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I did the Michters “tour” in their downtown location a couple of months ago and would easily repeat. We had reservations for the bar upstairs. Cool space, nice service, and good cocktails and bourbon flights.

Reservations required/encouraged, and it’s French, so no drinking within 50’ of the airplane. (Schedule an overnight, and stay fancy at the 21c hotel in downtown.)

I was there for a stop on the way to OSH last year, and then again during a visit to Louisville to have dinner in the restaurant at the old terminal. Flying was easy in-and-out, and I loved the art deco of the old terminal. Both ATC and the FBO were easy to deal with, and I quickly got in and...

It's been the rule as long as I've known; Order 8900.2C, Chapter 7, Section 2, Subsection 15, Paragraph (a):

The DPEs I work with charge the same rate for every "half-day" checkride: Private, Instrument, Commercial, CFII, Multi, MEI They charge about 1.5x that rate for the CFI-Initial because of how much longer the test is, and they tend to only do that checkride on a given day. If a checkride is...

A parallel issue I've discussed with DPEs is that they can't use "bad weather" days to do the oral portion of a checkride. There's no starting the checkride unless the weather forecast is good enough to allow it to be completed. We've squinted real hard at weather forecasts to support a go...

BBQ at SSI (5 minute walk down the street, good food) Barnstormers at GA2 (gorgeous grass strip, restaurant on the field) You can see a couple other places (not on the straight-line path) on https://pirep.io.

I talked to a controller ~5 years ago about this, and his view (as he was retiring) was that ATC never recovered from the PATCO firings in 1981. His view was that the brain drain was substantial, and rebuilding the expertise took more controllers than could be hired and staffed. The quality...

Oh, that’s what you mean. Yes, that makes sense. I’m glad that I have a checklist for these things that don’t rely on my memory, because I end up throwing a LOC into the mix.

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I had to go back and read the current ACS, because this confused me. I don’t require pilots to use ground-based aids on IPCs today, as long as the approaches they want meet the performance standards to count for a precision approach (DA <300’). That doesn’t immediately seem like it’s changing...

You mean Arcline Investment Management cornering the propeller market would be a bad thing for aviation? Surely private equity consolidation in the aviation industry hasn't led to higher prices. It's all about unlocking value.

That looks like what I have in IACRA for my AGI. Issued via a Zoom call with the Atlanta FSDO.

If a G5 or GI-275 were installed as an HSI replacement in the 6-pack, the other CDIs can stay where they are, and the GPS can feed the CDI presentation on the HSI. That might be the "fewest moving parts" type of Frankenstein replacement, and your grey matter will need to handle looking at the...