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    Sportys Rant - incomplete process and tests including topics not seen

    SOme excellent perspectives here, thanks to all of you. I don't care so much about passing the stupid test as I do wanting to fully absorb the information. I've got all the time in the world on when to start this, it's really just for fun. SO yeah--- I want to learn not 'pass'. I think I'll...
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    2024 PPL written test

    ^^ interestingly, Navigation is absent from the list. Certainly it will be focal somehow on the test
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    Sportys Rant - incomplete process and tests including topics not seen

    anyone know how many hours (on top of the 40 required dual) it takes most of us to get thru all this ? i’d hate to guess but I could see getting to 100 the way i’ve been learning in reverse by failing quizzes to learn answers…
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    Sportys Rant - incomplete process and tests including topics not seen

    none whatsoever. I'm naive I guess and thought the Sporty's course would be a pretty much all-inclusive. nope. Time for me to pause my ambition to take that test and go learns some **** first :-O
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    Sportys Rant - incomplete process and tests including topics not seen

    I'm spending a silly amount of hours trying to prep for my PPL written. I've completed the Learn to Fly course (online video, sporty's) and enjoyed the course. I've also done probably 30-40 hours of test prep. When I take the quizzes I get better every time and am routinely in the 90's on...
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    What is the best way to study for the Instrument Written Test?

    no i’m talking about the learn to fly course im struggling w the test prep cuz 20% of it is brand new info ive never heard of throughout studying so im trying to ask this in a IFR topic ? sorry I didn’t know that
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    2024 PPL written test

    has anyone recently taken the private pilot written ? I’m interested in knowing how much weather vs weight-balance vs VOR stuff etc bonus points if you were a Sportys student and can opine about the test prep questions versus the ‘real test’
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    What is the best way to study for the Instrument Written Test?

    “a few days studying will get it done”…. does anyone know how many hours they spent? I keep realizing how much I don’t know yet and was hoping to take the test soon. I bet i’ve got 40 hours of study on top of the videos (sportys learn to fly) I find many new topics appearing in the test...
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    Seaplane insurance: Straight floats vs. Amphibs / new pilot

    some AWESOME content here from SES in particular but all of you-- thank you for this. does "self-insure" = "no insurance" then ? as in, liability only (a must for me), and if I wad it up I eat it ? maybe this approach on an older 206 should be a start point vs. those lustful Beavers. I...
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    Seaplane insurance: Straight floats vs. Amphibs / new pilot

    I have zero float time. I visited jack brown's seaplane base and will do that or something like it, once I have my PPL in hand. I do not *have* to have a floatplane, it is what I want. I live on a lake and have a cottage on a lake, 200 miles away see where i'm goin' w/ all of this ? I also...
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    Seaplane insurance: Straight floats vs. Amphibs / new pilot

    i'm over half way to my PPL and starting the thought process / preliminary shopping, which currently has me in an amphibious plane of some sort, perhaps a 206 or my current favorite, a DHC Beaver, on Amphibs so I can leave it south in winter and use runways near home when not on water...
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    Float Plane selection - new pilot

    Of course way ahead of myself and abilities. Cant help it. Half way into flight training and spending too much time on trade-a-plane and controller. I already know it's gonna need to be a float plane, as I live in two places and both are on or near water. Which are viable options as a...
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    PPL student - unclear training 'flight plan'

    Patience grasshopper, 15 hours isn't that far in. How old are you (approximately) and what type of airplane are you flying? I will tell you, worrying about a timeline and checks on a piece of paper rather than focusing on mastering the different skills to fly an airplane will slow you down. You...
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    PPL student - unclear training 'flight plan'

    thanks for tryin' man... but that is a 76 page "re-cap" of whats in the lessons. i'm trying to find an overview or a summary that helps me understand timelines till completion I guess
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    PPL student - unclear training 'flight plan'

    It's not that I'm in a hurry here-- it's something i'm doing for fun. Despite all that, i'm pretty unclear about the training process from where I am to 'PPL in hand, go buy your plane now.' I"m looking for your input on what my "syllabus" is or should look like. It seems i'm kinda...
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    CFI leaving for airlines b4 I'm done (january)-- where can I go to finish ?

    My CFI has been awesome ! But-- he's leaving for the major leagues in January. I'll probably be 20+ hours in by that point, imagine i'll have solo'd by then, and surely done with my Sportys on-line ground school, maybe even done w/ the written test ? I'm wondering if there is a school that...
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    3rd class. historical alcohol. what will FAA find ?

    Thanks ! Does the FAA have access to medical files of yesteryear somehow ? Will they even see old prescriptions or counseling records ?
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    3rd class. historical alcohol. what will FAA find ?

    a few flights in and about to schedule a 3rd class med exam. I quit drinking a couple years ago. I got some counseling, attended an outpatient thing... it's not been hard for me at all. Zero desire to go back to that way of life. But in the before / during process, doctors gave me...
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