Recent content by Flyparrothead

NC State has a great engineering school. I lasted two years in Aerospace engineering before I switched to political science. For some reason I though pilots had to be engineers. :mad2: Luckly, my first discover flight cleared that up.

I used to date a girl that lived in Roanoke. The airport is nice, been there a few times with students, the city is nice. I guess I just have a bad taste of Roanoke because she lives there lol

I had an examiner yell at me on my Commercial checkride because I didn't put the gear down during a Chandelle. I racked my brain trying to think if I had ever been shown one like this before, and thought back to both the PTS and AFH, and neither technique was taught like this. After the ride...

Even at peek times, I have never had any issues getting in to Charlotte. If you are IFR, it shouldn't be an issue.

Welcome Rich, glad to have you here.

Could offer to pick up some of the fuel. Or even something like let me take you out to dinner or buy you a beer, or maybe next time you fly, offer him a trip w/ you.

Those are great pics. I just finished showing some co-workers the pics of the falls and they all loved them. Kudos.

Very little flying with the CFI. At least it was for me. I did mine right on the heels of getting my commercial license, so I was familar with the maneuvers, the only difference was flying from the right seat. I think all total, I flew with my instructor maybe a total of 6 times while I was...

Greetings

I was shown a spin when I was working on my PP. Now, most instructors won't show a spin. Spins are no big deal once you understand the mechanics behind them, and you are in the right category kind of a/c.

Don't forge the last "C" - Comply. On just about every checkride I have had either on one of the landings, or like on my commercial after we had finished the ride and my examiner told me to take him back to Concord, good job, about 300 feet he told me an aircraft had just taxied onto the...

what kind of an adapter would you get from spruce aviation? I just got back from Best Buy and found canon I like, but I know the mic input on the camera is too small.

Have fun with the X-Countrys. I went from Concord up to Pittsburgh, spent the weekend with friends and then flew back. The long cross country for the commercial was one of the more fun training trips I took during my time training.

The simulator on the garmin page is a lot of help. Download it and just practice loading approaches

wow, that was a great article, glad everything turned out like it did.