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There's a reason the Arrow doesn't have an autopilot- it doesn't need one. Not as much as the 172. Avionics aside, your first objective is to gain command authority over basic pitch, roll, & yaw:-) That's learning to handfly on instruments, and the Arrow is better for that. If it's possible...

Also a DC-3 would have that effect.

That's right. An "idle check" is to check that the idle position won't quit when you pull to idle on final. To do it realistically, the mixture should be in the anticipated position it would be on final, probably full rich, but not necessarily. I do it after the mag check runup, I bring the...

This pilot/ instructor does it on every pre-flight run-up, and teaches it that way. I want to know if the mixture setting is good BEFORE the flight, if it is serious.

??? --Whaaat ??

All the more reason not to touch one.

Well, in my experience, there are not similarities of "tailwheel basics" in the DC-3. It handles nothing like the Twin Beech. Yeah, you better have a darn good handle on twitchy light tailwheels before tackling her . But not the old Goony Bird. She's not twichy. Slow, deliberate, directional...

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OK, man. Didn't mean to come off as trying to tell you or anyone how to do anything. I am coming in with some of the y valuable life experience. You can choose to use or ignore.

Read my comment again, and focus on the part where I say you can identify yourself directly over the runway precisely at the MAP where you would start a climb, by becoming proficient at recognizing the Localizer needle sensitivity. When you cross over the transmitter at the far end of the...

One "bad habit" you may have in small engines, is chopping the power, or slamming the throttle in for power. This can be damaging in larger engines. Learn smooth throttle movements, fore and aft.

Personally, I don't trust a timer for precise position, on any approach. I've done thousands over the years in training in vfr conditions and have seen easily a half mile to a mile short or overshoot in windy conditions. On any ILS, you can definitely see from the localizer sensitivity as you...

Oh, now I get it. You don't care or have any meat in this game, you just wanna chime in with "what you were told". I hate that expression/explanation. It only perpetuates the continued passing on of misunderstandings.

He still holds the certificate until surrendered or revoked. The regulation says "holds", nothing about "valid". ---I know, confusing, but welcome to Legalspeak 101.

He does not have to "own" the airplane to be able to use it as if he owned it. Rent, lease, beg, borrow or ....well , you get the picture.

Cool that you got to take your wife right before solo.

You have a call from 1957; they want their #2 pencil back. ;)

Enroute and approach procedures are the same, although it sounds like you're flying faster, and probably more stable equipment. I found basic aircraft control to be very difficult in the beginning. I was very experienced in f/w ifr and was very used to leveling off from the climb, getting it...

We do it that way to weed out the chaff.

Wi-fi in remote south carolina - that's power. :)