Recent content by Rneuwirth

My daughter is moving to Dublin OH, a suburb of Columbus just west of Ohio State. I'll be visiting four or five times a year, flying out, staying for 3-4 days then off for home. Flying my Mooney Ovation. Looking for local knowledge about airports. KOSU is closest but we'll not be associated...

After 2 years and 200hrs, i finally convinced my terrified wife to climb into a C172 with me. I had just returned from a solo overnight 600nm each way trip to visit our daughter. I took her up in the early morning for a quick 45nm jaunt to a local attraction (the Devil's Tower in NE Wyoming)...

Long time since my last post! Lots of unfortunate family issues got in the way. I finished my PP-ASEL about a year ago, and I've started and stopped my IR training a few times since then. I'm definitely going to get it finished within the next few months. Today I bought into a flight...

Very well. That Gleim book is the best! Now that I've demonstrated an ability to interpret approach charts, I'd better learn how to actually fly them. Details, details, details.

Doc, I'm sitting in a hotel room in Helena, MT getting ready to take my knowledge exam tomorrow. After looking at a lot of different study options, I think that the FAA publications and the Gleim notes and guide is plenty. I'm amazed at how much more comfortable I feel with my understanding...

Members of this board are the best!!! Taking my IR Knowledge Exam Friday, so I've been a bit busy, but next week I'll be on the phone finding my Mooney teacher. Lots of good leads, but that Vegas deal with a M20K 305 Rocket conversion sounds like the opportunity to drive a Formula 1 race...

I guess as a student just beginning my IR training I really don't get all the nuance contained in the question, but it seems to me if this second scenario is a no-go for an instrument pilot, he's really saying that any real IFR flight is too dangerous in a piston single. As I understand it...

Medical malpractice cases have been looked at for years. Oftentimes it comes down to a jury hearing opposing views from "experts", and therefore dismissing both expert opinions because they understand neither, finally deciding the case because the plaintiff "deserves" some money, and it only the...

Thanks for that. I've got a brother-in-law in Pineville, and it would be the perfect excuse to get to visit him. I'll get with the folks at Flying Tiger this week!

Anybody know of any CFI's who give instruction in Mooneys? I've got my PP-SEL, my high performance endorsement and I'm working on my IR. I'd like to get my complex endorsement, and since a 1980s vintage Mooney M20k is on my list of possible planes, I thought if I could find someone who...

I'm in Gillette. Took my check ride Worland.

Ronnie: I understand and respect everything that you've said. However, using myself and my situation as an example; I live on the High Plains of North Eastern Wyoming. The vast majority of true IMC days are not appropriate for a single engine non-FIKI plane. Yet this is where I do the...

Although many of the responses are interesting, they don't really address what (I believe) was the OP's original question. Since it's something that's been on my mind quite a bit as well, let me re-state it here. Most of us (excepting any plaintiff's attorneys on the board) understand that...

Actually no, this was my very first IFR lesson. I had thought that perhaps the intensity of the lesson as well as the length of time under the hood might have contributed to the problem, but up until that very last few seconds I actually felt just great. Also, good point about not eating or...

C182P with the 280hp conversion, onj glideslope, at 70 KIAS, and really stabilized and ready to land. Had I not felt the dizziness, disorientation it would have been a textbook landing. BTW when flying IFR for real, if you've got the landing environment clearly in sight and all the other...