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To set personal limits and stick with them.

Out of curiosity, if you stop flying (but still have your license) would you be able to get life insurance at normal premiums?

All right! Booked a training flight two weeks out. Been a while since I've done the training thing so this should be interesting all around. That one time I flew the Decathalon I remember thinking, "If I only had started training on this I would have had such a better feel for slip/skid."...

I'm mostly a C172SP renter and I'm interested in switching it up as I find myself doing a lot of the same these days. I see there's a Citabria 7ECA near me for a reasonable rental fee. My total tailwheel experience is a single flight in a decathalon once (taxi, take off, no landing) a few years...

I had a lot of interruptions towards the end too. I feel your frustration. In retrospect I should have just blocked off some time when weather was still good and got through it. As it was, I ended up checkriding in winter and waiting out the ups and downs of weather and flying enough to be in...

I'm averaging about 3 weeks between flights in the non-winter months. I've tried to focus on flying just one or two different tail numbers these days to be comfortable with the aircraft. Also stick to my personal minimums on weather if I'm going cross country VFR and don't do any night flights...

Ever since I became a family guy I have had a lot less money so I've approached it from a different way. I give myself ~$4000 per year to fly in addition to costs for renters insurance + a medical every couple years.

This is the type of thing I've been doing this year after mostly local and training on different types. One day I just realized I was spending all my money flying local on different types that I wasn't doing enough time in to be confident. So I just decided to focus on flying the trusty 172 this...

So I'm going to Las Vegas for a weekend bachelor's party. There's a lot of helicopter tours, but I was wondering if the community had any other aviation related fun in the area. Not looking to fly myself, but maybe do something like gliding(?) or maybe getting less commercial tour through a...

Can't say I enjoy the full swipe to close on either form factors. It feels gimmicky and one that grows tiresome after the initial cool factor. I understand that the apps "hibernate" as far as resource utilization is concerned, but the obsessive part of me just wants to close things. I recognize...

Price of progress in my book. Technologies change. Paradigms come and go. Buttons move around. It's the surest bet that more stuff will change in Windows in the coming years even if it is to go backwards (I hope not). But more, what I was originally getting at is all the people loudly...

So much drama. You'd think they were closing control towers or something... When I had to do some work with iPad recently I found many of its actions were non-intuitive to discover. I found myself edge swiping to try and bring up menus that I've been imprinted with using Win 8. Tech can, will...

How well does it work in tablet mode? Without a twist hinge the keyboard is exposed on the back side. I'd imagine that'd subject it to damage and other wear/tear over time a lot faster.

Why is this even news? I've been carrying around optical disc-less notebooks and tabletpcs since 2003. Oh right. Put Apple in the title to drive traffic to your site. Whatever. I'll continue to pack optical drives on my main desktop. I couldn't care less what Apple does, but in this case they...

Yeah waiting to see what Surface Pro brings. Or possibly one of the Lenovo offerings.

Actual installation was relatively quick and painless. Used the $40 upgrade path to burn a DVD and clean installed on a new 2TB drive thereby preserving my Win 7 installation. MS thoughtfully even gives you a bootloader to easily pick between the two after POST. I think $40 upgrade was the right...

Swear to god... I was reading this while flight planning for tomorrow. Just had to pull out my E6B to do a row of navlog calculations. Low and behold I found I had entered my mag var wrong (+ vs -)! How about that? It really does pay to double check manually. Early on my training I had...

QFT. I'm really bummed now that it's not more accessible to me (from a scheduling and price perspective). I don't suppose any of the piper trainers (not necessarily tail draggers) demonstrate a similar feel characteristic? Those seem to be the only other types around me that I could easily rent.

Yesterday I flew a Super Decathalon with the intent on doing a variety of stalls and ultimately spin recovery. I had been meaning to do this for a while just as a emergency preparation thing. I figured it would be the difference between reading about changing the tire on your car if you had a...

There was another post about this a while back where I discovered a lot of people here get at least a bit afraid/nervous before a flight. Seems fairly common. I do find that the 1-2 days leading up to a cross country I spend a good amount of mental energy planning and reviewing. So much so that...