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    Which is harder to land? Tailwheel or Glider

    In the 2-33 it depends on the relative weight of the occupants. It can sit on the tail OR on the nose with two passengers loaded within the normal W&B envelope.
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    Struggling with single engine commercial

    It may be worse than you think. You could be taking a step backwards with your husband - for various reasons. If so, the only way to keep going in the right direction is with another instructor.
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    Filing and flying IFR without Instrument Rating

    First ask yourself if you're comfortable flying IFR with this guy in the same airspace. They will almost certainly investigate further (if nothing else just to first verify that your claim valid). I would certainly hope that the FSDO would investigate further and do SOMETHING to keep him from...
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    CSEL Checkride Debrief

    I hadn't done chandelles for years until just before the check ride. Mine passed but were a little sloppy, so the examiner asked if he could demonstrate one, which of course I approved. His was even sloppier. He chuckled and said, "Oh, well." and we moved on to the next task.
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    Chicago to Hilton Head SC - with post flight writeup

    What's a "VOR"? ;)
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    10 takeoff and landings towered

    I think there may be a distinction between "pushing specific formatting requirements" and actually failing a check ride for lack of adequate documentation. While it might be a fine line between the two, I suspect DPEs fail an applicant on the basis of there being NO documentation of the...
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    10 takeoff and landings towered

    Sort of - FAR 91.51 describes details for logbook entries, but the wildcard in that regulation is the "acceptable to the administrator" clause, which is what some of the discussion on this thread addresses. I know of a highly experience CFI who insists that to be "acceptable to the...
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    Plane purchases, gifts, and the tax man

    Vermont emphasizes that it's a sales and use tax, so if you live in Vermont but bought it in another state, you owe whatever you didn't pay in the state where you purchased it. Years ago nearby Maine tried to impose the use tax on aircraft that spent more than something like a week parked in...
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    RPM loss

    I had a very similar experience in my C206 right over the peaks of the White Mountain range in New Hampshire, went through the checklist and headed for the only "potentially" suitable landing area to have a crash. Then the engine came back to life, then it quit again and did that four or five...
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    Possible slip up

    I think that you'll find that a lot of prescriptions are written "off label", meaning that they were not FDA approved. But doctors have leeway in using their own judgment to determine if a drug is safe and effective, even though the FDA did not have evidence (sometime "yet") to support that...
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    Aviation License Plates

    Mine is WNGSOVT from when I registered Wings Over Vermont as a business in Vermont, planning to use the Cub for aerial photography in retirement. That was right around the time that drones became cheap and readily available. A realtor could buy a drone for the price of one or two photography...
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    10 takeoff and landings towered

    I think I had around 100 night flights over 30+ years when I did a commercial check ride (which I did just for fun at the time). But I learned that a picky examiner can tear your documentation to pieces if he wants to. For example, "How do I, the examiner, know that both the takeoff and the...
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    Medical Wait Time!

    There's a reason that 70,000 airmen are on Basic Med.
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    Facebook Follies

    What limits that? The wheels only have to add enough additional RPMs to match the speed of the treadmill. If the treadmill is moving at 10 mph and the airplane takes off at 100 mph, the aircraft wheels only need to spin at 110 mph. The added friction is likely negligible with that difference.
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    Facebook Follies

    The statement stipulates a "giant" treadmill. If that refers to width, the plane can't take off without leaving the treadmill. If it refers to length and there's enough length to accelerate to take off speed then it can. That assumes that there's a negligible amount of friction at higher...
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    Facebook Follies

    I'm not saying that people are stupid, but some people really just aren't very smart.
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    Concerns about flying while using an SSRI.

    That's a false assumption. There's a back door discovery that occurs when the FAA requests medical records for an unrelated problem and the medical record provided (usually electronic) includes a list of medications. When that does happen the airman has waved a red flag in front of the bull...
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    Basic Med if you don't have a doctor

    You're definitely allowed to ask, and AMEs are definitely allowed to provide both. My first Basic Med was with my AME before he later decided he didn't want to do them, so I found another one. One HUGE benefit to Basic Med is that what transpires with one physician doesn't go through the FAA...
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    Furniture help request

    Looks like I misunderstood, although I'm not sure why you might take a potentially serviceable piece of equipment to make a shop chair. But with that in mind I'd probably just make a simple dolly with a non-destructive clamp system to hold the chair on it.
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    Furniture help request

    Find a good metal fabrication shop certified mechanic in your area that will do exactly what you want.
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