Recent content by mjfrisby

I have the Zulu-2...nothing about them makes me wish I had tried another brand. I'm sure the same could be said if I had chose Bose or QT or any other high quality ANR headseat.

I started flight training in Alaska back in the mid 90's (I know...stone ages). When I started again in Florida a year ago I was like "what's flight following"...and then I was like "WTF, where was this when I was flying before?" Flight following is awesome. Except for the part where you...

I don't post much on here, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but I felt compelled to reply to this thread. I used the Gleim online course and "accidentally" scored %100 on the written. I mean, think about it. They give you all the answers. How could you not study your a** off, AND...

The first flight I took after my checkride with my wife and sister in law..two landings better any any in the weeks leading up to and during my checkride...precious cargo I guess!

My instructor was based at an airport about 75 miles away from my home field. I would regularly solo down for our lessons (in my own aircraft). Every one of my XC endorsements were in a single printed email in the back of my logbook on the day of my check ride. DPE said nothing about it.

This...except I had to fly home (based at KSUA, checkride at KFXE)...had to wait around for a couple hours for a flat nose wheel tire to get fixed (see post in "student pilots, who are we and where do we stand"....hard to stay focused for a couple hours lounging around the FBP while they fixed...

Man...reading the OP's post, the nerves I had this past monday (before my checkride on tuesday) came back to me....I realized that if I didn't know it already I wasn't going to learn it that day. Read through the PTS, "couch flying" each of the maneuvers and Oral responses... TRIED to get to...

Well, I passed my ASEL checkride this past Tuesday. 1.5 hr Oral and 1.8 on the hobbs for the practical. All the normal things you would expect on a checkride, except at the very end, after a pretty decent soft field landing back at our home base, taxiing back to the FBO where we started...

My story is a long one, certainly not the longest, but here you have it. Started my journey in Alaska in 1996 (I come from a family of pilots, like most folks from AK). Got my solo and had roughly 25 hours total at the time. Went to college, ran out of money, moved out of state (CO), went...

A great feeling. I certainly can't match your story, but I did my first solo at 18 in 1996. 14 years later (and one lost logbook) I am 35 hours deep and have my checkride scheduled for mid November. I can't wait!

My CFI has been making me practice "touch and go-arounds" recently. Essentially a full flap landing with an immediate go-around. Paid dividends the other day when on short final, tower tells me to go around as the plane landing in front of me was taking his sweet *** time getting off the...