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I am a young father and want to not only continue flying, but also provide for my family in the event of my death. As a private pilot (relatively low-time, about 100 total hours), I do understand that I take that risk every time I go up. I have life insurance provided to me by my employer, but...

In about one week I am scheduled to fly to an airport very close to class B airspace. I have never flown this close to one before and I may have to enter class B airspace at least briefly on my way in. Although I have a pretty good idea about how this will all go down, I wanted to ask on here...

Just wanted to see if anyone else had experienced something similar to this. I have just recently obtained my pilot's license and was renting a Cessna 172. I had only flown a 172 on one other occasion when I got checked out about 2 weeks prior. All of my training had been done in a 162. I only...

As of 10/27/15 I am a private pilot! Which means that I am now entering into the realm of aviation insurance. Renters insurance at first and hopefully owners insurance at some point in the future. The big insurance companies I have seen so far are AOPA, USAIG, and Avemco. I'm sure there are many...

I have a flight planning question regarding calculating TAS. I am flying the Cessna 162 Skycatcher. Below I have included a photo of the Cruise Performance chart. For my particular flight I want to fly at 6000 feet. I am assuming standard temperature. Now, according to the chart, the KTAS for a...

I am a student pilot studying for my practical. No matter how many times I try to read about this I seem to find myself confused. However, I think I may finally understand, and I just want to make sure. Let's say I am preflighting my Cessna 162 Skycatcher and I notice that a particular piece...

I am currently doing my flight training under part 141. I have approximately 7 hours. My instructor has been trying to get me to switch over to part 61. His reasoning is that with the less structured atmosphere, we can concentrate more specifically on parts that I need to work on as opposed to...

The long story short of this post is that I am considering what may be the best airplane to eventually own given my intentions and financial situation. I am a student pilot with approximately 7 hours a flight time. I am training in the Cessna C162, and I am proceeding through training...