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My BFR is coming up. Our flight school/club wants to really start using the Wings program more, and encouraged me to go take a bunch of courses. I've been trying to for a week now, and the wings site is either: - Unavailable - login to FAA site, and try to go to the wings area and it just spins...

https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2019/04/fulton-plane-crash-witness-all-of-a-sudden-i-heard-a-loud-bang.html Pilot appears to have only minor injuries. One lucky dude... Did 90% of my training here. Not familiar with the plane or pilot - looks like he was from up north. This area was to the...

I still consider myself a very fresh PPL. ~150hrs TT, ~1yr since my ticket got punched. I'm now a member of a semi-local flying club (40-60mins from home/work) and try to fly there a couple times a month minimum. They have a fleet of 172's and 152's and a mooney, and enough instructors to make...

OK, everyone in our office is in a pool (or two) for this $1.6Billion Mega Millions thing. I dont play this stuff much, but I figure for the $2 I get to dream for a day or three. Suppose you just won alone, the payout is $616,000,000 after taxes. I'm sure we would all be conservative and set...

My inherited biplane (Acro Sport II) is going to be down for repairs/maint/etc. for probably a year. In the meantime, I've already started on the TW endorsement. I would like to go from there to one of the acro schools this winter. I'd probably try to combine this into a vacation for myself...

Took this ol girl up last night with an instructor. First time I've been PIC at the controls of a tailwheel plane. It was a lot of fun, definitely different than flying the 172 or Cherokee 140 but the flying part really wasn't hard to get the hang of. Adverse yaw was much more pronounced, and...

First off - Thoughts and prayers for the 9 crew onboard... Looks like no one had a chance. Not sure that this has been posted here, but when I came home last night and flipped on the TV news I saw this video (ff to ~20 seconds in)...

I just drove down to NYC for the weekend last weekend and had a ball. But its a 5 hour drive for me (Central NY west of Syracuse). I got to thinkin... If I were to take one of the club's 172's down that way (which, coincidentally is where my DPE had me plan my fake XC for the check-ride -...

Apologies if this has already been posted, I didn't see it on here yet. https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20180404X13226&AKey=1&RType=HTML&IType=FA

Was given this book for my birthday by my wife. Just finished it last weekend. Really loved it, just enough adventure, true-to-life shenanigans, and airplane stuff to keep just about anyone interested. Fun to poke around on the internet too and look up the actual people, planes, and news items...

Passed the PPL checkride back in October. Winter hasn't been very good for flying around here this year, but I've logged about 10h since. Joined East Hill Flying Club in Ithaca, NY (KITH). Just finished up the mandatory 4-hour checkout in their 172's. Waiting for some decent weather and work...

My acrosport II biplane will be in storage/restoration for at least 9 months. With luck I hope to have it flying by next fall. It was flying frequently (at least monthly) up until 8/2017. It has not run since. Gas is drained, current oil (Shell 20/50) has ~25hrs on it. I plan to follow the...

A bunch of people asked, so I did a full writeup for my checkride. Starting with prep a month before all the way through to the end. Hope this is able to help others. I know I was pretty nervous leading up to this time, and some advice/writeups/etc. I had access to really helped me. Private...

OK, I passed that check ride last week. Awesome! I burned up so much comp time and favors at work to get there though that I had to work the rest of last week. Great flying weather in the NE, but I was sitting at work. Now I have some time again, and have a lesson, er, i mean rental scheduled...

I recently acquired the biplane my grandfather scratch built back in th 1980-1990 timeframe. It was flying as recently as this fall, but is now disassembled (wings, etc) and needs some work. I have a similar thread over on biplaneforum.com as well, but since I've been on here longer and we...

Hi all, I'm finally in possession of my biplane. This plane was my grandfathers (Built by him in the 80's) and although its not in bad shape, it needs enough work that it will definitely not be flying until probably late next summer at the earliest. I have it in a hangar at a local small...

Once I get it, I will be storing my disassembled non-flying biplane for probably the better part of a year before it's (and I am) ready to fly. I asked for a quote from my current insurer (non-owned, renters/student insurance) and they require liability on it. Which is far, far more than then...

Great news - Maybe some of you remember that years ago I located the gentleman who currently owns the Acrosport II my grandfather (and I - a little) built back in the 80's/90's. Almost three years ago I went to Michigan to fly in it, and soon after started my flight training in earnest. I found...

OK, prepping for the checkride. Last couple of solo lessons I've been trying to practice in the manner of the checkride. Clearing turns, talk aloud like there is an examiner present, etc. Last couple dual lessons I asked instructor to basically be the examiner most of the time. One thing I...

My goal is to buy the biplane in my profile pic probably by next summer. Having ridden in it only once, I recall the interior - if one can call it that - is rather spartan. I.e. metal seat, interior of nothing but the inside of the tube fuselage and fabric, plywood floor. Now, nothing wrong at...