Recent content by SethV

You can fly around under the hood with a CFII or safety pilot and log simulated instrument in it. Logging approaches, it sounds like no. I would be surprised if a DPE would do an instrument ride in a VFR only airplane. Every applicant I have sent to instrument checkrides has needed to show...

My son is 18 and is now currently flying full time. If you are self motivated, part 61 is much less expensive and faster. My son soloed at 16, got his private and instrument at 17. Soon as he turned 18 he did his commercial, multi, CFI and CFII along with a CE-500 and CE-560XL SIC type...

As a CFII, the "how long will it take" question is pretty common. Also the hardest question to answer. Of course I have a syllabus, but that is a list of tasks to master. Not how long it will take. Its not like everyone will finish after they fly each lesson in the plan one time. I have had...

E90 has boots and can carry a LOT of ice before it becomes a problem. Looks to me that his speed never stabilized on the approach, just kept bleeding off. I really doubt it was ice that brought him down. He overshot final initially, then let the speed decay. That speed decay plus some ice...

I wish! My wife is a stay at home mom, and fortunately other than a 4k+ per month horse hobby, she is pretty frugal. No debt on any of the toys also helps free cash flow.

Less than I spend on my wife and daughters horses...and we have a SR22 and a Champ. Best way to make aviation seem cheap is buy horses.

Sold! They are a fine headset. And I have recommended them to students many times. I just like the Bose better for my head. Planes range from a super loud Champ, to a Cirrus to King Air to Jets.

I have a Lightspeed Zulu 3 for sale with case. Only used 3 times, bought brand new from the Lightspeed website directly as a backup headset. I decided that I like the Bose A20 better after all, so i am selling these and getting the Bose for my spare headset. These work fine, but I personally...

G2 SR22 with TKS, non Turbo. 170 TAS LOP at about 13.5 gph. Lots of options out there. For us, 4 usable seats and a comfortable airplane with great avionics it was an easy winner.

Some people like the 440's - i HATE them. I would take a 430 over the 440 any day. I would even pay more for the 430 than a 440. Super clunky for IFR. Annoying frequency suggestions and you have to dismiss the menu, no VTF button, way to many steps to delete the flight plan and start with a...

I prefer GP. It seems to take less clicks to get to the information I need vs FF. Both are great, but my money goes to GP. When I have a student with FF and we are both trying to pull up the same information GP almost always gets the job done quicker. Maybe a few less features, but I also...

That climb at the end does not look like spatial disorientation to me. Usually spatial disorientation might include a climb for a bit, but usually not to that degree before a bank degrades the lift and it enters a descending spiral. I fly a PC12 NG and discussing this with another PC12 pilot...

Get a cold weather kit. Not good to run the CHTs that cold and especially don't do touch n gos with them running that cold. Cold weather kit reduces the airflow coming and and is super easy to install and remove on our SR22.

Sounds normal to me. Its also normal for you to feel "behind" the airplane when things get busy. That will also subside with time. I also often see a learning plateau and a struggle with some more challenging things like crosswind landings at about your current time. So if you feel that...

As much as I hate regulations, I do wish there was a way to see those things on a traffic system. Closest I have ever come to a mid-air was on an ILS into VPZ. Popped out of the clouds at about the FAF and just below and to my 1:00 at very short range was a paraglider. No time to react and no...