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An MSM license plate? Wow. That's crossing the border into "pretentious" to me. For those unaware, a Meritorious Service Medal, at least in the USAF, was (still is?) pretty much a "gimme" when you change duty locations for anyone in the grade of about Major or higher or MSgt or higher, as long...

Not hard to test on your own aircraft, and a valuable exercise to learn how the handling is affected. Easiest way is to have a friend along and see if there is a difference between him or her sitting in the front versus in the back. Or have some weight you can move around between the different...

Yes, 3 deg is 3 deg, but that's not always a good descent rate for a faster piston airplane. If you're cruising at 200 kts, that's 1000 fpm down that you need. That may require a pretty low power setting. I prefer to descend at around 650 fpm in these airplanes just for engine health, and it...

Wait, I missed that, or misread it, or read what I wanted to read, or whatever. If you really saw the cabin rate peg negative, that would only happen if you're completely depressurized, at which time it would read the same as your aircraft's descent rate. I suppose it's possible that he...

Sure there's a way, don't pull the power all the way back. Piston engines, unlike turbines, don't have tons of bleed air for pressurization. They are instead relying on the turbocharger to provide that air, and if the engine is at or near idle, the turbo just isn't turboing enough. A normal...

My point I thought was pretty simple - if you need to tow the plane to the fuel pump, you get an actual tow vehicle - a golf cart or a tractor or an old riding lawnmower or basically any other kind of tug that you ride on. You don't get a Sidewinder or an AC Air unit or anything else that is...

Oh, certainly the Sidewinder isn't going to make it that far. Towing a Baron, I estimate it gets about 4 tows in or out of the hangar per battery charge. It's really stressing that drill battery. And the AC Air likely isn't going to go that distance either, at least reliably. But come on, to be...

I've used the AC Air tugs and the Sidewinders quite a bit. I like them both. The Sidewinders are super easy to use. Virtually no learning curve, it's just like pushing it by hand, only powered. The ACAir tugs are a little trickier to learn, but not bad. The ones with the lazy susan offer a...

It obviously depends greatly on how the privatization was set up and handled. When we moved to OK years ago, we were surprised to see that all of the "Tag Agencies" were privatized. This is where you renew your driver's license, get license plates, handle the paperwork for the private sale of a...

And here's what I posted on this part of the issue: https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/standard-rate-turns-without-turn-coordinator.139024/post-3307285

Hah! I did a little search and sure enough, this did come up a couple of years back and this is how I answered it then: https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/standard-rate-turns-without-turn-coordinator.139024/post-3307274 At least I'm consistent, and my memory is half decent.

I seem to remember looking this one up some years ago, for the same "why not runway 33?" question. If I recall correctly, the situation was something like this: 1. Runway 15/33 did not exist yet. 2. A VOR RWY 36 approach was designed and published. 3. Years later, Runway 15/33 was built, and a...

The NOTAM does not require dual VORs. It simply applies to the line of minima that already requires dual VORs (COAST fix minimums).

No doubt! Fortunately, patterns designed for use by T-38s and other similar aircraft use the"310 kt" template sizes, which are much larger than the normal 200 and 230 kt size.

Thanks Eric, I'll give it a try.

I can't immediately condemn that instructor, it depends very much on where you are in the training program and the actual weather conditions. I took instruments students into the clouds as much as possible, but on a sliding scale of progress vs conditions. Once they could reasonably keep the...

Required? No. But the examiner is allowed to specify they be done in a turn (for both power on and power off), as shown by @TCABM. So if a CFI is not having the student learn to perform them in a turn, they are being clearly negligent in their instruction. I just checked the Gleim syllabus as...

Turning stalls are (usually, in my experience) tested on the Private checkride. The ACS allows for them and therefore CFIs should be training on them. Accelerated stalls are on the Commercial checkride but not on the Private (they are only a knowledge item for the Private). I think they should...

(I know you know this). You'd have to be really really far off to leave the protected area on the non-holding side in a typical trainer. There are miles of protection. You'd have to have flown it so poorly that that type of entry really wouldn't matter. In fact, in a typical trainer you could...

Here's an exercise that I like, that requires just a 3x5 index card. On one side of the index card, draw a fix and a standard, right turn, holding pattern. Just the "oval" itself, no courses or anything. The on the other side draw a left turn holding pattern. Pick a side then spin the card...