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Long story short, my old company has asked me to sign off two students for their initial Commercial, Multi checkride. The students are chinese, contract students. Of the two students they want endorsements for, I flew 7.1 and 3.1 hours with them--basically at the end of their training. I have...

A friend and I are renting a 152 and plan on flying about 60 hours over the course of 10 days (sounds miserable, I know). Any recommendations on airports/FBOs/sights/landmarks to go to? Planning on trying to go towards the midwest, then south towards Texas, then west towards Vegas, then back...

Starting at the regionals next month and I've been going through the CRJ accident case studies, then applying them to the FCOM to understand how the systems were working and the crew's response. Any accidents (CRJ or other aircraft) you would highly recommend I take a look at? I'm primarily...

Hey guys. So before I swapped over and became a full time flight instructor, I worked in finance for an airline primarily crunching numbers, evaluating projects, etc.. I definitely miss the analytical aspect of what I used to do so I was going to send out a quick email to an aviation...

Hypothetically, lets say there was a flight school pushing their instructors, resources, airplanes, etc. to their limits. Maybe there are situations where instructors should squawk airplanes, but they don't because they know their flights tomorrow will get cancelled and there aren't many...

At about the 9:30 mark in this video (link below) he says there should be no mention of airspeed if you encounter a microburst. He says you should just pitch for 15 degrees (or something applicable to your airplane). Anyone want to explain this to me? I don't quite understand why you wouldn't...

So I've heard of some who don't call the FBO via UNICOM frequency prior to parking and then I've heard of others who do call the UNICOM frequency. Anyone heard any feedback from FBOs on this? If I'm parking a bigger aircraft I think it would be important to call, but since I'm typically in a...

So I'm working on choosing what regional I want to go to, and I've put together a quick table showing the NPV of regional airline earnings to help me decide. Obviously, there's more than just dollars being considered in the big picture, but this is a way for me to quantify the dollars. Figure...

So I had a student last night completely forget to put his gear down on an approach. Did not do flow, checklist, GUMPS, final check, or notice the gear warning horn. What makes it worse is that I had a student on a checkride today do the same thing... so he obviously busted. When you miss a...

So I’m getting checked out in the schools diamonds and hopefully I’ll pick up a few students who want to fly it. Any advice for those of you that transitioned? Ive got about 300 hours in a Seminole, and although it flies the same, I’m sure there will be a lot I learn (FADEC, autopilot, etc.)...

So I hit 500 hours today and a friend who's a captain in a Lear 35 said I most likely have a SIC job if I wanted it. Curious what you all think the pros and cons are... I enjoy instructing and ultimately my goal is to go to the airlines, but I would like to do some corporate flying at some...

Two quick questions if anyone has insight. Today, I had an alternator failure on my right engine. The ammeter showed negative 70 amps and the functioning alternator showed about positive 30. Would this net actually drain my battery? I'm guessing it could since its alternating current from...

Looking to buy a nice flight bag I can keep for years to come. I would like for it to work for flight instructor flights as well as when I likely transition to the airlines in a year or two. I'm currently looking at Brightline bags, but I'm curious if anyone else has any other recommendations...

I wrote a not so nice review about a FBO the other day on AirNav and the FBO reached out and said if I took it down they would send me some FBO "swag". Any idea what this may include? Just curious what sort of stuff they've passed out to other people before. Update: so I received the box...

Hey guys. Reading through the G500 pilot guide (3.3.11) today I saw where the MFD can have an external video source. Doesn't say much other than that. Anyone have any experience with this? Just out of curiosity, would it be possible to play a movie or is it solely for something like a GoPro...

Was number two to land today when a Mooney landed gear up right in front of me... I heard the gear warning horn over the radios and didn't say anything. Looking back, I should have given a "hey, just want to make sure you know you might have your gear warning horn going off" call, but I was too...

Hey guys. I'm looking to put together a list of some readings for my students and I was hoping to get some input. I want a list of about 10-15 themes/topics to discuss outside of the typical "here's what is in our lesson today" discussion. Most of my guys are commercial multi students (all...

Just curious, how many of you "bug" your heading in some way, shape, or form while flying? If you started in an airplane that didn't have this capability and now have a heading bug, do you use it? My guys are transitioning from planes without heading bugs into a G500 system and they can't seem...

Hey guys! Just looking to see what you all use for continuing to build a pilot knowledge base. I don't really want to read the PHAK again so I'm curious what medium/website/book/etc. you've learned a lot from.

Hey guys! So I'm currently teaching mostly multi-engine stuff and my guys seem to really fall behind the airplane. From what I can tell, they just can't seem to do the flows, talk, and fly the airplane at the same time. I've worked with them on the sim quite a bit, and they can recite the...