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So I passed my PPL checkride on Friday and looking to do my first flight next weekend with my first ever passenger. Exciting! Obviously I’ve done solos and cross countries during training but we never stopped at an FBO. So my question is how do these things work? Do you normally need to call...

Oh jeez, I know there is a lot of debt and it will take a while to pay off and I won't be earning $200k as a first year FO on a regional and I was not asking if I should take on debt. I'm asking about the reputation of a flight school and have already factored in all the money parts.

Mean debt of between $170-200k for doctor and very similar for a lawyer. And I would be worried if it only cost $20k to become a pilot. Do you really want someone taking care of up to 300 people at 35,000ft who barely has any training and is easily accessible? If we only flew to make easy...

ATP comes in at $84,000 once you add in training materials and examiner fees, then you need to factor in you might need to buy extra hours due to their strict time limits so price is very comparable if not better. For someone who doesn't have rich parents or $100,000's in the bank there are...

Thanks Aggie, looks like I might have to re-join Facebook again :( And that price tag isn't too bad compared to ATP which makes you add a lot of extras on like training equipment and extra hours based on some other recent threads, the AA program is all in and nothing extra so would work out...

I saw in the AOPA newsletter this morning that AA is doing a new Cadet Academy which seems to rival the ATP schools. If you haven't seen the program it's here: http://www.aacadetacademy.com/CadetAcademy/index/1 I was aiming to join ATP later this year once I have finished my PPL and got the...

Thanks @bobmrg, I'll not sweat it anymore then. At the end of the day ATC will probably just tell me when to climb and descend anyway which will just wipe out any calculations I have done anyway. Guessing this is why my CFI wasn't too bothered about getting anything correct and only gave it a...

Sounds like I am overthinking it then. When I asked my CFI last time his response was just "yeah sure, looks good" and didn't seem too worried it wasn't precise. During my last XC as well I had planned on staying under the bravo all the way out as well but then ATC cleared me directly into...

And I suppose a follow up question based on this should be how do factor the wind? I've often seen winds at surface at say 200 at 10kts but at 3,000ft they are 250 at 30kts. Should I just pick somewhere in the middle again for the entire climb to plot the route and course? So say 225 at 20kts...

Hi, I am still training and learning how to complete nav logs and having some trouble calculating the top of climb from the limited rate of climb info in the POH. The POH is very limited in the information it gives since all it gives is the following: Altitude / Vy speed / Rate of...

Mine was submitted on Dec 26th, I got the temporary one from online about 4 days later, they didn’t email me but if you log on there will be a button for the temp. I then got the plastic card yesterday. So looks like about 6 weeks right now.

Did my first stage check ride yesterday and passed! Was quite nerve racking, was in an aircraft I hadn’t flown before, same type just a registration I hadn’t flown, and clouds were a little low (2000AGL) and winds a little high. All went well though, except a little gusty on final landing...

Hi, Student pilot here, logged about 13 hours so far on my PPL and loving it. Finding this site really useful in learning tips and hearing about some struggles people have been having and their tips at overcoming hurdles. Thanks everyone!

Thanks everyone for all the tips. These seem super useful and will definitely try them out on my next lesson

Hi, So I’ve currently just finished lesson 5 and today we spent nearly all of the lesson on just landings. I was doing them ok yesterday but today I really sucked at them, except at a practice of an emergency landing simulating an engine out which I did quite well, and probably one of my best...