Recent content by mrdavedpg

You mean like the controller that just welcomed a landing Cessna to Sun 'n Fun?

Well the bills have just been introduced into their respective houses of Congress (and have been languishing there for a few months now). After they are introduced they have to go to the various subcommittees, reported out to the full committee and voted on. Only then do they come for a floor...

The FAA ultimately reports to the White House, it's part of the Department of Transportation. Any rule change takes this route. DOT because they are the cabinet under which the FAA resides (and thus have ultimate say and veto power). OMB to assess any budgetary effects.

And if the bills don't pass before that, they get tossed out and the whole process starts over again (not that they've gotten very far anyway, just collected co-sponsors).

Because DOT and the OMB can make changes. It's not complete. Imagine the outcry if for example, the FAA's original rule mirrored exactly the bills before Congress, then the DOT came through and said no, make this mirror the AOPA/EAA rule. People would be outraged, even though the rule was never...

I love how people are arguing about how an NPRM that doesn't exist yet, isn't good enough.

I believe, the dividing line seems to be about six months. If you were on them, one time for a single instance of situational depression not lasting more than six months and you're off of them for 12 months, you can simply get the prescribing physician to write you a note saying the issue is...

So I'm doubly wrong :goofy:

You're right, I stand corrected. I thought I read somewhere it was day VFR only. I suppose some people might still choose it due to the reduced training time and requirements.

You'd still need a medical to get your private because of the night flights. So aside from the reduced hours to get your sport, the dividing line would essentially become Sport: Day VFR, Private: Night VFR. There are also a few things in the private curriculum that aren't in the sport, VOR...

In my professional opinion as an expert internet commentator, I think it's all going to come down to how much momentum it can gather in the GA caucus then in Congress as a body. I highly doubt it'll become a political issue because the public neither knows about nor cares about the FAA's medical...

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Mate is a fork of Gnome 2 that basically exists to keep the Gnome 2 desktop alive and kicking. So if you missed it, there ya go. Also XFCE is also pretty slick and has a Ubuntu flavor. Nope. Most distros have LiveDVDs which you can install onto a thumb...

I've always wondered this too, but more from the aerodynamic perspective. So correct me if I'm wrong here please. Once reaching the service ceiling the plane will continue to climb ~ 100fpm. Eventually I'm assuming it'll stop climbing. At this point it will just cruise along straight and level...

I don't believe 4-6 weeks will be enough time. Even before the shut down it was around a 90 day wait. Now I believe they are still clearing out a backlog from the shutdown so the wait is longer. Dr. Bruce will obviously know the approximate wait times better than I.

So I always thought an ADD diagnosis is completely disqualifying. Recently I started listening to a new (to me) aviation podcast and one of the hosts (who owns several planes) has ADD and is pretty open about it, in fact he even runs another website/podcast for ADD support. I'm guessing if...