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March 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- The Pilot as a Project Manager
- Free Weather Theory Course for Pilots
- Register to win the opportunity to fly a DC3 !
- The Opps List
- Piston Prop Airplanes, CDs, Jets and Vinyl Records
- Make a custom map with aircraft range rings
- Register your 406 Mhz ELT with NOAA
- What is 85% Boeing Annual Wind?
- Airnav.com Search Extension for Firefox
- Good Book - I Learned About Flying From That
- Air Traffic Control Tower Tour
- Find Historic Weather Information for Airports
- Learn to fly Garmin WAAS Equipped 530 and 430s - for free!
- FAA requires pilots to use plastic certificates
April 2008 ( View complete archive page )
June 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- 10 Spectacular Cockpit Photos
- Does the CFI checkride count as a BFR?
- Sky Clear and Rain?
- How to File an ICAO Flight Plan
- At what point do you fire your flight instructor?
- Cessna 150 Takes Off from I-95
- Glider Written Test or Private Pilot Written Test? Which one should I take first?
- True Course, Magnetic Course, Magnetic Heading, Compass Heading...Help!
- What is the best way to perform a slow flight manuever?
- Learning to Fly: Smart Ways to Pay
- How to read a 30 hour TAF
- Why the FAA NOTAM system crashed.
July 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Is a engine run up really necessary?
- How many times can I take a FAA written test?
- Rule of thumb for figuring distances betweeen two points without GPS
- Military Pilot: Do I need a single-engine commercial?
- What is required to fly a high performance airplane?
- I wish I had a camera.
- Special Use Airspace, RAs, TAs, and close calls
- Where is the best flight school?
- My airplane song iMix for iTunes
August 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Flight School Supply List. What supplies you really need for a private pilot license.
- How does the word "short" contribute to incidents?
- Why does a T-route have a MAA?
- Trust your instructor
- I lost my logbook, now what?
- How should I log safety pilot time?
- How do I instruct a flight student who has ADHD?
- Required Equipment for Overwater Flights
- Why are the visibility requirements so low on a LNAV only approach?
- Do I get credit towards my CFI for my military instructor experience?
- Enhanced Taxiway Centerline
- How to safely fly a VLJ
- Do I need a endorsement for a FAA instrument written test?
- What is the FAA equivalent of the Canadian Designated Airspace Handbook?
- What's wrong with my airplane?
September 2008 ( View complete archive page )
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January 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- No rpm drop when checking magneto. What's wrong?
- If something doesn't seem right, it probably isn't (personal story)
- Flight Training in (or near) a MOA
- Creating Personal Minimums
- Is it healthy to be my harshest critic?
- Do CFIs have to train in complex aircraft?
- What is manifold pressure?
- Can my Sport PIC time count towards other ratings?
- Where is the source for the "W" in A.R.R.O.W?
- What's the deal with Sport aviation?
- Engine Run-Up at a busy airport.
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August 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Crosswind Takeoffs and Landings (Video)
- Disorientation (Video)
- All it Takes is Once (Video)
- Safety By the Numbers (Video)
- How Airplanes Fly (Video)
- Eagle Eyed Pilot (Video)
- Density Altitude (Video)
- General Aviation's Impact on Iowa (with Video)
- On Landings Part II
- On Landings Part I
- Sample Approach Briefing (Video)
- Takeoff Crew Briefing (Video)
- Initial Crew Briefing (Video)
- Icing for General Aviation Pilots (Video)
- Tailplane Icing (Video)
- Icing for Regional and Corporate Pilots (Video)
- ATIS: "ASDE-X System Operational"
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July 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Correct Missed Approach Procedure from Circling Approach
- Oshkosh 2010
- Is it possible to train with two different instructors in two different states
- Best book to study for CFI reinstatement checkride?
- What steps must a ground instructor take to become a full CFI?
- How do you become familar with unfamilar airspace?
- What is the orgin for the blocked static port rule-of-thumb
- Which controllers are capable of providing flight following?
- When it is legal to take the active runway?
- Logging training time with expired BFR
- Private Pilot Cross Country Requirements
- entering the hold
- Logbooks: Paper or Plastic?
- Do I need an endorsement for ATP checkride?
- 8 hours to solo?
- Logging hang gliding in log book
- Does CFI checkride count as BFR?
- When does the instrument written endorsement expire?
- Cloud Heights. AGL or MSL?
- Fire during start
- Is an endoresment needed for CFI written?
- Can a sport pilot instructor give a BFR?
- RNAV Guide
- Obstacle Clearance when departing VFR on an IFR Flight Plan
- Can I log dual time in a military aircraft?
- Spouse shows no interest in GA...
- Age to start flying
- no clearance from ATC on IFR flight plan due to a "HOT" MOA - "Say intentions"
- Can you log SIC time in a single pilot airplane?
- Is an instrument rating required to be a CFI?
- What is the difference between the attitude indicator and the turn rate indicator?
- LNAV/VNAV Minimums on a LNAV only approach?
- How fast would an aircraft have to fly to keep the sun on the horizon?
- Aircraft Magneto Problem
- Expired CFI certificate. How can I renew?
- Using a flight training device (FTD) without a CFII to stay current
- How to file VOR to VOR?
- Maintaining FAA currency from another country
- Digital Private Pilot Course Syllabus
- Lost Logbook
- Failed Instrument Written Test
- P-factor and gyroscopic precession
- What causes heading to change in an airplane turn?
- Do you have to be instrument current to file an IFR Flight Plan?
- Failed Flight Instructor Practical Test
- BFR and Instrument Competency Instructor Endorsements
- Cessna 152
- Flying While Pregnant
- Haven’t flown in 20 years
- 75% MCP
August 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Use of PAPI or VASI glide slope for landing small single engine aircraft
- Fear of stalling
- Copies of current IFR plates?
- Taking off with another plane on the runway
- CFI Aeronautical Knowledge Prep. Any Recommendations?
- FAA Written test. Question Code PVT 535
- Glide ratio
- VFR Planning
- How to easily find transient parking at visiting airports?
- Emergency Descent Procedure in a Twin
- What is the recommended propeller RPM for high density altitude takeoff?
- CFI Checkride Tips
- Do you HAVE to carry a sectional?
- Why are some LNAV/VNAV minimums higher than LNAV only?
- Where do I find the empty aircraft ARM?
- Coming or Going?
- Postflight Inspection
- Safety Pilot
- In which of the following scenarios can I log PIC ?
- Dry Nitrogen Prop Unfeathering
- TPA (Traffic Pattern Altitude) in Class C and A/FD
- Routing when VFR on top
- How should I log my CFII training time?
- Does an IPC count for a BFR?
- Wilco and Roger?
- Can you get an instrument rating without a valid medical?
- Problem with putting an IFR flight in the GPS
- Why are the minima on a full ILS generally lower than the minima on a LPV approach?
- How do I go from BGI to CFI?
- Can I substitute the ATP written for the Private Pilot written?
- What do I do if my examiner did not sign or make a logbook entry after passing my checkride?
- Flying Over Water
- Credit towards CFI for military instruction time?
- Instrument Written Endorsement
- Magnetic vs True Course
- Commercial Helicopter Pilot wants Private Airplane License
- I'm 56 years old, what are my aviation career choices?
- Where do you find VOT frequencies?
- What is MDA/DA based on?
- No instrument rating, can I practice approaches in VFR?
- Commecial Single Engine Add-On
- BFR without a Medical?
- How much time should I plan for the CFI ground school?
- Where does it say that current charts are required?
- Logging PIC and Solo Time
- Does a safety pilot need a current medical?
- What would you recommend as the best route to take to a Commercial/Multi/Instrument?
- Teaching on a G1000
- Turns around a point
September 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- What are the minumum requirements to sit Australian ATPL theory exams?
- How soon can I start my IFR Rating?
- Plastic Card Certificate
- KUNV - Class D Airport with no control tower? How do I do this?
- BFR question
- David Clark X11 Reivew
- Currency Requirements - Catagory, Class and Type
- Density altitude
- Mandatory call outs
- When we say "crossing runway downfield", what is the meaning of downfield?
- Own terrain and Obstruction Clearance. vfr-ifr
- IFR ATC Phraseology
- When to decsend using Jepp plates..
- Electronic Logbook - endorsements?
- Training a CFI
- Light Sport certificate training.
- Basic salary of a single engine flight instructor?
- Converting from GA to Experimental
- Must an emergency be declared when a required equpment fails in flight?
- Paper copies of Airman & Medical certificates.
- Do flight simulators help when learning to fly?
- Spin training and parachute requirements
October 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Mixture control…
- From Hot to Cold…
- LAST QUESTION…downwind
- Compass Card Deviation…important?
- Weight and balance…commerical
- Do ELECTRONIC flight computers have isogonic line values factored into them? If so, how does it know where I am departing from, etc?
- Cruise Performance Chart/RPM Setting/Press Alt Ft
- Loud engine noise and no squelch
- Extra-curricular aviation activity
- Magnetic Course vs. Magnetic Heading vs. Groundtrack
- Is wind taken into account when calculating VFR cruising altitudes?
- VFR cruising altitudes based on wind?
- Magnetic Course vs. Magnetic Heading vs. Groundtrack?
- Expiration of a written test endoresemnt?
- Bose A20 Review
- Night flying endorsement
- Yet another PIC question
- Terminology Help. Define “By” ?
- Winter reading
- IFR Terminology for VFR Pilots
- ADF Required - Is it? REALLY??
- Obtaining a license to fly a jet, helicopter and a career.
- Getting back into flying after a FAR violation
- Use of Mag switch
- A Bunch of Questions
- Renewal of Private Pilot's License
- Quiz at FSDO for BGI?
- Switching Fuel Tanks
- Logging Amphibian Time
- Safety of flight, or not?
- How fat were the FAR's of yeasteryear?
- Cost of the FOI/BGI Test at the FDSO
- Where do I go to learn the FOI material?
- Scheyden Sunglasses Review
- What is the catchpoint and pitchpoint in navigation?
- Procedure Turn Practice
- Can I email my student pilot an endorsement?
- Getting back into flying
- Tower Enroute Control
- G1000 / Glass cockpit transition
- Logbook Endorsements
- How to Start a Flight School Business
- Rethinking the Business of Flight Training
- Lamination of aircraft documents
- Where can I get the code for IFR test questions that I got wrong on the IFR written test?
- One Pilot’s Thoughts on the Bose X
- IFR takeoff minimums
- Substituting GPS for localizer DME distances
- FAR/AIM Reference for Transponder Codes
- Best place to keep pilot certificate, medial & logbook?
- What do "Bonanza drivers" mean?
- Pitot Static Pressure
- WAAS capable GPS approaches
- VFR: Asking for a class bravo clearance
- Filing IFR direct
- Acronyms
November 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Performance vs. efficiency (at high altitudes)
- Just how high can it fly?
- I don't have to be the top answerer
- Almost to the end…
- Calculating Wind Speed and Direction
- IFR flight in VMC by a non-instrument pilot
- Commercial Pilot Requirements?
- SOP for assisting students afraid of getting near the ground (while setting up the landing)
- Dihedral and Anhedral
- RPM setting vs. fuel burn rate
- Density Altitude Query
- Emergency Fuel
- Magneto Check Procedure
- Why is the top left corner (Forward CG) usually cut off on a weight and balance chart?
- Take-Off from Helipads: What is the minimum rate of climb for an IFR take-off?
- Moving weight around
- Stall Speed
- Does a CFI have to be current to carry passengers to teach student pilots how to fly?
- What does the “P” stand for in P-Factor?
- Lost log book how to credit hours
- Carrying Passengers (Flight Review)
- Crabbing Slip / Sideslip
- Tracking a plane – non aviators
- Solo
- Initial CFI training
- Fear of Leaning
- Cabin Pressurization
- Crosswind Landing Roll-out
- When shutting down, why dont we just pull mixture out and immediatly turn mags off?
- Sea Plane Flight Instructor
- Expermental Aircraft used for Instruction
- Flight instructor as examiner conflict of interest?
- Theorizing about temperatures…The effect of Farenheit vs. Celsius
- How to Calculate Vertical Center of Gravity?
- How much wind is too much wind
- Add a single engine rating to an ATP
- Flight Computer Error? Does anyone know why?
- GPS arrival procedures
- Single engine Commercial add on
- Shift rate 4
- WCA
- Performance of a Cessna 172
- Just how FAR East?
December 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Aviation Headset Suggestions
- Instrument Instruction
- Above 31.00 in Hg: Flight prohibited or different procedures?
- Unenclosed airport runway symbol…no tick marks to denote available fuel services
- How is lift REALLY created?
- Reporting of cloud heights as MSL in area forecast?
- Altimeter (non-pilot question)
- Proper foot position on rudder/brake pedals
- Instrument time for rating
- C-172 Electrical system
- Happy Holidays
- FAA – AOPA chatter about hours needed for Commercial to not include INST hours?
- Airspeed limitations (KIAS)
- Question about Class G airspace and Marginal VFR conditions
- What is the difference between RAPCON and TRACON?
- Gliders and Light Sport Gliders
- Becoming a Flight Instructor After Retirement
- Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators (PDF)
- NO PDC
- 135 Currency Question
- GPS…based on true or magnetic?
- Flight Review
- Steps to becoming an instructor
- Computer Test Report
- Best method to de-ice (de-frost) wing?
- Frost vs. ice
- No CFI endorsement section on my student pilot certificate
- FLIGHT SCHOOL IN FLORIDA…..
- How to become a professional flight instructor?
- Activating Flight Plan
- Best Glide Speed
- Why is C-172′s flap loose?
- Instrument training
- Advisory in effect
- Runway Pilot - Awesome Aviation Apparel
- What do I need to do to update my commerical pilot license to be valid ??
January 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- 1 Day Medical
- Can a CFI Log Landings?
- From Glider Pilot License to LSA Certificate
- Accept hours from an out of State License?
- Why are cloud clearance requirements reduced in Class B airspace?
- The pressure above 18,000 feet
- Class E Airport Communicate with ATC
- Using mixture to manipulate fuel flow?
- What aircraft instruments are needed for a private pilot airplane single engine certificate?
- Light Sports Aircraft (LSA)
- W&B reduction factors
- The shape of Class E airspace
- Currency with Passenger
- Further effect
- Simulated IFR Training
- Identity of all antennas on a standard C172P
- How calculate flight hours
- CFI stall recovery
- FAR 61-87 (n)(p) Solo Requirement for Student Pilots – 90 day endorsement
- Heading Indicator alignment knob
- Power-On and Power-Off as defined by Vs0 and Vs1
- Flight time required for airplane add on
- Is it me or is it my instructor
- Sport Pilot Options
- Fatality Rates for Instructors
- Instrument Rating Time
- Commercial written
- Required Engine overhaul schedule
- Picking a VFR altitude
- Cleaning Up User Registrations
- Student Pilot Certificate
- Intoductory low-time aviation jobs
- Base to final turn
- 61-89(a)(8) Limitations added to Student Endorsements
- Military pilot instructing on the weekends
- Logging Hours
- CX-2 Pathfinder vs. Sporty’s Flight Computer?
- Recency of experience – does a flight instructor have to be present?
- Paid to fly as SIC or just right seater
- Different plane check out?
- Aircraft IFR Certification
- How best to create a syllabus for CFI (and checkride)
- International Aviation…US System of Measure vs. Metric. English Language/Entry requirements.
- Test pilot – loss of control
- Night currency
- Preparing for CFI checkride, what lesson plans
- Density Altitude and stall speed
- Why is it called “angle of attack?”
- What does “at altitude” mean?
- Encounter icing conditions…climb to a higher altitude?
- Oil change intervals?
- About de-frosting airplanes
February 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- How or When to fill out a log book?
- Maximum Elevation Figures
- Alternator or battery power bus?
- Short Field Landing Vspeeds
- Establishing peak EGT and proper leaning technique
- Acheiving best power vs. best economy
- Idle Engine
- How does an odometer differ from tach time?
- Attitude Flying - Primary Training - No Airseed Indicator
- Drunk Captain Question
- Private and Instrument at the same time?
- Inoperative Glide Slope on ILS Approach
- What Warmup Procedures Would You Recommend for Winter Flying?
- Aircraft Renter's/CFI insurance-should I get it?
- Why is temperature not included in TAFs?
- Glide path lights
- Helicopter transition
- POH markings and indications
- Helicopter Training? Ask Away!!!
- Class G (14,500 feet) and a few other airspace questions
- Skydiving: Can I let my friend skydive out of my airplane?
- “License” to Learn?
- Heading Indicator query
- Useful load vs. Payload
- Baro setting on altimeter
- Why FAR 91.144? Barometric pressure in excess of 31.00 or below 28.00Hg
- How cloud layers affect VFR cruising altitude
- Atmospheric Stability
- 2 Mile Base
- Excess Thurst versus Excess Power
- Converting F to C and C to F
- VLE and VLO speeds...which is higher and please define
- Advice on using the E6B to calculate a diversion
- Complex Airplane Transition for Private Pilots?
- Syllabi Recommendations
- IFR safety pilot seeking proficiency
- PIC vs. dual time
- Best way to earn CFI
- Too old?
- Barometric Altimeter Accuracy
- CFI pay / rates for flight and ground instruction
- Wind Vector Angles?
- How does one post a new subject on the Flight Instructor Blog?
- Do you tip your CFI?
- Further questions about the Earth’s rotation/jetstream effecting the airplane
- Aviation Headset needed
- Coriolis…Earth’s Rotation…and the airplane, oh my!
March 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Any restrictions to not charging for flight instruction?
- PIC flying as passenger for a small part of a flight
- Aneroid Wafer vs a Diaphragm
- Logging total flight time vs. logging SIC vs. logging PIC
- Instrument written test clarification
- How to add IGI to AGI?
- Fundamentals of Instruction exemption
- Aviation nav com radio suggestion
- MTRs with two digits?
- AGI ramifications on Practical Test for CFI
- 172M vs 172S
- Altitude and Speed
- IFR at night on a commercial flight
- Wing Over Wendys
- Expired Heli to Airplane CFI
- FAA OR JAA
- Cessna 150 Performance
- 15 - 1/2 year old medical
- Errors of Gyroscope in INS : transport wander, apparent drift , coriolis effect
- Tips on being a Sunday/weekend flyer?
- Landing Issues
- How is a VOT (Vor testing facility) denoted on a sectional chart?
- CFII currency
- Rotary Wing GA to LSA fixed wing
- Flight over water
- What to do next?
- C.A.M.E.L.S. - what does this mean, - a pre-manuver checklist? (multi / commercial)
- Temperature and the ASI
- Alot to process
- "Never lean using EGT when operating at more than 80% power."
- How to develop a better instrument scan
- Universal Time Coordinate / Zulu Time
- WEATHER MAPS
- Any tips on how to better ATC communication?
- Flying over Class B
- CFI experience
- CFI may have a drinking problem
- Holding Patterns
- WEATHER FOR PRIVATE PILOT
- Slow Flight = straight and level flight?
- FAA Test: VOR Question
- Radio etiquette
- Another question on logging flight time
- Pivotal Altitude for Eights on Pylons
- What is the meaning quail MOA ON THE AIR CHART
- Can a CFI-I teach practice approaches in VFR conditions while not Instrument current?
- What is best Rate of descent and how is it different from minimum rate of descent ?
- Interpolation
- VOT VOR Test Facility
- PIC required to hold a type rating
- Time from Check Ride to PP Certificate
April 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Endorsement needed to take the FOI?
- View the ground while VFR
- Can you add on a private airplane rating to commercial helicopter rating?
- Robinson 22/44 helicopter
- I need help tracking my cousin while he is flying without flight plan
- Let me interview you!
- FAA Pilot's License "renewal"
- How to handle a break in training.
- Right of way question
- What to do before renting/borrowing an airplane from a private person?
- FAR 67.305(b)(2) "Interferes with clear and effective speech communication" - Stuttering
- How to find great circle and rhumb line dstance between two points with given lat and long
- Aviation Mentor
- Documents in Aircraft
- True course compared to VOR radials
- LNAV lower than LNAV/VNAV?
- Steps to become a Commercial pilot?
- Current Weight and Balance required document....which FAR is it
- Regarding Non-Standard Takeoff Minimums on Instrument Approach Charts
- Why aren't convective sigmets issued for Alaska or Hawaii?
- GPS Approach minimum
- Rnav1 departure procedure
- Instrument Student logging actual IFR time as PIC
- Aircraft Type Versus N Number
- Currency
- Can ATP Give Instruction? FAR61.167
- Maneuvering Speed
- Sleeping Pills
- Questions for a commercial pilot, about their career
- Pressure v. Gravity
- What if any rules exist for corrective eye surgery?
- When is flight instruction "operation for hire"
May 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- It’s time to upgrade to a Turboprop
- Ground school independent study
- Intermediate pilots more dangerous? Can someone cite an authority?
- Flying Part 91 on a Contract??
- IPC CHECK ON A PA-31 WITH CFI/CFII?
- Flight Following vs Flight Plan
- Instrument "Grace Period"
- Prescription glasses with sunglasses
- Gyroscope errors
- During a dive
- Currency concern
- Instructor logging FTD time
- Staying Current as a CfI
- Does my instrument checkride count for my BFR?
- Basic 6 flight instruments
- Light sport instructor
- Flight Follow and Handoff to Class D
- IFR Flight Planning: How to calculate TOC into nav log
- Pilots with Attention Deficit Disorder
- Flight instruments
- Where are landing fees listed?
- What constitutes a visual approach?
- Inclinometer error during slow flight at high angles of attack
- what does a DC Generator do?
- date ASEL rating obtained
- Acting as PIC Vs. logging PIC
- Why power for turboprop engine and thrust for jet engine ?
- Aircraft for Instrument Training
- Instruction Time in Make and Model
- Does a Military Form-8 checkride count as my BFR?
- Can a group ground school be used for the oral portion of a BFR under 61.56 with a different instructor doing the flight portion?
June 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Please Help Me Pick a Headset (DC H10-13X vs DC H10-60)
- Expired FAA Instrument rating, how to renew outside usa?
- When the plane has run out of fuel, is it possible to find fuel substitutes onboard?
- LPV Minima
- Time limitation between ground school endorsement and taking IFR knowledge exam?
- Hot start 172S
- Commercial Pilot aeronautical experience requirement question....
- Part 135 time
- Have not flown in 2 years
- objects on top of instrument panel shroud
- FCC license
- VFR limited aircraft in VMC flying under IFR
- What about in uncontrolled/non radar airspace?
- What constitutes the "Runway Environment"?(HINT:Tere are 12 things)
- 4th of July Night Flight
- Blocked Pitot / Static Drain Hole
- ADF
- Practicing Stalls is a Waste of Time
- Best aviation schools
- High quality flying hours
- Best degree alongside flying
- Becoming a pilot
- Question about exceeding BFR time
- C90 or 200.
July 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Home Study for Private or Sport Pilot
- VFR arrival and immediate departure at class C airport - clearance delivery
- IGI vs AGI
- FAA Private Based on a Forgein License
- Reinstate CFI by adding sport pilot rating?
- Altimeter Setting During Instrument Approaches
- Legality of dropping a student off at different airport
- Current Sectional Chart for a Checkride
- To the safety of sky, I want to become a airline pilot.
- Consolidated list of glider-related FARs available?
- Private Pilot Instrument/Night time combination
- How much power an jet engine generator produces?
- Need advice on hours
- Flying an N registered airplane in a foreign country with a foreign license
- Fuel gauge inop for initial CFI check ride
- Is simulated instrument logged with simulator time?
- How often do you have to update GPS for VFR / IFR ?
- Non ILS Gnss app on B-777
- Where can i download/find an example of takeoff briefings, approach briefings & safety briefings for airline pilot?
- Is The Price Right?
- What documents will be needed for someone on an H1B to receive training for Private Pilot Ticket
- How to renew my CPL license?
- Experimental airplanes
- PROFICIENCY CHECK FOR FAA ATP OUTSIDE USA ( AROUND ASIA)
- Flight School? ATP Flight School or University?
- How to decode airworthiness directive
- New CFI Certificate question.
- Logbook change
- C-152 for Instrument Training?
- Some website housecleaning
- Speed acceleration on final.
- Helicopter commercial certificate
- Logging Simulated Instrument When Not Current
- Private Pilot must pay when renting plane to use for employer?
- Procedure Turn Not Authorized - How do I get turned around?
- TFR's during baseball / football games
- Does a Recreational pilot need new endorsements if he changes home base?
August 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Muilti-engine time as a PP student
- Heading Bug? Autopilot? problem
- Questions to ask your prospective instrument instructor
- When should I contact Clnc-Del if there is a App/Dep?
- Commercial Chandelle Tips
- Approach Checklist Question...(PA-34)
- Using GPS vs. Compass to set Heading Indicator
- How do I log SIC time?
- Landing 'Aim Point Marking' versus 'Touchdown Zone Marking'
- Governor/Propeller Check
- High performance endorsement and H-47D time.
- IFR clearance on-the-fly
- Private Checkride
- Rate of Turn?
- Master Switch
- Explain Lift creation [theories]
- 100 hour inspection being overflown
- Terminal Procedures: Loose leaf or bound?
- CFI to CFII study program
- CFI Career
- How to use constant-speed prop
- Quotes - Interesting, Noteworthy and for Thought
- IFR practice for a private pilot
- PRIVATE PILOT KNOWLEDGE TEST
- The First Lesson
- Private Pilot Rights
- Flight planning in mph
- Help, I don't think I want to be a pilot anymore!
- Weight and balance graph scale
September 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- CFI Helicopter Instruction
- Sea Plane Sea Wings Program
- Engine run up before taxi?
- ILS ADF Requirement: Why?
- PPL Night Flying Component
- ATP MES Rating Question
- Helicopter Ground Run Ups
- Transition through Class C airpace
- Switching Logbooks
- Why is there both an Alternator and Generator on Bell 412 EP?
- BFR and IPC on other than N reg aircraft
- Cessna 172S Approaches and reverse command
- Contacting FBO
- Commercial check ride
- Manifold Pressure Idle vs Full Throttle
- Back to flying
- CFI for LSA
- Commercial Rotor-craft adding on a Commercial multi-engine
- 121 RVR
- Timing
- U.S. to U.S. Penetrate ADIZ (Gulf of Mexico)
- Private Pilot before college
- Teaching CFI Ground School
- Burned out?
- Phoenix AZ Flight Schools
- IFR currency requirements
- KAPC LOC RWY 36L ? DYKEE
- Instrument Rating IFR Requirements explained
- Hard Objects on the Glare Shield
- NOTAM RCL
October 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- PPL simulated instrument
- Variable Pitch Propeller / Constant Speed Propeller
- Pitot blockage but drain hole NOT blocked
- Best school in LA area for foreign student
- FAA No record of license
- LAX Los Angeles International Ramp
- New Integrated Private/Instrument training curriculum
- Yet another question on logging PIC!
- Weather Forecast Time Periods
- Primary training in a jet?
- Stadium TFRs
- Flight Following
- Best way to file IFR for gaining proficiency in the clouds
- Requesting traffic advisories for sightseeing
- Expired Paper License
- Fuel Management Apps for iPhone
- Pilot licensing
- Commercial Rotorcraft pilot seeking Commercial Fixed-Wing Add on
- EGT rise during leaning the mixture.
- Relationship of Vg to Va
- Can you log PIC as the only pilot?
- Sporatic Flight Tracking
- What is the definitive book, online or DVD resource for flying with dual Garmin 430's?
- When is it "night"?
- Radar Services
- DME or ADF required KLRU.
- Cross Country talk. Required lights and a required altitude for planes
- Aviator College? Is a Associates Degree as good as Bachelors Degree?
- Non IFR current plane with a safety pilot?
- Fix wing single engine Add on hour requirements
- Discrepancies etween different Cessna 172s
- When after first solo should a student pilot venture to the practice area?
- Does a solo student pilot need to carry their logbook on other than XC
- PIC time for commercial
- Turning on takeoff
- Approved Pilot in Command Training Program
- SIM Time Logging
November 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Standard TPA
- David Clark vs Bose vs Zulu
- Student X-C counts toward Instrument rating?
- How soon can I get my IFR?
- Can i fly a N registered aircraft within Spain airspace with my JAR license issued in Spain?
