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This is crap. By POLICY, we put untrained flight attendants in pilot seats ROUTINELY so one of the guys can go take a leak. This is...

They managed to squeeze in the fact that it was cruise flight and the auto pilot was on ... so what's everyone all hyped up about...

Are they technically allowed to be in the cockpit since it’s a charter?

@RussR , oooooooh…. Ok. I’ll buy that. Weird, but not unusual. Weirder is that I can instruct in one. I asked about a CFI checkride...

@Tools , this is the entire reg. It is what it is. To renew your existing CFI certificate via the checkride method, you either take a...

First determine where this girl falls on the Hot Crazy Matrix then the rest of the decision will fall into place.

When I started flying the KC-135 we didn't have computerized takeoff data. Everything was manually done chasing spaghetti charts. You'd...

Maybe better put: My CFI has single engine and multi engine AIRPLANE ratings. I took a single engine AIRPLANE practical. No...

So there I was… doing manual weight and balance at delta for YEARS during training and recurrent… in case the system went down. The...

Well, that’s how I understand it. The FSDO here in Detroit seems to think I would have had to taken an “seaplane instructor” practical...

While we are on the subject: I’m a CFI/MEI/CFII Airplane. Does a ASES practical renew me? I’m still current. (61.197.a.1.i)

This is the perfect discussion… which reveals the root cause. Is it a disease, or not? If so, you can’t go around saying it’s “their...

Simple. I want to fly. If that desire dissipates before I complete my PPL I will quit. As long as that desire exists I will continue on.

You think it is hot now.... wait until July when the Great San Joaquine starts hitting 100 plus days... Thank you for your volunteer work.

Well… HIMS only exists to abrogate the 2 yr requirement to get an unrestricted medical. That’s it. It’s the definition of...