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Well I passed my commercial floatplane checkride. Our club has a beautiful 1979 172XP on EDO floats. It has the 210hp Isham engine, a Garmin 430 with a KX155 nav com and even has an EDM 700 engine monitor. Its a beauty. Any way I've now got 16 hrs logged in it and I'm having a blast flying it...

Well I passed my Commercial check ride today at 55 years 11 months of age. Was going to stand on a bridge and strip naked and shout out with delight but I thought it might be more prudent to share it here instead. The Almighty was watching out for me and in the middle of weeks of stormy...

I'm wanting to purchase a simple but effective sim setup to practice approaches, holds etc. So far the Saitek Pro yoke with throttle quadrant and Microsoft Flight Sim looks to be a reasonable "best bang for buck" route. I would really like something that shows a plot of the approach I flew like...

As it says. I'm looking for a decent desktop set up such as Saitek. I want a good IFR practice machine. Dont really need the computer. I would like the yoke and radio set up. Thanks Mike

Hi folks, Ill be starting my commercial training a week from Monday 3/17. Looking for some pointers or insight from the CFIs or people who are commercial rated.

Monday I flew with a safety pilot and accomplished a vectored to final ILS approach to touch down, a hold (3 laps) into an RNAV approach to MDA then went missed then returned home to another RNAV approach to full stop. Super Duper morning all done before going to work. I hadn't flown since June...

Well I finished our clubs Complex IFR checkout yesterday. I took the training in our "BIGGY" 182RG that we have so it automatically covers me down the list. My last few lessons have been really good experience for my trip to Petaluma next week. We did small airports, diverting while hard IMC...

Will be flying into Petaluma in a week and a half. I've been watching the weather closely and noticed that it can remain socked in until late in the day so I want to be prepared to fly in IFR. On my Garmin Pilot app. there is a Security (stadium) TFR over Sears Point Raceway, I assume it's for...

I took my first solo IFR flight today. I flew my wife and nephew IFR up to Orcas Island today. It was a really nice day with scattered puffys. As we got further north we started punching in and out of the puffys which was incredible doing it solo finally, it's absolutely what it's all about. The...

Happy to say after a year and a half of training I passed my IFR checkride today. WOW what a big weight off my shoulders. I can't say I aced it, in fact I thought I'd blown it at one point getting the needle right at but not exceeding 3/4 scale. I sorta over corrected then re over corrected. I...

I need to get my Garmin GDL-39 male DC adaptor to charge from a USB small power supply. So from a regular male cigarette adaptor into this... http://www.amazon.com/i-Sound-Portable-Power-iPhone-BlackBerry/dp/B00439G3WS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363894399&sr=8-1&keywords=isound+16000 Any ideas?

The other day during my lesson we were prepping for a checkride. I was flying using single axis KAP 140. We were flying into KTIW (Tacoma). I did a direct entry to the hold at SCENN (the IAF) for te ILS 17. I immediately realized the KLN 94 GPS was sequencing on to the runway but I went into...

Hi all, My wife and nephew and I will be flying the 182RG to the Sonoma area June 19-24 for the NASCAR race at Infineon (Sears Point) Raceway. We're flying into Petaluma Municiple and staying in Rohnert Park. The race isn't until Sunday so we'll have 3 days to do whatever we want before. I'd...

Signed up for the 2 day "Weather Workshop" and also plan on attending Bruce's "IFR Flying with GPS". Time schedule works out well to attend both. Looking forward to it. Anybody else taking classes there?

Bob Gardner's book SAY AGAIN PLEASE just arrived so I'm eager to dive in. My radio speak pretty much sucks so I'm looking forward to some help. Mike