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Question. Is your instructor assisting or taking the controls during landing? Also, how many hours, how far along in training? And as others have said 78-80 is way to fast for a piper. The low wing will just sit on the "cushion" of air being created and float half way down the runway. Abeam...

Two years is to long. I assume hearing this you have not been flying regularly. You have to fly to keep moving forward. If you have to much time between flight you forget, and you lose ground. Also, lets say you just cannot fly 2-3 times a week. That's still something I can work with, IF and I...

I used to take both of my girls flying. It's fun for you and them. Let me offer this advice though. Always keep a slow decent with young ones on board. 1000' fpm or more may not bother you, but it can cause them some pain. Keep it at 500'fpm.

I've used minutes out calls before. 10 mile call in a jet is pointless as far as "normal" planning goes. If I'm in a small plane and I hear another cessna call ten miles I know I can prob fly a full pattern before he gets there. 10 miles in a jet and he is almost in the pattern.

Bob you mention being overwhelmed in your first post. A lot of people gave you some good advise, but then you still come back trying to make a case for something that is not a case. You even go as far as saying the POH and FAA(who approved said poh) are wrong. I have a student right now who is...

Congratulations! Welcome to the club

I personally dislike surecheck and won't use them. They oversimplify whats needed and add junk that's not. First, I always encourage my students to get their own poh for the airplane. Assuming you consistently fly the same airplane, or model. Now that you have your own poh, not only can you...

Congratulations, and welcome to the club. Drinks on....oh never mind pilots are a bunch of tight wads you wont get any free drinks from us....:goofy:

Obviously there are two sides to every story. However there a couple little flags popping up here on what you say about your instructor. It's probably time to have a sit down with him and discuss some of the issues your having. It also may be time for you to start looking for a new cfi...

Did you request flight following when you talked to clearance delivery? If not, I'm sure you at least told him (or he asked for) on course hdg and alt. if its slow they will give you on course and let you navigate yourself. If its busy, you may get vectors. It sounds like he may have been busy...

Congrats again David. I hope you are enjoying the new gig. Do they let you hum the rocky tune while you fly?:rofl:

Don't let this keep you out of flying. The process for getting a SI is really not that big a deal. Even getting a SODA and a waiver is fairly painless. You will not not lose your medical over this. Even people who lose their vision in one eye can keep a medical with a waiver. I know for a fact...

Do not let it get to you and mess up your confidence! Keep in mind that you are getting hit with so much stuff during instrument training. It could take years and years of real world instrument flying to experience everything that you get hit with in a short amount of time. I actually do not...

I'll third usairnet. When I was full time instructing that would be the first thing I looked at for planning and scheduling flights. It's an Awesome tool. It's just a forecast, so it's just a big guess, but they are pretty close most of the time. You can at least expect to see the trend they show.

Most of the controllers at Kssf have decades of experience, and are very good, and patient controllers. I wouldn't be surprised if the deviation was from SAT approach, or Kelly class D. Those guys really are pretty forgiving. You would really have to botch something up pretty good to get the...

Llano/coopers. Hands down. Not cheap, but some of the best brisket in texas.

It does look like a cool airplane to fly. I would love to give a try. You are correct it is big. I read it has a cabin the size of the KA 200.

Congratulations on the solo. It's one part of your flying life you will never forget.:rockon:

Yes the Hershey bar flys like a smooth rock when you cut the power As far as the flare, read the poh for the pa28 there is special emphasis placed on normal ops when in the landing flare. The has been more then a couple gear struts pushed through the top of the wing.

Hmmmmm:D it's still a classic!!! I need a copy of that.