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I decided to get in a night currency flight in on Sunday. On the way back in to the home airport, the cabin and bottom of the wings flashed and lit up like I had either just flown into a thunderstorm or was just about to have a close encounter with another plane. Scared the crap out me, until I...

I have around 90 hours of time building to do toward my commercial. Any fun airports to visit within 130-150 nm of the Charlotte area?

I’m doing a “sanity check ride” with a veteran instructor ahead of my instrument check ride next week. He told me to plan for a takeoff under the hood. I’ve heard of other instructors doing that as well, but my instructor never did one with me. Just curious what the value is? I understand that...

...and it was AWESOME! I'm about 28 hours into my instrument training and was getting a little worried that I wasn't going to get any actual before the checkride. Finally today was a nice overcast between 800 and 1000 AGL. Wow, what an experience! Sorry to come here and gush...I just still...

I’m roughly halfway through training for my instrument rating, but no actual time in IMC yet. I have a really good hood that limits most but not all glimpses outside the airplane. Despite trying hard not to cheat, I’ve never experienced the effects of strong spatial disorientation...until this...