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Thanks for all the suggestions, I will keep them in mind when planning. Maybe the first post was not crystal clear, but I will be flying to Seattle commercially - brining my Zlin 142 from LHHO would be a bit too much I'm afraid. :-) So I'm looking for an airport to start where aircraft rental is...

I'm visiting Seattle in late July with three friends of mine and would like to bring them along for a flight around the area. Where should we depart from and where should we fly to? I thought that starting from somewhere like Renton and flying around the Mt Rainier would be nice, but I'm open to...

Probably not the latter, at least he says in the beginning that he had been checked out the night before. I have been checked out in the Arrow at two schools, one in Hungary and another in California. The first checkout, while done by an otherwise very experienced and good instructor, did not...

Here comes the question whether the market is big enough for renters who'd like to rent when away to be worth going after. Obviously, OpenAirplane does little good for those who only / mainly rent locally.

Yet, basically any place you could rent from requires some form of checkout, even for the most straightforward types and current / proficient pilots. Even worse, you have no idea what the checkout will actually involve and how much it will take time- or cost-wise. Any system that makes this...

For me this would be mainly interesting from the four proposed example. I'm mainly renting when away from home, so an easy checkout procedure would be the most important thing.

This is the main advantage that I had from flying with so many instructors (incl. active airline FOs) for my PPL training. They pointed out different bad habits of me. Also, their conduct in the cockpit was slightly different, so I could see where some difference can be tolerated, but I could...

I had my primary instructor leave approximately at that point. As a result I ended up finishing my PPL with a grand total of 10 instructors. I basically flew with whoever was available. This situation had its downsides and upsides, but I still got my PPL at 45 hours (+1:30 checkride) sharp, the...

This had been one of my big questions before doing my first real cross country trip in the US, especially that I trained on another continent. In the end it turned out not to be a real issue. I checked up on AirNav and other websites before each leg. If there was any doubt and an FBO available...

Yes, you can! :D See my trip report (and photo) linked in my similar thread here.

I did not think that my question would start such a length discussion, but thanks to all who participated. It is now much more clear to me what to expect from a class D tower.

Thanks! Yes, it surely was. Reading up on the subject before and applying the recommendations in practice helped very much in making through that part of the flight. Does it require any special treatment in this case? Should prolonged flight like that be avoided? Yes, my course basically that...

Yes. At my home field we would either do a base entry if coming from the direction of the pattern and a straight in with a longer final if coming from the direction of the other base. Thanks for confirming that I did the correct thing. Yes, it is.

Sorry for the slight thread hijack, but I have a question that probably fits here. I'm from Europe and there has mainly been flying out of an uncontrolled field with AFIS, so tower communications are not yet that natural for me. So, I was approaching Santa Monica KSMO from Van Nuys KVNY and was...

Thanks! It is the only accessible SE 4-seater aircraft at least somewhat good for touring around where I live in Hungary, so I will certainly put a couple of hours into it. The only issue is that while most of the time it starts right away even when it is hot, sometimes even the veteran...

I am safely on the ground, finally completing my whole trip. Thanks for everything again, the tips I got here were essential. I have done a complete writeup with pictures on a Eurpoean forum where I am a regular contributor. I did not want to copy the whole thing here again, but feel free to...

So, just a quick heads up: I did my checkout on Monday and Tuesday, and set out on the trip yesterday. Originally I wanted to stop en route at Monterey, but due to weather (and not full tanks on departure) changed it to San Louis Obispo. In San Francisco the Golden Gate Bridge was only barely...

Big Bear, unfortunately, requires a separate checkout for that FBO and I'm not sure whether I'd be able to fit both that and Catalina in the available time.

Is there cell phone reception? When I drove through the valley in 2012 we had no signal anywhere. Granted, it was T-Mobile, so coverage was lacking in other parts of the country as well. OK, this is how I thought when I looked at the map. I'll sure keep you all updated here.

Btw, folks, do you think that Mojave KMHV is a good place to stop en route from Las Vegas to LA? Is there much to see for a visiting GA pilot? (It would be a Saturday.)