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i'm finally getting the opportunity to lounge in hot tubs and show off the speedo I didn't get to wear all summer by going to dallas for the night this coming Friday. since it's the most travelled weekend of the year I figure, why not fly instead of deal with traffic on 45 in and out of...

I was flying an ifr training flight yesterday and was wearing foggles when my cfi and I noticed on our ForeFlight iPads connected to a stratus 2 that a plane was heading towards us from our 11 o'clock and 300' above us. My cfi was looking but as we got closer to the approaching arrow and it's...

I'm heading to the Bay Area at the beginning of July and would like to book a tour of the bay with an outfit and your suggestions are appreciated. I did find the thread from last year but it was related to flying the bay tour oneself. I want to have someone else fly it so I can simply see...

I passed my ifr written and am now going over th plt codes I missed in anticipation for the oral. When looking up the codes I get general categories such as pitot system or unusual attitudes and others. I vaguely recall the questions I missed but does that matter? Do I have to basically...

your input is appreciated. I took an american flyers weekend ifr written course and passed. Now im training for my oral and flight and its going slowly. Im in a club and one of the members is my cfii but its slow and im interested in trying a new instructor. The club olane will be...

My wife and I decided to fly from tme (Houston) to Waco today and did 1.7 there and 1.7 back for a total of 3.4 Hobbes hours. Getting to tme took 15-20 minutes so add .25 in time. Plus another 5 minutes to preflight. Dunno the decimal there. But for fun call it 4 hours to get there and...

with all the recent posts regarding best plane for $ with X and Y, maybe we should have a separate forum? my wife is training for her PPL and we are "what if" ing about getting a plane once she gets her ticket. i'm having fun looking at the different planes but would like suggestions from the...

I'm heading to Vegas tomorrow so I'm stretching the timeline for planning things to do. I went on a discovery flight in Maine to see lighthouses and the bell just ring in my head that I could do something similar this trip to Vegas and fly the Grand Canyon. Anyone have recommendations...

It's time for my private pilot medical exam and wonder if it is as comprehensive as a regular medical physical exam. I have not had a regular medical physical in over 15 years, hence my question. So if I go this month for my pilot physical will that clean bill of health be good...

i'm planning to fly from Houston to Alpine, TX (just southeast of El Paso) today and fly back Sunday... VFR flying there is no problem. flying back sunday, however, looks like it may be iffy due to cloud cover... unfortunately, i'm on an iPhone so the forecast cloud cover maps...

Recently I flew from Houston to new orleans via vfr with flight following. Atc said I was cleared through bravo but to stay below X altitude. This altitude was below the bravo shelf so I was never given an altitude that put me into bravo airspace. So what was the purpose of clearing...

i have a dental appointment at 2:30pm tomorrow in Austin so I could either drive or fly... I know i'll have a filling done on a tooth so that quadrant of my mouth will be numb for a few hours. but since there's no timeline for me to get back I can wait to come back later in the day. but...

I flew into San Antonio KSAT late last month VFR. I was coming in from fredericksburgh so I was heading east into San Antonio. Approach told me to vector to the San Antonio VOR then upon reaching it follow the 180 radial. I had foreflight Vfr charts up on my yolk and for some...

I'm sure I'm simply not looking hard enough but I see the manager and ASIs telephone numbers for some airports in the AFD but I don't see where the telephone number for the tower or center is. I'll need this for ifr clearance when I'm at a non towered airport and another thread suggested...

Well, so far neither my gf nor my brother have expressed the appropriate level of awe that I feel for this tidbit of news. I was clearing out my papers and got to the box labeled 1992 where I found my receipts for my first discovery flight and few hours of flight training. Due to...

I'm flying the club's archer which has a 2 amp dual USB cigarette adapter for powering the stratus. 2amps should be enough for charging the ipad 2. I've plugged my ipad 2 into both of the adapter USB ports and still have a battery drain on the ipad. It would be ok if it simply...

during my PPL training I was always advised to use flight following or file a flight plan when not in the training area... I have my PPL now and wonder about what to do when just flying around... yesterday I took the plane up with nowhere in particular to go so I couldn't file a flight plan...

If weather holds up for the first weekend of the new year I'm planning to fly from Houston to Birmingham. I have several issues so your input is appreciated. First off, I'm around 80 hours and vfr only in an archer II pa28-180 In Birmingham there is only class c kbhm and about 10...

Pinstripe's post about using a flight school for an air tour of NYC's Hudson River thereby saving money vs the expensive 15 minute tours offered to tourists started me thinking about other places. I'm thinking of traveling to either Hawaii, Greece, Spain, or turkey next year and figure...

The ironman watch thread prompted this question. What is a good timer to use for keeping track of turns that: 1. I can use for the rest of my flying career, not just for training and check ride. 2. Large numbers My plane has an analog clock and as confident as I was that I...