- Proper self announce inside class E non-towered aiport.
- RVSM auto pilot rules
- CFII (or just CFI) Needed for 250 NM Cross Country?
- International Student
- Pillot-in-Command, Right Seat
- Ground School Self Study from Home
- FAA Helicopter ATP certification
- Fuel stick for 172
- Commercial Rotorcraft to Commercial ASEL
- IFR without a flight plan? Ever?
- Why is it called a “Compass Locator?”
- Who can give SIC checkout in a Cessna Mustang.
- Medical Question
- PLEASE help me with these weather charts!
- Best aviation navigation app for iPhone?
- Student consistently high on glideslope
- Why does an airport with a Control Tower frequency also have a UNICOM frequency?
- Class of airspace when the tower is closed
- How hard is it to get accepted into a good flight academy?
- Glide Speed
- Has anyone gone to any of the seminars with "Aviation Ground Schools" out of Reno?
- IFR syllabus??? I need some recommendations.
- What is the best degree that you can get along with a pilot license?
- CFII' s are only allowed to flight instruct if........
- How early is Mediacal Certificate needed by Student Pilot?
- What questions should i expect on the first stage check oral?
- Recently re-instated CFI/CFII taking on two new students with solo flight experience.
- Revisiting the W in ARROW
- Am I too short to fly commercially?
December 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- DPE's signature on my logbook after CFI-I checkride?
- Procedure N/A
- Rash of students failing flight portion of checkride. Why?
- NACO charts DVD
- Spirals: Why do we stop the spiral with rudder instead of aileron? In an article by Paul A. Soderlind, (AvWeb 5/11/2000) he states you level the wings with slow, gentle rudder pressure keeping hands off the controls. I have been around a long time and have used both ailerons and rudder. Answer?
- Electronic charts and approch plates
- Calculating the 50 miles to an airport for cross country requirements
- IMC in Uncontrolled Airspace
- ATPL interview
- New student questions.
- Magnetic vs True Heading
- Santa's Checkride
- Alternate Airport Requirements...
- I just got an iCom handheld radio
- Area Forecast Abbreviations
- Logging Flight Time
- Wind speed calculation
- Class D pattern flying with 1000' ceiling....
- Manifold & RPM on Aztec
- Biannual expired
- Who enjoys being a 'career' , ''permanent' flight instructor and do you love what you do?
- What does the 2 hours mean for the 2 dual cross country commercial requirements
- WAAS/GPS
- Student Pilot with a felony conviction
- Oops, forgot to set the mixture to full rich on start-up, is the engine ok?
- Stall Propagation/Wing twist
- Sport Pilot Instructor Requirements
- ANR Headset
- Are training maneuvers considered aerobatics?
- CG changes with removal of weight
- About Oral Exam!
- Too Short To Fly A Cessna 172
- Question from Russia: Logging PIC time while a First Officer
- Flying with a Disibility what are my options
- Logging incentive flight time in an F16
- Does passing a CFI checkride count as a bfr
- Teaching Maneuvers
- Runway chose
- Flight Instructing Career: Is it enjoyable?
- Too nervous to fly or bad timing?
- Commercial - Aeronautical Experience
- How to select a cruise altitude?
- REIL Lights and Instrument Approaches
- Questions about Commercial Pilot Aeronautical Experience Requirements
January 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Expired Certificate
- Aeronautical Experience Commercial Pilots License ASEL - Solo Requirements
- Do I save money by obtaining PPL in LSA but still have to check out in C172 later?
- Logging PIC time
- Switching back to tower.
- Multiple Add-on Ratings??
- LAWRS
- Changes to CFI practical test
- Traffic Information Services (TIS) alerts - Distracting During Flight Training?
- CFI requirements for a Flight Review in a twin-engine aircraft
- Comm Instr RW to ASEL Private Medical Cert
- Paying for flight lessons
- BARO-VNAV Question on Instrument Written Exam
- C172M POH
- Looking for Estimate # of New Students
- Differences between SAT OAT RAT and TAT
- Ground Instructor Testing
- FAA Knowledge Retake. How many times?
- LAHSO/SODPROPS at an uncontrolled airport?
- Operations in Class E Transition Area
- Flying by the Numbers: C-172SP
- PILOT AMBITION
- Changing Planes mid training?
- Safety Pilot Qualifications for Owner/Pilot Practice for BFR
- Looking for CFI for Flight Review in Casa Grande, Arizona
- Last-minute tips for Instrument Knowledge Exam?
- VFR Pattern Glide Slope, as compared to IFR 3 degree GS
- Angle of Incidence
- "Abeam the fix..."
- aircraft landing current
- SIC requirement for recurrent
- how i calculate magnetic heading from magnetic trac eg: tas 290 and wc -8
- Passenger Currency
- Multi Engine add on for a commercial certificate
- Ground speed increase as altitude increase
- Is a written test required for the CFII?
- BFR Questions
- Flight Planning Arrival Segment - Instrument
- Checkride close but i figure out i havent complete my hours
- Can a laser stall a wing?
- Saftey pilot and compensation
- R44 required flight time to teach instruments
- Vacuum pump failure while flying
- IR training: flying ILS with engine failure (ME A/C)
- Private Pilot Knowledge Exam Endorsement
- Flight Instructor FAA knowledge Test
- Adding a class or category?
- Lights Req for night flight
- Commercial License options
- egt guage fluctuating
- Searching for Mt. Rainier killer from a helicopter.
- Penny wise pound foolish
- Time in type for a flight instructor to give instruction in high performance aircraft
- Logging XC PIC Time
- Helicopter flight school
- Logging Check Ride as Dual Instruction
- Best Flight Computer to Buy
- "High to Low look out below", we all know this one, but why.
February 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Reimbursement for operational expenses when private pilot flying solo for incidential business
- What is your opinion on the proposed 1,500hr rule? Safer? Better or worse for pilots/passengers?
- Commercial Pilot Aeronautical Experience
- Archer 3 LandingTechnique
- Formation Flight
- Changing Blade Angle of a Fixed-Pich Propeller
- Building cross country time
- Helicopter add on
- GPS approach only, alternate required?
- Enroute gps mode
- CR3: L - kg conversion
- CFI preflight?
- Change in category
- Safety pilot into IMC
- CFI who can no longer keep medical become a Sport Pilot instuctor
- On notam contractions: what is AER?
- CFII A add on
- What is: UNDERLOAD BEFORE LMC
- What do N1 and N2 stand for?
- Checkride failure
- How do you intercept the IAF (ELMOO) when flying the VOR approach at KSMO without a GPS?
- How do I correctly log Instrument time as an SIC rated pilot?
- MDA /DH IFR landing minimums
- Alternate authorized
- Can a safety pilot log the time as PIC when the other pilot is under the hood?
- INITIAL CFI CHECKRIDE
- CFI Renewal
- 121 IFR currency valid for 91 flying?
- Aircraft Flight Manual for a 1969 C-172
- What is clearance slope?
- Fastest, safe emergency descent
- Does a CFI who is teaching for money need a Class 2 medical?
- Touch and Go Landing at Military Airports?
- Flight Instruction One Way
- FORWARD CG VS AFT CG- WHICH IS BETTER and WHY?
- A Confused Pilot
- Helicopter Pilot to Airplane Single Engine Land Requirements?
- iPad Radio Navigation Simulator - Useful for IFR training?
- Ground Instructors
- Flap setting for Soft field take off, Cessna 172P
- Logging Instruction, but not PIC/SIC
- Hot starting a 2002 Cessna T182T
- Higher stall speed on banking
- Transitioning to complex aircraft
- Goodyear inner tube issues
- forward slip and classic countercontrol stall/spin
- Touch and Go's
- Where to start?
- Most main componets are attached to the What?
- Do I need a sectional when I have a G1000?
March 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- H (High Altitude) VOR Standard Service Volume
- Comm Instr RW to Pvt ASEL
- What is "Flow Control"?
- IFR to Private Airports
- Taking passangers as a commercial student on solo flights
- Logging landings
- Has the FAA ban on touring tower facilities been lifted?
- CFI Rating Requirements
- What is "Required" for me to fly a turboprop?
- Class A airspace
- Foreflight Review
- Private Pilot/glider rating to Sport Pilot/airplane
- IFR Half-Standard Rate Turns
- VFR on TOP
- CFI Logging Cross Country Time
- Please explain about boundary layer
- FAA ATP Initial issue
- Cessna 152
- Minimum frequency of flights for IFR training?
- Which light airplanes uses trim tabs, balanced tabs and anti servo tabs?
- Flight Instruction without current Medical
- How to explain flaps to a Student Pilot?
- Wording of Instrument Currency in 61.57
- Loss of Glide Slope on ILS approach.
- Can I take my checkride with less than forty hours?
- WHAT IS AN INITIAL CFI CHECKRIDE LOOKS LIKE
- instrument approaches and currency
- how much should the cfi touch the controls
- Standard way to ask an ATC to repeat?
- CFI written qualify for an AGI?
- Have ATP want CFI & CFII
- Amphibious Requirements
- Pilot Training In German for German Citizens
- What do you think of the New S1 Digital by Sennheiser?
- Clearance Delivery
- PIC time
- Teach Ground School Only
- IPC validity in a Two Crew Aircraft
- Pro rata sharing
- When is RAIM required?
April 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Is Nassau Flyers flight school any good?
- How many XC flights?
- Overcoming increased angle of descent in a strong headwind
- How can I know when my approach plate will expire?
- Landing pattern
- Back to flying and teaching.
- 250 nm X-country for IFR
- CFI Training Options
- Logging FAA Time Abroad (in Non-N Aircraft)
- stalling speed
- IFR Flight Plan w/ "VFR Pick-up"
- Engine quitting
- CFI Renewal Flight Portion
- Am I required to carry paper charts, and approach plates if i have a current foreflight app on an Ipad?
- Instrument training in aircraft not certified for IFR flight.
- Can I charge for consulting on a flight with a commercial license, but without holding a CFI rating.
- Student Financial Complaints
- What does it mean when the ground says "expect flight level XXX"?
- Aviation Slang
- PART 61 FLIGHT SCHOOL
- Logging Flight Time
- "Sport Pilot Student License"
- Does flying IFR in VFR conditions doing an instrument approach count as the currency requirements?
- For the First flight lesson, do I need to buy a log book?
- What the meaning (RNP) Performance Based Navigation for part 91 Instruments single pilot?
- I'm going for my first flying class what do I need?
- Why I don't have RNAV instrument departure procedure in my Garmin GNS430W
- In what publication is the 1,000' ceiling and 3 miles visibility for VMC/VFR defined?
- Is there a rule on passengers drinking alchohol in a light 2-6 seater aircraft?
- ATP Written
- CFI Initial Checkride ORL FSDO
- Audio Aviation Books
- How do manufacturers calculate Vy with the gear down?
- Questions to ask my flight instructor
- Mounting Camera on Outside of Aircraft
- Complex endorsement limited to specific aircraft
- What is the practical meaning/use to the pilot of Vno?
- Does a demo flight require a second class medical?
- Desire to Learn, but unsure on details
- LETTING SOMEONE FLY THE PLANE
- Can you be a CFI or commercial pilot if you have a color vision problem?
- Currency
- Is a multi-rated private pilot required to do complex part of commercial checkride?
- Ethical Dilemma
- Aircraft Lighting
- Zulu To Local Time
- about filling flght plan.
- emergency checklist for multi-engine
- Altitude as a performance limiting factor
- FLYING DOWN UNDER
- BFR while taking pain medication?
- Sectional Folding
- Is this legal??
- starters and generators
- FAA CFI performing Flight Review/IPC in non-N registered airplane
- ATP written
- training for pilot student --passenger briefing in force landing
- Questions about Piper Seminole PA-44-180
- Back 2 flying & 1st time teaching
May 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Question regarding C172 G1000 Electrical System
- Private Pilot, flying with employers aviation equipment and using it for testing
- Are all GPS non-precision approaches considered to be LNAVs?
- Partaking in Pharmaceutical Research
- Refilling a Portable Supplemental Oxygen Bottle at an FBO
- IFR flight planing A TO Z
- iPad usage
- Logging time in overseas registered aircraft
- Timing outbound before you start a procedure turn two or one minute?
- Speed limitations? Can ATC approve higher speeds?
- Minneapolis Class B
- Can I still be a pilot!?
- Wondering if I should quit aviation as a career
- Change Notices of an IAP
- Teaching DME Arcs
- How can I know when procedure turn is allowed?
- Using private aircraft to commute to work
- CFI ASE vs CFI MEI
- Dew Point
- Fuel Types
- IFR Required Equipment
- cluster of arrows on sectional
- New wording of the instrument proficiency check requirements
- Constant Speed Propeller indication Question
- Safety Pilot Compensation
- Ground speed is True Airspeed corrected for?
- 2questions about the IFR written exam --for IFR flight plan
- Instrument Rating - Is the 50 hours of cross-country flight time PIC requirements most be VFR?
- hydroplaning
- aproach speed
- aviation fuel
- wing tip stall
- Para jumps over water
- Travis airforce base MOA IFR
- Does a complex endorsement transfer to another class?
- RPM and power
- when were flight levels established?
- Plan for soloing students
- Correlation questions for CFI checkride
- Why does Maneuvering Speed increase with weight?!
- Student and Class B
- ODP's
- Special Use Airspace - I am stumped after all these years
- Student performing preventative maintenance
- What is expected of private pilot applicants when flying G100-equipped airplanes?
- Is the Airworthiness Certificate invalid if the aircraft model is wrong?
- Factors of VMC - Bank
- SOLO for CPL - can an instructor be on board?
- WILL THE AIRPLANE SKID OR SLIP IF I PUSH ON THE RUDDER PEDAL IN LEVEL FLIGHT
- What is the purpose of “preferred IFR routes” if anyway the ATC will change the route?
- Pressure Altitude and Density Altitude
- What is an Essential/Crossfeed Bus? C172S
- Converting to an India Commercial
- Converting single engine JAA to FAA
- KLRU ILS RWY 30 approach What does FFKHH and the little x depicting it mean?
- Incidental Business Flying Reimbursement w/ Passengers?
- Can the GNS430W be use for IFR in place of ADF or DME?
- Private Pilot Logging Time On Commercial Flight
- Part 61.75 Private to ATP.
- Getting My Private Pilot License?
- slipstream effect
- Navaid failure on an instrument approach before turning final.
- Approval to deviate from desired track due to weather
- Is it a PA23 or PA27
- Preparing to become a Pliot in High School..? HELP!!!
June 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- What does it mean for helicopters to avoid the flow of fixed wing traffic?
- Entering Traffic Pattern
- Benefit of Instrument Ground Instructor?
- Holding Entries
- Marker Beacon SENS need to be on LOW why? what is the HI for?
- Creating a Personal Currency Plan
- Can a pilot with ppl log flight time as safety pilot during commercial flights?
- IFR Planes
- Private pilot check ride if already a Sport Pilot
- FOI Test Prep
- Logging Type & No. of Approaches Jeppesen Pro Logbook
- Fly n registered plane in the USA without conversion to FAA it's possible?
- Why do some single engine airplanes have carb heat and others don't?
- When Minimum Equipment List is required?
- I was acting as a safety pilot can I log the time as PIC?
- Do I have to take Commercial check ride before starting CFI training?
- Departing the Traffic Pattern
- NOTAM WIP
- Da-20 C1 fuel pump
- ALTITUDES/SPECIAL USE AIRSPACE
- US PPL Holder, endorsements in non-N registered planes
- Lost my log book!!
- Having different flight instructors at a time?
- Logging Flights
- Commercial night landing reqs
- Link Cockpit Audio to a GoPro camera ?
- cloud tops
- CFI Employment
- Time hack On Holding Entry
- Flying for a family member on business
- Medical Certificate
- Flight School.
- More VOR/HSI questions
- Deleted
- First trip into Class B
- What defines "discovery flight"?
- I need Instructor for my CFI/II/MEI in Addison area
- ATP written sign off/Endorsement
- Getting into a Pilatus PC-12
- CFI Advisory Circulars
- How To Become a Private Pilot
- Giving a BFR
- New "Flight" Trailer?
- Logging Point-to-Point Cross-Country time (for Part 135) when a student/private pilot..
- Commercial BFR and type of aircraft flown
- Use/Purpose of FAA Form 3150-1 - Aerospace Physiology Training
- NAVIGATION
- NDB/ADF Nonsense
- Private Pilot logging hours flying with Commercial Pilot/CFI on Commercial flight
- When does the FAR/AIM expire?
- Haven't flown for 10 years, passed 3rd class, ready to get going... advice
- renew licence
- Paper vs Plastic - Renewing Paper Certificate
- Transitioning from a glider rating to private pilot
- Fixed Wing and Helicopter Dual Rating
- how to start a jeppsen logbook if i have tt 8500h
- Teaching VORs for the written
- DA40 prop RPM
July 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- how do I explain magnetic dip
- Landing Fee for a helicopter on private land
- What are the required endorsements to sign off for an applicant take their MEI check ride?
- stalling AOA
- function of fixed tab
- Forward Slip in a Crosswind Landing?
- PIC time logged
- Landing Help
- Is a CFI conducting an operation requiring a Commercial Certificate?
- Logging instrument instruction as a CFII
- NWR flight restrictions
- IFR flying
- Handheld GPS or iPhone for backup navigation?
- How can you tell if there are winds aloft when you are flying?
- Can I log flight time flying with other GA pilots?
- Why doesn't the aircraft stall while performing aerobatics?
- When do I need to slow down below maneuvering speed?
- Is log the flight time necessary?
- VFR-Day Type Certificate
- Accuracy of GPS
- I want to be an airline pilot.
- MD 80 instructor
- Bell 412 EP TCU issue?
- Ground Operations Etiquette
- Long Cross Country for private pilot
- Cross-Country hrs during Instrument Training
- GPS and RF
- WAAS or RAIM GPS?
- Converting North East Co-ordinates to a GPS Fix
- Aviation Weather: Mist vs Fog
- Phugoid and Angle of Attack
- CFI Initial Checkride with 2 FAA guy
- Safety Pilot's Certificate Number
- VFR on top.....where are the tops?
- Priming after botched start
- Can I log Right Seat time in SES
- Can foreign pilots / international students take up jobs with airlines in the US
- Cruise Performance - Where to start?
- Crosscountry with respect to original point of departure
- How do I get current?
- Pressure and Temperature Changes
- IFR Certification of Aircraft
- Why do we turn off ignition on an emergency?
- NOTAMs D and FDC usually obtain from FSS. However, how can I get MOTAM L?
- Logging PIC while receiving instruction
- Flight following with complex routing
- Photography on flight with private pilot.
- Instrument Ground School
- 'Skidding' Recovery
- Average Lesson Cost
August 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Flight Reviews In High Performance Aircraft
- CFII retest when student has no CFI rating.
- A1TAPE Mnemonic
- RPM and boost
- Do we have to carry Weight & Balance sheet for each flight?
- Flight time
- Instrument Rating Equipment/Aircraft Requirements
- Pilot School before or after college?
- Does night time from my private pilot training count toward my commercial pilot rating?
- Expired Private Pilot Certificate
- Flight Instructing
- What happens to the CG of the airplane as the fuel burned?
- getting my cpl+cfi what are the time frames involved?
- Why we requierd to track HOBBS AND TACH?
- Best glide speed and rate-of-descent
- VFR Pilots filing flight plans and checking IFR tickbox
- CFI in Brazil?
- ATP and Flight Reviews
- IFR Recency
- A student pilot soloed in a tail wheel aircraft, but the instructor did not provide a tail wheel endorsement. Is one necessary?
- Do I need to take an exam to add single engine fixed wing rating to private helicopter rating?
- Load factors in level flight
- IFR Flying without IFR Rating
- CFI add-on
- CFI Landing Currency
- Becoming a CFI!!
- Another Dual Commercial XC question
- iPad with ForeFlight during the commercial practical test?
- Isogonic lines
- Airline Pilot or General Aviation Pilot?
- Question on cross country?
- Class B airspace
- ATC language?
- Constant speed propeller
- Significance of 1 Wing higher than the other just before reaching stall speed
- Suggested Student Pilot Equipment
- Inoperative Equipment and 91.205(c)
- Instrument regulations
- Logging 'taxi' time?
- When is student solo flight not PIC time?
- Commercial Practical Test - Steep Spirals
- Would there be a distinction between "IMC" time and "Actual" Instrument time?
- Commercial cross country requirement
- Helicopter private pilot as a new pilot rating and how do I prepare for orals?
- Buying and selling planes as a private pilot
- 747 emergency cockpit procedures
- HIGE/HOGE Angle of Attack
- What is Auto Rotation For Fixed Wing?
- FAA Interpretation: CFI giving instrument instruction to student pilot
September 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Communication Pet Peeves
- Multi-Engine Departure Procedures
- Radio communications
- Want to get back in the Helicopter saddle again.
- RPM drop on a magneto check
- VFR in smoke
- Uncontrolled Field Traffic Name
- What are the benefits to become a Commercial Pilot if I'm just flying for fun?
- Age limit to GETTING HIRED
- JAA or FAA
- 1st Class Medical
- Back into flying: Self-study
- Common misunderstanding of Alaska Night Flying exemption.
- Basic Ground Instructor
- Can I log pic time if I am beyond my flight review date and am flying with a CFI to get current?
- Private Pilot student and G1000
- Help please
- Eyesight requirement.
- Under IFR and radar environment. ETA Delay of more than 20 min. Do I need to let ATC know?
- What is the maximum age for someone wants to be a pilot ?
- Compulsory Reporting Points
- Weather Briefing
- Can instrument cross countries be used towards commercial cross country requirements?
- Please suggest me any Resource for Beginners of Aviation Maintenance.
- I am a CFI in one type of A/C and I change the type to other A/C
- Propeller pitch
- airplane cabin pressure
- IS TOA/TOD PLANNING REQUIRED FOR A PPL
- Run up
- Flying near class delta, contact tower?
- Flight Review and CFI renewal
- High performance and complex endorsements
- Pivate Pilot training in a complex a/c
- 45 and 90 degrees ADF intercept.
- Hawaii flight instruction for private license
- CFI Training in a Cessna 150?
- Sport Pilot to Private Pilot-Glider
- wsc instructor
- IFR or VFR?
- Jeppesen online course for IR
- Cross country time during instrument training
- Effect of Relative Humidity on Mixture Control
- Why does a nose-down pitch change result from the extension of flaps
- c172 alternator
- How would i know that i'm totally fit to be a pilot
- Operation of Robinson Helicopters continued
- Part 91 Landing Distance Reg's
- Convert hours from flown time to log time
- Propeller Efficiency
- Is simulator time could be a substitute for a Hood time?
- Is this legal to practice approaches with only one page of approach plate?
- Executing a SID at ADW Camp Springs One Departure
- Operation of Robinson Helicopters
- Headset question - Telex 850
- FLight time please help
- Lazy 8s technique question
- Struggling to Finish
- Airspeed Not Registering: Abort Or Go-around?
October 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- High Alt Endorsement
- Aero commander 690B logging hours doubt
- IFR 250nm Cross Country Requirement
- SIC doubts
- 75% Power vs. Maximum Range
- HOW TO DETERMINE CRUISE ALTITUDES
- Tips for cosswind landings; Landing on Centerline; and Turns about a point/S-Turns
- Turn & Slip Indicator Vs. Turn Coordinator
- What is the importance of Vector Analysis and how easily and often do pilots apply it??
- When are you Considered a Student Pilot
- Do i need a validation letter from FAA
- Freelance Flight Instruction
- What are some good resources for preparing for a complex aircraft transition.
- Can you train for a Light Sport Pilot License in a non Light Sport plane, Say a Cherokee?
- Weight & Balance Data
- Airspeed limitations
- power setting fuel consumption and true airspeed?
- Stall speed with a 60 deg bank
- Flight school vs club
- Student Pilot Adding Oil?
- ATC handoff question
- Low time, medium time, High Time?
- Lift in vertical climb
- Is the BOSE headset really all that? Help!! i need to see if the money is actually worth it.
- Circle to land in a NON controlled airport
- Fire Instructor certification - can it be considered a teaching certification?
- Stall of wings
- Angle of incidence
- X-Country definition
- Commercial Training Complex - Dual?
- Where we can find the Stability Chart?
- Problems with flight instructor
- 61 vs 141
- Why not IFR training at night?
- Can you tell me the difference between the power lever and the throttle ??
- NO VNAV on a published LNAV/VNAV approach
- Density Altitude / IAS / TAS
- CFI Insurance
- Commercial, Single Engine Multi add-on or Multi engine Single add-on?
- May a CFI do an IPC?
- IDLE RPM AT HIGHER ALTITUDE
- Legal requirement for sitting left seat?
- Rate of descent at altitude
- May a CFI do an IPC?
- Partial Panel
- GPS for navigation during missed approach
- LPV versus LNAV/VNAV minimums
- filing IFR
- What`s in the intake manifold?
- Space shuttle wing design
- how to find the maximum amount of fuel you could take in a cessna 152
- TAT and OAT
- Control reversal speed
- Flight test boom
- Flying My Business Partner and Myself to Client Meetings
- List of amperage drawn by electrical components
- Instrument Rating Part 61 training 250 nm XC Requirement
- Commercial Fixed Wing Add-On
- AOPA blog: Ride-sharing / What do you think about this?
- Stadium TFR - What are Champ Series Races?
- What are the differences between GPS approach and LNAV approach in general?
- Solo vs pic time
- Sponsorship? or scholarships?
November 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Can the FIA written test be used to get an AGI certificate?
- PPL Checkride Advice
- CFI Medical Certificate - Third or Second Class
- Night Currency
- Engine failure on multi engine
- Commercial Helicopter Add-on
- Is Commercial Written Exam Required to add an Aircraft Category to my license?
- FEAR OF FLYING SOLO
- Advanced Ground Instructor
- VOR vs LOC
- Turnout Altitude
- BFR on a seaplane
- Retired B-52 pilot
- PROBLEMS AFTER TOUCHDOWN
- Do I need a new medical after a surgery ?
- IFR flight simulator software
- No Contact VFR Traffic
- What ratings carry over when I get commercial.
- Quals of PIC when taxying without intent to fly?
- Is level flight parallel to earth surface?
- PAPI Seneca approaches
- CFI reinstatement and no medical.
- Need a flight examiner
- Is a transponder of any value if it isn't linked to an encoding altimeter?
- Static port blocked
- Helicopter Lift Theory - Equal Transit, Skipping Stone & 1/2 a Venturi - all wrong...
- No flaps approach speed C-172
- What atmospheric condition causes these conditions?
- ILS Approach
- Operating on a Curved Runway & Performance Increase on a Hill
- High Alt Endorsment / Qualified Instructor.. ATP?
- Solo Cross Country endoresment....
- Do I need to retake FOI exam.
- Why have Dual screen NAV/COM/GPSs?
- Heading Indicator
- Logging hours in a jet
- Commercial Pilot Rating
- Cabin pressure at cruise altitude of 11,000 feet
- FI but not a CFI?
- Endorsement, PIC , Training
- VOR operative & DME inoperative
- Trouble staying on the runway centerline
- What is a DME arc?
- Leaning for Power, Economy?
- Flight training
- TBO for airplane used commercially
- When do you pull the throttle during landing?
- G1000 question
- What is the exact formula for True Airspeed (TAS)?
- iPads and Students
- Insert Headsets v. Over-ear headsets
- General questions on GA parking, fees and expectations at airports
- The psych exam for pilots with adhd
- Jet Hours
- Pilot reference on width of taxiways
- Training expiration times
- Random drug testing and travelling
- DGPS vs. LAAS
- How space shuttle measures its AOA. is there some transducer vane like thing or it is measures through INS?
- Instrument hours required for Private and Instrument rating
- 28 day database update requirement
- Private Pilot - Two Logbooks - US and Foreign
- Hopefull pilot with learning dissability in mathematics...
- CFI reinstatement checkride
- Flap Configuration Change During Takeoff Roll?
- Regarding CFI employment on F-1 visa
- IPC - Instrument Proficiency Check
- Instructor Didn't Sign Log Book
- Where can i get the High altitude and RVSM course
December 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Simulator (follow up question)
- Gleim knowledge test endorsement
- Simulator
- GPS Pseudo random code
- EGT rise during mag check
- what is the proper use of strobe light in the air and on the ground
- Real Cost of Flying a plane?
