Recent content by Hobobiker

Sadly, I’ve moved over five hours away and haven’t flown the plane in well over a year. This is a GREAT flying club and I haven’t found prices this good anywhere near my current location. It just doesn’t make sense to keep paying my monthly dues if I’m never going to fly her. Aircraft is a...

Was hoping to fly from northwest Ohio to the WV area and then over to PA. Online weather forecasts, observations and pireps showed some pretty ugly icing everywhere and low ceilings upon return in the afternoon. Weather briefer said the same. Then a commercial pilot/CFII looking over the...

All Good! I was just showing off my cool-dude precious cargo anyway...

I went on the website of the AF group serving my area, told them I was a PP looking to become involved and they put me in touch with multiple pilots who were flying missions. I'll bet I received five calls from different pilots, all eager to explain their involvement. No harm in giving that a...

It helps to find a seasoned AF pilot and see if they'll allow you to fly along if weight allows. That's what I did, and you get to see the full range of things that go on as well as meet a lot of the other AF pilots flying the other legs. Keep in mind that many of these flights involve...

And this little guy was a cool dude! Didn't complain once about how cold it was...

I'm actually using this one now and was one of the "beta testers" a while back. What I like about this one is once you get a quiz answer correct twice, it removes the question from your "pool" of total questions - leaving you with only the ones you haven't answered correctly (twice) yet. Then...

I love it when I finally get off my butt, get it done, and think "cool - got it done for another two years." My son is working on his PPL written, so it's probably time for dad to knock out his instrument written too. I can't use the excuse about needing to build up XC hours anymore.

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Picked up our 10 year-old passenger in Battle Creek MI (BTL) and ATC gave us 12,000ft over the lake (wanted to extend our glide distance to decrease the single-engine-water-pucker-factor). Even made a nice landing into Burlington WI for him, but he was all smiles anyway. Decided to fly over...

I've been asking to become involved as a co-pilot with other AF pilots until my hours increase and I get my IR, and have the opportunity next week. I would much prefer that my community volunteer hours go toward flying those in need vs. sitting in a meeting room once a month. It's sometimes...

Here was mine, but it was kinda long... https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/another-checkride-write-up-warning-long-winded.73085/

The OP is my son (and I would have coached him to not use his real name had I known he was going to sign up for PoA so soon). He's read a lot on the forum and is learning quickly many of the different personalities, egos, helpful and not-so-helpful PoA members that reside here. Thanks to those...

No, what you're defining was what was going on at all the other airlines/gates - which is expected. What THEY experienced, regardless of whatever savings it might have got them, is already enticing comments about never flying Frontier again...

Kids and Ex have been stuck at O'Hare since 6am yesterday. First a tail swap, then delay after delay. Guess the Denver storm delayed their flights everywhere else and backed things up. Customers are seriously ticked off because they see all the other airlines lifting off, but not theirs...