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Now you're the safety pilot. :)

..when you sit back, stare at the wife who just did her pinch hitter course, and say "The plane is yours...go there (points to map)" She got upset the first time, now looks forward to it once in a while.

Whoah..awesome thread. Ive been logging my solo time, incorrectly. *blink* Not at all sure, how I missed that, but its gonna get corrected.

I agree on the initial flaps call..but slowing down earlier, adds time for me to put it all together. I cant be farther from the runway on my approach, but I can make it take more time to get there. Id think, thats not entirely necessary that early at all, as you said, once im mentally cleaner...

I found that the ones I was -allowed- to make that were really important..and then find on my own (with his hands and mind ready for if I didnt)...are MUCH more firmly seated in my mind than other mistakes corrected for me.

Not descending 23mi out, just..managing time/distance, descent in the training plan wasnt starting until about 10mi out, which IMHO, should be about 12mi out (my missing two miles). And my CFI does a ton of contract flying for bay area companies, so it's likely his thoughts are -well- along the...

The point in my training..in slowing down so early, is adding time to put it together. As I meld with high perf planes better, of course, I can shave a lot of that off, but for now, I understand the exercise of getting ahead of the plane, and slowing down early adds time for me to do that...

Yes, my CFI has explained that im being way more gentle than this thing needs to be dealt with, but I do believe that he's training good future habits as I work up into other aircraft/etc. He went on to explain about the various religions surrounding shock cooling/etc, which are not nearly as...

There's my 2 miles. Ive always been doing 3:1, not 4:1 on descent. As I play that backwards, it fits into this "extremely conservative" method of using MP for a very slow..slowdown. It would pu my initial 2" pull from 23" back to about 21-22mi out at the cruise speed I can get to between CVH...

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=7445189 Happened just as were at the Squadron2 BBQ, and someone noticed "why is it so...quiet?" Sure enough, the AP had been closed down for about 30min as an 182RG was circling with only one of his gear down. One of the...

*nods* Its less of me thinking too hard about this, just during the insurance checkout in this thing..these are the 'very conservative' points of action that ive been shown, and im trying to stay within his..I dunno..envelope for the exercise of managing the get down & slow down planning, which...

With this attitude towards learning, you'll be dropping out of the sky any day now. Please, dont fly over zip code 94089 without Emailing me first.

Greetings: I have a total of about 145hrs of time logged so far, and have asked my CFI to work me into the C182 we have. It has a STOL kit, and a nice new const-spd prop. Take off in short-field configuration like the space shuttle compared to a 172. :) I comprehend the new features...

No..it came with this nRoute software. No MapSource. But..did download it, seems I need an SD card..will do that.

I have..and love my 696. I have it capturing tracks.. What I cant find, is how do I download the tracks it has accumulated to my PC? It may be easy, but so far, not obvious.