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Make sure you read the routes offered - it may just be me - but most of the routes offered are Jet routes - which may not always be appropriate....

Perhaps slightly more convenient than the West Coast. A Turbo 206 for rent in North Carolina for $120 dual and $149 solo. So yes they are out there. http://www.flightgest.com

Ron is big in the Grumman community, there is some kind of annual Grumman meeting going on I think (I'm on the mailing list, but I sort of skim it so I can't say I'm totally clear on the details). I bet Ron is probably busy and maybe doesn't have access.

It depends. You can always call for your clearance and tell them you're not ready and you'll call them back when you are ready. Which I think might achieve what you want - but means 2 phone calls. The advantage of that is you can call from the FBO the first time and take your sweet time figuring...

Ah well yes - it's a good job we have the PTS for standardisation otherwise..... I think my Private and Instrument were by the book - but they were a) a long time ago and b) I was young, naive and foolish. Since then I've taken 6 checkrides, I've ALWAYS been asked for something not in the PTS...

Eh? Are you discussing steep turns and the bank angle or did I miss something? The commercial is 50 degrees, the ATP is 45. No PTS requires a 60 degree bank that I know of.

I guess I've never seen it as a problem to laminate it and then fold it. I can see if you used the thick kind of laminate that doesn't bend, but the stuff I've always used either goes through a small machine to be heated or is just sticky plastic you can buy at an office supply store.

Oh I'm going to hate myself in the morning, but.... You could laminate your medical certificate.

I agree with your goal. However - to achieve it FIRST we need an alternative way for people to build time, because paying for the first 250 hours is expensive, if people had to pay for the first 1200 who knows who could afford to make that happen. Which ultimately leads to a pilot shortage...

Yeeeees, but they still want the same people, with the same experience, so they'll just drop the PIC requirement and perhaps replace it by a "dual given". They're not idiots. The only reason to stop CFI's logging PIC is so that they can't qualify for things under the regulations. Everybody...

I'm missing something. Why do you think CFI's are trying to build PIC time? All the "time builders" are trying to do is meet the Part 135 IFR requirements to act as PIC - there's no mention of a PIC time requirement, it's all just pilot time. So people with a Commercial and a CFI are still...

Have you tried categorizing things into: URGENT and IMPORTANT URGENT and NOT IMPORTANT NOT-URGENT and IMPORTANT NOT-URGENT and NOT IMPORTANT This can sometimes help you figure out if your job is possible. For example, if 10 hours a day of your work falls into URGENT and IMPORTANT then you're...

Some time ago, somewhere else, I suggested that pilots with an instrument rating could choose to fly only in "soft IFR". That this was perhaps a good idea for people who didn't fly IMC all that often and didn't feel fully proficient - and that an approach to a ceiling of 1,000ft was less risky...

It's black magic - lot's of people have their sure-fire absolutely always works on all kinds of engines for starting them hot, and for them it is, but when other people try to replicate it it never works - who knows why. That's why you can find almost as many ways to start a hot engine as you...

Is this site any good? http://www.cavokflying.dk/POH/