- Are Non US Citizens eligible for private license?
- Maintaining a private license
- Student pilot choosing a headset, help!
- IFR HOLDING PROCEDURES PARALLEL ENTRY
- CFI Job
- Interpolating - Performance Charts and Temperature at Altitude
- Insurance question
- Student pilot headset
- Ferry pilot
- QNH
- Part Time Flight Instructor?
- Does Santa use a squawk code?
- No significant weather forecast
- Four forces in level flight.
- GPH variance, full rich vs properly leaned in a C152
- CFI looking to add on a CFII
- Holding Pattern
- VHF Air Band Radio
- Flying for hours rather than money using PPL
- Flying Below 500 Feet?
- Instrument Proficiency Check
- 61.31(d)(3) Endorsment
- OROCA vs MEF
- Logging as instruction time?
- Altimeter
- Selective radial scan
- Victor airways "BAARY & SSCOT"
- IFR Alternate procedure
- Logging Time in PC12 as SIC or..
- Private on IFR Flight Plan
- Radio Failure
- Compensation on a Experimental Aircraft.
- Ground school in a box
- ATP MEL wants to add Commercial ASEL
- How long is the Instrument flight knowledge test good for?
- How Exactly Does Commuting (Jumpseating) in the Airlines Work?
- A flight instructor with a head cold
- Wake Turbulence
- Light signals: difference between steady red and flashing green?
- Habut One Departure
- Engine Run Up Checks
- What is the best way to become a CFI on a budget?
- SoftComm Headsets
- CPL Long Cross Country requirement question
- Flat Tire Landing with a Cessna
- Graduating college, mid-30s, looking at Aviation as a Plan B option for other career endeavors
- VFR across the Atlantic ocean.
- Instrument rating long cross country requirement have to be filed IFR with FSS?
- Vectors
- Centerline in a RSC
- Can Private Pilot with ME Rating Fly Kingair C90
- Question about req'd endorsements for student pilot solo
- Sequenced flashers inop
January 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Extending Flaps For Preflight Inspection
- When to select full flaps for landing?
- VFR from KPNS to KORL
- Electronic Logbook & CFI(I) Endorsements
- BECOMING A PILOT
- Vg diagram...blue area?
- Aviation books?
- Landing gear hydraulics
- Final approach speed and it's relationship to stall speed?
- ASA headset and headset questions
- Crosswind Component Calculation
- Instrument Currency
- ILS Becoming a Localizer Approach
- When to use procedure turn
- Making good use of downtime while waiting for check ride
- Teardrop? Parallel? Direct? without GPS
- TRANSITION ALTITUDE AND TRANSITION LEVEL
- If airlines are going paperless cockpits and that is FAA approved, why do they have you learn all these charts?
- Choosing an E6B app for iphone/ipad
- Key mike 4 times
- Helicopter add on.
- Best way to plan for winds aloft and cross country calculations?
- How long to first solo ?
- Class D airspace: F.A.R takeoff and landing weather minimums?
- Engine model numbers
- How to respond to "Ident" request?
- Mixture leaning
- Instrument knowledge test
- How can i determine if a VOR station is (H), (L) or (T)?
- New flight bags mean no more car needed?
- Disclosing Certain Medical Information on MedXpress
- Flight controls/surfaces behaviour in turbulence
- Stall in turbulence
- LOC/BC approach
- Piper Seminole Combustion Heater
- Commercial Add-On?
- Digital Log Book
- TSA Requirement for instrument student
- International hours valid towards FAA CPL?
- Is the ANR on my headset bad?
- Electric fires, failures, circuit breakers, and bus bars
- Which license is mostly valid around the world? JAA,CASA or FAA
- King Schools online program
- Is 83% ok on private pilot exam or should I retake for higher score?
- Online flight school?
- How to hold altitude when doing power on stall.
- 80 hour student still blowing landings
- Need advise on most efficient way to obtain Commercial License.
- How to be a good instructor?
- How long can a small GA plane sit unused between flights?
- Foreign License Problem
- lesson plan
- Cross Country Definitions
- Proper phraseology when using center as approach / departure?
- How do I convert and test lat/long for flight routes?
- Instrument scan , difference between emphasis & fixation?
- 75% Power - Endurance
- Flight training and taxes
- Power off and on stall in bank for checkride?
- Is math needed to become a pilot
- Is the G1000 Cockpit Reference Guide a Required Document?
- Convective Alaska
- How are you planning VFR cross country flights these days?
- Logging PIC time as MEI
- Flight Review with Formation Flight
- RULES REGARDING EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT
- Circle To Land Procedure
- LOW ALT FLAMEOUT, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
- Checkride
- Prove that you must hold appropriate category/class/type cert. to act as required pilot crewmember?
- FAA Medical
- How to keep battery alive in cold weather
- Can a CFI (not CFII) endorse instrument students?
- Paying for aircraft rental
- Inflight procedures during instrument failure.
- Training
February 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Lost confidence after first solo
- Hours to get Commercial Pilot ASEL & AMEL
- CBP overflight exemption
- Transfer from 61 to 141 program
- Lpv or Lnav/Vnav
- Required documents for student on dual training flights
- Aviation College or Flight School
- Counting hours from another country to fulfill commercial license requirement in the U.S.
- Primer vs Throttling
- Instrument Rating: The training and checkride
- Which iPad for flying
- Night time building
- Log cross country
- Can an Italian citizen with a US FAA license apply for jobs in the US with no restrictions?
- Taking aircraft logbooks to a practical test away from home base
- Speed time distance
- ATP Pending certificate
- Helicopter Instrument written test to Fixed wing Instrument test
- Additional considerations, POH / instruments in MPH vs Knots?
- Would be legal to let a passenger make a couple of turns?
- Time Outbound before making Procedure Turn
- What can be logged as Pilot in Command time when currency has lasped resulting in a BFR?
- METAR report
- Intersection Departure From Non-towered Airport
- Ways to get CFI
- Re flying hours for cpl from different countries.
- Is University of Minnesota Crookston a good place to go to earn my ratings to be an airline pilot?
- repeated flights greater than 25nm
- Address on my medical
- Initial CFI
- Fuel for taxi
- Negative density altitudes and the mixture control...
- Lightning Strikes
- T-37 Spin Recovery
- 3 hours with an authorized CFI in Prep for the practical test
- Non-Standard Takeoff Minimums
- R22 MR Temp Light Inoperative - legal to fly?
- Mastering slow flight and steep turns?
- Waypoints on RNAV
- Wrong Spelling in my student pilot certificate
- What does "usable" fuel mean?
- Fail 3 times during training?
- Example of passenger briefing on C172SP before taxing
- Why attitude indicator isn't upright when airplane is on the ground?
- Curency for a safety pilot?
- APU
- Faro Headsets a good buy?
- Ratings needed
- Are the maps available for use outside of the USA?
- Commercial Pilot Aeronautical Experience
- Easy MEI?
- Airworthiness/Safety Directives
- Ground school
- How to develop situational awareness and internalize flight skills?
- Radio Station License
- CFII before CFI?
- Private Pilot Reimbursement
- Optimum altitude for search
- Instrument privileges in a multi
- Timing on a holding course
- Long Range Fuel Tanks
- Lazy eight help
- Sporty's Online Ground School Review
- How i know the altitude if i have the rate and the time?
- Magnetic bearing vs relative bearing?
- IFR Hours after PPL?
- High Airport Elevation Operations
- 10 weeks sufficient to go complete single/multi CPL?
- How to land an airplane if you are not a pilot
March 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Approach Plate Terminology
- Seeking Guidance On Entering the Industry
- 3 take off and landings in last 90 days
- "Procedure NA"
- Use of fake landing gear switch for training?
- Multi-Engine Rating
- Foreign pilot
- Recording of hour in my log book
- Instrument Procedures - Clearance
- C150 water in fuel
- Vertical Card Compass
- Teaching the nav log / computing courses and headings
- BFR timeframe
- FAA ATP Helicopter ORAL/CHECKRIDE Keypoints
- My passenger crossed into a controlled movement area
- GPS
- GPS hold entry
- Multiple preflights in a day
- advantage of fuel injection system
- torque tendency
- Acronym
- Communication Failure
- Traffic Pattern
- rate of climb, angle of climb
- oil consumption of C172
- ATC Tower Closures
- Requirements for Canada
- Reserved FARs
- Use FAA abroad
- High Manifold Pressure
- Age
- Electrically driven Gyroscopic System
- RNP (required navigational performance)
- Engine Driven Alternator
- Failed starting
- mixture controlling
- Turbojet - Thrust producer //// Prop-power - Power producer
- File 1 or 2 flight plans
- Circuit breaker
- Adisory panel test..
- Weight and Balance for a C172
- Headwind and gliding
- Thrust line with CG
- Adverse Yaw
- Takeoff Performance Chart Calculations
- Stall during landing flare..
- Most efficient cruise altitude
- Perfecting landings
- RPM ADJUSTMENT
- Tail dragger endorsement
- Over-priming
- Cold air and high altitude
- Terminating IFR
- Medical question about hearing
- Flight Simulator
- weeks needed to complete IFR?
- Instructor Wannabe
- Land and hold short
- Special certificate for washington dc
- CFI & CFII preperation
- Aircraft stability
- Flaps to the climb angle.
- How strict should a CFI be?
- Effect of t/c ratio on Coefficient of Lift wrt high speed flight
- Laminar bucket
- Negative lift
- Aerodynamic trim tab
- Neagtive lift
- Can a non US citizen become a CFI?
- Background Check Before Flight Training
- Problem with IFR GPS Approaches
- CFII instrument training
- Metering fuel
- Airman Medical Cert. OR Airman Medical Cert. & Student Pilot Cert.
- Standardized Traffic Pattern & Stablized Approach
- Need help on centerline alignment on short final and touchdown landings
- Can i do course for FI directly after i finished PPL course
- NDB QUESTIONS FROM COMMERCIAL KNOWLEDGE TEST
- Crosswind Landings and Use of Flaps
- Why the L/D is same to the glide ratio?
- Why doesn't the AOA affect the stall speed?
- Can A CFI give an Instrument Proficiency Check in multi
- Night Currency with Safety Pilot
April 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Loggin PIC time
- Gps approaches
- Do hours flown in an another country count for aeronautical experience requirements?
- Controllable pitch propeller and radio failure inquiries
- How Much do CFI's make?
- Can Scud-Running Ever Be a Safe Practice?
- How many hours required for a CAX Multi Initial
- Logging PIC Time / Acting as PIC
- Instrument Rating with Safety Pilot
- Safety pilot
- I passed ground school and knowledge test for private pilote single engine but never completed flight hours ? (5years ago))
- Another question on logging PIC time...
- ATP cross country requirement
- Age Limitation for CFI
- Solo XC for PPL count towards 50hrs PIC XC for IFR?
- Back Course Localizer Signals
- Need help locating landmarks pilotage x-country
- T-37 Vmc
- Instrument knowledge exam requirements
- Propeller Geometric Twist
- Logging multi time without high altitude endorsement
- GPS Overlay Chart
- GPS RAIM
- Number of VOR's Required for IFR Flight
- Sport Pilot Intructor tailwheel endorsements for Private Pilot or greater - IS ENDORSEMENT VALID? ON NON-LSA?
- IFR Departures
- IFR : Nonstandard Alternate Mins. and Nonstandard Takeoff Mins.
- Radar vector and location where my airplane is flying
- Full time to finish commercial...ideas for location/time
- Procedure Turn
- Lazy Eight Maneuver
- Out,in,off,on time
- Past Logbook Records
- Multi-Engine alternator failure
- Learning to fly in a complex and High performance aircraft
- King air 90 logging time
- Question about logging night PIC with a "not valid for night flying or by color signal control" restriction when a CFI is aboard.
- Skyvector's Magnetic correction
- Disabled Pilots
- Instrument Training Cross Country
- Dual Controls
- Special VFR
- TAS error with Temp
- Exercise the priviliges of a SIC in Venezuelan license to FAA license?
- Aircraft Type/Model insurance
- ATC Annotation on SID
- IFR- Obstacle Departure Procedure
- Lost Logbook Military Training
- Time to upload the new license to FAA System (Internet)
- Flight Following to a VOR?
- Change of Address
- IACRA 8710 - What is required for a Checkride retest (falure) for completing the IACRA
- IFR LONG XC
- Procedure Turn Boundary
- IFR- "Inoperative Table"
- Practice Flight with Approaches and Pattern Work
- RAIM
- Turbine engine first officer program
- GPS - Sensor FAF
- DME Requirement
- revocated private license
- ALTIMETER SETTING IN UNCONTROLLED AIRSPACE
- XC solo question
- CFI logging Landings & approaches
- What is aileron trim tab?
- Tracking Student Progress
May 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- CFI acting as PIC with no medical
- Approach Plates
- Commercial Pilot Glider Add-On
- Pilot log books
- Participate in doctoral research on pilot decision-making
- Part 61 Vs Part 141
- IFR approach
- Part 141 vs part 61
- Is this normal?
- Helicopter has rotor problems or actuator trouble
- Commercial License
- COP, no DME onboard
- Flight Schools
- Question About Rules Regarding Flying After an Injury
- Airman Certification Standard - Private Pilot Airplane and Instrument Rating future changes
- Student went off rwy.
- ATC Directions
- 100 hours inspection with ads
- Multi-engine Instrument addon?
- Basic attitude instrument
- Computer Navigation Fix
- Weather Services
- GPS Procedures (Overlay Approach)
- Planning flight through Class C airspace
- ATP Airplane cross country time - does helicopter time have to be 50NM?
- Side Step Approach
- How is night PPL training done during the summer?
- DME Arc
- American Flyers
- How many college credits is my commercial pilots license worth?
- Leading turns at course changes
- Flight School Business Plan - MS Word/Excel
- Sylabus for training
- Good Non Owner/Renters Insurance?
- Floating during landing
- Transition from grass to pavement and vice versa
- Where do I get my temporary private certificate?
- What is an “unpublished” RNAV route, and when can you fly it?
- Gaps in Procedure Track on Approach Plates
- Wingtip vortex cloud trail
- 2 Pilots both logging hours...
- Is it OK to use RH pattern at LH pattern uncontrolled field?
- a cheap and quick 75 hours??
- Offering to Fly to Football Game
- CFII practical test endorsement expiration?
- Flaps and Turns
- My instructor didn't sign my logbook
- Center Of Gravity - Torque
- SAFETY PILOT MEDICAL
- CPL 150 to CPL 200
- 2 written exams for the CPL?
- Florida Cruising Altitudes
- IFR departure clearances from non-towered airports
- Instrument time from Private PIlot training...
- Spin endorsment for student pilot?
- Dealing with taxes?
- Initial CFI checkride
- Making a request to transition into another airspace.
- UAV or UAS in the NAS.
- 25nm solo flight to another airport endorsement
- Private Pilot Knowledge Test
- Recommended Route for Aerobatic Instruction?
- Another compensation for hire question
June 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- CFIS spin training
- My photo ID has expired and I won't be able to renew it for a while. What can I use in the meantime to fly?
- STAR - Crossing Altitudes
- MINIMUM FLIGHT LEVEL ADJUSTMENT
- MEL IPC Checkride
- Flight Planning
- IACRA form question for PPL checkride
- Top Ten Flight Schools
- Commercial Maneuvers
- Sheble SEL/MEL the right move?
- CFII & MEI CHECKRIDE
- Knowledge Tests.
- Pilot Log Time
- Descending for the approach
- "Procedure NA"
- Carb Heat Use in PA28 Airplanes
- Paparaphernalia
- What would happen once an aircraft reached the limit on the hobbs meter?
- Private airplane license to commercial helicopter rating
- Carburetor ice
- Runway Length
- Knowledge tests.
- Dry ice
- Transition C 172 to C177RG
- Maneuvering Speed
- Hold Line Questions
- Why does Vx increase with weight?
- Use of MOCA during IFR Flight
- Altimeter Errors
- Flight Instructor, Basic Ground
- GPS Approach
- Aircraft for Air control
- Air Controller with Pilot
- P Factor
- Magneto Failure.
- Best Process to Plan an IFR Flight
- PPT Pleasure Flight & Shooting Video
- Flight review ground requirement
- Am I being milked on this check ride?
- Flight instructor certificate reinstatement
- One log book or two.
- IFR navigator training course
- Climb speed
- Critical engine jammed at full throttle
- Medical Duration
- Lapsed medical and Currency
- SIC currency
- night flying
- Area Forecasts - Updated when?
- Accelerated Stall
- VFR Flight Plan Other Than Direct
- FAA ATP renewal
- Airplane/Helicopter IFR
- Fear of Landing Solo
- Pilot currency
- Can a ATPL holder instruct and endorse pilots?
- What is the relationship between l/d and airspeed velocity in turboprop engines?
- IFR en route climb gradient
- How does induced drag change of an aerofoil with configuration(flaps)?
- Mnemonics I Can Fly This Puppy?
- Obstacle avoidance under positive radar contact ifr vmc
July 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- HSI on a G1000
- Distance estimation in T-37 aircraft
- Formation Flying on Left wing. Why it is always difficult ?
- G 4 pilot recurrent
- Reasonable to ask for radar service while doing maneuvers?
- Missed Approach Turn
- CFII Lesson Plans
- TFR Procedures
- Is this normal practice for a flight school?
- Taking my checkride this week and am using a different flight school's plane
- Compass Turns
- Please help me understand TCH better...
- Are we at 'back of the drag curve' during approach and landing?
- Ground school and written exam before flight training?
- Localizer, Usage versus coverage
- Non precision approach like a precision approach
- PPC student interested in being a Instructor...requirements?
- PPC to aircraft (LSA)
- GoPro airplane mounting
- Low oil pressure
- Jeppesen vs. Gleim
- CFII Checkride (initial)
- When do I get to log my flight time?
- Frequencies to use when tower is closed
- Landing close to approach end - Required or just good etiquette?
- 3 degrees precession in 15 minutes... reference?
- Communication with tower
- CFI PTS
- Breakout Confusion
- Glide slope failed after passing OM
- Reduction in TAS report when approaching holding.
- VFR minimum distance from clouds
- pilot training
- Error in a paperwork help?
- Commercial Pilot Glider Add-On
- VFR Descent -Towered/Controlled Airports
- Minimum pressure on an airfoil
- Stalling speed related to load factor
- Vectoring
- Minimum Flight Level adjustment
- Confused about LNAV/VNAV
- Vx and Vy Change With Altitude
- CFII Only Rating
- CFII Only Rating
- Exiting a runway at a controlled airport
- Flight instruction on a voluntary basis
- 8710-1 Form I did a mistake in the table of the flying hours?
- What does VOR-A on the approach plate mean?
- OROCA
- Precision Approach Radar
- Does the "wet" rental rate include ALL fuel?
- SML Aviation.
- Glider Time.
- RVR
- IFR Climb
- VFR Departures
- PA 1171T / 1181 T
August 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Cross country flight logging
- FTD simulated instrument
- IFR Currency
- Multiple aircraft stall speed configurations?
- IFR reporting route (no radar contact)
- Do you know the answer for this!
- Best Online CFI Renewal Course
- Biannual Required?
- Non Standard IFR Alternate
- Name on certificate?
- RNAV RNP
- Check ride
- Can pilot school graduates qualify for pilot jobs right away?
- Radar Departure
- Conversion to unrestricted FAA PPL
- Compensation for flight time
- Ground and Flight Training Time
- Sensor FAF
- Questions about 135.243
- CFI gold seal
- Does an ATC record all the conversations?
- Temp dew point spread
- Alternator fail
- Ground to tower frequency change
- PA-28R-200 Gear In Transit Light
- GPS Overlay Approach -Database Question
- Leaning RPM vs Tabulated RPM
- Logging time in a King Air 350
- Special VFR, airspace
- Question about night flight landing requirements for Private and Commercial licences.
- ODP Question
- Flight job
- PA28-200 Systems
- Do DPEs critique younger applicants more than older ones?
- Straight in and Circling not authorized at night
- What is your opinion?
- Test given by CFI.
- Taxi Fuel Burn
- Who is an "Authorized instructor" for the required training for an instrument rating?
- If I recieve a car infraction, do I have to submit a form to the FAA or it does not care to them?
- Pass rates
- How to log time building when you share the plane with another student.
- VOR-A Approach to KFUL
- How to study at home? Pilot Tutoring?
- Aerodynamic centre
- Cockpit voice activation equipment?
- GIV / ERJ-190 Recurrent question
- Amount of FSII in fuel
- Missed Approach Hold and lost of communcations
- VOR Approaches - Part II
- My Vacuum pump field on C172S G1000, am I legal for VFR flight?
- Which Aviation Headset to buy
- Class c departures
- Non Towered Airport Pattern
- instrument simulator time
- Privledges of Private Pilot License
- Helicopter EGT / ITT question
- What is the data cable on KLN 90 GPS called??
- Change of Address
- Long xc flight, two commercial rated pilots - question regarding logging time
- English Language requirement
- Logging PIC time
- Power off stalls
- 23/23
- 61.57 Recent flight experience: Pilot in command is confusing me!
- Small rural airport clearance
- VFR Departure Clearance at a Non Towered A/P?
- VFR Navigation in Class C Airspace
- Vertical Visibility
- eAPIS
- VOR Approaches
- If PV = nRT, then why is abnormally high pressure caused by cold air?
- PIC Terminology
September 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- ils
- Holding Pattern Speed
- Aileron nervousness
- Scared to make a mistake
- Endorsement
- Can I file an IFR flight plan?
- Ground Reference Maneuvers
- Restricted ATP
- Constant Speed Prop.
- iPad VFR charts for free?
- Safety Pilot for Instrument Currency
- Airline Pilot wants to reinstate CFI
- Airspeed Reduction
- AFM and POH
- Aircraft make and model
- Waypoint Protected Area
- Need a little advice and quick
- Waypoints
- Medical Status
- Long Cross Country
- Training Scenarios Violate Regulations
- CFI Renewal Date
- CFI Ride DOES Count as a Flight Review
- Replacing a Garmin 595 GPS with iPad/Foreflight/Dual GPS
- Circling Approach
- MEI/I needs CFII add on - MEII from MILCOMP ruling
- Cell Phone Use
- Stalls and V-Speeds
- Nontowered pattern
- ADS-B
- FAA TO JAA
- What are the pros and cons of as CFII initial
- Mandatory callouts
- Flaps and Flare Attitude
- Can a CFI give a BFR if they are not 61.57 current?
- What constitutes a high performance in a twin?
- CAN I INSTRUCT A PRIVATE PILOT FROM THE BACK SEAT
- CFI rating
- Flight electronics??
- Can I use sectionals before their issue date?
- Cessna 172RG landing gear system
- What kind of maintenance requirements do Part 121 and 135 aircraft have to have?
- ADF bearings and the wind
- "Solo" with authorized instructor onboard
- Medical Certificate Renewal
- Cheap[er] Ways to earn PPL
- Glideslope
- Fuel Options
- MAGNETO MALFUNCTION
- Discontinued Checkride
- Strange IFR question
- Missed Approach Climb Options
- Flying For Business Question
- TFR Airspace around BWI and DCA
- CFI & CFII ground and Flight training minimum requiremnts
- CFI & CFII ground and Flight training minimum
- Flight schools
October 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- VFR Responsibility: In radar contact. who is primarily responsible for VFR aircraft separation?
- Mid-field departure and time of departure...
- TSA Endorsement
- Hovering help
- Find descent rate after IAF to FAF
- VOR
- Freezing Levels
- Taxiway
- CONTINUOUS DESCENT FIANL APPROACH(CDFA)
- Leaning mixture
- A question on logging flight time
- iPad help....
- Legal name change and old logbook?
- Video taping students during manuvers and landings for post flight debriefing
- Instructor wrong normal airspeeds for LSA
- Part 91 takeoff minimums
- Quiz Time
- Is Standard rate turn designed only for holding and partial panel?
- Can FAA CPL teach ground course?
- Cessna 210 Field Training Manual
- If i get a type rating in Cessna Citation 500 series, and than pass my CFI, CFII, MEI
- Spin Procedure
- How to determine the tops + Thickness of clouds
- Vfr practice surveillance approaches
- Private solo flight restrictions?
- Push Vs Pull
- Can a CFI/CFII jump into the plane with me and log it as dual instruction "given" when no instruction took place?
- PPL currency for passenger carry
- What to know about winter flying
- Rotor Blade
- Missed Approach after sidestep/swingover
- Important question about weather
- VOR Changeover Point (COP)
- Buying an Airplane: C152 vs C172 Cabin Width (and comfort)
- charter service / new business
- Using law of conservation to explain theory of lift
- Why "Flat spin" is most hardest to overcome even though it is only involved in yaw movement?
- Flooded engine
- Weather
- How can you determine that an aircraft airworthy if the inop inst or equip not among the required?
- Please check if I have the correct understanding about the ELT
- Airspeed is decreased during a turn, What would you do to maintain level flight? (FAA Question that most people get it wrong.)
- Flight document
- Engine Fire Procedure(Ground)
- GPS Database
- CFII Logging PIC
- How pitching up when decreasing airspeed maintains level flight if pitching up causes further decreased airspeed??
- Is the AIM regulatory?
- Layman's terms for FAR 91.181
- Ground Instructor
- Commercial XC Requirement
- Engine Start (Electrical system off)
- Commercial Cross-Country
- Visibility
- Logging cross country time, after commercial certificate.
- When can I log PIC as a new CFI from a Military Competency Instructor
- Flying the Glideslope
- 21 year old flight instructor
- Engine ran rough on startup
- Need to renew CFI Certification during the Government Shutdown
- Long XC Full stop Landings
- Approach Plate Title
- Communication
- best place to find a ferry pilot?
- Fuel Tank
- Bi Annual
- Is this a "CORRECT" DME Holding Instruction?
November 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Logbook Remarks for Dual Instruction Flight
- Cross Country Flight Qualifications/ Orginal point of departure
- Resume own navigation vs proceed on course
- Logten pro best printout report
- Contents of A CFI binder
- Private Pilot Written Exam
- Starting a Flight Training Schol
- Overflying AD
- Fix naming history
- Glass G Airspace off the Airport
- Do I need to take an exam to add helicopter rating to commercial fix wing rating?
- What causes vibration on rotor RPM decay?
- Can I deliver goods under a 91?
- IFR Departure
- ILS Categories
- Flight Manuals
- Published miss vs climb out instructions
- 61.129(a)(3)(i) Commercial Instrument Training
- JAR-FCL PPL
- Student Pilot -- 90-day Currency
- Controllability vs Maneuverability
- How to log Frasca 141 Flight training device time
- Approach Plate - IFR Minimum
- Engine compressor stalls
- 91.205 (d) (9) Gyroscopic direction indicator
- Im super worried about my 3rd class medical.
- What is an ideal age to become a flight instructor
- Aircraft instruments
- Pitot probe
- Oxygen bottle
- Billing ground time
- Constant Speed Prop.
- Why Isn't All Navigation in True
- Why don't commercial flights talk on same frequency as GA?
- Performing the duties of PIC
- Is a flight review required for a private pilot working on a rating?
- How to calcualte the radius of turn required to clear obstacle
- Commercial Pilot Aeronautical Experience Logbook Entries
- Engine Roughness In Flight Causes
- Aircraft Performance
- Piper Arrow
- Turn and Slip Indicator
- Has anyone experienced significant delays in receiving certificates from the FAA
- FAR AIM
- SIC rating Application
- High-performance endorsement / CFI medical
- What is VOR landing procedure
- Does FAR 61.3 Apply to Students During Flight Training?
- Looking for digital copy of POH
- Does the engine fails as a result of complete electrical failure
- Video search on youtube to prep for flying multis...
- PA-44 Electrical System
- Flight Controls
- Advice on flying Dutchess to finish multi commercial...
- Takeoff Distances For Weight Less than that specified in POH Chart
- CFI MEI to CFII
- Procedure turn
- General question about ASK a CFI website
- Medical duration FAR 61.23
- DC electrical System
- Manifold pressure
December 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Airport within Mode C veil, yet nobody has transponders.
