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I did spin work yesterday morning to take care of my CFI 61.183(i)(1) sign off. Talk about alot of fun. 3 spins to the left, 3 spins to right, wish we could have done more just for fun. 2 turns and -1000 feet, pretty much everytime. You have to really try to get a 150 to spin. Full rudder and...

I have been browsing through the 2007 Instrument Flying Handbook and on page 5-14 they talk about climb entries: "To enter a constant airspeed climb from cruising airspeed, raise the miniature aircraft to the approximate nose-high indication for the predetermined climb speed.........Power may...

Well it's Dec 7.... which in the the northern hemisphere means the earliest sunset of the year. All sunsets from now until June will occur later in the day. Of course, for you morning folk, the latest sunrise doesn't occur until Jan 4. Meaning it all balances out on Dec 21 for the shortest...

This past Monday or Tuesday, Firefox has gotten slow... locking up for about 10 seconds after I load a page or click on a link or when i type posts it locks up for about 10 seconds every 15 seconds or so... and when this happens, I notice my CPU usuage spike... i uninstalled it and reinstalled...

Well I passed my Comm Practical this morning. Too me it's a non-event, mostly because I expected to pass it and it is still 2 checkrides short of my ultimate goal (the CFI and CFII), so no need to pass congrats at this time. My checkride was in Falls City NE with a DPE who learned to fly in...

Per 61.129 -- Aeronautical Experience requirement for a Commercial Pilot Certificate -- (4) 10 hours of solo flight in a single-engine airplane on the areas of operation listed in §61.127(b)(1) of this part, which includes at least— (i) One cross-country flight of not less than 300 nautical...

Well today I flew in the right seat for the first time and it was good. I had gone to get comfortable in an Archer, which I hadn't flown in almost 4 years and my old instructor, who knew I was getting ready to start on my CFI, asked if I wanted to try it and I said sure. I had no intention to...