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    ACS standards for PPL checkride - how close?

    Per the ACS, for slow flight you need to demonstrate control of the airplane at speeds that would result in a stall warning (horn, buffeting, etc.) if you make any increase in angle of attack, reduction of power or increased load factor. You need to be within 100 feet of assigned altitude and...
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    Did it used to be "plan your checkride XC in 30 minutes"?

    Did my PPL in 1996. The examiner called me the night before and told me where to plan the flight. I've never, in my 27 years of this awesome hobby, heard anything about a 30 minute rule. Even in training, the CFI didn't give me a deadline. I suppose if I had been taking long he'd have said...
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    Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche

    yes, it should be required FAA reading for all student pilots!
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    Cessna 303 or Seneca III

    What kind of multi would the school prefer to train in? That seems to be the driving factor, no?
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    Do pilots use paper or digital logbook?

    About 12 years ago I started transferring my written log book of 12 years (at the time) over to an exhaustive excel spreadsheet. So now after 24 years of flying, I've got everything on the spreadsheet broken down by every type of time. And it's backed up in numerous places. My endorsements...
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    Cessna 303 or Seneca III

    I've done leasebacks. Few people actually make money but some people at least reduce their own operating costs over the hours they use it for personal trips. Your mileage may vary, but in the long run, I didn't quite break even in the sense that the revenue generated covered most maintenance...
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    Sad news out of AC

    68 year old Mooney pilot with 40 years experience goes down 17 miles off the shore of NJ after a 3 hour flight from Michigan. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/09/10/plane-crash-ocean-atlantic-city/ It doesn't make much sense that he would be that far out off shore (considering he would have...
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    KTEB to Mid Town Manhattan via public transportation?

    Most hotels in the Secaucus/TEB area will provide you a free lift to the nearest NJT Train station. That's a far easier, and cheaper method than driving in (the tunnel is now $15!) and parking.
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    Complex Trainer

    There's still a handful around the country for rent. http://www.mooneyevents.com/rent.htm I got my time in an M20K 231 at a place at PNE (Hortman). This is going back 10 years until someone had a forced off airport landing and totaled it. The pilot walked away from it, luckily. It was a...
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    Checklist PA32_300

    Here's the checklist I created and laminated for my 1976 6-300 I used to own: BEFORE STARTING 1. Parking Brake – SET 2. Safety Belts – FASTENED 3. MASTER switch – OFF 4. Avionics switch – OFF 5. Dimmers - OFF 6. Autopilot – OFF 7. Electric Trim – OFF 8. Alternate Air – CLOSED 9...
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    An Interesting Casual Observation about an Airline's Flight Numbering Scheme

    It varies and there is not firm rule on how an airline chooses to number their flights. BA recently started using flight 1 and 2 again. They were previously exclusive to the Concorde. Now they are flights between New York and London City airport. Many long haul flights are actually 3...
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    PPL in NJ for around $5k possible?

    If you go by the national average of 60 hours or so for a PPL, then you're hoping to get all in for $83/hour including plane and instructor. That's what it cost 20 years ago in my area (PHL) with instructor in a Cherokee 180. Even buying a simple, basic trainer and paying an instructor...
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    Training someone who surrendered their certificate?

    The airspace designations did exist 20 years ago, actually. I remember because I began my training in the Summer of 1994 and recall my instructor going over the New York sectional and mentioning that the airspace names "recently changed". METARs and TAFs also existed in 1994. Aside from...
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    How to handle a stop for suspected DUI?

    Not sure about other states, but in NJ even a portable breathalyzer carried in a cop car is something that you have to agree to be tested with. The lawyer advice I got after my DUI arrest (which is extensively covered in a thread here in the medical section with lots of moralizing comments)...
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    CFI scheduling question

    I see no issue with 2 instructors if, as Ron mentioned, they are working from the same syllabus and notate fully what was done in the prior lesson so each other can move forward accordingly. If they know each other, that makes for an even better tag team. I had numerous instructors in my...
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    How much harder is IFR then Private?

    I didn't find the IR training and prep for the checkride to be as challenging as the PPL. You've got the flying part done with the PPL. IFR is learning more/new procedures and regs and lots more time in the foggles. Once you've got the rating, the skies literally open up to you for future...
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    FAA asking for more info after reporting DUI

    Just when we thought this thread was falling off the active list... An update on my progress with the Aeromedical Center: The letter I received, dated March 14, required response with 60 days with the info I listed in the original post. Several of you strongly urged talking to my AME and...
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    Looking for an instructor with PA32 time

    Awww dangit. I just wrapped up a project in Richmond. Was flying there each week for it, as a matter of fact. Ah well. Someone else here I'm sure will be able to help.
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    Flight Sim as real Flight hours!

    As their web page states, the SIM can be used for just 3 hours of time credited towards your PPL. Those are, I suspect, the 3 hours that are required in your total logged hours as "3 hours of flight training by reference to instruments in a single engine airplane" The device qualifies for...
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    How do you determine what a "safe" overweight condition is?

    I wouldn't go and assume that just because the OP has been asking about flying into OSH with a 20lb propane tank that now he's looking at options for flying over MGW. It's quite possible that, as a result of the flight planning discussions here, the thought of weight considerations came up and...
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