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    Would you be interested in some form of back-up propulsion for your piston single? If yes, how much would you be willing to pay for it?

    Twin. Or for those scared of VMC roll issues and proficiency, you have the Skymaster. You can pick up a Skymaster well below $200K.. but they seem to sit a long time. The same ones I was scrolling through months ago are still there. Oddly, people are spending well over $200K for singles. The...
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    Using Foreflight as a Student Pilot

    I want my people coming out of a checkride thinking it was easier than expected.. and, more importantly, with real tools they'll use in their aviation journey
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    Using Foreflight as a Student Pilot

    New-ish CFI here, but after about 500 hrs of dual given I find the iPad to be a HUGE distraction.. at least for people who are pre-solo. Keep your head out the window, learn the local landmarks, all that jazz. I had a few people show up early on with shiny new iPad and Foreflight they got as a...
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    CAPS saves another

    LOVE CAPS.
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    Here you go.. I live in and fly around the Southern California area for the last 10+ years -Centurion, get one with ice protection --pros: very stable, honestly flies like a big heavy 172. The biggest learning curve will be learning to slow it down in your descents and getting used to the heavy...
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    Plane crash on FL freeway

    As much as I hate waiting for years, and agree in principal that there's value in discussing an accident, I acknowledge a huge knee jerk risk in making conclusions before everything has been vetted.. We have many examples of recent history we can look at where we acted prematurely without all...
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    Plane crash on FL freeway

    ..this thread is wild. What does Occam's razor tell us? Human error is the leading cause of accidents. Not suicidal passengers who then run from the plane after somehow managing a dual engine failure yet manage to glide the plane down to a relatively okay landing Someone on blancolirio's...
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    Air-to-Air Piper Tomahawk

    Tomahawk! Such a sweet little plane, underappreciated
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    Beechcraft Baron 55 down in Leyden MA, triple fatal

    Sorry to the OP The metrics are skewed. Do you have data on the hours of successful twin training that occurs daily with these kinds of maneuvers? Twins demand more. Unfortunately that means during training sometimes to use accidents will happen. I'm surprised they would try any kind of...
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    Printers [NA]

    well. I'm 0 for 2 today with replying to your posts. Sorry man. What I can say is that I empathize. We've been through a few printers and they ALL SUCK. Hewlett Packard is the most disgraceful of the recent purchases. You cannot print unless you download their app and software, and subscribe to...
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    Talking on the radio improvements

    Hey! I see this all the time. What trick worked with me, and my students, is don't think of this as memorizing what they said and reading it back, but rather, understanding what they're asking and then telling them what you think they'd like you to do.. For instance, I assume you have the taxi...
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    Glider Pilot vs. Private Pilot Skills

    I had a few 'students' (I think the FAA wants us to call it 'Learners' now?) that were glider pilots first. MAN can these people fly! The energy management and overall 'staying ahead of the airplane' is exceptional. I may have gotten lucky, but these students fly better than some multi-hundred...
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    Broken vernier throttle

    This really isn't value added but why not.. I work part time at a sim company and we recently got a few of these to test out. Man the quality and feel on these is incredibly. I wish the ones in the planes I have flown felt half as nice! https://www.virtual-fly.com/shop/controls/v3rnio-plus
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    Advanced Avionics vs. Conventional instruments

    sidebar.. I find 'track up' to be very disorienting. Set your maps to north up, this makes it much easier to tie out your spatial awareness between what your plane's compass reads and the direction you should be going vs what the map shows. Track up makes sense in a car from a human factors...
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    Advanced Avionics vs. Conventional instruments

    I think it depends on the person. I have a few brand new students who love 6 pack and appreciate the simple analog display (oh which we only really have one or two left in the club). I have others who look at a 6 pack and can't make heads or tails but within a few minutes know their way around a...
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    Cozy mark iv down near half moon bay

    Unless a witness is a pilot or has actual experience being around airplanes and aviation I would give extremely little weight to what a 'witness' reports in an aviation accident. Piston planes often don't sound 'right' especially when maneuvering (or, as likely in this case, out of control)...
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    1969 Cherokee 140 cruise speed??

    IAS <> TAS <> "Foreflight" 90 IAS at 3500 is a much different story than 90 IAS at 9,500...
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    Hiring standards are dropping

    Compensation $42,356 - $68,497 Minimum phd and 15 + years of relevant industry experience In-depth understanding of 5G and 4G 3GPP physical layer and protocol stack procedures and configurations Experience with firmware test case planning, design, and development for the 4G/5G functional and...
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    Alaska Airlines explosive decompression 1/5/23

    Fairly new plane too.. right? October or November? Gotta say McDonnell, I mean Boeing, ain't inspiring confidence!
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    Rental Car hint/tip/gripe/trick/review/kvetch Thread

    I've been using turo for a few years and have not looked back. Such an easy experience.
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