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Go to Texas State Aviation in San Marcos. They have a Citabria with an upgraded engine and two very good tailwheel instructors (George and Erik, the owner).

Just make sure you are covered under his insurance or carry your own renters insurance if not.

People that know actual secrets don’t go blabbing on the Internet about them in the first place. “Somebody knows somebody who told them some secret thing you’re not supposed to know!” :rolleyes:

If there was a superior product that cost less I’m pretty sure the GA market would not hesitate to flock to it. Alas, even behemoths like Garmin and Jeppesen, with their piles of cash, can’t produce anything better. Must be something hard about it. ;)

If you’re really worried about being found, a Personal Locator Beacon is the best investment you can make. Usable for other purposes like hiking as well.

Flies into busy terminal area airport. Parks at Atlantic. Shocked there are fees. I’m shocked that they actually waived them. :lol:

A GPS is simply an extremely accurate type of positioning. The only special "skill" involved in flying solely via traditional navaids is understanding and accounting for all of their shortcomings. If you have issues flying without your moving map that's a problem with complacency due to advanced...

You just have to have some situational awareness with these things. One gotcha is that if you file an IFR flight plan for a long journey, you're expected to pick it up in the airspace where you filed it. So you can't fly 200nm VFR and then expect the next controller to have your IFR flight plan...

They already exist. Safer, cheaper, more accurate.

Maybe a little but on the whole I think it's going to have slightly the opposite effect. Several GA professions will be replaced by drones - cropdusting, surveying, aerial photography, etc.

The cycle technically switches over at 0901Z on the day of.

This is what the PTS says:

It's actually somewhat difficult to spin a Cirrus because of the wing design. The inboard wing stalls first while the outboard wing maintains lift and gives you aileron authority. This wing design was pioneered by NASA and implemented by Cirrus in order to avoid spins before they develop...

I'd encourage you to research how many people have been killed by BRS deployments versus planes that had forced landings. It might change your tune...

Maybe, maybe not. You can scroll through the posts in this very forum and see that people in planes without BRS die pretty regularly when their engine quits. I certainly would take the odds on a BRS over the odds of riding it to the ground without power any day. I got nothing to prove and...

Prepare for the old curmudgeons to tell you he should have rolled the dice crashing into terrain. Cause then he'd be MANLY on the INTERNET.

The problem is that you can legally operate them above 400' AGL if you have a specific waiver to do so. So, the manufacturer doesn't want to neuter the drone completely given that the FAA has not yet finalized their operating rules for UAS. Of course, this stuff is all controlled by firmware so...

Biggest issue is operating within 5nm of an airport. That pulls the drone outside of the model aircraft operating limits and subjects it to enforcement action (Section 336 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act 2012). Secondly, the FAA still has the power to enforce the FARs on drones in...

Those guys have actual N numbers.

Ha, let us know when you get you get your PIC picture-taking ticket wet too. :wink2: Congrats on the flight.