Recent content by cdr680

You need to contact FSDO... and a lawyer. You owe no allegiance to respect to the school or the DPE. For all intents and purposes, they have cheated or defrauded you. The CFI telling you you had no right to go elsewhere is clueless and lying through his teeth.

A third vote for AIR. They insured me in my Aztec when I was working on multi-engine and after I had 100 hours total time in it, reduced the premium by 10%. When I decide to get another plane, AIR will be the insurance people.

I used to burn a tank dry until I had the rear engine on a Skymaster refuse to relight. Turned out, the fuel selector decided to fail right after I ground checked it during run-up. Since then, I leave 10 gallons or so in the tank in case I gotta switch back. I haven't noticed any significant...