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This is a great book I reviewed, Flight Tests by Jim Davies ("airfield, not Garfield" as he puts it!) here: http://goo.gl/8SPKiw

Reading another thread, a poster talked about putting a heading bug on the wind direction to help the pilot better visualize it. Cute. Which got me wondering: if you had one—just one—operational or procedural tip or trick that you use all the time. Something you know and do that makes you, for...

One strange thing I've noticed, you talk to a Kiwi, an Aussie, or a Brit instructor and chances are they'll have you reduce power either on base or as you're turning base along with starting the descent. Of course, we are taught here to start descent abeam the numbers on downwind. Apart from...

Lewis Bjork wrote an excellent book (I liked it so much, I have two) called Piloting for Maximum Performance. With a rather large aviation library—I wager since I am not flying, I may as well read about flying—it takes something for me to call it a favorite (Hubin's The Science of Flight is...

Any other students from the tridaho airports on POA? Would love your takes on training (CFIs, etc.) in the area.

“I felt led to share.” Ahem. If a baby was born on the last day I flew an aircraft, that ‘baby’ would be graduating High School this year. So I decided to climb back into the cozy confines of an old Cherokee 180 (1964? No toe brakes, trim on the ceiling) and was pleasantly surprised to...

As with (too) many student pilots, I have no money. :mad2: So I was thinking, why should I pay a DPE for a checkride when I can get an FAA inspector to do his or her job for free? :D Where's the hole in my logic?