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  1. exncsurfer

    Glider Pilot vs. Private Pilot Skills

    You have a lot of good answers/discussion here, you may need to improve your post ignoring skills.
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    Finding Downwind Struggle/Sweat

    Typically this would be done in preflight planning, however you can use your DG to get a mental picture. Your DG will show you where the approach end of runway X would be if you were on the extended centerline. Imagine the runway extending from that direction(with the opposite end being the...
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    Youtube Pilot and her dad perish in TN

    From that video, the 'big thing that nobody is saying' is that.... And I'm paraphrasing here, I'm not watching it again.... "She didn't do a safety debriefing after her recorded flights"
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    Youtube Pilot and her dad perish in TN

    In the video where she takes him on his first flight with her after her private check ride, she comments on how he gets motion sickness and when he takes controls from time to time he does the double hand grip which you wouldn't expect from a pilot. Doesn't seem like a pilot or DPE to me.
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    Youtube Pilot and her dad perish in TN

    I think that was a joke, as in, he is playing DPE for me today.
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    Youtube Pilot and her dad perish in TN

    I think a good take away from this other than the importance of general proficiency is avoiding task fixation. From an FAA seminar flyer: "Task-saturation and its cousin Task-fixation. One is caused by having too much to do without enough time the other is telescoping your attention, sometimes...
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    "He was such a good pilot..."

    They should have given the engineer that designed this an additional requirement: you must be slapped in the face once for every required sump point checked by every pilot who uses this every time they use it. Maybe they would have designed it better. I'd rather be slapped twice than 13...
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    Yay! More beautiful scenery thanks to the world saving EV.

    Can't see the picture? here it is:
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    PA28 down near Gainesville, FL

    From the picture posted earlier, on page 1 of this thread, The turn coordinator wasn't the most common type (with the airplane wing depiction), the DG wasn't most the common type(with the airplane top down depiction), the compass motion may have been opposite to what the pilot was accustomed...
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    What is your most valuable paid membership?

    Bar membership!! Yes! :cheers: jk
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    How do you get the 'recent' view now?

    Yeah that drop down threw me off for a sec till I figured out you don't have to use it.
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    How do you get the 'recent' view now?

    This new font is ginormous.
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    How do you get the 'recent' view now?

    Duh, nevermind, its called "What's new" now.
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    How do you get the 'recent' view now?

    How do you get the 'recent' posts view now? That was basically the only view I used, I'm not seeing it. Maybe I'm blind?
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    Haven't Solo'd, Sill Struggling w/ Landings

    Forget about #3, that will just happen as part of #2 as your speed decays you'll require more nose up pitch to "hold it off" / stay level. Don't sweat the 60 hours, it takes what it takes, I'll bet a small portion of that 60 is landing practice. Also another perspective on the expense...
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    Air-to-Air MAFM T6 & D18 (2 Ship Formation)

    What is this bowling ball doing?
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    Student Pilot Struggling

    Maybe try another instructor, seems like something isn't clicking for you and another instructor could offer a different perspective on the issue
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    US Sectionals have lost foreign detail

    IDK what it looked like before, but here is the border now on Skyvector(pretty sure it just uses the electronic FAA VFR charts that get printed to paper):
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    I need some advice...

    For what its worth, I did my PP over 2 years flying twice a month and was able to finish with a reasonable amount of hours(in my opinion). 60 something hours if I recall correctly.
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