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Griggs Aircraft in Tunkhannock, PA 18657 - SkyHaven 76N They do really really good work.

On my PPL checkride at KRME (Griffis), after doing I think short field landings, we taxied back and took off again. He failed my engine at about 2-300' AGL (at most!) and boy do things happen quick. That is a 12,000' runway, so I could have landed (and taken back off) about 4 times at least lol...

Yeah, really sucks. And definitely I'm not a helicopter pilot. But I wonder if he did what many of us might, and completely lost track of where he was in space, maybe even thought "I dont want to hit the hills in front of me" and climbed and unintentionally began a left turn (he did radio...

So, I just read the whole update pdf. Pretty good read, with some very good info for this early into the investigation. I have to say, at first I was thinking "yeah this guy was just stupid and didn't know what he was doing". But... And looking at the other evidence, including the flight path...

Hey, I haven't been on POA in a while, but just wanted to say you are doing great, and good for you on learning in a taildragger! I'm from way over here on the east coast in central NY - but spent a month in Seattle last May/June and decided to finish my tailwheel endorsement at Harvey Field up...

My BFR is coming up. Our flight school/club wants to really start using the Wings program more, and encouraged me to go take a bunch of courses. I've been trying to for a week now, and the wings site is either: - Unavailable - login to FAA site, and try to go to the wings area and it just spins...

Well, I post over on biplaneforums.net - but now that they went "paid subscription only" (A decision I was strongly against) I don't mind sharing here too. Some of you may recall my prior posts about my grandfather's biplane (Background in my profile pic). I have had possession of that plane...

Crap, sorry. Change the title for me mods? Or remove thread...

Wing hit a telephone pole... He flipped it. Good job keeping it in the road I guess, hoping I'm never faced with this situation...

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2019/04/fulton-plane-crash-witness-all-of-a-sudden-i-heard-a-loud-bang.html Pilot appears to have only minor injuries. One lucky dude... Did 90% of my training here. Not familiar with the plane or pilot - looks like he was from up north. This area was to the...

Replying just to second/third the Google Voice idea. Bruce was always completely professional in every way in my dealings with him, and I can completely understand the reason he tries to keep his phone number well hidden from non-clients. I have a consulting gig on the side that has similar...

Hi Jim - I'm totally from your neck of the woods, and just replied to your PM. Welcome to the forums!

Thanks for all the replies everyone. I talked to our head instructor, and he mirrored much of the advice here. Specifically that if I didnt have time (2-3 lessons per week) that it would be good to wait until I do. Also that winter around here is not the best time for IFR training (icing...

The airport where my biplane is being worked on this winter is ~65 miles. Perfect. I can make a few XCs down there to check on things/do work on it.

This is an old thread but I finally resolved it so thought I would update.... Called Steve at Wingover in FL, they are retired and no longer doing instruciton. So thats off the table. Called up Budd Davisson in AZ, and am all set for his Pitts training in April. I like his attitude, and I like...

I still consider myself a very fresh PPL. ~150hrs TT, ~1yr since my ticket got punched. I'm now a member of a semi-local flying club (40-60mins from home/work) and try to fly there a couple times a month minimum. They have a fleet of 172's and 152's and a mooney, and enough instructors to make...

I was where you are more or less, 13 years off from my first training. I'd say the first few hours were quicker for me than most 100% fresh students, but I quickly realized that I'd forgotten a LOT and my skills had atrophied (plus I was training in a different plane, C172 vs Cherokee 140). It...

Crap, I didnt see the other thread on this till now. Oh well. Still fun. I like the idea of starting some very very low costs flying schools to get young folks (hell, and old folks) into aviation.

OK, everyone in our office is in a pool (or two) for this $1.6Billion Mega Millions thing. I dont play this stuff much, but I figure for the $2 I get to dream for a day or three. Suppose you just won alone, the payout is $616,000,000 after taxes. I'm sure we would all be conservative and set...

This happened to me on one of my first solo flights back into the KSYR class C. Got to use light signals (and for taxi as well). I was pretty psyched actually since I had just memorized all of that and felt reasonably secure in that they had me on radar already (although no transponder once...