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A rental plane I use does not have a functioning light for the altimeter. Flying at night is a bit sketch because I need to use a flashlight to check the altitude. Does anyone have experience with a small stick-on led light that would help? I’m thinking something with a button battery that I...

I am visiting Vegas with the family for the holidays and would like to rent a plane with CFI and get a lesson + canyon tour. I did this over the summer and had a great experience in Bend Oregon. I have 42 hours and recently soloed.

This is going to sound super cheap but what’s the fastest way to warmup a IO-360? This morning I did the startup, taxi, run up and still needed 5 extra minutes of running to get the engine warm enough to take off. The requirement is the needle is in the green of the temp gauge before takeoff...

I fly outside Class B and was wondering if it’s reasonable to request flight following. In case you’re wondering it’s northwest of the SFO bravo over West Marin. More westerly is over the ocean and more easterly is very busy, northerly is busy with regional and training traffic into KSTS.

I’m hoping somebody can enlighten me. I’ve read from AOPA that a downwind departure is bad, and it’s not listed in the AIM as a departure technique. But I don’t understand why. Let’s say 18 is active and you want to head North. It seems like a downwind departure would keep you in a place where...

Today on a downwind departure a Cirrus passed below and to the right of me within ~100 feet and I had no idea he was there. He had taken off just after me. I'm a student with about 40 hours and was pretty startled when I rolled right and saw him passing below about 25kn faster than me. I get...

According to the sectional the traffic patterns at KRHV are what I’d expect for two parallel runways, with 13R and 31R having right traffic. But the segmented circle at the field only has one pair of traffic indicators that seem to be for 13L/31R. Can someone help a student who just soloed and...