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    Sportys Rant - incomplete process and tests including topics not seen

    Pass your instrument check ride is an audio book ($5 iirc) with hours of typical questions and answers. Good luck retaining anything you don’t already know at 2x though
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    Am I too big to be a CFI?

    At 6’5” it’s likely that your knees block the yoke (fully extended) and your feet block the rudder pedals. I recently flew in a 172 with no shoes so my feet were under and out of the way. Pushing the seat all the way back to get legs/knees out of the way means that the seat isn’t locked in...
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    Insurance for letting someone park in your hangar?

    Doesn’t the airport also have requirements? They require that you have xyz on your plane but joe pilot may not have that coverage when borrowing your hangar Right?
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    Sportys Rant - incomplete process and tests including topics not seen

    I have a stack of these awful books (IFR for me) and progress has stopped on all of them somewhere in the first few chapters. For a pretest my friendly cfi asked open ended questions. Yikes, it’s like going back to college 40 years later. Labor of love is the only answer for me. Otherwise...
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    Carburetor Intake Cessna 182

    Is it the same part number for 1966? Mine seemed to be longer tia
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    Cessna down after stalling on take off

    Yes I flew with a test pilot a few times in my plane and it was certainly eye opening
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    From pilot to A/P?

    AOPA has a podcast called ask the a and p or something. Anyway, it’s Mike bush and two others with a format similar to the old car talk on npr This topic came up in the last month or two so it might be worth a listen. Documenting past work, taking the exams, etc. Fwiw
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    Masters of the Air--coming to Apple TV

    To be fair, they added new characters all the time since so many died or became pows I think that’s one reason why the show seems disjointed. Might have been wise to delve deeper into many fewer characters. The lady spy character arc was ridiculous too. I say watch it since there’s little...
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    PA-32 /N8963N Down Feb 24,2024

    Full flap extension: what am I missing?
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    the "not worthy of it's own thread" thread

    Why does the airport care if I’m in a friends hangar? He’s insured, it’s insured, I’m insured the annual is up to date etc. Are they concerned about personal property taxes for state or county or something?
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    Finishing PPL and questions on the next level

    Passed your medical? There are many threads on this topic which describe what and how (and why) to go about it
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    Man who crashed snowmobile into a parked Black Hawk helicopter suing government for $9.5M

    Over driving his headlights = 100% his fault out of the gate. Anyone who has ever driven a vehicle knows it’s foolhardy to drive blind I’m amazed that he’s alive (what’s the source for 65mph?)
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    Funky Preflight

    You mean taxied into the wall or door or something of the hangar? That seems bad
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    Dual G5's vs Aspen Evolution E5 vs Dual GI 275

    My only comment is IFR kinda blows without an autopilot. Even if you don’t install an autopilot now, you should plan on doing it some day. So, plan accordingly
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    Choosing the plane for Winter mountain trips

    Are you tied to multiple ski resorts? If it were one area (park city for example) you could leave your gear there and not transport back and forth. No bag flying (just computer/phone/toothbrush for example) gives you hundreds of pounds of fuel.
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    the "not worthy of it's own thread" thread

    To the beginning of time. I’m guessing no one but maybe the govt has old radar records. Just curious if anyone has figured it out. My buddy wants to buy a plane and doesn’t trust the broker. It’s a 1962 so that’s 62 years of service. I never looked at the oldest log book for my plane until...
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    the "not worthy of it's own thread" thread

    Flight history for a single plane…just use flight aware or is there a better source to pick up all flights going back to whenever records began? Tia
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    Air-to-Air Piper Tri-Pacer

    I had one in the 80s and enjoyed flying it around…can’t imagine fitting in it now though. Probably need helium balloons or something to lighten the load enough to take off
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    Van’s Aircraft ... Some Great News

    Hopefully any reorg excludes hopium accounting, or whatever they were doing before
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    1st Solo ever!!

    Congratulations! How much headroom do you have?
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