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I did the IGI test using the same Sheppard prep as the IRA test, since it's pretty much exactly the same question bank. That allowed me to use the Ground Instructor credentials to gain access to the Sporty's CFI portal and view their Instrument ground school free of charge, which is about all...

Here's a playlist I made of mock checkride oral interviews. I would put these in my earbuds when I was doing mindless physical labor in the weeks leading up to my private checkride, and it made the oral portion into a complete non-event.

I can't speak to Gold Seal, but I can say I got a much deeper working knowledge of the IFR system and procedures from free YouTube content than I did from Sporty's ground school. A test endorsement is easy to come by; if you're a motivated learner, don't feel obligated to buy a ground school...

Yeah, here's the ACS: https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/training_testing/testing/acs/private_airplane_acs_change_1.pdf You won't spend a lot of time recovering from unusual attitudes during Instrument training, it's mostly about learning to fly procedures. Unless you have a propensity...

Worth a watch for the ongoing epaulette gag alone.

I saw the reel in question last week, maybe the week before. I don't recall whether they were in South America or Europe, but they were somewhere outside the US, so it might be tricky to find a report on the incident. They used almost the entire runway to become airborne, and then staggered...

I am pleased to report the hangar door has been repaired. And it was only a smoked V-belt. :lol:

It will click one day. I was a bundle of nerves until 100+ landings, and then it became more about feel and flowing with the plane than about consciously analyzing and responding.

Right. I'm trying to tread the fine line between using it like the tool it is and protecting it. 1st generation Tacomas are outright extinct in this part of the country.

The truck or the airplane? :biggrin: The Tacoma was a clean southern truck with mechanical issues; I took it all the way apart, hot-dip galvanized the frame, and reassembled it with a good drivetrain from the rusty Tacoma that preceded it as our plow truck. (All that dark stuff around the...

Today's drama exemplifies the thread title: Finally found a hangar, signed the lease and paid for my first year on Monday. Blew the wings off my Fisher yesterday and began the migration from shop to airport: figured I'd tow the fuselage first and then return in a box truck with all the wings...

I just broke 200 hours total time during an instrument lesson. We're past the basic attitude flying stage and beginning to fly approaches, and I've already blasted through a localizer after forgetting to hit the CDI button and switch to VLOC, which I understand to be a rite of passage. Both...

61.129(a)(3)(iii) and (iv) do not specify whether the cross country training flights need to be performed under VFR or IFR.

They'll look at the ADSB track and see which property you keep circling before returning to the airport. :biggrin:

Gell-Man Amnesia Effect In a speech in 2002, Crichton coined the term "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" to describe the phenomenon of experts reading articles within their fields of expertise and finding them to be error-ridden and full of misunderstanding, but seemingly forgetting those experiences...

Perks of living in a frozen wasteland: the county plow eviscerates every mailbox on the road, so my aircraft is registered at a PO box.

Only 100?! What are you, a savant?

"Earnest attempt" is such a slippery term. I know a few people who would swear up and down that they're serious about training, but in reality they're lifelong student pilots who dabble, taking a lesson here and there, and will never commit to flying frequently enough or studying hard enough to...

An Icon A5?

Imagine my disappointment when I clicked the link and discovered it was not the Bagger 288 video.