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Went out last night to do some pattern work. I don't have a whole lot of night hours because I don't really like the idea of flying at night in a single, but I've been trying to get over that a bit. Last week I did some night work with an instructor and it went really well so I went up to do...

This has almost certainly been posted, but Merry Christmas PoA friends!

120 years ago today. Weather has me on the ground today but hopefully some of you all can get out and celebrate!

Most forums need the member who asks random, off the wall questions, and I like to think I fill that need here. So here goes: Earlier this year I joined a flying club that has a couple of PA-28 designs and a couple of 172's. This was my introduction to flying Cherokee-types, other than a few...

Feel free to drag me on this, because I'm making this a totally open response type of deal. Questions are posted in boldface for the TL/DR types among us (I know you're out there!) As I posted in Hangar Talk, I'm going to be out in Oklahoma for a year. That's about a 7.5 hour drive home...

Anybody here in Oklahoma City? It looks like I'll be taking a 1 year contract there.

Car guys (of which I am one) have a pastime called bench racing, where we just discuss options for building and modifying cars. I will *hopefully* be finishing my grad program before too long and I'd like to buy after I find a job. With that in mind I keep tabs on Trade a Plane and on...

What the title says. I know that they make Mutt Muffs. Let's assume that there was a pilot who liked cats and had a cat. And for some reason unfathomable to anyone but him, he had a desire to take said cat flying (and not the kicking it off the bed kind of flying). Does anybody know of an...

One of the last things I did before the pandemic hit and I took a hiatus from flying was get my IFR. My checkride was ugly, but I think I passed on the pity principle because I had dealt with some problems prior to the ride - funny story if anybody wants to hear it. Anyway I did a couple of...

As the thread title says, Hiyo guys and gals, I'm back. With the pandemic I have not flown in over a year, and I've been very busy with school/work. But I am hopefully graduating this year and with luck we will get the pandemic under control and I'll be able to get airborne again!

Any FAA folks in here? I've been on a discussion thread on Facebook, that was started by a rumor that the FAA will revoke medicals for anybody that participates in a COVID vaccine trial. Nobody could find a published stance on it, so I decided to contact the local FSDO. They got in touch with...

Okay hear me out.... there are plans built planes, and among them are monocoque designs like the RV4. Has anybody ever plans built a clone of a classic monocoque plane like a Swift or a Luscombe? Looking at the bulkhead / stringer / riveted skin construction, it would seem to me that something...

My grandpa is one of the big reasons I got into aviation. When I was little he would take me to a now-defunct air college outside of St. Louis (you can figure it out) to watch airplanes taking off and landing, or the same thing at Lambert (this was pre - 9/11). He was a newly-minted Avenger...

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this thread! Please move if it’s better suited in a different section. Has anybody here ever tried hang gliding? I’m still healing financially from my instrument rating and haven’t been airborne much since December. I’ve decided not to pursue my commercial...

I just got my IFR ticket back in December. I haven't flown since my checkride and so I was planning on heading about an hour southeast of me to visit a college buddy of mine - it's about a two hour drive. The weather today was IFR with ceilings overcast at 2000 - 3000 feet at estimated...

Hey guys and gals. I know I've been AWOL for a while. I've been lurking but not posting. Been kind of busy with school and also with preparing to convince the FAA that I should have an instrument rating. That happened tonight, and what a checkride it was. My checkride was scheduled at...

So I have kicked the can down the road long enough and have finally decided it is time to schedule my IR checkride. Any advice? My CFII I've been working with is leaving to the airlines (congrats!) and I've been shuffled to a couple of CFII's to complete the signoff. No big deal as I know...

Hey guys and gals. I wanted to get your take on something that I think is probably a “no-go,” realistically, but I figured it doesn’t hurt to ask for outside opinions. Hopefully in the next month or so I’ll finish my instrument rating. I’m not going airline. This is just a hobby for me...

Today’s the 23rd anniversary of the Flight 800 explosion. What’s eerie is there’s a channel of a guy who recreated aviation incidents using FS2004 and FSX and I was scrolling through his vids and selected his 800 video because I hadn’t seen it before, and it started out saying “July 17, 1996...”...