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I've started getting into the bad habit of not initiating flight following because much of the time I'm flying in Orlando or Tampa airspace and they have been unable to provide it a lot of the time. So I am starting from worst case scenario of I've been flying for a bit and didn't pick up...

So I'm planning a trip from Central Florida around the coast to New Orleans. I'm planning around R2915 and I see the airspace restriction is continuous. If I'm not under Flight Following who would I contact to transition across that space. Specifically R2915B which is surface - unlimited...

Don't news sources understand the value of telling the N number? How are we supposed to jump to conclusions about the maintenance and preflight habits if we don't know who owns the plane?

I'm looking at purchasing my first aircraft and would be up for a possible partnership with it. As such I'm going to put it into an LLC on purchase in order to make bringing on a partner easier as I won't have to move the aircraft into an LLC and do a re-registration etc. What I'm trying to...

This reminds me of the time I did a checkout in a 182 for a new Rental outfit I was considering using shortly after getting my ticket. Their checkout pilot wasn't in instructor but was a Commercial pilot who had been flying PC-12s. So we go out flying and he has me landing at this tiny runway...

I recall running to a place in Maryland where you could buy them but only if you didn't have a maryland license. Since I was in Virginia and my buddy was military we loaded up. We fired off a few around 11:00pm waiting on new years and had a guy pull up extremely irate. He was screaming about...

Thats a creative way to get out of a car payment.

I’ve heard stories when I trained at KHEF from the older instructors about doing that and doing high speed touch and gos when they had heavy traffic coming in late at night.

Based on further discussion with fellow new pilot I think it may have come from the Flight school that was conveyed wrongly as FAA rule instead of a school safety policy by the CFI. I guess we need to keep in mind that there is a major variance in the teaching from CFI to CFI and school to school.

I recently had a discussion with another recently graduated Private who was told by his CFI that for night currency your night landings had to be taxi backs. I've always considered Stop & Go's to qualify based on my reading of 61.57(b)1 and consultation of my CFI during my training. Since this...

How timely. I just came across a certain Youtube video on the topic. It wasn't IFR specific but it did address the issue.

So you are the Buckee student doing the 6 mile patterns at 65 knots every monday morning during my training.

Following this post. I'm definitely enjoying watching the progress. Please keep us up to date @April Evans

I'm beginning some self study for my Instrument rating as I pick up my cross country time to get close enough to do Part 61 training. One thing I've run into on my longer trips is my pilot endurance vs aircraft endurance. I've filed VFR flight plans from departure point to final destination...

I typically tip between 15% and 20% if they have done the basics of take my order, keep my water filled and check on my a couple times. If the service has been below that I'll tip 10%. If I feel the tip has to be below that I'm speaking to the manager and I'm doing it after I settle the check...