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Do student pilot certificates have an expiration date?

What is PMP?

Here's an AI image that some people thought was real, so they were using it as support for the idea that space aliens visited Earth in ancient times.

Aha!

The criterion for logging instrument time is not whether you are in IMC, which the FAA defines as conditions less than those required for VFR. If the FAA used that as the criterion, then for example you could log it as instrument time when you were above a cloud but less than 1000 feet above it...

Who would he be repetitively calling, and why?

Folks here seem to like to make up their own facts whenever events don't fit their expectations.

It sounds like he already completed an application for a medical certificate. If he discontinues the process now, the application will be denied, which according to 14 CFR 61.23(c)(3)(iv) will render him ineligible for BasicMed unless and until he later reapplies and succeeds in getting a...

Yikes: In 2015, both the USPA and UPT suspended Pooley's tandem examiner ratings. Despite the suspension, prosecutors say Pooley continued to lead USPA and UPT tandem instructor courses. Pooley hid the fact that he was suspended from students and falsely told them that he...

Sam's Chowder House also has Web cams, as does the airport itself. The SamCams show the final approach course to Rwy 30: https://www.samschowderhouse.com/about-sams/samcam.html The airport cam shows the south half of the field...

I've watched a lot of "sovereign citizens" do that on YouTube. It never ends well! :lol:

The thing that bugs be about battery-operated tools is that eventually the battery will need to be replaced, and it may not be possible to get one.

Not sure how that works, given that the pilot is dead too.

The NIH doesn't seem to think that the potential benefits for Covid-19 treatment are "invented." :dunno: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9784976/

Speaking of muscle memory, that reminds me of the time when I had a forced landing in a Cessna 162 Skycatcher because the fuel shutoff knob and the cabin heat knob are the same size and shape, and within a hand span of each other. Fortunately, it happened as I was climbing out of right downwind...