Recent content by Immelman

If you fly for an airline its really simple: Look at your FOM and use that guidance. At my employer, outside commercial flying was not allowed due to the prior time limits. It took a year, but the rules were eventually relaxed to match 117, and now I can go legitimately instruct or do other...

Next time, if you feel the landing will be safe with the distance remaining to the traffic, ask tower to confirm landing clearance and land.

Could have been some contaminants from the night before (they got some snow, right? I was out there yesterday myself). Also could be cold-soaked fuel that caused frost to form after landing.

No Mooneys listed? What the... I've got an M20E.

For anybody on the fence on this: Just go cram for the test, take it before the deadline, and brain dump it. When you get hired the operator will teach you how to do performance using their approved data and methods.. and it will likely not resemble the ATP written whatsoever (and be much...

They were just in awe of my airplane, which is no joke parked about 25 yards in front of your nose there. You're welcome!

Its true, pro pilots suck for the following reasons: They are notoriously cheap, grossly undercompensated at the lower ranks, widely revered by women (until they find out about the notoriously cheap and grossly undercompensated parts), and worst of all they gloat endlessly. By the way, my...

Mammoth! Go for the hiking, stay afterward for hot springs for a bit before you head out.

Wyoming has quite a bit of absolutely stunning country, and some, not so much. I am very partial to the Wind River range. If I were you and had to drive it... OR fly it - I'd head to Riverton and then up through Dubois towards Jackson's Hole and into the park from there. That whole area bounded...

No, but.. A few years ago, KMHV, Scaled Composites was having an open house and career day. And a couple of fly-ins. A LOT of people showed up. The tower was slammed. I got comms established and did what they said, got established on final, no clearance. Now the controller was slammed more...

What Henning said, plus: During your travels, make it a point to transit several terminal areas (class B/C). Go in and out of the main airport of a couple, out of an outlying GA airport a couple times. The theme here is getting comfortable with how ATC will work you.

The thing to think about in a single engine airplane is radiation fog, which is typically right down to the ground if it forms and frequently shows up just *after* sunrise when the air is coolest. You'll see it form in low lying areas such as valley floows, and will wipe out many emergency...

Get a degree that gives you marketable skills that is not aviation specific. Accounting, business, engineering, etc. Two reasons: 1. Anybody can lose their medical, and then what? 2. I've been told by more than one major airline pilot that they try to hire a diverse pilot group. The big thing...

No comment on the legal question, but as an aside when I went through indoc at my first airline, we learned various terms for weight and balance since standard weights were used. Above age 12 a person is counted an "adult", a child 2-12 is a "half-weight", 0-2 in an appropriately secured FAA...

tldr: GO DO IT!! :D I started flying when I was a teenager. Had more time than money. I took the written when I was 16, after reading just about every training book I could get my hands on and taking a formal groundschool from a CFI who subsequently trained me, and signed me off for the...