Recent content by Maulrus

Can't believe I never checked this out. Renting would be cheaper by 20 bucks an hour, and looks like I could get my tailwheel and complex endorsements over there. I've been fretting over how expensive it was gonna be to rent at KNEW, so this is a great find. Think I might drive down there...

I'm a recent PPL out of one of those flight schools at Lakefront, and to my knowledge that's about it around here. If you find anything else, let me know. Are you moving here?

While I'm still a student, I know what kind of equipment I'll have available to me after I get my license. I won't be able to do a whole lot of cross country flying, but when I am it'll be restricted to a pretty barebones rental 152, so I'll be stuck with the E6B. Besides (and this might just be...

Clear communications are most definitely not a negative. I guess the reason I asked was I thought it might be undesirable on a busy frequency; of course, now that I'm saying it, I can't imagine I'd even be clogging up the pattern on such a hypothetically busy day, so the point is basically moot...

Now I know that being cleared for the option encompasses full stops as well, but my instructor has me in the habit of notifying the tower that we'll be making a full stop after we've been doing touch-n-goes even though the tower has always cleared us for the option. Is it preferable to do this...

Update: had the oral portion of my final stage check (had to defer the flight due to marginal weather). I passed, but the instructor recommended that I replan the latter half of my flight; I had it crossing through A-292 to the west-southwest of KCEW, rather than passing north to avoid it, and...

Okay, so staying under the MOA isn't an too good an option. However, as long as I can fly through it (barring some kind of active use, of course), I should be good.

That makes sense, okay. Also it says Eglin B excludes the area under 1500 AGL, so I suppose I could keep that in mind. Thanks for all the help!

Alright, thanks. I'm still curious about the MOA I'd have to fly through; there's no requirement to get a clearance if it's not restricted, right?

Alright, thanks for the tips. This is also gonna be my first time flying into an MOA; no way around it, as my destination is nestled within the Eglin B MOA. Seeing as it's not a restricted area (and I'll be able to avoid the part of Eglin that IS restricted), do I need to get a clearance in...

Do you mean the radial along the route we be inconvenient? Should I really just forget about VORs as far as planning goes? And the 152 I'm flying doesn't have DME. It is a bare-bones little trainer, for sure. Also, yeah I suppose coastal flying will provide me with more than enough convenient...

Thanks everybody! As far as using two VORs, that's not so much of an option; the 152 I'll be flying only has one NAV receiver, so triangulating using two VORs would be tough. I think I'll slip in one radial along the route where it's convenient, just to demonstrate that I'm at least thinking...

I am a couple of days away from my final stage check. I've done a couple of cross countries, but they were both to airports only a bit more than 50 miles away, and basically amounted to straight shots. I found out today that for my stage check and checkride, I'm gonna be planning a flight well...

Yeah, no worries there, I have that endorsement. Anyway, thanks for all the answers everybody! Really cleared up my confusion. :D

Okay, that makes sense. But I could, if I felt so inclined, go up there and buzz around underneath that airspace without saying a word to Departure, right (not that I'm planning to do so, of course)?