Forum: Flight Training

Reference: FAR 61.57(b) You have fallen out of night currency and decide to get current. You, as the PIC and sole occupant of the airplane, take off from your home airport at sunset and fly around for an hour before returning to the airport pattern. You complete three full stop landings...

Tomorrow night, weather permitting, will be my first night flight--and afterwards is cross country, but that's not why I'm writing... ... what can I do to prep for night flight physically and mentally. My lesson is scheduled for 8:30pm, so it'll be after sunset. Any tips?

Taking some friends this weekend to the little league world series, and I wanted to have everything planned out for flight following. Departing KCBE->KIPT. It's been a while since ive done a cross country, and the first time from this specific airport / area. Airnav says APCH/DEP SVC PROVIDED...

Figured I'd toss another note up here about my training as for my family is tired of hearing about it, and just cant relate. Plus I like the feedback from everone. It was another great day for flying @ EAU on FRI. 9kts wind gusting to 15. "I still dont mind the big winds, I'd rather learn...

During my pre-flight the landing light -did- work. I checked it as I knew i'd be coming home in the dark. According to our airports website it has PCL on both runways. No special instructions given. Unicom / CTAF is the same.. 122.8. Upon coming up on the city I hit the radio 7 times, and...

Hey everyone, passed my checkride! I figured I'd share all of the down and dirty of my process so those about to take theirs can learn something. Total hours: 41.2, 8 months, 1981 Cessna 172P, and 1978(?) 172N. Solo after 9.1 hours Damn was I nervous. I was confident, and had planned to go...

I was doing a routine run up the other day and noticed that the engine was running rough on the right magnito but was fine on the left and when on both. the rpm definitely dropped much more than the checklist allowance. I figured that since it was working on both and on the left that I'd be...

Hi all, Maybe this is a silly question but the only thing stopping me right now from signing up for my first flight lessons is a concern about my size. I'm 6'4" 270lbs with very broad shoulders. Are there weight restrictions on typical student aircraft? Am I going to be completely cramped and...

This guy just couldn't get it. Class B landing into McCarren Las Vegas. Good video of what not to do in Big airspace. :Violin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp29La97cKo

I'm not writing this to boost my pride from greasing a couple of landings yesterday and strong x-winds today. But mainly how my inst is thinking I can solo. over the last two lessons he is wondering if I have my medical and obviously hinting about a solo in the next few hrs. I know the avg is...

Well the big day is coming on Tuesday. It's amazing how the past 10 months have finally brought me to this point. I feel confident, but I know I'm going to be nervous when the day is here. I just have to stay focused on the task at hand hopefully I'll be a private pilot in just six short days! Just...

So, I have been invited to fly some cross country flights on the east coast with a friend who owns an older C172N. It does have an ADF and VOR equipment, but he says that he's never really utilized them, he just flies "IFR"... I fly roadways. I come from flying modern 172SP's and 182...

Reading the posts on here and other forums, before and after I started my flight trraining, I felt like everyone was wrong. Wrong in the fact that I'd never learn how to land a damn C-172. Well today we did patterns and a bunch of landings, 7 in all. on the 3rd one I greased it, stall horn from...

Hi all - I was just looking at a chart and was wondering how you would handle this situation. Say I am taking this route (intending to land at N43): SEG FJC N43 (Online Sectional) and cruising at 5500 feet. I know that if N43 was actually inside the Allentown class C, I could contact approach and...

I got an unusual offer today, my brother's neighbor offered to teach us both how to fly for free, as long as we pay for the rental and fuel. I was wondering what the bad side, if any, could be to this. Evidently he is at the least a CFII ME, but doesn't do it for a living, he is an electrical...

I finally manged to solo this morning!!! It felt great to actually get up and fly by myself! I got in 3 takeoffs and landings - all of the touchdowns were great, but I was flying my approaches a bit faster and higher than usual. Not sure why, but I was having some trouble getting the planed...

Can a Private Pilot w/ a Instrument rating and 100-110 hours fly for a skydive operation WITHOUT being paid? Just a free way to build hours. Where can I look it up in the FAR's?...My CFI is the chief pilot at a local skydive and said he'd get me a job once I get my CPL, but I was wondering if I...

Not sure it's really hit me yet, but I did it! He told me up front (before the flight), something like "you're going to make mistakes today, the key is just that I want to see that you recognize them and correct for them.. and don't make the same mistake over and over". This sort of put me at...

So I had a nice learning experience on Friday while flying up to Northern MN. The weather was on the iffy side following thunderstorms in the morning, but forecasted to be fine for the duration of my flight by AWC. I called FSS, got a briefing, filed a flight plan, and took off. On the way, I...

Hey everyone! So I'm back to flying again. It's been a year, my first lesson at a different flight school, my flying was a bit rusty at first but kept on getting better every lesson until one landing I did on my own traumatized me and it took me awhile to get back to do better landings. I tried...