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Yup I have a 2-hour mock oral scheduled with him, and then two 3-hour flights with back-to-back approaches, holds, misses and whatever else he throws at me. I told him I want him task saturating me as much as possible and to not give me any hints when things get rough. Delay vectors are a great...

Thank you so much for the messages everyone, I've read every reply and will be taking nuggets of wisdom from each one. I've brought these issues up with my CFII. He's told me on multiple occasions (when I'm on my A game) that I am 100% ready for the checkride and a good IFR pilot, I just need...

I've been studying my butt off but unfortunately blew the oral on some questions I knew like the back of my hand but just blanked on. It was like my mind shut off. Very disappointed in myself and my ego is bruised. I have a reschedule in a week so I went up with my CFI today to shoot some...

Hi all, I'd like to get some feedback from other pilots to make sure I'm not being raked over the coals here...is it normal for student pilots to pay hull renter's insurance in addition to flight training? I'm assuming this is only when I'm acting as PIC and not receiving dual. This school is...

Can anyone recommend an exceptional flight school (or CFII) at or near KCOE? Looking to knock out my IFR, Comm and CFI tickets ASAP. New to the area and haven't checked out the FBOs yet, figured I'd ask around first. Thanks!

I hated night flying when getting my PPL - unless you're IFR in a twin or there is a life-or-death reason to take off at night outside of the traffic pattern, the risk is just not worth it to me; disorientation, dark mountains you can't see, engines conking out over complete blackness - no...

Correct, I was referring to airports specifically in controlled airspace. Dana's and 1SGBrokePilot's posts cleared it up from me with the AIM 4-3-3 and 91.155 references. Can't believe I missed that last sentence regarding the exception for cloud criteria. Thinking on it now in case I ever get...

Purchase the Mock PPL Oral product from King Schools and watch that at least 5 times all the way through. It is a literal recording of a mock checkride from start to finish, and my real checkride was probably 99% similar. I had zero surprises during the checkride, it was definitely worth it.

If basic VFR minimums for airports in controlled airspace require a ceiling of at least 1,000 ft AGL per 91.157, how can a pilot safely fly at TPA if he also is required to stay 500 ft below any clouds in controlled airspace? It doesn't make sense that the airspace is considered VFR with a...

I got my PPL out of KPAE (Class D - Boeing Country) and it wasn't unusual to find yourself in your little C-152 bugsmasher lined up final on 34R with a 787 off your left wing on final 34L (the parallels are separated by the entire field though, so definitely not within 300 feet of each other)...

Our tax dollars pay for it, so damn right I'm using FF as often as I can!

I'm currently studying up for my IFR written before I even book a lesson. I did that with the PPL - I used Sheppard Air and studied like a mad man. It was complete rote memorization, I didn't understand half the crap/questions that were asked but I aced the written. Then during actual flight...

You just listed book-by-book exactly what I was going to suggest. Reading any one of these will make you a better pilot guaranteed.

1. MS Store - select msflight simulator 2. Click "Uninstall" 3. Purchase X-Plane 4. Download X-Plane 5. Love X-Plane :p I kid, I kid - I'm a flight-sim nut though and use both. Hopefully the OP has got it figured out - the avsim website or even reddit's MSFS community might have more people who...

This confuses me - if ATC asked for my "on-course heading", that strictly sounds to me like they want the heading my nose is pointed toward to stay on course due to WCA. But that doesn't seem very useful to ATC, why would they care which way I'm pointed in order to stay on course? I would give...

"As much as necessary" with absolutely zero distractions and absolutely zero rushing. Yes in the real world this isn't always possible. Do it anyway. Be rude if you have to, tell your friend to shut-up while you go over your checklists and pre-flight the plane. Miss that business meeting. Upset...

Hey all, Can anyone point me in the direction of "intersecting runway" procedures or ACs? I just moved near KCOE and looking to get back into the saddle. I'm a low-time PPL and I've never experienced these old "V-shape" runway arrangements; I believe the FAA considers these "intersecting...