Recent content by VoiceOfReason

Generally favor positive posts but also appreciate the honest input I've received around here and wish to return the favor. The honest truth is that the Sporty's PJ2 radio truly sucks. It quit working, after about a total usage of 1 hour. It is 16 months old. Nobody cares. Looking on...

negative, ghost rider. cuz it won't power up when you need it. mine stopped working at month #13, just outta warranty, after less than an hours' use in total

I've looked here and elsewhere and cannot find what I'm after. I'm familiar with the Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and did well on the written test. BUT--- I cannot find a simplistic and chronologically readable of who to call and when to get my plane in the air properly. for...

of all the yiutube stuff out there for my PPL writen test I found Flight Insight to be the best presented and easiest to understand

I whined a lot about sportys learn to fly course being “incomplete” and requiring lots of book work but in the end I scored well. Which leads me to oral / checkride prep. What is yiur favorite approach and why ? videos? books?

I live on a lake in East Grand Rapids, MI. (Reeds Lake). Some guy landed a seaplane here a decade ago and it caused a stir. Why ? He was cited by the local city government and I don't know what the exact 'charges' were, but they were eventually dropped. The pilot was a CFI so it not like...

^^ all correct I'm sure, and I need a better attitude about VOR :) I race offshore sailboats and in 30 years and over 30k offshore miles I've never experienced a GPS outage but that would be a trip ! You can find me with the paper charts, compass and divider going old-school as I often get...

UPDATE: while I have whined openly about the Sportys lack of taught content vs. their very own practice tests, I did learn a lot by simply taking the practice tests over and over and then testing using their 'missed questions' function until all the questions looked familiar. By that time...

SOme excellent perspectives here, thanks to all of you. I don't care so much about passing the stupid test as I do wanting to fully absorb the information. I've got all the time in the world on when to start this, it's really just for fun. SO yeah--- I want to learn not 'pass'. I think I'll...

^^ interestingly, Navigation is absent from the list. Certainly it will be focal somehow on the test

anyone know how many hours (on top of the 40 required dual) it takes most of us to get thru all this ? i’d hate to guess but I could see getting to 100 the way i’ve been learning in reverse by failing quizzes to learn answers…

none whatsoever. I'm naive I guess and thought the Sporty's course would be a pretty much all-inclusive. nope. Time for me to pause my ambition to take that test and go learns some **** first :-O

I'm spending a silly amount of hours trying to prep for my PPL written. I've completed the Learn to Fly course (online video, sporty's) and enjoyed the course. I've also done probably 30-40 hours of test prep. When I take the quizzes I get better every time and am routinely in the 90's on...

no i’m talking about the learn to fly course im struggling w the test prep cuz 20% of it is brand new info ive never heard of throughout studying so im trying to ask this in a IFR topic ? sorry I didn’t know that

has anyone recently taken the private pilot written ? I’m interested in knowing how much weather vs weight-balance vs VOR stuff etc bonus points if you were a Sportys student and can opine about the test prep questions versus the ‘real test’