra credit :-)

Actually this made it into a homework assignment I gave the students in my freshman Discrete Mathemagics class. :rolleyes::Do_O

Yes, at least for night takeoff/landings as they are required for your IACRA.

As student pilots, we spend a lot of time practicing landings. Our logs may show 30 landings in 6 hours of flight. Then we "graduate" and we start spending more time cruising than buzzing in a pattern. Our logs show fewer landings (maybe just 1) per leg. And later, some of us return for more...

I wouldn't characterize Chicago as anti-aviation. The city operates two major airports. In addition, we have 4 Class-D airports in the metropolitan area, which also includes dozens of non-towered fields. There is a major aviation program at one of our universities. Boeing and United are based...

Oh, it gets better. They also forbid taking off from 6, because the departure leg is over the same densely forested area. I wonder what their policies would have been if they were operating out of CGX -- because they have a "no flight over water" restriction, as well. Though seriously, I can...

I am very familiar with KPWK as I did most of my primary training there. Business is booming and one of the major FBOs at the airport is expanding like there is no tomorrow. The main runway (16/34) is 5000'x150. There are two more runways (12/30) and (6/24). Runway 24 is funny: nominally a...

I went back to my arrival video and it looks like the tower was really holding departures to give arrivals a wide berth -- a very wide one. While I was into the 45 to join right downwind, a Citation jet advised the tower that they were ready to go. They were told to hold short for landing...

At 06C we often joke that the airport's AWOS data collection platform is installed either inside Pilot Pete's kitchen or somewhere in the basement. Here's proof of it. Virtually all the airports in the vicinity report today west winds in the high 20s low 30s knots, with gusts from 40 to 50...

I hope not. It was routine but cordial exchange from the handoff from RFD approach to KJVL tower to parking, and the same when I called ground for taxing. I went through the full videos to see if I missed something that might have annoyed the controller. Didn't notice anything. And if he was...