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    Is ANR enough to properly protect your hearing?

    I'm doing a little research on headsets. What I've gathered so far is that ANR can respond well enough to lower frequencies to adequately protect hearing damage from those frequencies. High frequencies, such as those from turbine engine noise, can not be addressed by the ANR and must be...
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    Selling Non-Tour Rides

    When pilots sell "rides"—specifically something that isn't a sight-seeing "Commercial Air Tour" as described in 136.1(d)—what rules are they operating under? I'm talking about things like antique/unique airplane rides, aerobatic thrill rides, and things of that nature.
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    Window Shopping, Right Airplane?

    I hope, in a few years time, to be an airplane owner. I'd like to start getting an idea of some of the models that might fit my mission. There are two missions I want to fill with one plane: a good cross-country commuter for one, and a fun weekend plane for two. I'd appreciate some...
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    Non-towered airport departure, when to turn on course?

    Let's say you are departing from a non-towered (Class G) airport. You pick up your clearance and then switch to CTAF. You chose to fly an ODP. When can you break off the ODP and turn direct to the first point in your flight plan? Do you have to fly either the whole thing, or non at all?
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    Finding Minimum Altitude when Off-Airway

    Let's say I want to go from KABC to KXYZ direct (off-airway), and I'm trying to figure out the minimum IFR altitude. 91.177 says the minimum IFR en-route would be (i) In the case of operations over an area designated as a mountainous area in part 95 of this chapter, an altitude of 2,000 feet...
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