Recent content by theonlyski

I am a flight instructor primarily teaching in Cirrus aircraft. There's nothing exceedingly special about doing commercial maneuvers in them over a 172, you just have to be paying attention because a nose down attitude will have you picking up speed a bit faster.

The hardest part will likely be finding a DPE or FSDO to meet with to get your application signed and temp certificate printed. CFIs can sign the application (verifying your identity) but then you'd have to wait for the feds to issue the certificate at some point.

For what it's worth, I had a kind of similar situation (though not bi-polar). The FAA requested the full battery. Bruce (having read my full military and VA files) knew it was bull and after a couple of visit to my MH doc and a copy of the notes, my 2nd class SI showed up in the mail. (Somewhat...

I did my instrument training and checkride in N4655X, which is TWE's C150 (yes, I was being cheap. It had a single G430, which was fun for identifying fixes at intersections, but it is what it is! Besides a couple minor gripes, I had no problems with the school and would have no problems going...

Your learning statement codes can be looked up on here: http://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/media/learningstatementreferenceguide.pdf

I got some good laughs (would've been more if it weren't so sad) listening to the ground/tower at FXE, to the point that I kept tower dialed in as far as I could returning to VDF.

In the conversations I've had with some officials, it's not the intent of it to be lax on this point, however if someone who held a GI certificate with instrument and advanced privileges were to self endorse for private, commercial and instrument rating writtens were to get caught, there would...

Out of pure curiosity, which regulation prohibits self-endorsement by a ground instructor? :rolleyes: