Recent content by flyingsailor

I do something similar, but just ask them to maintain straight and level flight with their eyes closed and head down. I'll take the throttle (to remove any audio cues from climbs/descents). Normally within 30-45 seconds, they're in an unusal attitude, have them look up. Just need to be ready for...

Sorry for the delay. Needed to create some graphics and write some equations to post on a forum, which took some time. (Note only thing worse than my drawing ability is my computer drawing ability). My apologies, but a mis-statement. There is no derivation for 11.3 per se, as it’s just a...

Posted a reply to a previous post with a link to a PDF that I scanned of my cheat sheet. Appears it needs to be approved by an admin (guess due to the links). I'll work on a post which contains the derivation. Has a couple graphics and equations.

Get ready for an amazing ride! Good luck!

Yeah, it was Jerry. Very professional and down to earth. I learned quite a bit from him during the ride (even though he wasn't actually teaching) :)

Thought I’d post a write up on my last checkride. Earned my CFII (as my initial with the FSDO) back in ’09, and then promptly stopped flying for 5 years due to work. Finally decided to start again and work on my CFI SE addon. Decided to do the ride in 2 a/c (an Arrow and 172) which worked out...