Recent content by french22

Dear all Thanks for these so useful replies. It helps me a lot. Kudos for AggieMike detailed answer. About drinking vs. driving, I hope he understands the stakes as he's flying too.

Dear all My son is studying in California (I’m living in France). After a couple of months there using bicycle and public transportation he decided to go for a driving licence. He will soon need a car and neither his student budget nor my cash status will allow the buying of a nice fancy car...

We had a blast ! :) Unfortunately we had to reduce our flight days to a bare couple. We enjoyed every bit of it notwithstanding a very unwelcoming weather which prevented us to fly a bay tour. We flew from KRHV : cheaper than PAO, less traffic, and PAO was overcast the first day we could fly...

Thanks guys for your great help. Will visit PAO as soon as I will arrive in CA.

Thank you so much for all your comments. You are really helpful I'm more inclined to go to a place a bit less busy, so PAO would be a first choice. And also a possible place from which my son will fly during its next 2 university years. To be more precise - yes, I'm not IR - I plan to fly...

Dear all, My son and I will spend the third week of August in the SFO area with not much else to do but flying. Yes, life can be a b.... :) Although I have my US / EU PPL equivalence, I lack the necessary training to fly on my own (at least the first couple of days) in an unknown US area...

Worse, because this plane was created by French engineers: "look guys, we are going to imagine a new plane. Yeah! We'll change everything, not because it's useful but because we want to add the French touch". Should have they been English engineers, they would have painted all levers in the...

Flying VFR only, I bug the runway in use too. As I have at least a VOR onboard, I use the OBS if I dont have bug on the heading indicator. It's not 100% bulletproof, but it's a good help. Another good trick is to stick a post-it on the instrument panel with runway in use and traffic patern...

Same for me: QT Halo are worth the investment. I flew many years using passive, cheap or second hand headsets ("let's save money for more hours"). Getting older, I decided to upgrade for ANR and used a Dre6001 during a few months: a great improvement but I wasn't so comfortable with the...

LOL I'm not Thierry Henry. Just another Thierry (less fit and older). However, I must give credit to Mr Henry of making my first name more understandable abroad.

@iHenning: indeed, I will try to come by air this time or a next one. It's part of the dream too. But my first time won't be as PIC, I would feel better to experience that from the right seat. I've listened KOSH frequencies on LiveATC, and I caught most of it. But only "most". So more...

"Be adventurous", you bet. Can you imagine the scene: a strong french accent over the tower freq, repeating continuously "say again, uh, say again".... I know it's called Air Adventure but the poor guys there don't deserve this one :) Kidding apart, arriving there in plane would be the...

Dear all, Sometimes SantaClaus exists: as I was complaining about AZ not being an option for this summer, my wife just ordered, demanded, my son and I to attend Oshkosh 2014. Just the two of us. :yes: She said something about "her being fed up of me whining about it every time and couldn't...

Sylvain, We did a "flying week" with my son last summer. We chosed to fly in Florida and, man, we had a great time: 100$ burgers, flying over big airports, performing approaches at Space Shuttle Facility (yeah!), flying Stearman ..... We flew VFR over Manhattan too (couldn't not do it)...

Thanks a lot guys for your prompt answers. I appreciate a lot. @timwinters: I'm a definitive flat lander. Here in France, our base airfield is 2km from the sea with a 450ft altitude. Closest mountains are 3 hours distant. About planes: I intend to rent a Skyhawk or a PA28. I know those...