- Radar Notation
- Cruise performance Charts
- Training for my Private in a Cardinal RG
- Test Question: VOT checks
- Practicing Stalls while under the hood
- Statement of Demonstrated Ability (SODA) exam process
- Lost private lic. I got it in 1968 in New Mexico, how do I replace, I have log book
- What does line of sight really means ?
- Diamond da40 slip
- IFR flight in non-IFR-certified aircraft
- VFR Requirements in class D
- Finding track and groundspeed
- Starting the engine as a student
- FAR 91.507 VFR over the Top
- Flight instructing In Mexico
- Runway incursion?
- What steps should i take for converting my military licenses
- 4 year college degree needed?
- Mode C for checkride
- Solo really solo?
- Why does the HI gyro spin around a horizontal axis while the AI gyro spins around the vertical axis when they both rely on rigidity?
- Logging Command
- Class Charlie Touch and Goes
- 24-Month Pitot/Static Test: Required?
- Aircraft IFR certification
- Instrument checkride / Private currency
- Private Pilot Currency
- SID
- optimal altitude for fuel/distance efficiency for for piston engine aircraft?
- Flight Instructor airplane
- Passengers consuming adult beverages in flight
- Proposal to expand use of driver's license as medical
- DPs and STARS: at least the textual description, or textual OR graphical description?
- What can I do with this certificate?
- Battery Won't Shut Down!
- Pressure correction
- do you need a medical to be an instructor?
- Instrument flight
- FAA Medical - 3rd Class - Renew at 39?
- flight instructors flight review
- SBT Scenario based training
- magneto check
- Navigation Bearing
- FAA validation of foreign licence
- SID vs. ODP
- IFR Departure
- How low must you go?
- RUNWAY BEARING!
- Solo Fear, Part 2?
- dual military/civilian airports
- VFR Chart - East coast low control area
- First solo
- Army helo pilot wanting fixed wing instrument and commercial add on
- How much weather assistance to expect on vfr flight following
- Can A CFI Cancel / Revoke an endorsement ?
January 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- RNAV (RNP) and RNAV (GPS) minima
- Raim Failure on Garmin 430
- Regulations
- Commercial Dual Cross Country - Can I use Instrument Rating Long XC?
- What is the difference between IRS and INS ??
- Part 91 IFR approach without weather info
- RNAV SID
- If you departing from an airport and you smell alcohol from captain?
- CRM questions
- CFI reinstatement
- NVG's (Night Vision Goggles)
- How can we roughly determine the wind component, without crosswind component chart?
- New to flying
- Circling Approach
- Commercial Single Initial License on Cessna 182
- Ground Effect and its variation
- How does an instructor market themselves?
- IFR Altitudes
- Glide speed
- RNAV Departures
- CFI test questions
- Explaination of Remarks
- Calculate Load Factor in a given Banked Angle
- How are "dry rates" normally handled as renter?
- Can a Flight Instructor solo a student during SVFR ?
- Does a Helicopter Practical Exam count as a BFR for Fixed Wing?
- What is the Average cost of an hour of flight time W/ instructor
- FAA requirements
- Multi engine Question
- Really need advice
- Ways to make IFR departure
- Teardrop Procedure Turn
- Something Missing?
- Enroute climb limited weight
- How do you know if the airplane is equipped with Baro-Vnav?
- Part of approach lighting system inoperative
- Using digital documents on the checkride?
- Cross Country Time - Nuanced
- Transtioning from 1959 Cessna 172 to 1968 Cherokee 180D
- Adding AMEL to ATP(ASEL) after July 31st, 2014
- Pulling G's in the vertical...
- ODP Takeoff Mins.
- ODP Mins.
- Endorsements for PTS
- Digital Logbook signitures, how to apply them
- What forecast winds to use for the climb in a VFR flight plan?
- Training at a grass strip.
- Spin training
- Cross Country Time
- Approach Notations and Waypoints
- Maintenance recordkeeping for inoperative components
- Feeder Route
- From part 61 to part 141 for commercial rating
- Visual Approach
- Why is there a Procedure Turn Maneuvering Area?
- AWOS and CTAF same frequency?
- ILS minimums
- Approach Lighting
- Need To Get Current Before my CFI Training
- Approach Categories
- Unlisted reporting points
- Use of Medical oxygen in portable aviation system
February 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Regain FAA instrument currency with foreign license (for dual IR holders)
- AGI
- Currency
- Compulsory Reporting Points
- Holds
- AGI
- Clean configuration and induced drag
- Mode A transponder
- True Altitude
- Instrument Question
- Was a CFI, lost medical, now want AGI...
- RNAV Approach
- FAR 91.103 - NWKRAFT acronym
- Greatest altitude shortest distance
- To maximize the time in the air with engine out, would a flaps or no flaps configuration be optimal?
- Precautions in turbulent weather
- 24 hours surface weather chart
- Primary and Secondary Flight controls
- Why is mixture rich and fuel on both used in maneuvers for a C172RG?
- ATP Multi Engine Add On
- Heater Defroster on Checklist
- Ground speed and local speed of sound
- SIC time counting towards ATP flight time
- How does shoreline effect led to fluctuate the needle of the ADF ?
- Flaps for normal takeoff?
- Sightseeing in Class C Airspace
- Airplane Landing Speed
- Where can I find more detailed ino about preflight inspections?
- Procedural controlling vs Radar controlling
- Equipment of ELSA to get private pilot in it?
- Practice Spin fuel imbalance in T-37
- Where specifically in an airplane's documents can I see if it is equipped with baro aiding and/or WAAS?
- Is a Touch & Go a 'Landing'?
- Forward CG the airplane more stable i know that when the CG in front of center of pressure the airplane become stable but why ????
- I have DLR test next month does there anyone have an interviewer's questions ?
- ATP written
- Transponder requirements 91.215
- Flight Instructor Renewal Process
- Choosing The Best Flight School/Training
- Flight Instructor Records 61.189
- Online Flight Simulator Help
- R-ATP FAR 61.160
- MOCAs on Tango routes & GPS MEAs higher than MOCA
- Sport Pilot P-Check meet BFR Requirements?
- Post-knowledge test endorsements
- Squat Switch
- Propellers
- Complex for CFI Practical
- IFR
- GPS MAP for LOC/DME
- VOR Approaches
March 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- How can I keep track of my student's progress online?
- Altimeter
- Safety pilot in an LSA
- RNAV approach minimum without autopilot
- General Questions
- Definition of daylight operations
- Warm-up block
- Commercial Single Engine Add On???
- VFR flight ending with IFR approach
- Chandelle
- Maneuvers
- Class B and C airspace
- Oil pressure drop
- Logging PIC time with a safety pilot
- Help with buying an Airplane
- Pilot private certification with felonies
- Why are IFR "Alternate Mins" runway or approach specific
- Do takeoff mins in the "T" section apply to non-commercial ops?
- 2014 ATP Requirements 61.156
- Commercial Practical Requirement
- Is this an standard question ?
- Manifold pressure guage
- Entry into class D under class B airspace
- Panel Mounted Clock
- Time required on LOC (NON Precision)
- 3rd class medical paperwork question
- Passing a 3rd class medical Exam For private pilot
- Pilot Training Syllabus
- Stuck microphone
- Maneuvering Speed
- Primer Switch
- STOL kit
- Flying for hire
- BFR / Checkout
- Student pilot medical certificate question
- Sim time logging
- Switching between digital and analog gauges during training
- Medication
- Why do I need to start my engine with the pilot's door open?
- Civilian use of "initial" on the radio
- Ground instruction for multiple endorsements
- Reference to comply with AFM Emergency Procedures?
- Altimeter setting exceeding 31.00 in Hg and raising approach minimums
- Inadvertent IMC Is an emergency condition
- What does the controller see on the radarscope when we squawk 1200?
- Type Certifications
- Adding a Helicopter Category to my Airplane ATP
- Satellite airport
- ETOPS brief explanation
- Local IFR Request
April 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Should I make lesson plans for FOI
- Stalls
- Does FAA credit flying hours from ICAO Countries?
- AGI Certification
- What is an "early turn" for a VFR departure?
- Transferring 141 to 141.
- CFR part 141 Appendix F
- How Does The Torque indication system measure Torque in the helicopters and turbo prop aircrafts?
- FAF to MAP on an approach chart
- CFI logging time towards ATP XC Time
- Load Factor
- Can I descend below DA?
- Which flight school would you recommend?
- Flying Off center of the magenta line?
- V1 Speeds for 172's and other small GA Aircraft and RTO's
- Not required to take FOI test if already an IGI or AGI?
- Colored federal airways
- AFD Communication Legend
- Pitot tube question
- Advanced Ground Instructor Requirements
- Gulf of Mexico Low Control Area
- When on an IFR flight plan, do you have to request the higher altitude when there is a change in MEA, MOCA, OROCA?
- What is stall speed ?
- Advice on student
- Will a plane traveling faster glide farther than a plane traveling slower once the engines shut down?
- ASA vs Sheppard for airline exam
- Will a plane traveling faster glide farther than a plane traveling slower?
- Can an unpowered aircraft advance into a head wind (as a yacht can tack into a head wind)?
- ADIZ
- Commercial License Requirement
- Flying for compensation
- IFR Departure Heading from Towered Airport
- Manuevering Speed
- 91.215 2)a)
- Preping for the AGI test.
- What do I need as an independent contractor CFI?
- A couple IFR questions
May 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Density altitude
- KLN 94 VOR Substitution
- Student logging time
- Contact with class B controller and penetration of adjacent class D
- Weather briefing
- PA23-160 Power Setting Chart
- Starting Engines w/ Electrical System Off
- Logging Instructor Time While Conducting Company Required Training
- Do flaps or leading edge devices change an airfoil's critical angle of attack?
- IFR departure
- Altimeter Setting
- Instructor hands on yoke
- Reasonable expectations for checkride x/c?
- Missed approach procedure
- ATP Written - What Prep course do you use
- IFR question
- Earning a living as a CFI
- Logging approaches in a simulator
- RVR vs VIS
- Reconstructing a Logbook
- CFI course online
- Removing Rotating Beacon
- Metar abbreviation signification
- Manifold Pressure Gauge Requirement
- CFI instructing outside usa
- Pirep abbreviations
- what flight school should I choose?
- Online ATP weight & balance course
- Commercial photography
- Straight-in/circling approach NA
- No-Compete Clause as a CFI
- Cloud cover units
- ATP Signoff question
- DAF navigation
- How long is my ATP written valid for?
- Question on time for complex endorsement
- CFII Helicopter-How do I add CFII ASEL?
- BFR
- 50ft obstacle
- What's the difference between....
- Helicopter IFR experience
- Student Pilot Transitioning between Piper Archers
- Multi Engine Inquiry
- EASA Atpl to FAA conversion requirements
- AMT-Help
- Source of power for the Oil Temperature Gauge
- Wings Credit for BFR Ground Requirement
- KJAC RNAV (GPS) Z RWY 19
- Logging PIC Time
- Ground Instructor endorsement for written test
- What area does the OROCA on an IFR Chart cover?
- TSA
- Localizer Antenna
- Turn off on inactive runway
- ATP H Rating
- Cross country distance
- Approach Chart Details
- FAA CFII working as a Standardization Instructor Pilot and Maintenance Examiner
June 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Would best glide ratio speed vary with total load in aircraft?
- If a transponder has a blind altitude encoder how does ATC or flight following know the actual altitude?
- How much to open - Type Rating Training School?
- Equipment list
- Weight increase resulting in a stall speed increase
- Filling out IACRA
- Aerodynamic braking
- How much experience needed to become a jump pilot?
- Training
- how to regain flight instructor rating for a DoD IP with an expired FI rating
- Is a broken Rudder cable an emergency?
- Crossing Runways at a controlled Field??
- Full Stop vs Stop and Go (For Night Currency)
- Region of reverse command
- Logging PIC with a CPL on a 91 Operated Two-Pilot Aircraft
- Logging PIC with a CPL on a 91 Operated Two-Pilot Aircraft
- Flight review
- Logging PIC Time for R-22/44 Flights
- METAR Coverage Distance?
- Adjusting Performance Numbers For Weight
- Turboprop Flight Time
- PPL to CPL
- Planning Cross Country flights after obtaining Private for IR and Comm
- Flight Review in a taildragger. Instructor qualifications?
- Initial CFI checkride in OKC
- What software do you use other than flight planning software?
- Challenging approach's - LOC/DME incompatible with RNAV
- Instrument Proficiency Tips/Ideas?
- Cleared for the Option
- Identifying turbulent clouds
- Glide Configuration
- Effect of high jet pipe temperature(T4) during idling of turbofan engine.
- CFI instruction
- PPL Info
- DCA SFRA
- Where is the missed approach point on an GPS approach
- Ground Effect Clarity
- VWP for TSA application?
- Student Pilot Duel Cross Countries for business
- Instrument Instructor Logging Approaches
- 91.205 Night VFR Fuses Req: Complete Set or 3 of Each Kind
- Am I acting as a crewmember?
- Alternate Static
- Untowered Airport within Class D... what?
- Cessna 152 Rudder pedal foot placement
- Schweizer 300C PIC seat question
- Common carraige vs. private carraige
- Part 61 training abroad, TSA clearance
- Safety pilot, IFR flight, and PIC time
- Static runup
- Inoperative equipment, without an MEL. (4-step test)
- Directional control
- Placard
- Leaning for taxi/takeoff at high density altitude airports
- Transponder
July 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- TDZE and runway elevation on IAP plates, why the difference?
- Private Pilot Cross Country Requirements - distance of first leg
- Operating at 75% Power C172SP
- Age to train for an Air Traffic Controller Career?
- Nav log
- Annual Inspection
- Being reimbursed as private pilot
- Inquiry for my situation when it comes to application
- Difference between VOR compass rose and magnetic course
- anyone know of any pipeline gigs where I can go to build up a bunch of hours?
- Medical certificate
- CFI Interview Advice
- Learning the Commercial Maneuvers
- TAS - CAS Corrected for Nonstandard Temp?
- Powered Glider
- Commercial maneuvers
- PP & Small Business Owner
- Poor man's portabale TCAS
- Light sport instructor certificate
- Using holding pattern as procedure turn for VOR approach?
- Altimeter reading error due to T being not standard.
- Charitable Organization
- Engine suddenly dies at cruise speed – how to achieve best glide?
- Rated rpm with throttle fully open
- Flight levels above 18,000 ft
- Does Pressure Altitude change with tempreture?
- Student Pilot
- WAAS GPS Fail Over
- Private pilot give flight tours, while sharing expenses, to build hours?
- Is a High Perfomance Endorsement required?
- Cross country
- Power on stall procedure
- Weather Reporting
- Who has priority ?
- Maneuvering vs Yellow arc
- Missed Approach Point on a Localizer
- FUEL TERMS
- Checkride for PPL
- Instructor billing
- New plane - lost my ability to flare
- Flight Training Product Creation
- New ATP Rule
- Training videos ??
- Aerial Photography under part 91?
August 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- What to do with stress as a flight instructor?
- Light Sport Pilot Training
- When is second class medical needed to instruct?
- Flap Usage
- Relation of CG and CP
- Controlling obstruction
- Class E airspace vs Class G clarification please
- ATC radar
- Braking action
- Student pilot practice instrument approaches with CFI.
- Can I fly my friend in his plane or if he owned a fraction of it for hire under part 91 with a commercial pilots license with an instrument rating?
- VFR Glidepath/Glideslope
- ADF
- Instrument Currency in Dual Flights
- CFI regulation in FAR
- Visibility
- Trouble with Taxi
- KCRQ: ILS or LOC/DME RWY 24 - Visual Descent Point/Missed Approach Point
- VOR OTS
- FAR/ AIM
- Challenging approach plate for me - KMSO
- Flight Instruction under part 61
- Commercial pilot privileges
- Ways around Flight Review
- FAA Regulations
- About my medical certificate
- When to log simulator time
- W&B upgraded 172 n 180hp and aux tank
- New symbol on TAF chart
- Radial interception
- Definition of a balanced control surface
- nose wheel shock strut too high
- IFR checklist
- Glide speed
- Propeller blade angle 172RG
- Clearance to depart class d airport?
- e-CFR
- High-Performance and High-Altitude
- VOR range
- Weight & Balance Calculation - Banner towing
- Practicing at a Class B (PHNL)
- Victor Airways Arrows
- What is a modified base in the pattern?
September 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Alternator output
- Landing Trouble...
- What happens to the angle of attack and pitch attitude when increasing TAS in a descent?
- Approach plate challenge
- Compensation for hire
- Tax Questions: the SIFL Rules and Flight Training
- How are practice areas defined?
- Hot Start Procedure
- Army "hood" time as Instrument Flight Time for Helicopter ATP?
- Duration of Aircraft Registration
- Instrument Tests: IRA, IGI, CFII
- High to Low QNH Effect on Indicated Altitude
- MeCPL IPC
- Is it me? or the CFI?
- CPL with "Not valid for night flight or by color signal control"
- Earning the AGI Advanced Ground Instructor Certificate
- Written test attitude indicator
- Tax considerations for flight training.
- How to find a Mechanic for the annual of my glider
- What is the first line of a TAF mean?
- What are the State Registration requirements?
- Weather Depiction Chart Symbols
- Flight Manual vs POH
- 91.155 Basic VFR weather minimums
- Prior Student Continues to Solo With Possibly Expired Solo Endorsement
- Official Weather Briefing
- Expired paper certificate
- SVFR in Class E Airspace
- Flight time as compensation?
- What Is the Purpose of VFR GPS Waypoints?
- What do I need to do to get back in the air after 5 years?
- Can a CFI provide flight instruction in an Experimental aircraft at no charge?
- Checkride sign off
- Class G Airspace VFR Visibility Less Than IMC?
- Can I perform the annual of my glider myself
- Flap retraction
- Did I hear that right ... "Super"?
- ASI changes with Flap retraction.
- What are the time requirements to go from Private SE Airplane and Instrument to Commercial Multi Engine?
- Why Does Max Engine RPM Increase with Altitude
October 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Transponder 91.215
- Pilots' aeronautical experience
- Minimum altitude 91.515 vs 91.119
- Carburetor heat
- Letter of Discontinuance and class of rating sought
- Student Endorsements
- ATC Expectations After a Practice Approach
- Dauntless Aviation Acquires Ask a CFI.com
- Question about Flight Following
- VFR but no visual reference, is that still considered IMC?
- Is it viable to work as a Flight Instructor nowadays?
- VOR Needed?
- Why is it so windy ?
- Does the Garmin GDL 39 show mode c trafic?
- Solo endorsement required for add-on or additional category/class?
- Vmc decreased with altitude
- What Is Engine Backfire?
- G1000 Rate 1 turn
- Flying overgross with CG slightly beyond aft limit
- Transition from C172 to SR22 for Instrument rating?
- TWEB Obsolete?
- Simulated engine failure - power idle vs. engine shutdown
- Significant Weather Prognostic Charts
- NOTAM challenge
- Sweept wing causes...
- Aeronautical experience CPL
- Controllablity Checks T-37
- First Headset - Used vs. New, Stereo vs. Mono, Passive vs. Active
- Conduct a ipc
- Low flight, scenic tours, and flight following
- Type of wing designs?
- GPS Waypoints Uncharted on Enroute Charts
- Magnetic Compass Correction
- Wind correction angle in IMC
- Manuevering speed : Va
- IFR currency in both ASEL/AMEL
- Wouldn't it be great if...
- From missed approach to alternate
- Cross Country Requirement and Endoesments
- Expiration date on tailwheel / complex endorsement valid?
- Night Flying Oxygen Real ?
November 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Wing's Center of pressure (CP)
- Logging Ground Instruction Time
- Beacon
- Aerodynamic
- 91.205 VFR Night Source of Electricity
- Checklist
- CPL/ATPL valid or invalid after age of 65 to fly within the country
- Towered airport that is in uncontrolled airspace?
- GPS Approach - profile view
- EGT
- Commercial Training
- Area Forecast - What Does BKN CI Tell You About Expected Cloud Height?
- Commercial and Instrument Rating
- how do I use the Piper Seminole Speed Power chart
- Why Do Constant Speed Prop Airplanes Have Manifold Pressure Gauges? (91.205)
- Insurance! College student looking to buy
- Fuel injected engine
- Use of Navigation Lights during the day
- CFI useing experimental or minimum insured plane?
- Class E surface extension SVFR?
- Leaning the Mixture - Peak EGT
- I do have my Costa Rican Private Pilot License, Im trying to get the FAA one
- Altimeter reading
- Student pilot headset
- FAR about flying high enough to get to land power off
- Taking my Private Pilot Check ride Friday 11-21-14. Any tips or helpful hints?
- Do I need to fly a Complex Airplane for the Commercial Checkride, If I already hold a complex endorsement?
- Manifold pressure vs RPM settings
- Flying over class Bravo airspace.
- Weather that makes an airport VFR only?
- Approach Chart Comparison
- Editing a Logbook
- Do I Contact Tower or TRACON for Instrument Approach?
- What equipment does a private pilot, with a cessna 172 aircraft need to enter class Bravo airspace?
- Ground instructor- how to get the certificate?
- Will I be tested on the use of the GPS in my rented airplane for the "CFI Reinstatement Flight Review?"
- CFI renewal
- Regulations and opinions regarding introductory flights
- 182 (1966) power settings for each instrument approach mode
- Airworthiness Certificate
- Endorsements
- Preferred routing.
- Aircraft performance
- Brand new CFI, can I give instruction with a temp certificate with "Pending" cert. number??
- SIC add a private faa license validated in a ICAO license
- "Official" Way to Write Aircraft Type in Logbook
- How to contact approach control for class delta? (details in description)
- what kind of first aid help may a cabin attendent apply to a passenger
- Equipment minimums for each airspace? FAR/AIM 91.205, but not understanding?
- Pitot tube block with the body of dead bird
- KSMO Departure
- Student certificate
- Commercial Pilot 61.129
- Foreign add-on rating
- Primary+Supporting vs. Control+Performance for BAI
- What is the cost of landing fees paid by foreign, not US Charters, commercial air carriers landing in Cuba?
- Logging Pilot in Command time
- Resume own Navigation
- Class B clearance expiration
- Flight Following
- Fuel economy power settings
- 91.213 Equipment List Requirements...
- KFHR NDB Approach
- NDB approach entry from IAF
- Upwind leg at nontowered Airports
- Canada Vs. US Commercial Pilot Written Exam
- Difference Between Vx and Obstacle Clearance Speed
- Pilot/Controller Glossary
- Descending for Approach 2
December 2014 ( View complete archive page )
- Is Readback of Altimeter Settings Required?
- Became a private pilot recently and now looking to get my instrumental. Had a few questions. (In description)
- Where to find "common purpose" clause for private pilot carrying pax
- Engine clearing
- Identifying an inoperative LOM
- FAA revoked Student Pilot licence due to DUI. Where do I stand as regards the training I have completed to that point?
- Exiting the runway in class B
- Required Ground Instruction for ASEL Commercial + Instrument Add-On
- What is a CFIA?
- Why is it inappropriate to enter a hold on the outbound leg?
- Commercial pilot night requirements - redundant or exclusive?
- Is an approach clearance into a Class D airport also a clearance to land?
- Magneto check
- Magneto check
- How to get temporal license if pass the CATS aboard.
- IFR flight plan practice
- Use of the practice area
- Altimeter 91.205 vs Inspection Reg Loophole?
- How Does Pitch Affect Fixed-Pitch Propeller RPM?
- Flaps effect on Vmc
- Auto Pilot LPV Flightpath Intercept From Below
- Instrument rating and the 6 basic instruments used in flight
- Cold temperature altitude corrections at “Cold Temperature Restricted Airports” Notice Number: NOTC5758
- Terminal Aerodrome Forecast's (TAF's)
- Reported ceiling
- Ceiling OVC vs VV
- what is induced drag and when is it at its highest?
- Auxiliary boost pump
- Practicing Approaches
- Teardrop PT/ Course Reversal
- Altimeter setting error for ILS approach
- Landing and takeoff performances on hard vs soft surfaces
- ICAO Annex 3 Amendments
- Would you report this to the FAA?
- How can two pilots who both want to build time share aircraft cost?
- Force Vectors
- Tricks for converting UTC time to local time
- Consequences of not passing an Add On Rating
- Altimeter Useage During IFR Flight
- Flight Planning - What altitude to choose
- Slow AS on Final
- Check ride without flaps?
- Hot to cold - Look out below
January 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- What class of airspace are VFR corridors/ vfr transition routes?
- MAP time and threshold
- Use of radio during XC flight
- Are there airship, balloon, or helicopter questions on the AGI test?
- PTS Used for Flight Training *and* Testing?
- Lazy Eights and Chandelles
- Instrumental ground training
- Possible jobs for PPL & ATPL frozen holder
- Flying in IMC
- Most efficient way to become an Commercial Airline Pilot
- Intro Meteorology and Other Books
- FSS - Receive Only...
- OVC0100 ?
- Instrument 250Nm xc
- Applying for a new level of pilot certificate...
- Flight training maximum pitch & bank limitation.
- Low Wing Aircraft - Lack of "Both" on the Fuel Selector Valve
- Flight Plan - Route of Flight
- Ridge Not Depicted on Surface Analysis Chart
- Altimeter
- The right way to pull an airplane
- Renting dry aircraft
- SUSPENDED FROM FLIGHT SCHOOL (PENDING FAA DECISION)/ FOR FALSIFIED ENDORSEMENT?
- IPC and Flight Review Multiengine and Single Engine Land
- 172S Approach Speed - Is my Instructor Doing the Right Thing?
- Using previous complex time towards commercial rating
- Traffic Pattern
- Computer Navigation Fix
- Understanding Prevailing Visibility
- Thunderstorm avoidance
- Taxi "lessons" at class C
- Building time 141 cheaper? Can I do this idea?-Read on
- 61 private - 141 for rest Can I save a few bucks not flying all with the school?
- Advanced ground instructor ticket
- Class E Enroute Domestic Areas
- C172R electrical system
- Gravity-fed Fuel System
- Teaching VOR navigation
- Maneuvers and Wind Direction
February 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- 61.129(c) commercial helicopter add-on requirements
- Prep
- IF angle of attack is zero degree,is that possible to produce lift?
- Approach speed category
- Time building
- Landing gear failure
- No comm radio?
- Cycling magnetos during magneto check
- Rental airplane maintenance
- Airline interview about HR question
- Landing gear malfunction
- Propeller Pitch and Aerodynamic Forces
- KAST ILS RWY 26 Astoria RGNL approach plate question
- Private Pilot Solo Cross Country
- Typical Spacing For VFR XC Checkpoints
- Transponders for flight safety?
- Flight Training below 5 deg F?
- What Kind of Spatial Disorientation Illusions Have You Experienced?
- Best Rate Vs Best Angle
- VFR flight plan
- I am a private pilot, can I carry a passenger under 18 years old?
- How to tell if there is a clear sky above BKN/OVC
- What Is loss of integrity (LOI)?
- Performance table and ISA variations ?
- Coordinated on XC on Windy Day
- Calm Wind Runway?
- Pressure Altitude Confusion
- Ethical to instruct family or close friends?
- Logging Special VFR as IMC
- Logging IFR as XC
- Airport Facility Directory
- Estimating endurance
- Crossing the Cuba ADIZ
March 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Damaged logbook
- Understanding Vmc, Multi engine.
- How would a airplane propeller without twist stall at the blade tip as airspeed increases?
- medical necessary with atp
- LDA MAP
- Entering Class C Before Contacting Departure with IFR Clearance
- Picking a field for emergency landing at night
- ATP ATD/FTD hours
- "NIGHT LANDING NA" in approach plate notes
- Third party providing aircraft for flight training.
- Umbrella Policy when we are pilots
- CFI time in make and model
- Practical Scenarios to Do Contact Approach?
- Do I need an FAA approved flight manual for my 65 Mooney M20C?
- ATC communication in class d airspace and satellite airports
- What is the black thing behind the strobe light?
- Is flight following only for cross country flights?
- Assigned lower-than-published altitude for full IAP
- Turning to outbound when flying direct to VOR IAF on inbound heading
- Holding distances shorter than published ATD/DME
- CFI, CFII lesson plans
- What is mach number?
- Logging dual given in multi-engine aircraft as CFI with CMEL.
