Recent content by Allen Epps

The backend is all PFM to me but it works really well to keep me out of trouble.:) Well, mostly. :D Once you do it a couple times the DC SFRA isn’t hard and Potomac Approach is used to peoples first time and always helpful.

No. If you select VFR DC SFRA then I suspect that FF takes your data and puts it in an ICAO flight plan and sends

Yep. My fault for not looking. VFR DC SFRA to a gate and when the tell me clear I ask to pick up my IFR over wherever I started it. Should have looked at ff before I typed!

Sorry. Meant to say the correct type is VFR DC SFRA In ForeFlight it’s a pull down option on the flight plan type.

Sure, if they could get the prop to spin the opposite direction. :)

My PPL in late May in MD was approx a 1/2 hour checking all the paperwork and signing and such. An hour or so of oral. Weather prevented the flight that day but the flight itself was a 1.5 a few days later.

Well after my time there (87!) but the IFS is run by a civilian contractor (FBO/flight school) to get potential students up through solo and some flight time before they begin Navy flight school. I suspect that drives the Class III need.

I finished my private this spring. I flew out of Fredrick at Frederick Flight Center. It's a little drive depending on traffic for you but it's DC so everything is. On weekends it's a piece of cake. I chose it for a few reasons. 1) Full time instructors including a couple who are not...