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Flew with someone yesterday who has a GTX345. The unit displays the altitude it is sending. For the first part of the flight it was mostly correct, although it occasionally jumped to an incorrect value (2k or 3k higher) and back. Later in the flight it just reported the wrong altitude the whole...

A question for instructors (or students who've had a similar experience)... I've got a private pilot student with his own plane who wants to do his long solo to an airport in another state (~250 miles away) to visit a friend. He'll spend most of the day there before returning. This is probably...

A student of mine wants to fly to Belize later this year to scuba dive in the coral reefs. I may end up going along. I'm very interested in any experiences people had flying in that area in a light plane (Cherokee). We're leaving from the midwest, could either go south through Mexico, or SE...

Curious if CFIIs are doing partial panel training in solid IMC. I've heard mixed opinions on whether it's a good idea. Did anyone do partial panel training while IMC during their instrument training? Instructors, do/would you do this with a student training for an instrument rating?

Here's the scenario: Aircraft owner is a student pilot (not yet signed off for solo). Plane is in a shop in another state for upgrades. Owner can't fly it back alone so goes to the local FBO and hires one of their CFIs to go with him to get the plane. They fly back with the plane. Upon later...

A friend just had a GTX345 added to his plane. It already had a GTN650. I've only been able to poke at it briefly on the ground but I couldn't find any indication that the GTN650 is aware of the GTX345. I had thought that if nothing else, it would show up under External LRUs, but nothing is...

An old altimeter in a glider I'm flying has a triangle mark (see picture). No one I've asked seems to know what it means. I've got a guess but I'm hoping someone here can tell me for sure.

Say I'm going to an airport where the ceilings are 1000' AGL and the pattern altitude is 800' AGL. Assume 800' puts me in class E which won't work VFR due to cloud clearance. Can I file IFR to the field, shoot an approach down to the runway and then do touch and gos staying IFR to avoid the...

I was out flying recently and ATC instructed me to advise them at a certain point. I said I would and carried on flying as planned. When I get to the point, I remember advising ATC as instructed and I heard them make a call notifying other traffic of me based on my position report, so I knew...

Just saw this METAR: KBNW 202035Z AUTO 30010KT 10SM SCT034 BKN050 SCT065 21/15 A2983 RMK AO2 I'm confused that a scattered layer can be reported at 6500 when there is a broken layer at a lower altitude. I was under the impression that you could never have a layer at a higher altitude reported...

One of my students put me on the insurance for his plane. They gave me a pilot history form to fill out. Did that and it was all good. Now they have a second pilot history form wanting basically the same info. It also wants my social security number. I don't particularly feel like giving that...

I'm helping a friend organise the paperwork for his plane. He's been flying around with all the paperwork ever produced for the plane which seems pointless. I want to reduce it to only what needs to be in the plane and keep the rest elsewhere. He's got a bunch STC forms, 337s, and instructions...

I'm a CFI looking for options on a plane to do limited instruction with. Obviously insurance is going to be much higher than if I was just insuring for my own flying. But from what I've been told from one insurance person, my only option is a commercial policy that lets me rent it to whoever, do...

A flight school linked from another thread goes on and on about how they are an actual school and not a "training broker". I've never heard of a training broker before. I understand the concept - basically some random guy you pay for flight training and they subcontract your training to someone...

Are controllers required to report pilots that cause runway incursions? I seem to recall reading that this didn't used to be the case but is now required because the FAA started focussing on runway incursions.

I think someone is forwarding their number to my cell. Is this a thing? And how do I stop it? I've had the same cell number for years. A month or two ago my phone started getting random wrong number calls. I didn't think anything of it, then I started getting voice mails that didn't make sense...

twin commanche insurance requirements? Anyone happen to know what requirements I can expect for the open pilot clause on a twin commanche?

If I have several pilots looking to do a flight review, is there any reason I can't do the ground instruction part of that with a small group instead of one on one with each of them? Assuming this is ok, has anyone done this? How did it work out?

I've got a Cessna POH from the 70s (pdf I found online) that has no copyright message on the title page. Am I able to print and distribute copies legally? My understanding is that it's old enough that the copyright message was required to establish copyright and without it, it is public domain...

Some questions for the instructors (especially those working independently) out there... I'm interested in how you handle the financial side of instructing. How are you set up from a tax/business standpoint? Are you offering services in your name, or do you have some sort of business set up...