- can you stay current in an FTD without a medical?
- Simulated Instrument/Safety Pilot Logging Time Question
- Criteria for airports with Class E extending to surface vs Class E at 700'
- Cruise performance for Best Economy
- FAA ramp check
- Can you depart VFR if the weather is IMC?
- What does the "CH" and number in the WAAS box on RNAV chart mean?
- Circling approach using vertical guidance
- Why don't some NPAs have VDPs?
- How does a non-baro sensitive altimeter work?
- Notam Contractions
- how to download from the library
- FAA Checkride Abroad
- Safety Pilot in LSA
- Maintaining Separation In A Congested Traffic Pattern, Uncontrolled Airport - Ways to slow/extend/speedup
- Why some airports don't show up on the low alt IFR enroute charts?
- Number of Class D Airports
- Alternates?
- Passengers insurance
- What is meant by aft limit?
- Manifold pressure sensor location in fuel injected engines?
- KVNY - Ask Clearance or Not Ask Clearance, that is the question
- Lost Comms on Segment with MAA
- OROCAs for direct random RNAV routes
April 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- IF and FAP...
- Underlying foreign license not current
- Definition about "establish localizer"..
- Angle of Incidence is not controllable?
- Switching from DEP to CTR
- No clearing turns for ground reference maneuvers?
- Entering Downwind on ground reference maneuvers
- Engine warmup
- Add on CFI and CFII for aircraft
- Are RNAV (Q- and T-) Routes AIRWAYS?
- CB or towering cumulus?
- Renting an Aircraft Type You've Never Flown Before
- What is the difference between overuse of abstractions & confusion between symbol and symbolized object?
- Inadvertent IFR – Fog, or trapped above/under the ceiling / “Scud Running”
- Logging dual on a 135 flight?
- RNAV SID Altitudes
- Flaps and ailerons
- Trim tabs
- Positive rate of climb
- Flight Instructor concerns
- What is hinged moment?
- Possible dangers of adding flaps in a turn
- To all MEI's
- Giving position reports to controller on Flight Following?
- Dangerous Flare ?
- Lost Communication for IFR flight if filed into the Flight Levels
- Is posting flying videos on YouTube illegal?
- Can I give an aircraft checkout on my own a/c that I intend to rent out, without being a CFI?
- Metar Understanding
- Speed for timed approaches
- Old Private Pilot
- Difference between True Altitude and Pressure Altitude
- Auxiliary fuel pump
- Required to do a holding circuit for direct entry to IAF when doing full RNAV APR?
- ADC/AHRS operating with master switch on in G1000 C172SP
- What is a crossfeed electrical bus?
- What do you need to get LNAV/VNAV?
- Medical Certificate - Downgrade
- Landing Currency and Safety Piloting
- Declaring an emergency
- FAA/CPL
- G1000 TCAS
- Canada CPL
- T-37 accelerated spin
- Check ride questions
May 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- How short should a runway be considered as a shortfield runway?
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- Vmo vs. Mmo
- i took my COMMERCIAL MULTI ENGINE LAND certification , can i fly with single engine as private??
- 100 hour inspections and providing flight instruction
- what limits the maximum tailwind you can takeoff with?
- Indicated airspeed vs. Ground speed
- unclear on far's
- Proficiency checks for type ratings?
- IFR flight plan through a Restricted area.
- Commercial Night Requirements
- rich mixture flame out in piston engine
- What are the risks of intercepting a ILS GS from above?
- What does adjusting the kollsman window do inside the instrument?
- Lost Comms IFR
- PTS - Private
- Are there any schools offering a guaranteed flight instructor position if I train there?
- What can I do with my new solo endorsement?
- add on catagory rating/ground school
- Why is flying with reference to instrument difficult?
- Why do holding patterns default to right hand turns?
- And the Results
- Does the Magnus effect apply to airplanes?
- Questions on Steep Spirals
- 91.213 question: VFR Day type certificate?
- special flight permit
- 50 hours no solo - can this be salvaged?
- Vapour locking on piston engine
- Is it okay to track the PT outbound
- Vibrations/ loss of power on piston engine
- Aerodynamics for spins
- What does it mean for an airplane to be slipping?
- departure procedures
- CFI Training Sport Pilot CFI
- multiengine question
- Injector engine fuel pump broken, low wing aircraft. Cold Start possible?
- manevering speed
- CFII Knowledge exam
- Gleim Software
- NOTAM Confusion
June 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- What is the difference between the phraseology "proceed on course" and "resume own navigation"?
- Pilot Training on H1B Visa
- Cessna 182 pilots, jumper or glider experience
- Reporting to tower controller when leaving FAF/OM?
- What does standard service volumes not applying to published routes mean?
- FAA license in colombia
- Runway heading, missed approach
- Holdings, holding stack
- Dihedral + Lateral Stability
- Do you need to time a loss comms approach to arrive at destination airport at ETA?
- Uncontrolled VFR Clearance Delivery
- ILS
- Calculated Landing Time
- knowledge test
- What happens if lightning hits a GA airplane?
- Lost Student Pilot Logbook
- commercial night cross country
- Exceeding performance charts
- Night Flight runway orientation?
- Commercial licese question
- L/Dmax vs. minimum endurance speed
- Full or partial flaps?
- Precession
- How to stay FAA current when living out of the USA
- Weight/flaps
- Advanced Ground Instructor practical test
- Safety Pilot on IFR Flight Plan
- Retesting after failure - 3 hours of checkride prep?
- Why can't I answer
- Part 91 can shoot an IAP and land in 0 visibility?
- landing approach procedures..
- Oddities if upgrading from Sport Pilot to Private: How
- FAR 91.319, says Experimental can't fly over densely populated areas. Yet they do all the time. Huh?
- Question on Instrument Currency
- I haven't flown in a year and a half. What do I need to do?
- Stalled landing?
- Manifold pressure gauge
- Confused about CPL rating requirements
- WAAS Channels
- When to fly the ODP
- Can I count my Military Instrument SIMULATOR time towards my PPL ASEL Instrument Rating? (How to Prove)
- Altimeter density error
- MOA - Contacting the controlling agency
July 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Need advice on how to proceed with my training.
- I have problem with managing airspeed when air is turbulent
- RNAV SID
- CFI-II
- Run ups
- JargonBuster Now Active at AskACFI !
- slant range error
- AGL (above ground elevation)
- Ground School for Flying the Airplane
- Crosswind definition
- Private Pilot checkride - electronic navigation
- IACRA Mistake
- What is a mode S transponder?
- Application for ATP without 500 xc time
- Disagreement with Tower - Opposite direction approach, Circle to land
- IFR with 1 comm radio
- Loss Comm Scenario: What Is Considered "Assigned" or "Expected" Altitude/Route?
- When to start descent during procedure turn
- Unidentifiable stepdown fix on IAP
- RNAV SID Note
- Flight Review-Wings Program
- Cleared for the approach?
- Solo return
- IPC --can hand-held gps be used just for DME function in VMC?
- Does REIL count as ALS in accordance with 91.175?
- Helicopter Add-on: Private Not Always Required
- Student flying in left seat with no brakes in right seat
- Refusal speed and Go No Go Speed Difference
- Altitude separation from airspace
- IFR Cross Country DISTANCE Question
- IAP Question
- Waypoint vs Fix
- GPS altitude/Altimeter indication
- Best Ground School For Private Pilot License
- Best and Cheapest Helicopter Pilot Training School in the World
- As a Private Pilot, is it legal to film a flight with Intention to post on YouTube, etc for Compensation
- Logging PIC flight time in Army vs. Civilian logbooks
- FAA CFI teaching certified pilots in their aircraft in Europe
- How do I overcome my fear of flying alone while finishing my solo hours for my private pilots license?
- ILS approach circle to land
August 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Logging jet time without type rating
- Why are some MEA's unidirectional?
- Visual Approach
- Flight Reimbursement
- lost logbook
- Requirements for Training a NON-Initial CFII
- Question Regarding Return to Service (91.407)
- landing distance
- Professional Flight Instructor Organization
- MEII/HEII
- Best approach to regain IFR currency after an 8-year break?
- Commercial Multi-Engine or getting an instrument rating first?
- VFR traffic advisories/Flight following question
- Time limits
- CFI Instrument Currency
- NOTAMs not removed past its expiration date: are they still valid?
- Trying to understand
- Spinning wheels.
- What is the cheapest yet best DVD for learning to fly a Helicopter
- CFI Part 61 v Part 141
- FAA IFR currency
- Flat Spin RB57a
- Logging PIC time
- Ace Base Grace question
- Military to civilian transition
- Light Gun Signals: How to Taxi
- Top of descent
- G Loading
September 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Crosswind correction in holding pattern without wind information
- Contrail segmentation
- Spatial disorientation in steep turns?
- unusable fuel with out pumps
- VOR approach KECG
- Overlying airspace
- Speed steep spiral
- Single engine ATP
- Logging instrument approaches for currency/training
- Class golf
- Is it true that left turning tendencies increase in ground effect?
- JVL ILS or LOC RWY 4 - No RADAR or DME Required?
- Seeking Answer
- VFR Clearance Delivery
- military aircraft touch and goes at KMYR
- CFI's and Their BFR
- CFI Ground School Training & AGI/FIA Preparation
- ifr nav log vs ifr clearance.
- CFI checkride tiesday with FSDO and he is bringing an airworthiness inspector
- Engine backfire during start?
- Emergency Landing
- http://www.askacfi.com/31171/short-tempered-cfii.htm
- Flying IFR with a CFII
- Are magnetos on the same electrical system as the battery?
- Additional Crewmember Certification
- Can I have an FAA ATP issued with a single engined seaplane?
- CFI Classroom Presentations
- Most efficient way of getting my IFR rating
- How to know whether you're experiencing pre-ignition or detonation
- When to start the procedure turn.
- Private pilot WSC to private pilot SEL
- Start my own helicopter business under part 91
- Private Pilot logging PIC during IFR w/ IR Pilot
- Where am I relative to a holding fix?
October 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Can I use an electronic weight and balance calculator instead of the flight manual?
- If induced drag is perpendicular to the wing, then...
- cfi academy review
- I hold FAA CPL with multi engine endorsement but I did my last check in 2010
- Do I really need a marker beacon now days?
- Why is Vso lower than Vs (why does extending flaps allow for a lower stalling speed)?
- Magnus Effect
- The New Prog Chart Symbology
- How many hours are usually needed to be hired as a CFI?
- What is the difference between a Preferred IFR Route & a TEC Route?
- LPV vis required vs ILS visibilty required
- Maintenance
- What is the point of MOCA and when would you use it as opposed to the MEA?
- If a feeder route direction is supposed to be a heading, how do you navigate in windy conditions?
- How does the wing that drops in an uncoordinated stall have a greater AoA?
- class bravo incursion
- FILING IFR TO A FIX RATHER THAN A DESTINATION
- True and proper VOR check
- Logging time as Pilot Monitoring when 2 pilots required.
- Inadvertent VFR into IMC
- Are manifold pressure/prop settings same across most airplanes?
- Where is a missed approach point for circling while flying ILS?
- <500 hour private pilot question
- IFR lost comms and currently on a vector
- I got a question about getting my airframe license (l got my powerplant already)
- Little drain under Cessna 172R
- Night Flying Requirements
- ATP time requirements without logbook
- Timing the landing round-out and flare HELP!!!
- Why is there a spiral limitation in the Beechcraft Skipper POH?
- IFR approach with COM failure
- Icing
- IFR CURRENCY
- FAR Regulation PIC
- Roundout
- CFI medical expired/Flight reviews
- Wind shear value
- bad elf
- Navigation
- Actual IMC
- Max rate and Min radius turn
- CG MOVEMENT
- ATC approach communication when Approach is at another airport
- File Pireps Via Text Message?
- Learning to fly in a turboprop
- Instrument rating help!
- Requirements?
- How soon after check ride can a pilot file IFR flight plan
- ILS missed app point vs LOC missed app point
November 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- RNAV (GPS) Approach NoPT Confusion
- Carburetor fire upon startup
- vg and va changes in gross weight of an aircraft
- What's the speed limit in a procedure turn?
- MEI / ME Requirements
- What is used to determine flying altitude?
- Radar departure on SID to VOR further than service volume allows.
- What Is Cyclonic and Anticyclonic Curavture?
- Procedure to fly for Endurance
- What's the bright white light for?
- High Performance Endorsement in a plane student not qualified in?
- Beaufort MOA - What is the bottom?
- Student carrying logbook on solo flight
- Endorsements needed
- Medical Question
- Measurement of distance/ Separation between aircraft
- Vmc
- TIS Echo
- maintaining night currency with a passenger on board (and the passenger holds a PPL)
- Emergency Decent -positive load??
- Constant Speed VS Full-Feathering Propellers
- Class B airspace
- Helicopter PPL to Fixed Wing Commercial
- Safety Pilot
- Commercial pilot privileges
- Cessna 172S Yoke Clips
- Absolute and Service Ceilings
- Brown Airport on En Route Low with IAP???
- Rotorcraft CFI giving Ground portion of BFR to ASEL pilot
- Engine Failure and Emergency Landing
- Descending on an approach
- Help with Steep Spiral Entry
- Visibility
- Is an Instrument Rating required for a CFI applicant?
- Do I need my GPS Manual for my CFI Initial checkride?
- Intercepting radials IN and OUT the VOR
- CFI upgrade
- Multi Engine Currency
- Missed approach procedure KCVO ILS or LOC 17
- How Turn Coordinator Indicates Rate of Roll
- RNAV entry from Missed Approach Hold
- Change in requirements for ATP certificate
- Instrument currency in a twin-engine
- CFI for BFR in Germany
- Flight Instructor
- iff transponder codes
- Performance chart interpolation
- How to phonetically say 12,500 feet
- How to request radar fix identification to ATC on IAP
December 2015 ( View complete archive page )
- Approaching to land at a Class D airport within Class C airspace
- Fly-by fly-over
- TSA looking into CFIs.. Why??
- DME arc
- Private Written Expiring
- Landing Gear Position Indicator Lights - C182RG
- What license do I need to fly turboprop?
- ATP Multi, Private Single....need Commercial Single
- Can I shoot this approach???
- VOR or GPS-A @ KSMO
- IPC and multi-engine add-on
- approved dod low altitude iap
- Complex night landings
- Logging flight time in a PC12
- Should I quit flying? (a private pilot student)
- do far 61 need paperwork and permission from FAA
- Conducting a Flight Review
- Can I log this time?
- My first turbulence and I didn't like it at all!
- 135.243(b) relating to pistons and cargo operations
- Legal altitude for filing?
- CFI PTS
- Can I list in order the practice approaches I want at a certain airport in the remarks section of the flight plan?
- KBKL ILS or LOC RWY 24R -- DME Required?
- When to Pull the Throttle to Completely Idle
- instrument currency and simulator
- is eligibility there with my qualification to do course for becoming a commercial flight pilot
- Aerodynamic
- Commercial instrument helicopter/private pilot ASEL, add on airplane instrument rating
- IFR Lost Comm scenarios
- G1000 approach flight plan question
- 60 day rule: Clarification?
- Weight and balance for a C172P
- becoming a cfi/cfii
- RVR Details
- C172RG CG with gear retracted
- iPad as EFB, FAA Part 91: AFM as PDF legal?
- RATP quailication 61.159 & 61.160
January 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Why won't my instructor re-endorse my 90 day solo
- Requirements to add Sport Pilot CFI to CFIG
- General questions about being a commercial pilot that need to be answered.
- Questions with no ability to answer them
- A R R O W : Radio Station License
- Cross-country to the Private Pilot practical exam
- Source describing what determines class D reverting to class E or G when tower closes?
- Range and Endurance Profiles for Cessna 172
- Oil Temp and Pressure need DC power?
- When encountering a windshear, which instrument will change indication first?
- Class G special VFR at night: IFR required?
- Standard Rate Turn
- Commercial Aeronautical Experience: 61.129(a)
- hood time before cross country time ?
- CFII qualifications
- How is torque measured in Bell 204/205 helicopters?
- Checkride retest
- Non-Standard Aircraft Ownership
- Microwave Landing System (MLS)
- Flying DME-ARC with high speed aircraft
- Establishing final descent
- Filing alternate airport about gps approach
- Rules for flying over water - Different if the water (Lake Michigan) is frozen??
- Student Transition from high wing to low wing
- 61.57 wording re: instrument currency (first 6 months, second 6 months)
- Training Autorotations and Emergency Engine Out Procedures
- Logging cross country time for ATP
- High Performance Endorsement and SIC type rating
- G1000 BUS2 burn out
- Who is logging the PIC time
- Requirements
- Single Engine CFI
- Banks
- Commercial rating 10 hours simulated time
- Victor Airway numbers on sectional
- Instrument training no flight plan into IMC with ATC
- Airmet Zulu
- FSS for practice flight plans
- Confused with wind direction.
- Expired hours
- When to retract on takeoff
- CDA Continuous Descent approach (confused)!!
- DP confusion. Turn left or right?
- Medical Certificate got wet! Can I still use it?
- Is density altitude accounted for on takeoff performance charts
- Wake Turbulence
- Emergency Gear Down
- Re-setting power on takeoff
- When to set your Transponder to Alt
- ICAO flight plan
February 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Airliner weight and balance
- practice IFR appoaches single pilot without a safety pilot?
- Aviation terminology
- Flight instructing with dog eared ATP?
- Does Density Altitude shows as a negative value?
- PRECESSION
- helicopter atp practical test endorsement/proficiency questions
- "Report landing assured"
- What is the maximum allowable precision error DG for IFR?
- VFR Over the TOP
- Cfi Scenario Questions
- Commercial Requirement
- Cfi Scenario Questions
- Can PPL X-C Training fullfill Commercial requirements ?
- MEI Rating
- Altitudes when flying a flight plan
- Constant Speed Prop.
- Angle of Attack
- does temperature inversion bring wind shear?
- Instrument approaches
- Low IFR Nav
- Instrument Approach Procedure
- Why this approach name is RNAV-A and only circling minimums?
- PMEL & CSEL adding CMEL
- Misdemeanor and PPL
- Rocket Ship sectional
- Simple Tricks to Avoid Flaring Too High?
- Altitude
- What is an NVG operation
- Fuel Pump
- Manifold Pressure
- Instrument Cross-Country Requirement
- FOI / IGI / AGI overseas
- How to choose a STAR when planning an IFR flight?
- LNAV VNAV and ILS Minma
- Getting current
- Medical
- Commercial medical issue
- Moderation comments
- Renting issues
- weight and balance
- Flight Review
- 91.119: other-than-congested MSA vs. tall obstructions
- CFII and MEI currently and wants to add on the CFI
- MSA
- Emergency Landing on an Interstate?
- Examiner for add on instructor rating
- I'm a CFI and IGI and hold a Instrument rating, working on my CFII. Do I need to take the CFII written test or my IGI is enough?
- TRICKY NAV QUESTION
March 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- How to calculate true altitude in case of low or high temperature?
- Why should an Altimeter agree within 75ft of airport elevation?
- CFI log XC for ATP rating during a lesson with a student ?
- CESSNA 152
- emergency procedure of cessna 182 T
- In the FARs, What Is a "Chapter"?
- Military Rotor to Fixed Wing
- What happens to Fixed pitch propeller when descending?
- Can I fly a High performance experimental single engine if I am only rated for a High performance twin?
- Flight Review
- ADS-B Requirements
- Performance
- Turning and Flaps
- FAR 91.107 interpretation. Flight crew wearing seatbelt during taxi.
- can i collect hours of my gliding training tomy next PPL.A taining
- Do I Need An Attorney?
- 61.129 Clarification
- Flying GPS approaches with non-WAAS Garmin 430
- Digital logbooks during primary training
- Help on validity discontinue checkride
- NTSB overdue aircraft
- Compulsory reporting points in radar coverage
- How to select Aiming point on runway; final
- Flight training in part 141 and part 61; experiences and differences.
- Advice on Flight Instruction
- Transfer from 61 to 141
- Multi Engine Question
- FAA IR Flight Skills grade sheet
- How much does a New CFI can earn in CA?
- Asymmetric flap and the different stall speeds one each wing.
- Accelerate Stop Distance for Piston engine.
- Single pilot jet
- 61.23 Medical Requirement.
- Propeller torque effect on Chandelle
- Engine spark plug
- Sweepback design wing
- Momentum of thrust
- MEL IPC
- CAR 3 Certified Airplane, Kinds of Operation not listed - IFR?
- Production of Lift - aerodynamics explanation needed ASAP !
- Flight Review requirements for CFI applicant
- Flight Review
- Safety pilot requirement
- VMC FACTORS
- after landing .
- Prop Governor in Single Engine vs Multi Engine
- Approach Flaps
- Does F-18 sim time count toward Total Pilot Time for ATP purposes
- Private pilot written part 141
- Enroute IFR Chart
April 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Holding pattern entry
- When to descend to GSIA on ILS approach?
- Instrument approach procedures & Red terminating lights / side row bars
- FOI Written Wrong Answer?
- Density altitude on ATIS
- NOTAM ! and it's Meaning
- Radius of class E airspace?
- What does "Meter fueling" mean?
- VDP calculation and MAP
- ATP CHECKRIDE OUTSIDE STATE
- Student solo airport
- How to find out the Altimeter setting midflight when lost comm IFR
- Foreign pilot certificate
- what happens to lift production ?
- Are steep turns and slow flight still required for the IFR checkride?
- Ground Instructor privileges
- impacts on uncoordinated aircraft?
- Why do we correct airspeed for installation error?
- Why does Va Increase with weight of the aircraft?
- Cruise performance same power setting decreased TAS
- CFI splitting costs & building time with student
- Haven't flown in almost 3 years
- Composite flightplan how do we file it?
- Part 141 Solo time
- ATC COmmunicarion Relay station
- G1000 buttonology - how to efficiently change airport and approach on the go?
- Concerned and frustrated with progress
- Step on the Ball?
- Expired medical while IFR training
- ATC Assigned Heading Confusion
- Turn coordinator on G1000?
- Ground Instructor Certificate Question
- First mag check attempt bad, second one good
- Pressure Altitude calculation by simple formula and E6B
- Engine backfire and afterfire during start.
- Airplane purchase
- Can I log PIC time when my medical is not valid or my flight review has lapsed?
- Propeller
- Adiabatic Lapse Rate
- Can you fly helicopters to build time for Airplane ATP
- Student Pilot Cross Country
- Special Use Airspace
- 91.105, 107 - shoulder harness requirements
- Runway Centerline Lighting System
- Two minima for same approach
- Helicopter to Fixed wing commercial. Do I need a complex aircraft?
- Commercial Pilot and Glider Solo Requirements
- CFI Passenger Currency
- Cleared for takeoff "on course"
- Why doesn't this airport show up on my Garmin G430?
- Job prospectus in aviation. Want your advice
- Stall speed at different flap settings
- CFI currency to provide night training
- Can i go to do the FAA's checkride without pass the school's checkride? I am a part 61 student.
- Do i have to do both schooll's checkrite and the FAA's checkrite as a part 61 student?Or i can just do the FAA's checkrite?
- Aerodynamics during slip to landing and stall characteristics.
- Commercial training aircraft
- lesson plan usage for CFI course.
- Upsidedown wing and lift generation.
- Cowl flaps during commercial maneuvers
- Hours needed?
- Groundspeed zero but airspeed is still alive during slow flight?
- PAR test vrs PGL test
- How to become a private pilot airplane if you have helicopter time
- Aircraft's position when reporting to the tower
- Stc factors for engine change for an Aircraft
- Drivers License Suspension
- 91.205 with a Glass Cockpit no Standby
- A320 as First Officer
- Adding 1/2gust factor to approach speed
- Negative AOA when descending and upside down flight.
- Short field takeoff Vr speed?
May 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Cruise clearance & VFR on top operation & Contact approach
- What is Absolute ceiling?
- Long solo XC with new CFI
- Is it the time for me to quit my flight training?
- P-factor and Asymmetric thrust are the same?
- Vmc and Vmca are they same?
- Track crossing multiple Isogonals
- Airway portion NOTAM(ed) as NA???
- Does an FBO altimeter require a bi-annual check?
- NTSB 830
- Full fuel payload
- Can my IFR crosscountry flight alone be counted towards 66HIT ?
- S turns
- Flight Instructor In The Sim - CPL?
- commercial cross country
- Logging multiple Conditions of Flight
- ATP to CFI
- heli instrument add-on
- Critical Density Altitude
- Slow Flight
- Wind correction angle during high wind holding.
- P-factor
- Flight Training
- Constant-speed prop windmilling
- 61.87(d) Clarity
- Increased fuel consumption on descent
- Adding a Category to my license... can I use time from another Category?
- Obstacle clearance on precision and non precision approach.
- Student pilot cert needed?
- TSA Security Awareness Training-Renewal
- Aeronautical experience
- POH Shortfield vs. Normal Takeoff distances
- Slow flight and the target airspeed
- Medical
- Fuel flow during priming for engine start.
- Commercial medical
June 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Constant Speed Propeller and relation to manifold pressure setting.
- Problem with taking over control and giving instruction during flight.
- Form 337?
- DME testing & accuracy standards
- Sigmet
- Transporting Business Equipment
- Approach button
- Cold temperature correction
- GPS route load
- RAMI Check
- BARO VNAV Temp Compensation @ RKSI
- Getting Private Pilot Night Currency while Flying with Another Private Pilot
- Logging Part 103 time
- Tailwwheel endorsement with no medical
- RAIM loss before/after FAF
- Logging SIC
- Manifold pressure
- New airman certification standards?
- FSDO's and Checkride Assignment
- Forward slip to a landing.
- What are good resources or your tips to help improve my instructing skills?
- Departing an airport completely surrounded by a MOA
- IFR routes around Class Bravo
- Instrument Approach Feeder Question
- Requirements for a Commercial HEL CFII to add-on PPL ASEL?
- Localizer Approach and Timing to MAP Safety Concern
- Check Ride Discontinuance
- Localizer Approach minimums
- Executing Missed Approach Procedure.
- Procedure Turn Outbound timing.
- Owner Replace Oil Quick Drain Valve
- ACS & Slow Flight
- Part 135 unscheduled on pilot crew Duty time limitations
- Why we control pitch for airspeed, power for altitude in reverse command region?
- Magnetic Compass Turns
- Flying the DME arc
- Career Flight Instructor - The Safe Way?
- G1000 AHRS/ADC failure
- Basic Attitude Instrument Flying - Instrument Flight
- What Direction Do You Execute The Procedure Turn?
- Commercial privileges & 14 CFR 119.23
- Reduced Flaps for Landing with Gusts
- what's the good point of flaperons for adverse yaw?
- IFR In/OutBound AirVenture
- Student Pilot logging dual cross country time - day vs night
- Question on MOCA
- Obstacle Departure Procedure and compliance.
- Ways to build XC time besides instructing
- MHK VOR/DME-F
- Airworthiness Categories
- Updated FREE VFR and IFR Flight Planning Forms now Available
- VFR Cruising altitude except while holding in a pattern or turning
- How to know if you'll be in radar contact when filling IFR direct
- Purpose of Cruise Clearance
- Student CFI. Base lesson plans off Private ACS tasks or CFI PTS tasks?
- RNAV Z/Y Approach/advise ATC of which type?
- When is instrument rating required?
- Departure Into Class C Airspace
- Sideslip causing change in attitude
- R-ATP requirements?
- Civilian training for a military rated pilot
- C172S Range and Endurance profile chart in performance.
- solo cross country endorsement
- Cessna 172s fuel system; reservoir tank connection to main fuel tanks.
- IFR low altitude chart symbol
- Took old ATP written, Am I eligible for Restricted ATP?
- Lead radial amount and rate of turn
- Why Va changes with weight?
- Magneto Grounding check & Engine idle check during run up.
- missing airports in logbook
- Level of ftd to log hours
- Logging Sim Time
- Most direct way of landing in uncontrolled airport within class C airspace
- Engine detonation
- circuit speed
July 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Clearing Turns
- Mode S Transponder and ADS-B relationship
- Filing Alternate airport on IFR flight plan when using WAAS - HELP!
- CFI Renewal Counts As Flight Review?
