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Year of 2016 is coming to an end and 2017 is the year I will start my IFR training. I'm pretty excited about it - enough to be jumping the gun as I don't yet have a concrete "start-to-finish" plan, other than to start reading lots of book material on IFR before the instructor training. I'm...

This video might have been posted before, bit for whoever has not seen it (like myself), it is worth watching. I sometimes jokingly say that Piper J3 Cub flies like a kite. Now i've seen it.

I know I've posted a video like this before, but I am starting to really like the perspective of a gyro-stabilized gopro. AWOS reported winds 18 gusting to 25, mostly down the runway. Not bad, but because the runway's length and end are bounded by dense trees, there's a bit more turbulence than...

So I got my kids all pumped up to go to the airport and do a fun evening flight with the school's C172. Only a short time later did I remember the flight school's amendment to the insurance policy <quote> A valid proof of insurance must be provided before renting or commanding an aircraft to...

A short in-flight video clip taken with GoPro2 while mounted on a "MotoGyroVision" single-axis gyro. While the airplane is in a bank, the camera's gyro chip and magnetometer keep the GoPro2 aligned with the horizon -this gives is nice perspective while the airplane is in a bank I think most...

I admit I do 0.5ish hour flights around the pattern to not totally atrophy my stick-and-rudder skills, etc. It's not helping me become a better pilot "all around", but I do have a general plan to make the most of such a short flight around the pattern. And the different instructors that I've...

The flight school I rent from has a policy that requires aircraft renters to be "checked out" for flying to 2 airports: Catalina (KAVX, on an island) and Big Bear (L35, mountainous, ~6,750 feet). I think the policy is derived from the terms and conditions of the flight school's insurance...

I had my SLR in my car and I for the first time I decided to take it along for a very short flight around the pattern in the school's 1946 J-3 Cub. A few snapshots from around the pattern and a bunch of static photos taken after the flight, on the ground.

.... my new medical certificate. And I just got a glimpse of it as it was sucked right out of my shirt pocket. I don't get it. My shirt pocket even has one of those button-down flaps; no, i didn't button it down, just had it laying over the pocket, unbuttoned. Oh well. I'm gonna fill out...

I might soon have to say "arrivederci", "auf wiedersehen", "good bye" to part 91 general aviation for a while. So I'm looking for alternate ways to "get high" and because I always had interest in "soaring", I wanna learn more about hang gliding and paragliding. And what better way to learn about...

Just curious: what are some of the causes - and reasons - for which you've had to do 'go-around' and abort takeoff? Mine (the ones I remember, including primary training) would be something like: Go-around - Practice. - Wind gusts - Approach too high / too fast - Insuficient separation...

I finally got to take my daughter for a flight in the school's 1946 J3 Cub; the bribe was something like $20. Ha! Ceiling was broken at 2,400 so we stayed in the pattern - she enjoyed it nonetheless. Here's a condensed 5 minute video of the 45 minute flight getting dizzy in the pattern...

On the J-3 I rent I've had a number of instances where after rotating the crank handle of trim the stabilizer up or down, the trim had no effect: - [ok] the handle can be cranked forwards or backwards without any obstructions - [no good] the indicator on the trim markings did not move from its...

A good friend is an amateur photographer; I offered him a flight in a J-3 Cub telling him that with the window and door out of the way, there would be nothing in the way to degrade the image. He had never flown in a light, GA aircraft and although he said he was a little scared, he was all...

My tailwheel CFI (who is also an A&P) has difficulty hearing and relies mostly on reading lips to communicate with somone like myself (he says he is deaf). His speech is as good as mine and in the training conditions we seldom had difficulty communicating (also true of other current...

It had been about 2 weeks since the endoresement and also my last flight in the Cub, so on a day when the winds were no longer gusting, I scheduled a flight with my son. Here is video of the flight https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ofdwgjtdus8 We got a bit of feeling of what "ownership" is...

I'm stoked. This is the best thing I've done since I got my private pilot certificate 2 years ago. Thanks to all that gave good advice in this thread http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79170 (I didn't wanna resurrect it). The training was in the school's 1943 Piper Cub...

I had my first tailwheel lesson in the 1943 Piper J-3 Cub (as talked about in the other thread where I asked for advice and got lots of good ones). Here's what we did in Lesson 1 - preflight: things specific to the J-3 - how to move the Cub by its tail in tight space. This is great... no...

I am a very low-hour private pilot who has flown only tricycle gear: most of the time C172 and a handful of hours in C150 or C162 (skycatcher - flew like a gokart ;)). There were a few other low wing but just a one-time occurance and i did not log pic for these. So thats my limitted experience...

This is kind of cool; below are two screen captures of overlaying the Charlie and Delta from a region in Southern California over Google Earth (I de-selected LAX's Bravo as it would have covered most everything else). And you can actually "fly through" it, kind of neat. I don't...