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Hello everybody, I received my private certification last year just a few months before my wedding. After taking a few people up sightseeing I stopped flying, mostly due to the wedding planning taking up all my time and money. Its been over a year now and I am getting the itch again, although...

Hi everyone, new pilot here with some concerns. I may need to drop my brother off in Palm Springs this April and I hoping to get some feedback/ advice from others who have been there. Is flying in VFR in a C172 okay? Will it be super expensive to tie down for a couple hours, or maybe just drop...

Hello, My CFI teaches me to pretend that my obstacle is at the end of the runway, and he always uses 100' instead of 50'. His short field technique is to fly an approach at 55 KIAS, then once over the obstacle bring power back to idle. At this point your 100' above the runway and you have to...

I am just curious, how far does the trip have to be for you to go ahead and ask for flight following? As a soon to be new pilot, many of my trips will be relatively close, and I am wondering when the rest of you use flight following.

I had the oral portion of my checkride Saturday, but the flying portion was postponed due to weather. The examiner seems like a by the book sort of guy, and mentioned that he cant give second chances on the checkride. He told me a few things I can expect, and one of them was emergency descents...

The airplanes weight and balance lists the following: weight: 1161.2 arm: 30.2 moment: 35069.7 The problem is, if you multiply the weight times arm you get 35068.24. Am I missing something? Why is there a difference between the moment I calculated and the moment listed in the weight...

I scheduled my checkride for this Saturday, and one of the DPEs request was that I bring with me al the weather information listed in the PTS. To be honest I never used the charts for XC planning, and I guess I am just wondering where the best place to print these charts is? DUATS? NOAA? To...

I have been with my flight school since March, working towards my private pilot certificate, and since then I have met all the required hours. I recently spent 5 hours, split over two lessons doing a mock oral exam with my instructor...we started on the flying portion of the mock checkride, but...

My brother is coming from the east coast to visit me in February, and I expect to have a freshly minted pilot certificate ready to take us somewhere when he does. We have talked about going to Universal Studios in the past, but the drive from San Diego has always deterred us from doing it. I was...

This is a long shot, but my CFI told me he would likely set me up with Jay Brentzel out of Carlsbad, CA for my private pilot checkride. Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with Jay they would be willing to share.

I am trying to get an estimate on how long I could fly on the battery alone in the event of an electrical system failure. The plane is a Cessna 152 with 24 volt battery. Is there some sort of math I can do to figure this out?

Now that I am close to getting my ticket, I am beginning to wonder how I will use it. My biggest question is what I am suppose to do once I land at a destination airport an hour or two from home? If I want to go explore the city I am in, do I need to rent a car? I have heard FBOs have a car that...

Android has a few moving map GPS options out there now, and they all include a trial period. Which apps have you tried, and which app did you choose as THE app to use?

I just downloaded the Naviator app on the android marketplace, and I am trying to create a profile for a Cessna 152, however I cant seem to find all the information required in my airplanes POH...and if I can find the information, I am unsure which altitude I should use to take the numbers from...

Hello everyone, I have a dual XC with my instructor this Sunday. We are planning to fly from CRQ to SMO to LGB to CRQ. I was planning on using the Los Angeles special flight rules area, and picking up the 132 (312) radial at SMO somewhere over the ocean, and outside of the SNA airspace. The...

Hello, My instructor has tasked me with planning my first dual cross country. We are flying from KCRQ (Palomar) to L35 (Big Bear). I initially drew a direct line from KCRQ to L35, but realized the mountains around L35 were quite high. I am wondering how I should handle flying into Big...

Well yesterday was my first solo experience in the practice area. I made a right, down wind departure and climbed to 4500 as I headed towards the practice area. Once the tower approved my frequency change, I switched to 122.75 which is the common frequency used in SoCal. I wasn't exactly...

I am a student pilot who just soloed, now I want to get a decent headset in anticipation for my cross countries. From what I understand the David Clark H10-13.4 headset is the standard headset in aviation. I have heard that DC's can feel like a vice on your head though, something I have...

Taken from my blog http://pilotsjourney.blogspot.com/ Well today was the day...today I soloed! The day started with my preflight inspection. The plane had just come back from its 100 hour maintence and it had a new propeller, new tires, new brakes and rotors...sweet! The winds were calm...

I am expected to solo tomorrow, however I am nervous. I am nervous because my instructor (who I enjoy, and has been instructing since the 70s) has made virtually no mention of ground school to me. I have taken it upon myself to find a syllabus close the the Jeppesen syllabus, and read along...