- Pilot holding single engine PPL with IFR passed his or her CPL multi rating check ride, can he or she fly multi under IFR?
- About that Slaving Control and Compensator Unit for the HSI
- Instructor required certificates
- Impulse coupling and Magneto during engine start
- Reason for why a clear sky is needed for radiation fog
- Has the NOTAM System Been Consolidated?
- Language Proficiency
- WAAS directing routing
- Number of hours a pilot can fly
- Off shore gliding distance and Flotation gear
- scattering of ashes from plane for non-profit
- filing an alternate airport question (almost got in a fight with my roommate about this)
- is there a good way to include endorsements/signatures into an electronic logbook/spreadsheet?
- does a CFI who is acting PIC need to meet 3 TO/L (61.57) to carry only a student pilot?
- Pilot's bill of rights written notification of investigation
- Unattended, Attended airport & airspace restriction
- Calculation for the XC flight(TO, Cruise, LDG)
- Short field Takeoff and obstacle clearance.
- VFR flight Following
- Over Voltage and Low Voltage - Inications, Cause, and Correction
- do flaps mainly create induced or parasite drag?
- Bold type airport elevation
- Forward Slip with or without Flaps?
- Where is the Flying School that teaches for Free ?
- missed approach
- How to identify a joint use airport from a sectional or low-enroute chart
- Temperature Inversion
- Appendix M to Part 141—Combined Private Pilot Certification and Instrument Rating Course
- Cessna 172S Induction Overboard Drain Line
- Endorsements for Retest
- Class Bravo Clearance at Assigned Altitude
- Newly Established Flying School looking for Flight Instructors
- Hypothetical: Proper Maneuvering to avoid Runway Incursion
- Obstacle Departure procedure compliance
- Logging Night Time
- Approach minimums
- How to be certain fuel sample isn't all water?
- Vfr flight following
- Low En Route
- VOR RWY 24 BOWMAN FIELD (LOU)
- Part 91 Scenic Flights
- TSA vs Student Pilot Vetting Process
- Odd question, but what are the limits of the kollsman window on the Altimeter?
- Takeoff minimums
- Alternate Static Source
- What info to include in dual given logbook entry comments/remarks section
- Unsatisfactory Task During IPC
- Slow Flight
- Private Pilot, have not flown in over 20 yrs. How can can I get current to apply for drone license if my physical keeps me from flying
August 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- IFR XC Planning
- Why does Atis give you Density Altitude?
- How to figure out approach course
- student pilot cert
- 2 Alternator questions
- FBO, airport, customer service, receptionist
- New to Aviation, eager to excel at my position (Flight School)
- Hudson River VFR Corridor
- LPV CDI sensitivity
- Minimum Equipment for PP Practical Test
- Confused about relative magnetic bearing
- Do I need to be a BGI to start a website?
- IPC in an AATD
- Instructor flying hour is countable or not for commercial fleet ?
- Landing in gusty conditions/high winds
- Cessna Caravan Instructor
- Procedure Turn
- why are some aircraft not allowed to perform forward slips with flaps
- How does a headwind steepen the approach angle for landing?
- Lost Comms IFR clearance limit
- JEPPESEN Charts Symbols and Defintion
- Density altitude takeoff procedure
- KSMO-KHND
- At What Point Does Vy Overtake Vx in Altitude Gained?
- Single Engine Land requirements
- ATC instructions! Which instruction is the first ?
- Type Rating
- R44 Heli, SFAR, Who is the PIC during the IFR Add On Rating Checkride
- Advantages of having an MEL
- How are airworthiness and registration certificates initially issued?
- Piper Arrow Airspeed Indicator - CAS or IAS?
- Earning my commercial without owning a complex airplane
- Flight review required before logging PIC for added cat/class training?
- VFR night equipment requirement
- ATS route
- LOSTCOMM situation encountered during IFR flight
- Identification of radio navigation aids
- VFR Cross Country Checkpoints
- ATP multi engine land. CFI CFII MEI teach instrument in single ?
- ILS Approach Procedure Turn
- Initial Turn at or above 400ft under IFR
- IFR Departure
- Avidyne Avionics
- Airport Diagram on ILS approach plate
- Logging Point To Point (P2P) Cross-Country Time
- Cleared visual approach, when to switch to tower frequency
- ATP CTP and Type Rating
- Aircraft maintenance academy/school
September 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Are There Dual Vacuum Pumps in C172S?
- 40:1
- Use of Autopilot During PPL Training
- Switching from Part 141 to 61 for PPL
- While performing the instrument cross checks...
- Fly Heading vs Turn to Heading Cleared to Waypoint
- Long Solo XC Nerves
- Private to commercial rating
- Non-Current Instrument Pilot flying in IMC but not acting as PIC
- As an AGI can I endorse myself for a Commercial Pilot Knowledge Test?
- RW / powered lift guy trying to add a fixed wing Inst add on.
- Wind direction and speed at different altitudes, day/night.
- "Standard atmosphere at sea level"
- IAS vs. CAS Stall Speeds
- Review flight for FAA CPL lisence!
- Which airspeed changes with weight?
- C172 Wing tip Strike - Bank Angle?
- Commercial RW to add Fixed wing addon.
- Multi-engine - Biennial flight review
- Commercial / Instrument Helicopter to Private ASEL
- Forgot to log hours in logbook
- Starting Instrument rating training without medical
- Holding procedures and tasks
- UAS Applicant - Sign off
- instrument proficiency check
- Lower Pressure, Lower Altitude
- accidently foot on the brakes while trying to take off....
- Tower Operations
- Does military aircrew physical count as third class certification?
- Alternatior vs Battery Voltage
- Another XC question
- Flight Training Question
- Discouraged during commercial training.
- PPL privilege for incidental flights
- Fixed Winged add-on + CFI (Combined Course)
- AWOS, ASOS, ATIS confusion
- Difference between DP, SID, and ODP
- Can I add Cessna Caravan graduation to my pilot certificate ?
October 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Formula for UNOS Magnetic Compass Error
- Exams Before Training
- How airplane still flies with air at altitude pressing down on it
- GPS holding with 4nm leg - ENTRY
- Unable to comply with climb instructions on MAP
- Airways
- PPL Average Flight Time
- Approaches
- Private written expiration
- Retacting Flaps On Short FInal
- GPS Approach.
- Help me understand this ILS
- 'Non-WAAS’ GPS units with vertical guidance for single engine and light twin airplanes
- Are Published IFR Distances Actual or DME?
- Training aids
- ACS Study Guide
- LNAV/VNAV and LPV Approaches
- CFI - Airplane add on - Currently CFI - Sport Airplane (subpart K)
- Procedures at class C airport when tower and approach are unavailable
- How magnetos work?
- For Use Time Outside of Valid Time for Winds Aloft
- Aviation jargon
- G1000 when intercepting and tracking with GPS.
- Minimum crossing altitude
- Confused of when the instrument rating is required
- Unusual starting point for procedure turn. Follow up
- Unusual starting point for procedure turn
- Adding a Category & Class to Instructor Ticket
- GPS Garmin GTN 650
- Solo - XC Solo
- Question on priming the engine
- How Gusts Work
- Which parts of a filed flight plan are invisible to ATC?
- VGSI and descent angles not coincident
- What CFIs log for each flight lesson THEY do?
- Single Engine Commercial Addon Aircraft
- Multi-engine – Biennial flight review
- Lazy 8 and altitude gain /loss
- training outside usa
- I don't have 66HIT for a while , can I fly IFR procedure on VFR WX condition ?
- Allowed resources for PPL checkride
- Practice weather briefings
- Pireps - new format
- Inop components
- Commercial Cert: 300nm XC -- can it be done over multiple days?
- Scared of power on stalls and a progress check coming up - ideas for overcoming fear?
- Holding
- Importance of coordinated straight and level flight
- Transponder "Within 10 miles of certain designated airports"
- Commercial flying for older people - what are the opportunities
- Back course localizer approaches
- Commercial SEL add-on
- Can a Multi-Engine only ATP pilot fly an LSA with only an Instructor Endorsement, or must they take an LSA checkride with the FAA?
- Purpose of a standard rate turn
- Commercial Rating: Night XC Flight -- can I stop and have dinner and then return?
- Exiting and re-entering Class B airspace
- Question about NACO Approach Chart Profile View
- What's this route? Cleared via CID VOR 001 001 Direct
- Going missed at destination airport on IFR lost comm
November 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- How to brake
- FAA regulations
- ATP Crosscountry 50-nm distance requirment
- After going through AIM1-2-3 and AC90-108 on monitoring NAVAID.
- Inoperative Components Table
- Why do best glide speed and best angle of climb speed differ?
- Class D airspace lateral limit/radius
- Enroute domestic areas
- LPV, LP, LVAV/VNAV CDI sensitivities
- Helicopter ATP cross country time
- Monitoring the type of navigation you will use on final.
- Load Factor
- Reporting point on SID & Radar fixes
- Friend Rents a FBO Plane then Uses Me As CFI....Can I log?
- YKM gromo four departure Tampo transition
- CFII additional rating minimum Hours
- Can I log hours as a second pilot without aircraft endorsement?
- Portland Troutdale Textual Departure - Why is the departure altitude from BTG VOR much lower
- Non-radar procedures for RNAV/Conventional SIDS
- Why are there MOCA on segments farther than 22 nm from VOR?
- C of G effects on Aircraft performance
- When flying RNAV approach
- ATIS Information Regarding Cloud Height
- Does a CFI/I check ride count as an IPC?
- Does Multi-engine Commercial include Single Engine Commercial
- Upgrading from Sport Pilot to Private, do I need a Student Certificate again?
- Using area forecast product when flying into uncontrolled airport.
- Unmonitored ILS at uncontrolled airport.
- Low altitude auto's
- controls
- Kbkv localiser only
- Is a practical test considered to be flight training?
- Flying ILS approach airport.
- Aerodynamics on Slowflight.
- Localiser only KBKV 09
- 10 Hours
- SID Portland One Lost Comms Procedure
- Failed Checkride for Emergency Landing
- Flight Load Factors for Flaps Full.
- ASEL CPL Addon
- Minimum Reception Altitude
- RNAV directing routing.
- FAA flight plan.
- Frequent issues trainee pilots face?
- VFR Flight Planning
- When reaching critical AOA,
- IFR Flight Planning: Notams
- Interpretation needed whether this is legal flying for compensation
- Spin aerodynamics
- MOCA on RNAV SID/ STAR chart
December 2016 ( View complete archive page )
- Is MM necessary equipment for ILS CAT I operation?
- Why did FAR121.191 require a distance between the fix and critical obstruction?
- did i mess up?
- Transition options from C172
- 250nm Cross country requirement for instrument rating
- Class B VFR Lost Comms
- Icing Risk Management
- Jet wing placement
- Youth Headsets
- NOTAMed ILS.
- FAF for ILS at KPIE
- FAA WINGS flight activities requirements?
- Why is it that when using GPS for DME, they put an I in front of the localizer identifier?
- How do I interact with ATC when practicing approaches for maintenance of currency?
- If a helicopter is hovering and there there is no wind, is the angle of attack the same degree as the pitch angle?
- Air operation officer
- to calculate magnetic heading
- CFI
- ALSF-I, II
- Altimeter error
- NIght time for Commercial 10 Landings Requirement
January 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Class E Airspace.
- IFR Departure Mins.
- Adding flaps in a turn?
- Request a special VFR clearance by student...
- Comm ASEL add-on
- Minimums in CAT II & III chart
- Feeder route
- CTAF
- Basics of Instrument flying
- Illegal to start final descent after MAP?
- RNAV Non-Compulsory Position Reporting Points
- runway analysis chart interpolation
- Direct navigation and OROCA
- Being cleared for the approach on ILS
- RVR VS. RVV
- VCOA
- Takeoff minimums for part 91
- Best Syllabus for CFIs
- Written question (Use of GPS for DME or ADF at an alternate)
- Pre-Solo written test prep.
- Can a PPL holder do some IFR training without an instructor?
- Student Pilot Flight Training Interface.
- CFI Add-on ratings knowledge test
- Solo Weather Minimums
- Aviation battery amp hours
- medical cert and 91 flying
- Criteria for straight in approach.
- IFR directional indicator (DG)
- Larger Aircraft Prist
- Can you fly IFR w/o Mode C?
- Complex/Spin training required for CFI- Initial?
- Clarifications for VOR36 approach into KPIE
- Changing Filed Alternate after filling
- "A NA(Alternatue Minimums Not Authorized)" symbol and WAAS
- Why MAP and the starting point of the segmented line do not coincide?
- Why RNP approaches use Baro VNAV?
- MAP for LOC approach.
- 709 ride fulfilling 61,56 (d)
- Question about KILT ILS or LOC RWY 1 Chart
- Why there's only IAF without FAF on some NPA charts?
- VDP and MAP. Where MA decision should be made?
- Substituting GPS for localizer DME distances
- Dual rating Instrument proficiency
- Minimum "check ride prep" time for CFII
- VFR Flight Following
- Clarifications on unusual approach plate Notes and layouts.
- Clarifications on Takeoff Minimums, Obstacle Departure Procedures
- IFR training without a CFII
- Low Altitude IFR Enroute Chart, what is difference between green and blue airports?
- PPL Cross country
- New CFI looking for tool for clients to see availabily and schedule time?
- RNAV and RNP
- Carb. Heat On or Off
- FAA licence
- DME behavior near VOR
- Interpreting Freezing Level Chart
- LOC/DME RWY 9 Houston-Southwest Airport (KAXH)
- KABQ Feeder Route Options?
- R-ATP Part 61 transfer to 141
- How to go about Part 61 Instrument Students
- VOR portion unusable
- Why don't we need to wipe the oil dipstick?
- Approach Chart Confusion
- Log book endorsements for military pilots
February 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Plane for sale
- UAS certification
- Cross Country time instrument training
- Pilot Controlled Airport
- Crediting Sim Time Towards 250 Hours Required For Commercial
- Angle of bank and stall speed
- Why stabilator is used in small airplanes
- Transitioning Class B from Underlying Class D
- Medical Certificate Question
- Exiting Runway at Towered Airport
- Initial CFI Checkride In Louisiana
- Underlined taxiways in airport diagram
- Do you need math to be a pilot
- IFR questions
- interpreting EGT/CHT
- ammeter/loadmeter runup check
- primer not locked in
- Picking VFR alternate
- Flight following with multiple destinations
- Setting up the perfect side slip
- Renewing a CFI
- Sight seeing in Brave airspace
- IFR Departure Mins.
- Requirements to start a US citizen under Part 61 for a CFI
- Cone of Confusion for LOC
- VGSI not coincident with GP
- BFR
- Constant speed propeller - Engine failure
- Kennedy One Departure
- Is there any dissymetry of lift in the forward flight of the helicopter after applying the cyclic control?
- Initial Climbout Area(ICA) - From old post.
- Student Pilot License
- ILS CAT I with Autopilot, RVR reduced to 1800 feet
- Is this a chart error?
- Axes of Stabillity
- Additional Control Area Limit
- Arlington Two Departure
- IAF for intermediate approach segment?
- what is the gravity level above the sea ?
- Grey shaded area in the profile view
- Cancel IFR and forced to go missed
- for Instrument currency / Passenger currency outdated. Can I bring Safety pilot?
- Logging PIC
- Are winds on ATIS True or Magnetic
March 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Total time for Simulators
- Procedure turn distance determination by FAA
- Beaufort 1 MOA.
- path to becoming a commercial helicopter pilot
- logbooks - instrument approaches
- Combining 141 and 61 training
- Notice of Disapproval
- ME ATP wants to fly SE Airplane... what's the quickest path?
- CFI Renewal questions
- Definition of IFR Flight Plan Estimate Time Enroute
- potentially dumb hypothetical question about cloud/fog formation
- Taking off in freezing rain? Legal?
- Cessna 172 RG
- Number of GPSes for downgrade to occur during GPS approach
- "....Within the 2 calendar months preceding the month of the flight, ..."
- ILS minimums help | Checkride tomorrow need help
- Top of Climb VFR
- Scenario Based Training HELP!
- Identification of lowest take of speed Pa31
- Log Total time on a high performance aircraft
- Studying for Instrument checkride.
- Not logged IR more than 2 years, going for conversion to EASA
- Taxi clearance run-up instructions?
- Do I need an endorsement to sit for FAA private pilot written exam,
- Why does induced drag increase in a spin entry?
- Lead Radials depicted on ILS
- Instrument rating maintaining currency
- Transponder Altitude Hold Mode
- What is the best way to go about getting my instrument rating???
- panic
- Review after knowledge test
- Talking in Class C and B Airspace
- Magnetic compass compensating weight.
- SIMCOM Orlando initial question
- How do you use the fuel stick
- NON RVSM AIRCRAFT IN RVSM
- Flight Bag for 2 headsets, ipad mini, handheld, and miscellaneous small stuff?
- TSO vs non TSO Altimeter
- Can I complete my commercial check ride with a recent DUI?
- CPL oral discontinuation
- What does CFDRT and CFDRW mean on LOC Approach plate
- flight permit required to overfly 100hr inspection?
April 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- SID minimum climbing rates
- Commercial XC: Solo or Dual?
- Upon request of the Administrator
- why idle/standby at 1000 rpm?
- Fronts and stability
- Glide Ratio
- BFR
- anti icing, deicing equipment on board aircraft.
- Loggable hours question
- Never received noticed of disap
- Do I Have to ask for a Short Approach?
- Non Standard Class G - Vanished in CONUS!!! Why?
- Part 141 CPL transfer credits
- Helicopter torque
- Empty Weight Calculation with full fuel
- Pilot Certification
- Looking for a dedicated CFI to fast track my training. HELP?!
- Should I get an ADS-B Receiver
- EFAS, FSS, AFSS
- ILS7 @ KORL
- Commercial Rating
- Does CFI apply to all rattings
- Why is there a nose-up change in moment after leaving ground effect?
- Why is the throttle open 1/4inch when start up engine C172
- Nav log
- Visual Descent Point & descent rate more than -1000fpm
- Questions from my previous post #2
- COMM SE add on to COMM ME
- Logging night training time
- Gps stand alone approach for alternate.
- 141 Commercial Training in the right seat
- A vexing CG question
- How to find a CFI in my area
- Forced landings PPL student
- FAA 91.205 (b)
- CFI reinstatement - Endorsements needed after failure
- ICAO ATP to FAA ATP.
- PPL air exerise with most potential risk for flight instructors??
- Safety Pilot with Canadian license?
- Questions from my previous post
- ICAO ANNEX 10
- Questions on ILS approach.
- Can i sign my own logbook if im a rated pilot for solo pic time
- Is there anything wrong with rotating 5-10kts above Vr? (C172)
- PPL or LAPL in the EU vs US (EU national, Native English speaker)
- What does a _____ mile base mean?
May 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- FTD endorsement by CFI (single-I): "authorized instructor"?
- lost logbook
- Depiction of waypoints on a LPV Approach by Jeppesen
- Learning to land a CJ in a Simulator
- Filing a VFR flight plan from DC SFRA
- CFII checkride
- ATP Rating Single Engine
- Approaches with no landing distance available.
- Commercial Helo to Glider
- clearance limit
- what is typhoon?
- Can I, a PPL Instrument Student, log PIC when in IMC and my CFII is sitting next to me?
- Safety pilot logging time
- Online/software-based ground school for instrument rating?
- Helicopter ATP - steep turns
- LNAV MDA not authorized - NOTAM
- IFR recency requirements
- Suggestions for flight planning
- Pilot Certificate Military
- Do my hours count towards part 141 commercial?
- Low Fuel v.s. Emergency Fuel
- MEI Question
- Another AC 90-108 Question
- Flying the Chicago Shoreline
- Before radar contact
- DP w/o RNAV
- Must PPL solo cross country time exclude a passenger?
- When flying a Straight in Approach is OKAY
- R-ATP question from RW Military pilot
- Exceptions in Basic VFR Weather Minimums
- IFR flight plan - convert winds aloft true to magnetic
- Multi-Engine (random question)
- Required equipment to fly RNAV (GPS) approach
- static vents on the fuselage
- Age old question of landing a 172. Should it be a full stall?
- How to get distance to LOC with a Garmin430
- Regarding tire wear taxi speed
June 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Is it okay to descend to MIAs once established on the course without clearance?
- Opinions on accelerated instrument training?
- Can i start accumulating instrument time before i have my PPL?
- ATPL Machmeter
- Cloud clearances take-off and landing
- V2, 35 feet above DER and then 200f/m climb rate?
- Clearway and stopway. Where does DER start?
- DH and DA in ILS CAT II and III App
- Glide slope intercept altitude
- Relationship between Vref and Headwind component
- How do cruise speeds change with altitude (standard piston prop)
- Who would you want to see at an aviation networking luncheon?
- Back Course Localizer
- VOR range vs DME range
- Variable prop setting
- Steep Spiral
- Solo flight (First 90-Day period)
- Test Expiration Date
- If I join AME courses, then which Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Colleges in Delhi will be best ?
- Questions on Private VS Common carriage
- Dual received logging error
- Under 14 CFR 61.129 Section 4 ii - I need 5 hours in night VFR conditions with 10 takeoffs and 10 landings at an airport with an operating control tower.
- Flight Plan
- Seattle area glider inspection
- Cross Country & Towered Airport requirements for student PPL
- Missed Approach Point
- Time building partner
- Effectiveness of control coloumn
- Effectiveness of control column
- Discontinuance
- ATP multi to ppl sel
- Engine startup request
- ATPL
- Can MEI only instructor teach part 61 MEI add on course?
- Lateral Accuracy of Localizer
July 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Magnetic Compass Dip Erros
- E-LSA Registration
- To ident, or not ident.... that is the question!
- Robinson inspection schedule
- Defense Area (Not ADIZ)
- Commercial "Supervised" night solo
- Cleared Direct to VOR and then Cleared Approach (ARC), Where to Join?
- Altitude for an arc when given altitude below IAF
- Departure Procedure: Radial Inbound or Outbound if not specified?
- Fly customers without requiring part 135
- High Performance Endorsement
- How to best handle CFI tacking on ground instruction to total time.
- Cruise speed vs. stall speed
- Why is the pitot heat rocker switch cover on C172S green?
- Best Plane to start flying in?
- Logging simulator time for the R-ATP
- Transitioning From Right to Left Seat
- Should I switch Flight Schools
- Ultralight for CPL and ATPL requirements (Canada and/or USA)
- True Altitude vs Indicated Altitude
- Lost (misplaced) pilot license/airmen certificate
- Cirlce to land
- discontinuance notice
- Type Rating count as Flight Review?
- mag check on O-360A
- Cross Country Confusion!
- (Commercial pilot, Air Force background, ATP AMEL) what's easiest way to get ASEL rating?
- submitting for my IGI
- Basic Med
- Flight Watch vs. Flight Service
- OBS setting ILS Localizer
- Pilot Privileges and carriages
August 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Multi Engine Commercial
- Definition of complex: what qualifies?
- Mountain Flying - Limit to 90% of Max Gross Weight?
- becoming a flight instructor
- Twin engine flight instructor
- Airplane Documents
- Logging instrument time and cross country
- Hot Start
- Limited Center Thrust?
- Preventative Maintenance
- Interpolation
- Max Continuous Power?
- How can Chinese pilots flying hours be credited in US or other countries?
- HV DIAGRAM - 2 DIFFERENT DASHED AREA
- ADs
- 91.207 ELT requirement exceptions re: training flights
- Questions on Journey to Pilot (from Flight School Costs to Flight Instructor Taxes to Regional Lifestyle to Reaching aMajor Airline)
- ATC Clearance
- Recency of experience in floatplanes
- Oil Pressure during start and warm-up?
- Cylinder Head Temperature
- Precone Angle
- FAR 91.11
- Helicopter Transport Part 91 vs 135
- ILS Y RW27 - The procedure turn from YK LOM, Remain within 10 nm
- WAAS vs RAIM (Cont'd)
- Rough air
- Stalling
- Air Traffic Services ICAO vs. Federal Aviation Regulations
- Estimating PIC with known Total Hours?
- ICAO PPL to FAA PPL ME license.
- Coarse pitch stop
- RAIM vs WAAS
- Alternator Recovery
- HOGE
- Required CFI documents?
- P factor and airspeed
- Difference between Power and Thrust (Fixed Pitch Prop, Piston)
- International Flight from Texas to Canada
- Private Pilot Multi Experience Reqs (need help for checkride tomorrow)
- "DME required" on plate but not actually used?
- Multi Engine Additional Class in Jet
- 3hours training with CFI
- HOLDING
- Logging PIC time
- AHRS - Directional Gyro Mode
- Renewing an expired flight instructor certificate
- Knowledge Test
- "ATC climb of 310' per NM to 4000ft" in takeoff minimums?
- Ammeter Hold Load
- 91.205 day and night VFR
- Helicopter to Airplane IR add on
September 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Weight and balance says I'm in utility category
- Flight engineer time;atp
- ‘Planned true airspeed’ and ‘actual true airspeed’
- What temperature to use when calculating TFD to climb
- What airspace is this?
- Do airlines have access to IACRA
- Limbach L1700 ingnition
- Can I take my CFI Practical Test in an Experimental RV6A?
- Progressive vs Annual/100 inspection
- Class D Arrival IFR
- Sample Logbook Entry for PIC/Safety Pilot
- Instrument re-test timeframe?
- Can pic time from multi private substitute for solo or pdpic time for multi commercial certificate?
- Supervised Pilot in Command in Part 61
- No solo, no pdpic, lots of pic for multi commercial applicants?
- ELT 90 days removed for repair
- Navigation Method
- Minimum Flaps Retraction Altitude [VFR]
- Recreational Pilot x-country endorsement
- student pilot owned airplane
- CFI
- SoCal TEC route system
- Endorsement 61.31 (d)(2)
- GPS Direct w/o WAAS
- CPL Experience Requirements
- wing to plane scale
- ATC Phraseology
- Instructors log cross country time
- Locating aircraft specifications required by approach plate.
- Skydiving Supplemental Oxygen Regs
- Can you legally load an ILS approach into the GPS to fly a LOC approach (DME readout only)?
- Maximum RunwayTake-off Weight (MRTW)
- Basic Medical Checklist
- Stall recover during Vmc Demo?
October 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Process for Requesting Climb to VFR on Top
- Availability of work to foreign pilots?
- What is the timeframe to cancel a check ride before receiving a cancellation fee
- 91.411 check required after static leak fix?
- Flight to avoid lateral boundaries of surface area class E
- Takeoffs and Landings with quartering Tailwind....
- Cross Country planning
- Simulator Usage for Commercial Single Engine Certificate
- Magnetic Compass Correction Card
- Recommended IFR procedure training apps?
- How to apply magnetic variation over a long distance
- what must i do as a cfi with a me to be able to instruct multi engine?
- tail drager endorsement
- ILS DA vs DH?
- 2nd XC with my PPL - DC to Chicago (KGAI -> KPWK)
- about msa
- Can I substitute GPS for a VOR holding fix on an ILS missed approach?
- climbing
- IFR Currency?
- stalling
- CFII in multiengine ATD without MEI?
- props
- level flight
- Why does bank angle alone change load factor ? What about airspeed ?
- How does CAS, IAS, TAS stall speed changes?
- Can I log PIC time: FAR 61.51
- Fixed pitch Cruise vs Climb prop
- Night VFR for Commercial Pilot
- ATP XC definition and scenario questions
- Do motorglider flights count towards commercial certificate minimums?
- Commercial single add-on
November 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Flight training in highschool
- Cleared into someone else's airspace?
- Winds aloft
- Towered Airport IFR to VFR
- Icing Checklist(Alternate Static Air)
- Training requirements
- Airline Hiring Process
- Runway Elevation
- Constant load factor, and a change in gross weight, What happens ?
- SID and ODP
- Diverse Vector Area
- Three landings as PIC
- Circling approach
- False GlideSlope
- Top 10 G1000 tasks to practice?
- Ils approach height
- Compass Turning Error
- Waas and Raim!!
- Are multiple solo flights common?
- Can I solo without 61.87(n) endorsement?
- Can an ATP give a high performance sign off?
- Tailwheel endorsement to teach CFII?
- Alternate
- Maneuvering Speed
- Winter Hard IFR
December 2017 ( View complete archive page )
- Do the part 141 Commercial solo cross countries have to be conducted under VFR?
