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Well, this sure is a thread. Call AOPA's medical/legal advice line. There is a right answer to this, it's a simple answer for a simple reason, and there is no "agree to disagree" over the right answer. I am a lawyer, but I am not your lawyer, so I'm not gonna tell you what that answer is. Go...

Why is this wrong?

Thanks everyone, this is super helpful.

Hi all, I had two questions I am hoping the community might be able to help with. First, how important is the distinction between departure/approach/center? Sometimes when I call approach for flight following, they identify themselves as departure. Sometimes they'll hand me off to another...

I'm about 15-20 minutes, depending. Two things have saved time: (i) first thing I do is check fuel (and top of wings), so that if I need to order fuel, I can do the rest of the preflight while waiting; (ii) now that I'm familiar with the checklist, do the preflight, then go through the...

Silly question I was hoping y'all could help me with. I think I'm getting different feelings on the flight controls confused when trying to land. People talk about ground effect all the time, but what does it actually feel like? Can you feel it on the controls, do they get mushier like in a...

They'll give you a copy of FAA-CT-8080-2H, the full thing, in hard copy. Google it and you can get a copy. Not to scale. That said, just a heads up, at least where I took my exam, you weren't allowed to draw in the book, you were supposed to use this plastic overlay and use a super fat expo...

By way of update, I switched to a different 172N during my most recent lesson, and did not have this problem at all. Could either be because I took a moment to look at the pedals and understand what was going on... maybe just felt better because it wasn't my first lesson... or could be the new...

Thanks all, I will try these approaches. It's a C-172N.

I recently started flight training, and was really surprised at the difficulty pushing on the rudder. I feel almost like I'm pressing a leg press but with my feet/ankles (and I'm not a weak guy, I can leg press 500+ lbs). In the air it doesn't seem to be a huge problem since small pushes seem...