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I've seen a few odds and ends comments on here by folks that own higher end turboprops (PC-12, TBM, etc.) or light jets (Phenom, PC-24, SF50, CJ2, etc.), my question is what was your license/experience route to being able to own and fly one? I'm hopefully going to be considering buying a...

I think this is the best one on here. I wish I had thought of this while I was still training! There's a similar prank to do out in public, but it involves a Windex bottle instead of a fuel tester. Though I think I'd buy a clean tester off Amazon that doesn't have lead residue...

Sorry for "abandoning" this thread, last week was pretty rough (for non-aviation reasons). I've read each reply and I truly thank all of you for the encouragement and advice! Flying more often is definitely the intent, budget is only going to allow once every 3-4 weeks currently, but I'll fly...

I need to vent and decompress a little with my fellow pilots (since I don't really have any in real life currently). I'm just a hobby private pilot (~97hrs TT), I may get my CFI one day and do some commercial oddjobs more for fun than for trying to make any kind of living, but I'm just flying...

Depends who's paying for the fuel! A plane like this is my lottery plane too. But I'd still have a small single piston for flying around locally and for fun. Once I thought about a fleet of four aircraft, Cessna 210 for local fun, light twin (B58? DA62?) for regional flights, a PC24 for long...

For approaches, I know we have GBAS being experimented with, but why not change the A to P for a Ground Based Positioning System? GPS minus the satellites, but otherwise the same thing. Better even since you no longer need to constantly calculate and update ephemeris, just minor updates for...

In a discussion a few weeks ago on Reddit, I think the consensus was that a prequel that shows Duke Mitchell's mission could be really good. I have mixed feelings about a continuation. We all got surprised with how good TG2 was, but I just don't know if TG3 can reach the same quality mark.

I want to know how this even made it this far that it was about to go to trial.

Airplanes that cost money to buy.

Today I opened up the mailbox and see a big orange envelope from the FAA. I just did my PPL checkride in October, and got my certificate card last month, so naturally, I'm wondering what did I screw up. Some errant entry in my medical records from a doctor three decades ago? My name got crossed...

What would cause one side of your body to be so much higher than the other side?

This wasn't in the pattern, this was mid-cruise. Class E airspace.

Wasn't the next generation of air traffic management systems supposed to fix a lot of this? Like ADS-B. Wasn't that supposed to allow tighter operations?

Flight Following is valid, I did consider it today, and I use it for longer flights, but by the time I could get it, I'd be half or three quarters of the way there or back. On my long solo XC, I was flying the same direction, but much further out, and I wasn't able to pickup flight following...

This evening I did a quick proficiency flight to an airport ~33nm from my starting point. Coming back, it was after sunset, and according to ForeFlight, I could log 0.2 night hours, but no night landings. Either way, this is my third flight with my iPad, and only the second with it actually...

I appreciate the replies. I think Windy will be my best bet and has most of what I was looking for. I never really dug into it much even during training. My instructor and I would sometimes use it if things were marginal and occasionally made both go and no-go decisions (and each time, each call...

Hello, I'm a fairly new PPL and was looking for better weather resources than the usual ones. Before a flight I get my outlook and standard briefings from 1800wxbrief and/or ForeFlight like a good pilot, and they're great for short-range, especially ForeFlight, but they aren't as great for...

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, if not please move it. I've been following the thread about Jenny Blalock's crash and I've learned a lot about autopilots in small planes. I don't currently fly a plane with one (that I can use) but I definitely have my assumptions about them, many of...

I just finished my PPL with All2Fly at PDK and I'm planning to start my instrument there in late spring. It's definitely a no-frills school. The planes are all about 50 years old, but they're kept in good shape for 50 year old trainers. I've never felt unsafe either from my instructor or from...

Is that legal for a non-IR pilot to do? I thought I read somewhere that a non-IR pilot filing an IFR flight plan was considered evidence that the pilot intended to violate regulations.