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Good recommendations here, thanks. I'll check with a couple of these. Yes, not my airplane.

I do a bunch of flying through the area and need a spot that does good work and might have enough availability to allow a pass through oil change (and occasional quick AD inspections) with little advance notice. I carry filter, oil and additive with me. Just need A&P hands and site. I realize...

Gary, yeah that can definitely be all it takes sometimes. There are ups and downs with any training and taking a long time to solo because landings are a hang-up is totally normal. Trust me I've been beating up the pattern quite a bit lately. ;) This is a plateau that I'm not used to at this...

Haha! Yeah, we're all working on getting better than whatever we are right now. Relentless pursuit of being good enough to not die. Or look like an idiot. =) intercept_flight - hopefully that is the case. =) I've been lucky enough to fly with some world-class pilots. That sets the bar pretty...

Thanks Brad W. Always good to hear from others who've gone through similar experiences.

Good feedback. It's all too easy to concentrate so intensely that we/I forget to just fly the airplane. So much self-induced pressure gets us focused on the wrong things or tense on the controls. A recipe for herky-jerky control inputs. Worth remembering: forget the pressure and just have fun...

PaulS - the primary thing I'm dealing with is a small amount of PIO or balloon in the flare. Exactly what I'd expect when using an arm that spent the previous weeks dangling or held firmly at my side and now has a slightly different structure than it did before. The proprioception just feels...

heheh. Yeah Salty I can identify. I fly a smattering of different rentals and each seat is slightly different in height and distance from the controls. I can appreciate the benefits of always flying slightly different aircraft - but it does account for some need to fine tune how I fly for each...

Thanks. No significant pain but I wouldn't say it's entirely unnoticeable. As a standard practice I don't take any medications at all while I'm flying although a 2-400 mg of ibuprofen dose is about as low risk as it gets. You're second thought also validates a couple of my own thoughts. I'm...

So, I've got about 500 hours and my schedule often requires significant amounts of time away from airplanes followed by a return and period of refamiliarization and polishing to get back to proficiency. But I'm not totally green. That said, I recently took a very unplanned break from flying and...

It's popular to bash on Sheppard as purely a testing prep software. There's truth in that of course (it's how they market it themselves after all) but I found it to be an excellent tool for actually learning the material as well. It's all in how you choose to use it. For me it provided the focus...

Great thanks. Hadn't thought to look there yet.

Haha! I like it. :D

Ok, that is the conclusion my math brought me to. I just couldn't find the reference that specified if the checkride date was when it would all be calculated from - since a couple approaches would be needed from March 2022 if not. Sounds like that is not the case. And then the month AFTER the...

Hi all, I had to stop flying for a while after getting my IFR ticket and am running into the end of the period after which I will be due for an IPC. But the way the dates work out is for some reason creating some confusion for me on when exactly I need my 6HITS completed. I know, it's a basic...