- Pitot Tube - Static Holes
- XC In Icing Conditions
- Finding inoperative equipment that of which is not listed on the MEL
- Non Standard T/O and Alternate minimums?(Jepp)
- What is Juniper Visual approach?
- Jeppesen Approach Chart expiration date?
- Alternate minimums
- GPS Vectors to Final
- KEWB ILS 5 approach question
- Inbound/outbound
- Definition of the 91.175 Normal Rate of Descent
- Requirements to train Sport CFI
- Straight line distance for CPL night xc
- Radar Service
- WAAS and 61.65 three approaches
- Does high altitude operations effect the VSI/FPM ?
January 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Validating military flight time
- Military airports
- 250 nm instrument cross country
- Jeppesen 10-9/10-9A
- Vor approach with Gps
- Aviation career advice
- FSDO CFI Performance Analysis
- IFR Lost comms approach altitude
- Ways to acquire flying hours for commercial flying
- Procedure Turn.
- Loading LOC/GPS Approaches Into Garmin 430.
- Logging instument approach
- How do you solo a commercial/instrument helicopter pilot in an airplane?
- Forward slip to landing
- taildragger procedures
February 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- 28 day versus 56 day IFR chart cycles
- How to do a circling approach to a runway where the only authorized direction is against the normal traffic pattern direction
- Student pilot certificate
- Multiple ratings
- Mixture idle/cutoff effect on electric boost pump and Hi/lo electric boost pump
- high performance endorsement
- Switching from Part 141 to Part 61 for Multi add on after CPL
- Student Pilot flying solo to another airport for instruction
- After reaching clearance limit via IFR flight plan, easiest way to reverse route through Bravo without landing and filing again?
- Two calendar months for a practical exam: 61.39(g) clarification
- Non-precision approaches and approach lights
- Use LNAV/VNAV minimum if LPV minimum is higher?
- What does this symbol mean?
- Weather Depiction symbology help
- CFI/II Add-on Combined Practical
- Recall the effects of a couple on the equilibrium of a aeroplane?
- Resuming currency while flying under foreign license
- Critical engine and P-factor
- Need to retake the written test
- Preceding single digit runway number with "zero"
- Multi commercial first or single commercial first?
- Medical Expired
- Runway "S" Designation
- Camping and Parking Overnight
- ATP Written
March 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Why doesn't the governor correct for RPM drop during a magneto check?
- ASEL CFI Add-On from Helicopter CFI
- Electronic copy of Medical Certificate
- Flight instructor hours per month
- Instrument currency based on EASA training.
- Departing into IMC from unsurveyed airport
- Certified Flight Instructor 61 vs Flight Instructor Authorization 135
- Fly this approach without DME?
- VISA requierements
- IPC using a FlyThisSim
- ATP-CTP
- How to get back in to flight instruction
- 61.41 (Hours credit) Commercial AMEL path
- Q-route Gulf of Mexico
- New Heli Student Paperwork (R22)
- 1980 C152 POH (AIM) PDF Download
- I had a CFI in 1993 but since has expired wanted to go get cfii this would renew my cfi but what written test do I need
- On a VOR approach where the VOR and MAP are co-located (VOR RWY 24 at KTEB for example), if you experience full scale CDI deflection (because you are so close to the VOR) before station passage (to/from flag), is that a mandatory reason to immediately execute the missed approach?
- Commercial aeronautical experience: 129(b)(4)(i) & (ii)
- complex aircraft
- ATP Hours
- GPS approach with a expired database
April 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Power output
- Sense of direction and recognizing where the wind is all the time
- Complex Airplane No Longer Required for Commercial of CFI Practical Test
- VFR Flight Following Crossing into Canada
- Legally Logging SIC time in a single pilot airplane??
- First X-Country Solo - Can an Attitude Indicator give such a false reading?
- Request Information About Wind Shear, PIREP?
- E6B TAS above 260 kt - wind triangle - WCA etc.
- VFR Direct under class C?
- Nerves/Confidence
- Rotary transition
- ASOS dissemination to ATC
- CFI Insurance
- what is TCS ?
- Aircraft rental for student instruction
- Medical
- I am looking for a CFI to help get me my CFI
- Can I go to exam?
- Instructing a pre solo student
- VOCA Departure Procedure
- Flight Training
- Enroute chart errors or something I don't understand?
- Getting Current after several years
- Keeping track
May 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- GPS legal substitute for ADF
- Pirvate pilot glider to Helicopter add on written requirements
- Vectors On Course
- Logging PIC time in single pilot aircraft requiring a type rating
- Multi-engine rating
- Helicopter commercial add on cross country requirements
- Training an international student with an F1 as a private instructor.
- Glideslope INOP after FAF
- Instrument Rating Currency Restablished after earning CFI certification?
- V speed
- Outdated navigation
- Can a 162 skycatcher do hood time ?
- Can instrument student log hood time as PIC provided flying with a qualified safety pilot
- DME or RADAR REQUIRED - can GPS substitute? Where is this stated?
- IFR time help..
- Complex endorsement in a multi-engine aircraft
- High Performance & Complex endorsements
- Is the Private Pilot Multi Engine necessary?
- Need help for this question about staying in the protected airspace
- Contact info for this site?
- Part 23 for Pilots
- IMC Lost Comms- What altitude do you fly??
- How do you check the C172 fuel tank cap vent
- Lost a student logbook, got info from instructors, how do I fill the new space out
- Filled up logbook, Whats next?
- List of Back Course Approaches?
June 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- FCC Radio License
- ASEL rating
- CFI Endorsements Questions
- Using 10 hours in multi to satisfy commercial single requirement
- Glide range increase with incresed mass and a headwind
- Cracks/holes in aircraft surface: Airworthiness
- Out of country
- what's mean?
- What is the difference between TCH and RDH ?
- Is the instrument flight available for Cessna 152?
- Flat tire awareness
- Weight and balance practice problems
- Help with weather briefing
- Continuing on an airway outside of VOR range
- Flying over the same spot for years on end.
- Is it E at the surface OR E at 700' AGL??
- Is it a legal flight lesson or an illegal charter flight?
- Filing VFR on top for a local flight.
- 250 MN IFR Cross Country
- Use of STARs with Garmin 430
July 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- RNAV waypoints not visiable on IFR low chart
- Instrument practical training material / book
- 135 IFR take-off minimums for a twin engine aircraft
- VFR through a ceiling
- "DME Required" in Plan View of 1 approach chart, but not in another similar approach chart
- KFNL VOR-A, Why isn't it VOR/DME-A?
- Please help me with my landings
- SFAR 73 flight review.
- Missed procedure below MDA/DA/DH
- How do you file a Textual DP?
- G1000 tasks to do a missed GPS approach
- Freezing Rain
- C172P Wings on fire checklist
- Max Continuous thrust
- Wait, Don't I still climb 400ft? ..DER Departure end of runway. Fort Collins. CO
- NDB Permanently Out??
- KCCR LDA RWY 19R Required Equipment
- Minimum Crossing Altitude
- Private pilot requirements - part 61
- Can I change my mind and circle to land?
August 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- no medical - instruct?
- Inadvertent IFR
- Ground school teaching materials for CFIs
- How is a nautical mile defined?
- Release clearance at uncontrolled filed
- Fees for Undocumented Ground Time
- Un-timed LOC approach
- Updated 61.51 and IFR currency logging requirements
- About Written Endorsements
- Do i need to retake my FOI
- green dot
- Solo endorsement for night flight restricted cert
- Flying through a turbulent/nimbus cloud
- Using a AATD for commercial complex time
- independent CFI requirements
- Obtaining Private Glider Pilot Certificate - Currently Sport Pilot
- Class C airspace when the tower is closed
- Add single engine land to commercial multi-engine land instrument license
- Can someone else find out if I hold a pilot's certificate or not?
- Instrument time building
- Carb Heat
- KCRQ ILS or LOC RWY 24
- Papi Light [ Urgent ]
- 6 people plus lap baby legal?
- Is it ok to take off with a hot magneto
- Help - I Need Confidence in the Clouds!
- IFR and commercial SIM time
September 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- Spark plug fouling
- FAA TO EASA?
- Required Endorsements for Commercial Single add on
- Now THINK Boys, THINK!
- Rusty pilot--BasicMed question
- Cross Country for Instrument Rating
- Foreign License Validation: FAA Medical needed?
- Foreign Pilot: Training & Endorsement without License Validation and Medical?
- 121 AQP
- Maintenance Check in Class D airport in IFR - Helicopter
- LPV degraded during final approach segment
- Circling, can you cross other runways?
- staff pilot
- Over Water IAP
- 28v battery and 14 v alternator
- Best way to reconcile a written
- IFR Currency
- CFII 61.39 Practical Test Endorsement Expiration
- Commercial Pilot Checkride Aircraft
- Airworthiness Question
- Cessna 172SP ROC and GPH during climb
- weather & performance
- Can an AGI teach RVSM, RNP, CRM etc
- Pilot seeking drone certificate
- CFI Initial practical test endorsements - still confused
- INOP lights
- Do I need a commercial rating?
- VOR
- Desire to be a CFI
October 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- INOP Flaps and FAA Regulations - C172
- ILS Requirements
- Teaching in an LSA
- Flight Following and Transiting Class B/C: Does It Suffice For Or Aid In Contact/Clearance Requirement?
- Why position reports include time
- Initial Turboprop Training
- Logging actual with rated safety pilot.
- SID w/o Transition
- Student Pilot Passed Private Pilot Knowledge Test Do they have to take Glider Knowledge Test
- Reimbursement for flight
- Like class B, do you need class C clearance if on flight following?
- IFR currency
- What is the source for the “rule” forbidding configuration changes below 200ft AGL?
- Where is your. " Contact us " link ? omg.... help
- VFR pilot flying into the sun... How ?
- Untowered “line up and wait”
- Is the student solo endorsement a "package deal" with that specific instructor?
- Commercial Pilot Training
- Questions/concerns about using technology in the cockpit
- FAR 61.129
November 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- IFR Panel Requirments
- Ground roll take off calculations
- CFI Initial Checkride Oral
- Climb burn fuel
- Expired CFI-H, not interesting in instructing helicopters anymore.
- CFI Initial Checkride TIPS
- Far Aim
- Epilepsy
- Using Multi Engine time as complex requirement for single commercial
- private pilot multi engine rating question
- CfI with a recent dui
- Recurrent Training for Part 135 Instructors and Check Airmen
- Turning from a Victor airway onto another with no intersection symbol
- How do I calculate density altitude using these listed conditions?
- Question About § 61.101 Recreational pilot privileges and limitations - Do Endorsements need to be Repeated ?
- Sport & Recreational Licensed Pilots - Eligible for PIC Credit for Dual Instruction towards PPL Certificate?
- Looking for Mock PPL Oral Exam Videos YouTube, etc - Suggestions ?
- Another question regarding Instrument Currency - 61.57
- Faulty airplane model... Is the Lion Air Crash a Boeing Problem?
- IFR Departure, only takeoff minimums
- Victor Airway Altitude in Parenthesis Meaning?
- Commercial License 50 AATD Hrs per 61.129
- ATP question
- GPS in lieu of VOR with Garmin 420 WAAS
- How can I connect to other time builders for sharing flights?
- LVTO
- Gulfstream III
- Portland One Departure, Assigned Heading
- Commercial ME and Private SE?
- Strange Class G airspace
- Spotter/Safety pilot
- TAA and Private Pilot Training
- Letting friends film on a flight
- Substitute Suitable RNAV system for Inop Radar on approach
- 8710 Landings
- rate one turn for airspeeds grater than 200 knots
- ILS RWY 1L at Milwaukee (MKE) – Radials not approved for arrival
- Building Lesson Plans
- Can the 3 hours of XC be done concurrently with instrument training for a PPL?
- Foreign license for Sport Pilot Privileges
December 2018 ( View complete archive page )
- GPS 24 KOKB
- Go-around procedure
- Failed CFI Initial Checkride
- Logging time in an aircraft if you aren't typed in it
- Figuring out x-country time
- Approach Notam NA
- PROCEEDING BEYOND THE IAF
- Medical /Jet
- Asterisk altitude on approach plate
- What is the purpose of Lead Radial depicted not associated DME arc?
- Do altitudes depicted in STARs mean MEA or expected altitudes that may be assigned?
- Specifics of being a Light Sport Instructor
- Student pilot and ATP Passenger
- GA/CFI to Sport Pilot CFI
- Aircraft Performance
- BFR lapse and instrument currency
- NOTAM for IAP has DA's and MDA as NA
- VFR Departure Procedures at Towered Airports
- Can a private pilot carry passengers in a category/class they are not category/class rated for if they have a solo endorsement in that category/class?
- Any Recommendations for Garmin G1000 PC-based training software ?
- CPL in EU and US
- Convert EASA PPL to FAA PPL
- IR CURRENCY BEFORE ATP
- Medical requirements
- Advanced' or 'Faulty' Airplane Model: Is the Lion Air Crash a Boeing Problem?
- no obstacle's penetrating the 152 feet per nm obstacle slope
- Determine Frequencies on Cross Country
- start flying again
- What is an ILS Localizer serving an enroute ATC function?
- tail Wind
January 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Working At Boeing During Flight Training?
- Can I log the flight as the authorized instructor on board? Commercial long cross country
- CFII single engine add on to CFII multi
- Ground instructor before CFI or CFII
- CFII Add on
- Logging PIC and SIC in different portions of the flight?
- Requirements to be a CFI
- 100 nm day/night XC - 61.129 (3) (iii) and (iv) - checking my understanding
- Failed CFI checkride twice
- Combine pactical test
- Starting limitations
- IACRA Credit for Student Passing Checkride who Previously Failed with Another Instructor
- Fuel Pump on Injected vs Carb engines
- Pressure Altitude Without an Altimeter Setting
- Part 61 Private & Instrument, then part 141 Commercial
- Chart Symbol
- ILS Approach - Altitude between Intermediate Fix and the glideslope intersection point
- VFR Flight Following For Multiple Stops/Waypoints/Airports?
- Best airplane for 4 ft 8 inch pilot to learn or buy?
- How can I log simulator time in logbook
- Right of way
- Best airplane to learn to fly or buy for short person
- Requesting RI role in IACRA
- CFI Initial practical test - log as dual given?
- CFI-I required to teach commercial students?
- How are the direction of Victor airways determined on IFR Enroute Chart?
- CFI reinstatement checkride
- What minimum altitude over wildlife refuge?
- Can't update my profile
- Private Pilot Practical Test Endorsement Expiration
- FSDO: picking up Advisory Circular's
- 91.213(d) Definition of Deactivation
- NEXRAD Latency
- CFI Initial next week - wish me luck!
- Procedure for loss of GPS inside FAF/FAWP...i cant navigate to what I cant see.
- IFR Flyjng and 91.21
February 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Fixed wing pilot logging helicopter time
- TDZE
- Flight accidents
- First Flight Lesson for a Student Pilot
- CFI Logbook
- Commercial pilot questions
- 61.109
- FAA Practical Exam Re-Take after Discontinuance and then Disapproval
- G1000 missed approach question
- Logging Simualated Instrument Time in a ATD or FTD
- Private Pilot Checkride Prep
- Flying through an ADIZ
- Blue Zipper lines on Charts
- CLNC or Ground
- How to navigate taxiways of unknown, uncontrolled airports?
- IFR clearance: Radar vectors then as filed
- CAS TAS MN
- CAS TAS MN
- Special Use Airspace
- My favorite question from Instrument checkride
- Power-Off 180 Landing
March 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- what is the scale of kollsman window
- CFII Checkride
- AD’s
- 90 days
- Android based EFB information
- Splitter Cable for audio from headset to gopro
- Commercial flight training hours required
- KTOI (Troy, Alabama) ILS or LOC RWY 7
- Altimeter reporting to ATC
- ILS Y vs. ILS Z
- Overwhelmed CFI Candidate/student
- Using TurboProp for Private/Instrument/Commercial/Time Building?
- ADF/DME for IFR Training?
- LP & LNAV Approaches
- Type rating A320 in PPL
- Stupid mistake - I laminated my AKTR...
- Can I replace my paper logbook with an electronic spreadsheet?
- Why GA airplane does not training LNAV/VNAV even WAAS Equipped?
- Student Pilot ground
- Decision Altitude distance
- 61.129(a)(3)(ii)
- Airspace, When the tower closes
- Instrument currency for CFII
- Overflight of military Class C
- Took 250 hours to get my PPL!!!
- Foreign License Validation - Can the BFR be substituted by a German IR check flight?
April 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Commercial requirements sim time
- Starting Instrument training and not sure where to start
- instruments
- instruments
- Lost physical Logbook - have online backup, legality question
- Missing Approaches
- change over point for feeder routes
- Final Approach ATC communication.
- Expired Medical
- Lost Communications altitudes during a SID with hard altitudes
- Part 91 Daily Flight Limits
- Where is the LNAV MDA MAP for the RNAV (GPS) Y RWY 16R approach into KPAE
- “Winds Aloft” When Cruising Under 3000 Feet
- Senior Thesis Survey
- Hired as a CFI and Red Green Colorblind?
- Rusty Pilot Returns
- Ground Instructor to Flight Instructor
- Best avenue for single engine add, to an (exAF guy/current airline) comm/m-e/instr ATP
- Holding pattern entry: 2 instead of 3
- STARS
- Flight Following
- Engine failure procedure at Takeoff
- Landing Training
- Privacy Violation
- Stuck flaps on takeoff
- ‘Partial panel’ situations in G1000 for IFR Checkride?
- Can I drop off a passenger at another airport as a private pilot?
- ADS-B
May 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Sport Pilot - training in a certificated aircraft
- IFR Readback
- Cross country flight training
- cross wind landing at non-tower airport
- Report 2 mile base
- Procedure for Obstacle alert while on approach at MDA
- Class G at night
- Theoretical Exam Validity
- First Class Medical Question
- How to get recertified private pilot pilot privileges
- "Almost" VFR into IMC and Wind Shear
- Use of yaw bar in low visibility take off
- 91.111(c) operating near other aircraft
- C172S Pricing
- Whoops! I hit a runway light. It’s an official “incident” how screwed am I?
- CFI-Glider to CFI-A?
- X-country while getting multi
- basicmed
- 141 IR night time can be counted to 61 CPL night dual xc?
- Computer Generated TOLD
- Client wants to get his Multi in a Kingair...
- Flying Complex portion of 141 CPL Single on multi-engine complex airplane
June 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Time Logging Complications
- ICAO CPL and Medical Renewal in UK to fly in Canada.
- when we feather propeller, why does manifold pressure gauge rise up?
- FAA Practical Test Endorsement confusion
- Will I have to demonstrate every maneuver in the ppl oral exams?
- How to find a suitable DP or STAR?
- What is favorable altitude for X-C ? (It's Not about regulation, wx...)
- ATC area of responsibility
- Flying Motorglider to Canada - Medical?
- ADX & ATM
- CFI Teaching outside USA ?
- On the Lighter Side.... favorite pen??
- Can I use 3 Instrument hours from PPL towards IR?
- Requires vertical separation for IFR traffic...
- Intercept a GPS Waypoint
- Stabilized approaches
- Airspeed on approach
- DME ARC
July 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Why would you drain a fuel sump, and when
- Class G Airspace
- CFI Airplane
- C172R/S Anti-Collision Lights
- Training under 141 and I want to do my commercial multi check under 61
- Expired CAA CPL/IR to FAA licence?
- §61.129 - CPL Aeronautical experience - which hours count?
- Cessna models 172R vs 172S
- Commercial Pilot Candidate
- can i use a vfr hand held gps for in route navigation?
- What do vortexes have to do with lift?
- Logging Flight Instruction
- Flying Q-routes depicted on Low altitude enroute charts
- Passing of PIC on flight
- CFI logging time flying with instrument student
- Cause of Prop Strike and Training to Prevent
- Unusable fuel in weight and balance computations
- Flight Simulator Training
- Canada expansion
- ATC assigned heading vs course
- tfr's
- v2 definition
- Commercial Pilot Requirements cross country
- viewing a runway diagram..what are the 3 ellipses at the runway end on some diagrams?
- Reinstate my CFI
August 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Aerodrome Information Publication
- Can I take the commercial checkride in a plane without an electrical system?
- Gyroscopic Precession
- How to introduce SRM
- 61.129 - another question
- How is it that I received my Commercial Single/Multi ratings with less than 250 TT??
- "With no flags"
- Delegating radio work
- privileges and limitations
- Can you have multiple Top of Climbs?
- Solo Cross-country initial endorsement
- Commercial Rotor Wing to Commercial Fixed Wing Aeronautical Experience
- Define "Hold" as in a pilots certificate
- Superscript Numbers on Non Standard Alternate Approach Minimums (TPP)
- CFI Checkride - Manual Flight Plan / Log vs Computer-Generated
- The Suspense is killing me! (airworthiness document search)
- Over Center Lock (Can't find definition anywhere)
- AIM Section 3, Par. 3-3-3(a)(b) Class G airspace
- ME add-on training experience minimums: 61.109(b) Vs 61.63 (c)
- Upcoming ICAO Flight Plans
- Alert Areas (MOA's) dimension
- Which book first?
- Abbreviation "MTU" on Sectional
- (Regulations) Owner Oil Change stupid question.
- lean mixture vs rich mixture
- Three place open biplane
- Commercial Experience (61.129) Requirements - with or without instructor?
- CPL Aeronautical Experience
- ForeFlight
- Seeking opinions only - let a student pilot solo at night?
September 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Logbook info
- ATP-CTP or Not
- Cessna172s electrical system
- Exceeding VLO and by how much is too much?
- CFI Checkride: Endorsement and Change of Airplane
- Bumpy flight: slow below the green arc or maneuvering speed?
- ICAO flight plan equipment codes /G vs. /R
- Substitute GPS for out of service VOR enroute and terminal phases
- IFR Clearance at Non Towered Airport Underlying Class C
- Gear position indicator lights
- "Report established on hold" vs "report established on LOC"
- For the Parallel Meaning
- Anxiety when flying solo
- IFR currency expiration after getting CFII
- Restricted ATP Minimums
- Should a CFII log sim instruction in their CFI column?
- DME ARC distance from fix formula
- Example/s of Advanced Circuit/s?
- CFI Oral
- Hours Needed and is Instructing Necessary?
- ILS or LOC RWY 10
October 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Retaking practical test
- Commercial Pilot Long X-C
- Instructor pressure
- Safety Pilot time for ATP cross country time
- IPC - does CFII need to be PIC?
- crosswind component confusion
- Metar
- Transitioning from glass to steam gauges
- CFI Airplane Add On (to CFI Rotorcraft-Helicopter) Practical Test Questions.
- Foreign License verification
- student failed PPL written
- Non IFR pilots practice approaches in VFR conditions
- Sport CFIs and Simulated Hours
- Getting CFII with Expired CFI
- Student Pilot License
- Student pilot solo endorsement for repeated flights between airports within 25nm distance, 61.93(b)(1)
- Airspeed and flaps relation on approach and landing
- TAA with inop equipment
- RPM and Angle of attack in fixed pitched propeller
- Adjoining Class D Airspace Question
November 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- AGI/IGI logging
- Descent on HILPT
- Easa airline pilot to FAA ATP
- helicopter transtion to different type
- Maximum Autopilot Altitude?
- Multi Day Solo with three stops
- Instrument Rating Requirements (61 and 141)
- Airborne IFR clearance question
- Commercial Pilot Step
- Biennial review outside the U.S.
- C172 electrical starter contactor
- Fired from a CFI job
- Two ILS approaches to the same runway with different minimums
- Confirm understanding: feeder route to IAF. Procedure has PT and missed approach hold at the IAF
- C172 Ailerons
- Missing navigation fix in GPS Departure Procedure
- Insurance
- Lapsed Pilot Flooded Out . . .
- Training Management Online
- QNH
- Part 121 FO Line check and 61.56
- Duration of pilot certificates
- Marking "T/15" on sectional
- Coefficient of lift
December 2019 ( View complete archive page )
- Planning for Emergency Landing
- Proving invalid training in court
- P factor. Relative wind in a climb...
- Logbook error for IPC
- Commercial Pilot Exam, Counter clockwise Lows
- Can I Continue Flight Training
- Credited Flight Training
- What is included in the hourly rate of a rental?
- How long is an IFR clearance good for?
- ADS-B TEST FLIGHT
- Glider add-on, no flight review
- self-studying before applying flight school
- Sport-CFI Add On
- Looking for a Freelance CFI with a Cessna 150/152 in Central FL to train me for PPL
- Statute or nautical?
- Commercial Instrument Training Requirements - Past Training
January 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Commercial single airplane - add on - category and class - part 141
- AFSS vs. FSS
- FAA ATP light aircraft flying question
- Combined Private Pilot Instrument Certification
- VFR heading to fly
- Substituting MAP timing with GPS
- Instrument currency in IMC with CFI/CFII
- Emergency Training Pays Off
- Find TAS from IAS with my CX-3?
- flight following vs EFB
- effect of steady state wind on airspeed
- Private pilot flying discovery flights and student pilots
- complex time for commercial rating
- ADS-B
- Airport diagram obstruction
- Less Traditional Planes for Student training for Private Pilot
- Redbird "GIFT"- "Guided Independent Flight Training" Modules for BATD and AATD - Any Good?
- Attitude instrument flying - primary and supportive
- Should the compass deviation card be used?
- Question on Impact of new ACS Standards on Oral Portion of PPL Checkride -
- Can i find a FAA instructor to do IPC in canada ?
- 61.129 (3).(iv) Commercial Pilot License
February 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- CARB HEAT & MAGNETO CHECK ON GRASS
- Filing alternate with GPS only approach
- RAIM vs WAAS again
- Where are all the squawk codes?
- Unknown symbol in TPP
- Commercial study guides
- Who gets to legally deactivate/placard inoperative equipment?
- PICUS XC time towards ATP PIC XC 200 hours requirement
- Documenting proficiency prior to commercial practical test
- Flight School confusion
- Hypothetical student XC loophole?
- Intersections / Airways
- What Altitude provides the best performance in single engine normal asperation aircraft( ie: fuel economy and power)
- What altitude do you consider best for flying VFR XC? (excluding useing radio Nav.)
- Elevator on takeoff roll
- Question For Paul
- FAR 61 15 DUI arrest no conviction no drivers license suspension
- Regulation Question
- Low Level Significant Weather Charts
- Part 141 initial for an MEI
- Heated Pitot
March 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Where do Part 135 pilots go for training?
- Can I count all of my flight hours that I gained from part 61 and 141 towards a part 61 commercial license?
- BAR
- LNAV and LPV minimums
- Commercial Rating & Flying for Hire
- Questions regarding type rating limited to SIC privileges
- Flight Review
- Used Garmin 430W vs. new Garmin 355
- Drag component of the total reaction: Induced, parasite or a mix?
- Starting my life again from zero.
- Corona Virus + Social Distancing: Are you Seeing any Changes in Activity Levels, Instruction, etc at your Flight School ?
- Using Left Rudder on a Descent. Is it Negative P-Factor?
- "MOCA" altitudes on T-Routes (Example: *5000)
- Standard Rate Turn
- Have a questions in Airport Diagram
- Visual approach for C172?
- How can I file ODP in IFR flight plan using Foreflight or phone?
- Foreflight Battery regulation?
- Flight Level below Transition Level
- IACRA Solo Time
- Long Cross Country
- Private pilot checkride - logbook readiness
- Dry lease pilot contract
- Garmin G1000 vs GTN650 Equipped aircraft for Instrument Training; Which is Preferred?
- Can I transition through Class C/D airspace without contacting Tower if I am on VFR Flight Following?
- Written Test Locations
- Mode C vs. Mode S
- Lose RAIM but we have WAAS, can you shoot the GPS approach?
- What qualifies as TAA?
- Alternate Static Preflight Check
April 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Logging Cross Country Time
- logging PIC time
- maximum altitude loss
- Revisions of 23.149 - Vmc certification criteria
- FAA Written test for Private Pilot
- About SID
- Minimum Vectoring Altitude
- Altimeter setting and performance
- Cross Country Time
- G950 NXi LPV vs L/VNAV
- 50ft-Obstacle Clear
- What is SSA? (speed sensor assembly)
- magneto info
- Logging Student solo PIC/XC
- Proper altitude to start enroute
- Cani I have a question?
