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Before looking for a replacement I would get it to a prop shop and have them give you an official response, the photos might be enough for them to say don't bother bringing it to them. . Or they might says 1. That's normal, not an issue, 2. Easily fixed 3. Needs further inspection to know for...

Not in the past 25 years. when I was looking, yes legally you could fly for the airline with 250hrs. Practically no airline would look it you if you didn't have 800hrs and 200hrs multi time. Even then the advice I got was the best way to get hired was to be Non-white and Female, so they could...

That may be why they issued the LAHSO, to make sure Wake turbulence wouldn't be an issue. Brian

Exactly... After getting my Pilots certificate I had probably 25 hours of getting off work at 11pm and flying for 45minutes to an hour around the local area. So I had quite a bit of night time for a low time pilot. Then a friend and I decided to do a Saturday morning Cross Country flight. Doing...

yep, I flew my sub $14,000 glider (in my thumbnail) for 20+ years. I sort of won a lottery a few years ago (insurance settlement), and graduated to a sub $35,000 glider. Then I go the airport meetings and listen to all the neighbors complain about those rich pilots making noise and using the...

I agree with the above. Friend of mines job in the military was retrieving the cameras from U-2's when they landed. He asked the U-2 pilots what they did for fun on the weekend. When they told him fly glider, he decided needed to check out flying gliders, and has not been flying glider for...

I recently watched them haul off a 182 for scrap, that had been improperly stripped. There is value in getting someone that knows what they are doing. To OP's question, my impression with very little experience to back it up is unless you can do most of the work yourself, which rules out pretty...

Not if you think about it a bit. This is probably the reason the DPE says this as pilots mistake the soft field landing to mean touching down soft vs landing on soft material. You can do a soft landing and easily still not meet the ACS requirement for a soft field landing. The main point of a...

The best answer is you should visit Bruce's website http://www.aeromedicaldoc.com, (How to start) and contact him directly. He will be able to evaluate your specific case and tell you exactly where you stand and how best to proceed. Brian CFIIG/ASEL

Apparently to many engines scare me, one is scary, two is worse :) Actually I would probably like flying multiengine stuff, just never had the money or the need to do so. I seem to have acquired 8000+ hours flying one engine or less. My friend tells the story of his Multi engine check-ride...

Thanks Bruce, I really appreciate you posting updates to FAA policies. On a slightly related note. But probably sending the thread a totally different direction. Quoting one of your previous quotes was something like "When the FAA says do ABC that doesn't mean do BCA" One of my students...

my North side shingles put material into my gutter for 20+ years before I replaced it. It wasn't leaking but many of the shingles were curling up and no longer had material on them I probably waited at least 5 years longer than I should have to replace it, But the only issue it had was it...

I am no expert but did the roof on my previous house twice. I lived there 28 years. But is was also only about 1000 sqft of roof. I just used Home Depot 25year shingles both times. 1st time I stripped the double layer of singles off the south side only. Put Tar Paper down and shingles, Borrowed...

If you own it long enough you will likely get one or more of these $25/50k repairs. We have owned our Scout for about 25 years now. Did really good for the 1st 20years, but about 5 years ago a Crankshaft AD finally required an engine tear down and new cylinders for the $25K repair. looks like...

I have using the ASA Oral test prep guide for over 30 years. Was going through the lastest version and it occurs to me it is twice as thick as it has gotten a lot more wordy on a lot of the answers making it harder to figure out what the "short answer" is. I thought it was wordy enough when I...