I am helping a friend who has an India-based company that wants to partner with a U.S. flight school to build up to large numbers of student pilots cycling through training, then returning to India to compete for airline jobs there. They are looking for a school that can take these folks from...
I've always felt that the greatest measure of a father's success was to be a son or daughter's life-long hero, role model, the first person they think of calling when they have good news to share, etc. Our society is seeing fewer and fewer fathers like your dad, and mine. Let's hope we can be...
A couple of questions please:
1. I believe 41,000 lbs defines "large" for wake turbulence. Is that same criterion used for all references to large aircraft, specifically the type rating requirements in Part 61.31? If not, what would be considered large for type rating?
2. What is a good...
Back in that NDB post, a couple of folks referred to requesting a "delay vector" from ATC when wanting to buy time for a better set-up. I understand the idea and have done that before by asking for specifically what I want (e.g. offset, etc). Were they using the term generically, or is there...
I had asked the same question a while back. Several recommended the book Turbine Pilot's Flight Manual by Brown and Holt, which I purchased via Amazon ($30). Be sure to get the second edition (2001). It has an excellent chapter on Turbine Engines and Propeller Systems, which is geared to...
Thanks to all for the responses. I checked out TPFM at Barnes and Noble today. I notice that it has a lot more good info than just turboprop. But it was only the first edition. I'm ordering the second edition through Amazon.
But here's a question I'm puzzled about with turboprops since I...
Can anyone suggest some reference sources to learn more about flying turboprops? Specifically, how a pilot uses/manages all the levers and instruments, when to do what, etc. My experience is jets and pistons. Turboprops seem a lot more complex and I can't find anything on the how-to's...
A friend of mine heads up a non-profit relief organization (ministry). They are expanding it into a catastrophe-relief operation, and see a need for an aircraft to support future operations. The aircraft would not be used on a for-hire basis, but rather strictly to support relief ops. He has...
GPS--Best All Around?
I'd like to upgrade from my Magellan. What's the best all around unit for flying as well as driving (for $1000 or less)? I'd like all the capabilities such as a database so I don't have to enter everything manually, external antenna, easy-to-see/read screen, external...
When is a tower controller required to provide surface wind? In my old military flying days, I recall that the controllers routinely included wind in their takeoff and landing clearance calls. But I now fly light, high-wing GAs at a civil airport where it's windy/gusty most of the time. I'm...
61.57(c) discusses the recency of instrument experience requirements under actual or simulated conditions. Two questions: (1) Am I correct that to qualify as "simulated" conditions, the pilot must wear a vision-restricting device (i.e. can't just execute the approach/maneuvers unrestricted in...
I'm a retired military pilot, and was out of aviation for 11 years before getting back in (GA aircraft). Someone put me onto FS 2000. I found it absolutely incredible what's been developed while I was "gone". I never would have believed I'd sit here for hours doing this, but it's so...
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