- will cadet program make my job sure?
- Unrestricted VOR
- Instruction in families aircraft
- How to fly correctly this procedure?
- Social Distancing: Is Student Pilot SIM training with a CFI still possible currently?
- Jeppesen Approach Chart. Runway Elevation in hpa
- Instrument Ratings based on foreigner license
- Why MSA circle is not aligned into Magnetic North?
- MSA: Minimum Safe Altitude or Minimum Sector Altitude?
- In IAP, When to add flaps for C172?
- "I've already passed my written."
- Departure procedure, what’s with all the VORs on the graphical description, what are they for?
- Tax deduction for cfi training
May 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Flight Review: "New things in Aviation" ideas
- CFII Add On tasks
- Garmin G5
- Experimental Avionics (Garmin G5) Use In Certified Aircraft Replacing Optional Equipment
- Can I give a BFR in my airplane?
- GPS or VOR for Instrument training
- IFR CX requirement 250NM
- CFI A
- How are Thunderbirds flyovers coordinated with ATC?
- Jeppesen Vs. FAA charts
- Class C Clearance Continued after Flight Following Cancelled?
- Student PIC while receiving Dual Instruction
- Stupid IACRA question
- Is my CFI LAZY or Normal?
- Airman Certification Standards Commercial Pilot Airplane
- Night vfr operations for commercial operations
- Private Pilots License
- Flying over MOA
- Former Army helicopter pilot wanting to add PPL SEL - requirements?
- Aircraft stability
- Brake and flaps in landing
- IFR FUEL RESERVES
- Does a long XC interrupted by weather still count?
- Multi engine slow flight speed
June 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Climb via SID and Top Altitude
- IFR Departure, “turn heading XYZ”
- Transitioning through Class Charlie
- How long in an IACRA IFR application valid after it has been signed by the reviewing instructor?
- What could cause an engine to “skip” momentarily?
- Saharan Dust
- KFUL VOR-A Question
- Why is pressure higher on a cold day, but pressure decreases with temperature as you climb?
- Is it legal to swap the POH for a plane out for a direct, reprinted copy? It would be the exact same POH, but since the original is falling apart, is it legal to scan and print out a new one with all the same pages and info?
- sport pilot - medical required for solo?
- Problems with landings
- RNAV, PBN, RNP
- Did you used LAAS before?
- Clock in Cockpit for IFR GRABCARD FAR 91.205(d)
- Aircraft IFR certification.
- Best practices for landing straight in?
- X-C Requirements When Adding Multi Commercial to Single Commercial
- VFR cruising altitudes in a cross country flight
- KCFE VOR-A PT
- Practical Test 61.39(a)(6) endorsement - who is the
- As a student pilot could you receive high performance or complex airplane instruction?
- In your opinion on a steep turn what constitutes a very high level of flight?
- Endorsing a CFI-I applicant
- The difference of Geometric pitch and Effective pitch , Slippage meaning?
- TRAFFIC COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM
- Distance measuring equipment
- Private Pilot Airplane Add on
- Correction In Attitude indicator
- CDFA vs step-down minima on non-precision approaches
- CFI providing instruction for initial CFI... requirements??
- How and where would I go to rent a plane?
July 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- BFR outside the US in a non US-Registered aircraft
- Run-up check on the ramp?
- Confusion about load factor
- Who has the final say in determining airport distances?
- Decline "Cleared for the Visual"
- Pitch effect on attitude, speed and altitude
- Flying in the clouds in Class G
- DME Arcs on IPC
- Flight simulator software for landing.
- How does airfoil curvature result in low pressure on top
- Tips for MEI to be?
- CFI-Sport adding instruction in lsa seaplane (holds Private Pilot ASEL/ASES)
- Magnetic Dip
- Helicopter Commercial Regs
- Jeppesen logbook
- Cessna Caravan 208B POH
- Crosswind Correction for Tailwind on Landing with a Side Slip
- Traffic pattern entry at uncontrolled field
August 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Magneto safety question
- Pilot annual checks
- Kane Aero MKVI-B
- Pilots without an Instructor Rating allowing persons to manipulate the dual controls
- Seeking reference for Commercial Glider Privilege limitations
- Training in a C182 glass cockpit?
- Meeting IFR long-XC reqmnt with over-night
- CFI Tag Team
- Can you use Foreflight winds aloft for flight planning?
- ICAO CPL to FAA ATP - Total Time Clarifications
- Logging Dual/Solo time in Mexico
- Recreational Pilot Endorsement for new departure airport
- Recreational Pilot Endorsement for Class D airspace
- CFI Books to Study: Physical Copy or Digital?
- Logging dual given
- Partial Panel
- Rent My Plane
- Instrument training books
- my next radio freq?
- charging for rides
September 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Centrifugal Stop Pin / Anti-Feathering Lock | Picture or Diagram?
- IFR Clearance Options from Uncontrolled Fields
- TERPS
- Student Training
- KFLG Departure Procedure RWY 3
- Flying & building experimental single-seat piston-twin aircraft.
- GPS Waypoint Clarity
- IFR Procedures
- Multi Engine Rating
- Where can I find a Recommending Instructor (RI) to sign off on my UAV certificate application?
- 1/2 Hr. fuel reserve on an IFR flight plan?
- Climb or Cruise Propeller? Fixed pitch airplanes.
- Logging time under the hood with safety pilot
- IFR flight planning using T Routes and Victor airways
- Helicopter Add On for ASEL Privite
October 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Density Altitude
- Can CFI teach ground w/out ground cert?
- Cessna wing components
- Passengers in discovery flights
- TEMPORARY PPL FAA
- Fixed wing simulator for Helicopter Instrument Rating
- Is it okay to ask a DPE for references (previous checkride students)?
- Aerobatics while on IFR Flight Plan
- VFR Flight Plan Question
- Commercial Pilot Part 119 Exceptions
- CFI Added rating
- Vg changing with weight
- ADS-B required under a class Charlie shelf?
- Checkrides outside the US territory
November 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Las Vegas Airspace During COVID ATC Zero Event
- Commercial aeronautical experience (spec 61.129(a)(3)(i) and 61.129(a)(4)(ii))
- Commercial Long XC - clarifying the distance requirements
- GTN 650 "LPV" approach mode in yellow
- LPV IAP
- Coantact Approach
- Finding annual due date on the internet
- Checklist for first flight lesson
- Alternate requirements
- Amend IFR Flight Plan
- Jet Descending and Ascending procedure using Autopilot
- Accelerating in Ground Effect after Takeoff
- IFR checkride / VOR use required?
December 2020 ( View complete archive page )
- Strange goings on.
- Complicated/Unclear IFR Departure Scenario
- Approach plate note - radials 240 CW 346 - what does CW stand for
- CFI Initial Endorsements A.41 and A.42
- Confusing requirements for towered airport endorsement
- Instrument currency using ATD.
- Flight instruction in an aircraft type certificated for more than one pilot
- Headwind vs. Tailwind
- Authority to define "practice areas"
- ILS Miss app steeper bank or slower climbout??(updated)
- Help Needed!! (Commercial Pilot Airplane Written Exam)
- How is
- “Solo” multi engine time needed for rating
- Effect of Temperature on Range
- Commercial SEL add-on (No private privilege *expired foreign based PPL)
- Who may conduct an IPC?
- What does "unlimited" mean when talking about an altitude?
January 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- Lost Comm's and IFR Hemispheric Rules (91.179)
- Altimetry
- The FAA and Anxiety
- Student's First Solo Flight ("Take her up for 3 touch and go's!") - Endorsement?
- CFI 709 ride
- Does my CPL need to be current When using CFI privileges
- Filing an alternate with no TAF for IFR flight plan
- Can I use a make of aircraft (piper) on my checkride different from IACRA 8710 listed aircraft to be used (cessna)?
- Does Seneca 1 have the optional fuel tank?
- Could a SEL land airpalne commercial pilot fly an LSA?
- Student From a Previous Instructor
- 3-blade prop
- Fuel injection system : Continuous flow type
- Can a regular CFI with an instrument rating give instrument training to commercial applicant
- Hours needed in different contries
- GPH during a climb
February 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- Cross-country flight training
- Biannual check ride for part 91 pilots
- filing vfr to ifr
- Phrase Differences USA Canada
- Supplemental oxygen in non-pressurized craft.
- Cross xtry for student pilot
- Airspeed indicator - MPH
- Airport Marking (Runway Remaining)
- IFR Low Chart Symbols
- FAA rated pilot in a foreign country with a N registered aircraft
- Holding Pattern Radial
- Logging ground instruction time for students
March 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- Flight Review Instructor Requirements
- WAAS and FDE confusion
- Procedure Turn Required?
- Suggestions for MEI Training Resources, Books, Etc?
- Maximum Passenger weight
- Aircraft Cosmetic Imperfections and the Go/No-Go Decision
- Transitioning to Multi Engine PA-44-180
- Inop table KSAN LOC Rwy 9
- required VFR equipment failure en-route, land immediately?
- How to log simulator time towards my commercial license
- IFR Cross Country requirement - Is IMC necessary or can it be filed IFR under VMC?
- Commercial Written (H) vs Airplane.
- Aeronautical experience for CPL Helicopter.
- altitude
April 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- GPS Circling Approach Criteria
- Alternator failure
- Instrument Training
- Using a professional logbook for PPL.
- Sport CFI compensation without commercial?
- 15% Discount for AskACFI Visitors at Dauntless Aviation
- 15% Discount at Dauntless Aviation for AskACFI Readers
- IFR Cross Country requirement - full stop vs. touch/go
- Pre-Solo Landing Proficiency – Consistency through the Eyes of Different CFI’s.
- Useing all available X/C time for the IR
- 172 drifting to the right on landing
- What Hydraulics are found on a Cessna 150 or 172 - What answer to give the DPE on Checkride?
- Emergency fire extinguisher
- Commercial Pilot in Different Countries
- Multiengine OEI (One Engine Inop) PA44
May 2021 ( View complete archive page )
June 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- CFI doing paid sightseeing tours with PPL pilot logging PIC?
- DPE Knowledge test review
- BasicMed for Student Pilot
- Rule of the Thumb
- RAIM errors: when can I proceed with and when must I abort an approach
- Question about Altitude on a VOR Approach with a Procedure Turn
- Dui conviction
- Logging PIC prior to obtaining a rating
- for airline logbook, can i use flight number instead of aircraft registration?
- Do I have to log the name of IAP flown for instrument currency?
- Can a student pilot fly solo without a medical?
- Logging night AND simulated instrument (hood) simultaneously for the PPL
- Calculating airspeed with pitot tube only!
- Size of a UK PPL License
- Single Engine Sea Rating if Only Multi Engine Land PPL
July 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- Private carriage for select friends in my plane under Part 91?
- Would a temporary ATC tower NOT count towards my 3 solo towered takeoffs & landings??
- Weather radar and green bananas!
- NYC Class Bravo Question
- ASEL Commercial Pilot Night Cross-Country 61.129(a)(3)(iv)
- Propeller safety
- CFI Oral Preperation
- overflying an inspection
- Logging PIC while not IFR current in IMC with "Safety Pilot" who is current
- Should I get a second CFI?
- Can I SLOP at San Juan FIR? Can I MicroSLOP at WATRS?
- Prerequisites for commercial pilot exam
- VCOA
- Flying an IFR flight plan in VMC
- Commercial Steep Spiral Entry
- Timing on an ILS approach
- Can/Do Sport Pilot and Sport Pilot CFI additional rating proficiency checks conducted by a CFI count towards flight review and CFI renewal (non-expired)?
August 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- Changing Student's Solo Limitations
- Class D airport without a tower
- Class E Control Area?
- Can an FTD Simulator be used for 10 of the 15 hours DUAL instrument time required for IFR rating?
- Agriculture operations - qualification to other make and model
- Can the 150NM cross country have 4 destinations airports instead of 3?
- For CFI checkride. Aviation Instructor Handbook 9A or 9B?
- turboprop
- TSA Regs: US Citizen Seeking Instrument Flight Training, Passport Card
- Adding ASEL( private privileges) to FAA ME outside of USA
- FAA active
- Is PPL a prerequisite in order to get credit towards Commercial for a 100nm Dual XC ( day or Night )
- FIA vs AFA
- ASEL Rating After Part 141 and Army Flight School
- Commercial Pilot Cross-Country Double-Dip
- CFI Renewal based on pass rate - process question
September 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- Getting onto an approach not depicted for ATC
- VOT Check While Airborne
- how to ceritify student pilot license
- Carrying a rated pilot while endorsed to act as pilot in command of an aircraft in solo operations when the pilot does not hold an appropriate category/class rating
- Option Radar, Option tower
- CSEL add on
- When do you set your Altimeter on an instrument approach?
- how to ceritify student pilot license
- TR currency
- Landing at "Another" airport during PP Checkride
- VFR 150 - only 3 points of landing or atleast 3 points of landing?
- airplane POH
- Foreign license
- Looking for ex-military CFIs
October 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- Can GPS be used on missed approach that has localizer backcourse?
- BFR for ASEL in GA Warrior 180 for a Mil PIC with checkride, CIV medical and insurance?
- Student Pilot Solo
- CFI & Single Engine Commercial Rating
- PIC XC time vs Instructional XC Time
- The incident was resolved with counseling, and no further action
- Interpolation Question
- Biannual flight review
- Using RNAV/GPS as substitute for VOR cross-radial on an ILS/LOC approach
- filing IFR for VFR flight following
- Safety Pilot
- CFI-S: Do I need an endorsement for FOI exam?
- Trying to understand RAIM better (or at all)
- CFI & Single Engine Commercial Rating
- Repeat cross country destination
November 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- Med
- A controlled airport (KLRD) has
- Practical flight planning
- Flight review question
- odp and diverse vector area or dp ( obstacle) confusion
- How does one efficiently fine-trim a Cirrus?
- FAA
- CFI Training
- IACRA student pilot certificate
- Do i need to hear "cleared for approach"
- can i land where i want on the runway?
- How to optimally use the 20 Hour Simulation Training Allowance in an AATD for Instrument Rating
- Sport, Recreational, Private
- RNAV course
- Prior CFI Medical pulled -- Solo Endorsements
- IFR flight plan
- Simplest Manner of Completing Both Night & Day 100 NM Dual XC CPL Requirement in one Single Excursion
- Unmanned aircraft
December 2021 ( View complete archive page )
- inbound timing start?
- Need Advice on how to Properly Log Simulated Instrument Time with a Basic Med Safety Pilot.
- Expired transponder check, VFR flight; combined transponder and ADS-B unit
- Using my aircraft for time building - can I charge
- Private Pilot maneuvers
- Check ride test - Was he treated fairly?
- Student pilot re-solo different make/model
January 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- Logging instruction given
- How to build flight hours?
- G5000 simulator
- LAX special flight rules
- Flying to pick up my son for a weekend
- Go around?
- Is the Private Pilot oral open book?
- AWOS given Altimeter pressure lower than airport elevation
- what is 'visual track' after MAP on Profile view in Jeppesen approach chart for?
- Passing IFR written before 141 flight training?
- Preparing for the Arrival
- The line between acceptable and non-accepted weather.
- Sporty's FIRC now free
- rwy elevation in approach chart
- Do you have to follow IFR even and odd altitudes under 3000' agl?
- Multi Engine Rating in a turbo prop
- Considering returning to active instructing...
- VOR approach
February 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- Purpose of squawk code
- MVFR at night
- 61.51 (g5) Getting instrument current in a FTD
- Inherited Student’s Endorsements
- Traffic
- Hours
- I scared myself
- Converting from 141 to 61 for CPL
- Engine Oil
- CFII privileges
- operating experience
- Flight Instructor Insurance
- 91.103
- What are the bolded obstacle heights for?
- When living abroad, where can I find a Recommending Instructor (RI) to sign off on my Student Pilot application?
- Cost per flight
March 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- GPS in place of VOR
- Is "Free Flight Time" Compensation?
- Fun plans for April
- Weight and balance aircraft document
- Tax deductions for CFI
- Right of way rules (91:113)
- First night VFR flight
- Autorotation
- 61.129(a)(3)(iv) Cross-Country
- How can Simulator Time be applied towards Minimum Flight Time Requirements for Commercial Certificate ?
- Are position lights required for IFR?
- AC8050-1B Aircraft Registration Renewal Application
- BFR lapsed 1 year
- Ground Instructor without CFI, Can I do a FIRC to meet 61.217(c)
- Commercial Pilot Advertising to do Private Carriage?
- Student Pilot Certificate
- RAIM Prediction
- Student Pilot Cross Country
April 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- Radio Communications
- Transferred 141 to another 141 (commercial)
- FAA CPL Helicopter to FAA CPL Airplane Written exams
- Picking up after oral failure?
- DPE discussing politics in checkride?
- Aeronautical Experience for Commercial.
- ILS Procedure Turn Question
- SID lost communication procedure vs 91.185
- CFII
- x-c without ADSB
- As a commercial Student, I am comfused on the hours of Cross country and flight time I need
- manual calc of density altitude vs e6b, density altitude chart
- IPC - Instructor Requirements
- Your maximum
- Real world benefit of attending Part 141 and getting reduction of flight hours
- Ohio State University senior was just told the school has too many aviation students and he can't continue - Help with next steps!
- Complex time for Commercial ASEL..
- Retesting after failure, is a new set of original endorsements needed as well?
- Part141 Comercial
- What constitutes a “reasonable rental checkout” experience for a PPL looking to rent a 150/152/172?
- CFII add on checkride
May 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- Was My PPL Long Cross Country Invalid?
- Touch & Go procedure
- OBS setting on VOR approaches
- Currency
- Fixed-Wing CFI/CFII Add On to Helicopter CFI/CFII
- 250 nm cross country IFR flight
- Do pilots need to keep endorsements after their checkrides?
- Circling Approach & Landing
- As CFI, not night current give night instruction to a Private Pilot not night current?
- To maintain airspeed in a steep spiral, why must you pitch down as your bank angle increases?
- Procedure turn Question
- FAA Flight review on Helicopter and airplane
- Do all localizers have a backcourse?
- About Reversed Command Area
- Understanding Required Navigation Performance
- CFI-A -> CFI-H add-on
June 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- What does ATC Phrase "On The Go" mean?
- How long is the instructor's signature on the IACRA 8710 form?
- Logging hours as a CFI
- When to start pitching for airspeed
- IFR Cross Country Navlog
- Class D inbound near class C
- CFI food chain
- Why is not required to check for RAIM with a WAAS GPS?
- PPL adding IR what blocks in IACRA need to be checked
- Types of Approaches for Instrument Cross Country
- Helicopter CFI add on Fixed WIng CFI
- Density altitude conversion graphs
- Do I need to take CFI again if I have AGI?
- Is it fair....is it ethical?
July 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- Do 6 approaches need to be completed on an IPC
- How to know if you’re within the circling radius
- How to Ensure Obstacle Clearance during IFR Descent
- Why are the LPV minimums lower than the ILS minimums?
- PA28R-201 Engine Diagram/Picture
- In Icing Contion, why the throttle should be maximum RPM
- Transponders and ADS-B
- Constant Speed Propellor
- High pressure Indication
- Flight review
- why i should know the number of wing loading/power loading on POH
- Someone with PPL from Australia wants FAA PPL
- When to configure and complete before landing checklist on instrument approach
- Can a CFI teach a CFII
- Pressure / Density Altitude - More / Less Dense - High / Low Temperature Help
- How to get over nervousness when flying?
- Front & Passenger Seat Weight limit
- Density altitude
- Will previous Marijuana possession and paraphernalia charges end my dreams?
- Logging Instrument time as PIC
- Proper A/C type to say to ATC
- Foreign Student
- Cessna Nav I, Nav II, Nav III?
August 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- Metar Help
- Training program.
- Multi-Engine Instrument Rating Flight Test Report?
- Personal checklist on a checkride
- Avoiding Terrain at Night
- Autopilot Coupled Approaches NA at IAF? FAF?
- DPE never signed my Private or CFII ride
- find CFI
- Avoiding False Glideslope
- student pilot logging hours, except pic
September 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- IR
- Logging PIC,XCOUNTRY, and Simulated instrument?
- Solo Endorsement
- Type rating and high altitude/pressurized endorsment?
- G1000 Intercept Maximum Range
- Student pilot medical required?
- Logging time part 135 instruction?
- Tailwheel safety pilot with no tailwheel endorsement?
- Mistake on certificate application
- ATP CTP Course and TSA approval
October 2022 ( View complete archive page )
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- Clarification on VFR on top clearance.
- Do you need to maintain an 80% pass rate to keep teaching initial CFI students?
- Minimum flight time in logbook
- An ATP Requires Instrument, Night, and Cross Country. Can these be performed in a helicopter?
- Can a 141 Commercial pilot complete CFI/CFII at a 61 school and still receive the reduced hours/age requirements?
- Pilot online ground school
- Student pilot certificate
- Logging PIC time as a FO/SIC in a Part 135 Carrier
- KOEL Abbreviation
- Counting Military SIM time towards total time, ATP
- Endorsement Question
- I'm a PPL pre-solo student in a Part 141 program (university) and thinking about quitting due to anxiety. Do y'all have any advice?
- When does "rated in the aircraft" occur? (Military Competency vs FAA rating, 61.73)
- Logging PIC Time as a Commercial Pilot, Flying with a CFI
- Tower closed at Class D
- Answer to 61-65 A.42 question
- Around, Under, or Over Class C for Short Cross Country
- Holding Patterns
- AC 61-65, A.42
- VFR over Grand Canyon with cloud interference
December 2022 ( View complete archive page )
- Definition of X-Country PIC for ASEL Commercial Add-On
- Airman Knowledge Test "Name" Question
- 91.144 abnormally high barometric pressure
- IRA Knowledge Test Expired - Now what?
- 61.31 flying airplane category without rating
- Recurrent Training at ICAO country under ICAO Simulator Instructor
- IPL meaning in IACRA 8710-1
- How to log time in aircraft I'm not type rated in
- VFR maneuvers and VFR on Top or VFR Over the Top
- True altitude vs. Indicated nonstandard temperature
- Independent CFI Insurance
January 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- odp , sid departure question from tower controlled airport in radar environment
- Does PDPIC require an instructor signature?
- Instrument Currency
- Calculating/ applying the variation QDM, QDR, QTE, QUJ
- Interpreting the WCA (-) and (+) values
- Navigation Acronyms: TVMDC
- FAA part 141 requirements for Commercial training
- C-172 G1000 Rental Check Out Time – Feedback on Roughly How Long & Challenges
- Getting back into instructing
- Instrument rating check ride counting as flight review?
February 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- Departure Procedure
- Can a student solo cross country have a purpose other than meeting the requirements?
- Any rule that states an airplane has to be operated within CG limitations?
- 61.129(b)(4) interpretation
- Does an SR 22 require any additional rating or endorsement?
- Max flight times for commercial operators
- Two Axis Autopilot
- Flight simulator time for commercial requirements
- 61.129 (iv)
- Prior Permission Required - Can I still use a VFR flight plan?
- Flying coworker using a commercial pilot certificate
- Does my Instrument Rating ever truly expire, even if it's been over 2 years since my last approach? Or just an IPC is necessary?
- IFR Flight : Controller Says Expect The Visual Approach - Can I Request a Published Approach?
- Remote FF endorsement from instructor who doesn't use digital logs?
- FTSP approval after switching visa status
- Newhall 1 KVNY
- What is the required flight visibility on an approach that lists the minimums as RVR?
- Blue Line
- Transferring from Part 61 school to another Part 61 school *after* TSA clearance / Student Pilot Certificate
March 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- Recency - Category, Class, and Type if required
- Lost Logbook
- Can FTSP approval be sought for two different flight schools?
- CFI Endorsement
- Which certificate should be prepared for a Pilot who has Certificate of Helicopter for operating SEL
- Log practice approach while waiting on special issuance
- Required Documents - POH for C172B MFR Year 1961?
April 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- fuel flow gauge
- Providing flight review in airplane outside of CFIs qualifications?
- A.8 and A.11 endorsement
- Old aircraft for museum ?
- Why is the RNAV-(GPS)-B approach into Nampa Municipal (KMAN) circling only?
- Cross country logging/safety pilot logging
- Determining winds aloft
- Can I give instruction?
- Airspace question
- A valuable resource for student pilots
- FAR 91.126 (b) Direction of turns
- FAR 91.179 and IFR cruising altitudes in controlled airspace above FL410
May 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- Logging SE Turbine Time
- Class B, no longer 10,000?
- Allowed to Fly?
- Can Multi xc time be used for single engine time for commercial
- Approach Plate
- Recip Turbo - Propeller efficiency?
- Class B clearance
- Expanding on 'expected' routing.
- Transitioning from Rotor ATP to Commercial multi engine instrument
- Instrument Currency
- Logging hours on experimental
June 2023 ( View complete archive page )
July 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- Cheapest route to a commercial helicopter add on rating
- Basic Empty Weight (Oil) - Archer vs Warrior
- Private pilot with Helicopter should issue student pilot certificate ASEL for taking ASEL Private pilot certificate
- GLS approach
- Looking to build hours quick.
- CFI teaching Commercial Certificate
- Lost communication on a STAR (KCLT PARQR RNAV 3) help
- Commercial Helicopter to Airplane
- CFII in-training asking about ODP
- How would I calculate glide ratio.
- ATC and ODP
- PIC Typed flying as an SIC
- What’s a typed certificate data sheet and type certificate. Where can you find these to learn more about them?
- List of ILS Approaches for Aircraft Without DME, ADF, or GPS
- How to relate yourself when flying to unfamiliar airports.
- Direct to ILS IAF on the G1000
- Long IFR XC Flight: 3 Separate plans?
- Complex endorsement as a student pilot, still valid as a private pilot?
- Pressure and how it relates to temperature
- Commercial experience requirements (61.129) - combine 300 nm, night VFR, TAA?
- 61.129 2hr 100nm xc for cpl
August 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- "CW CW" on an approach plate
- how can I contact Warren Webb Jr flight instructor in connecticut
- Helicopter CFI to FW PPL
- "Hot Mag Check" during shutdown
- True Airspeed vs Aircraft Performance
- Spin in IMC
- IPC
- Sport pilot solo
- Logging xcountry time?
- Sport pilot xcountry
- Which 90 day solo endorsement
- "Best forward speed until 5 miles" from where?
September 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- Glide to shore
- Part 141 cmel add on
- Can I fly the passenger leg in a 135
- Multi engine feather check
- Cross Country 61.65(g)(1)
- First student flight
- FAA Instructor providing instruction in Canadian Registered Aircraft
- Inoperative lighting for gps approach
- CFI expiration date
- Commercial pilot privileges - operating certificates
- Student Pilot Certificate
- TSA endoresment, Student pilot certificate with a name change?
- Mixture setting when landing at a high altitude airport.
October 2023 ( View complete archive page )
November 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- TSA approval
- Advantages of Getting Flight Training at More than One Flight School
- How do I know if my airport diagram is current?
- Additional Category/Rating through Part 141 with higher certificate
- Helicopter CFI Bay Area
- Landing Technique ASEL - Both Hands on the Yoke - OK or Not OK
- How to best Integrate a Biennial Flight Review with Ongoing Instrument Training with my CFII
December 2023 ( View complete archive page )
- Simulator
- Instrument rating on cessna
- Clarification on FAA Commercial Pilot License (CPL) Knowledge Test: Helicopter vs. Airplane
- TAA
- Commercial Complex hours getting added to multi engine rating add on
- Foreign based license
- Sport pilot endorsements
- Special VFR. Lateral boundaries C/B.
- how to calculate obstacle clearance for c152
- Wings Phase in lieu of traditional Flight Review
- Why aren't all ATC training and operational positions recorded?
- CPL requirements
January 2024 ( View complete archive page )
- Flight Review Endorsement and Logbook Entry
- General Navigation
- Looking for CFI outsdie of US who can do biennial review
- Approach clearance for aircraft on a STAR
- Commencing an approach at an IF with a procedure turn
- Best Online Ground School for Instrument Training Course?
- Airborne pickup of a filed IFR clearance.