Recent content by N467PS

Oftentimes kids from disadvantaged backgrounds have had overall VERY negative experiences with many adults in their lives. He may have not only been nervous about the flight, but terrified that a wrong word or action on his part could bring severe consequences for him. I'd ask your friend...

Never had flown in a small plane. Two years ago I was sent by my job to a meeting on a charter flight, on Cessna 421. Only empty seat was the co-pilot right seat. Pilot leant me a headset and explained what he was doing. When I got home I signed up for flight training and got my PPL five months...

Put that way it does seem quite obvious. What was less obvious was whether just passing through the holding fix twice, with very little of the hold pattern actually completed fit the definition of a hold. Thanks.

Doing my IR ground school. If I enter a hold in lieu of procedure turn at a VOR using a parallel entry, when I've reversed course and re-crossed the VOR have I completed the required hold? From my reading it seems that the answer should be yes, but I'll never actually have completed the full...

I checked out a Mooney at Strategic Air and met Tim Lundquist. That plane wasn't a fit but he definitely was. He became my buyer's broker and found my perfect fit plane within a few weeks. He supervised the inspection and annual and hooked me up with Bruce Yeager for transition training. A year...

I'm going to be visiting children this week. Flying out of my home base of Gillette WY (GCC) to Iowa City (IOW), a flight I've done many times. Later in the week up to Chicago to visit another kid who has just moved there. I've always flown into DuPage (KDPA) and I've loved their service and...