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90% of the time VFR I get FF, 10% is nothing but I always monitor if so. It's about the situational awareness. If blip N12345 is same altitude but I hear that they're flying a grid/pattern/practice/holds I'm that much more aware. Plus ATC can tell one of us to deviate as necessary. I have...

Having gone though many a written test on the A&p and pilot side, I can say that you can't help but to memorize the answers as you go through each question and learn the answers via study material/FAA data/charts. I always go into them prepared to delve into them but I know the answers so I...

Got my a&p, spun wrenches for flight time through my commercial rating. I had to pay for some of the CFI time but at a steep discount.

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. I'll get it for 10 min flights to adjacent airports since it's crazy busy with B C and D layers of airspace. Out it the sticks? Yeah, I'd do it for 30 min, maybe not 10 though.

Know and know of several commuters. Most own businesses that require light plane travel. The others are wealthy execs that fly their own jet/Tprop to various offices. I do know a director of maintenance who commutes in a C-150 about 100 miles every day, but he of course fixes his own plane...

I used to build comm satellites for GEO. The control rooms were far less impressive even though the deployments were just as if not more involved. At launch base for the Proton the rooms were like shoe boxes buried under the pad. Back at HQ the room was bigger but not like a massive mission...

Old A&P school bird for sure. Start a bar and hang that puppy from the ceiling.

As others have said, a trainer and long x country hauler aren't the same thing. Buy a 70's vintage c-172/PA28 140/160 to train through instrument (you will need that). Then sell that for a C-210/C-206/Cherokee 6. For 3 full sized people and bags even a C-182 is pushing it, so don't bother...

Don't do it. There is nothing to be gained from it. The internet is full of scumbags and scoundrels looking to criticize and berate.

First thing to do is report it to your hull insurance claims adjuster to put him on notice. Then ask your mechanic how he/his insurance is going to pay for it. There is a very high likelihood that he does not have liability insurance if he's a one man shop. No a&p ever thinks they will need...

Since all 210s are getting long in tooth they risk gear failures. And let's not forget pilots forgetting to lower the gear. I know, it won't happen to you until it does. A used C-206 sounds like what you need. Turbo adds about 10 knots but not be necessary in low country and less than 500nm...

Just a little perspective from an insider here. Starr has been traditionally cheaper than USAIG(industry stalwart), however they are getting CRUSHED with claims this year to the point where they have to farm out their claims handling due to the massive caseload. They could very well raise...

I’m a little late to the party here but there are some good answers. I’m a claims adjuster, and believe me when I say the NTSB guys are swamped all the time. They have aviation investigators that don’t to anything else, so a train crash wouldn’t affect them, but they are backlogged none the...

My perspective as an aviation claims adjuster is that I would probably consider it if it is discounted for a full overhaul with some caveats. If not, I’d walk away. I see propstrikes all the time, and a full power propstrike on asphalt could yield no damage to the crank, gears or case...

Insurance companies are a business, so when a $300k Cessna 182T crashes, killing 3 people, and the liability limit of $1,000,000 is exhausted in the lawsuits driven by ambulance chasing lawyers, the company suffers a critical blow to the bottom line. It takes 1600 insurance policies to make up...

I have to fly into the central valley and around California, small ag strips and airfields. The smoke over the last month has been awful. Above it, it looks like a solid marine layer, but it is smoke, not cloud! And going over Gorman/grape vine/mountains "VFR" in low vis was skeeeetchy to...

Yup, "Cessna N12345" works. Trust me you won't be mistaken for a Citation. As for being mistaken between a 150 or 172, ATC doesn't care. They just like to know what you look like to describe to other traffic, unless your are IFR in class B area.

This is a tough subject for me being an A&P and claims adjuster. Trust me, if an A&P incorrectly installs a part that leads to significant damage(100k plus) the insurance company who did pay the loss(usually the aircraft owner's) WILL come after you. If there is a death involved, you are...

It's too early to tell if this will be the end of Icon, but I'd say it is likely. I'm in aviation insurance and know that the underwriters were already skeptical about their business model of teaching rich thrill seekers to fly and sell them their planes. Now 3 of about 20 airframes are...