Sounded like a fun place - took 2 students from the local flight school - took the club Cardinal from KBJJ - and made the trip up saturday - dodging weather going up and back - 3.8 hours of IMC - must say that airzoo is a nice place!!
I have not seen any walk away - some just take it slower for money reasons.
Some are just progressing slowly due to ADM issues caused from good-enough-itis.
Study the manuever - understand how wind direction effects them - understand your airplane - then grab a chair, 2 hours of time with no one close by and no cell phone close by.
Close your eyes and fly each manuever - talking out loud - in teaching mode - do it like it was real - if you screw...
So my view will be quit unpopular.
First off - I grew up on a farm and love animals.
Reptiles in someones house - snakes in the house - small aligators in the house??
Not only is that illegal in many states - but let me just say this - the kinds of people who have an attraction for those...
From my experiance:
All my check rides - they expected me to have a good broad knowledge base on all subjects.
They all want to here a solid - I dont know but can look it up - if I did not know something.
They all found my limits and then watched how well versed I was at getting the...
Good to hear that there are CAP wings that are good - my experiance with the local CAP (good old boys club) was VERY dissapointing - nothing but a waste of my time, money, and a padding of a few good old boys egos!!!!
My experaince with PALS and angel flight has been GREAT!!!!
This kind of stuff happens in places other then Alaska!!
I met an older guy (who owns his own airplane) about a year ago at an airport I fly at - 20 years ago he won several competitions including spot landing and bag drops - at that time he was a very good stick and rudder pilot - just a bit...
When I was in my Insturment training... I printed out a large pic of a heading indicator.
I looked the other way - put my fingure on the pic - that number was my location (radial).
Did that again - that was my heading direction.
Did it again - that was the radial I was going to hold on...
Just the facts:
I joined CAP for one year.
I realy wanted to help - spent 9 months going to meetings and being ignored.
I took all the online courses and sceduled a meeting with the man in charge to look everything over and see where to go from there. At the sceduled time I went to meet...