Since the question is from a flight training perspective and is prompted by difficulty with crosswinds, the use of a grass-field to avoid the issue of pilot ability would be a definite backward step. Student pilots need to learn to effectively handle crosswinds on pavement since almost all strips th...

Holy crap, google AI is now going to make these kind of decisions for people? (Old man rant over :wink: ) Anyway, I’d suggest you go to whoever has the resources to accommodate what your actual time and money can support. Be realistic with yourself as to what your skill and abilities can manage. If ...

Won’t be long until they have auto-takeoff as well (see Embraer E2TS). Then we’ll have the trifecta - auto T/O, auto pilot, auto land!

Can’t wait until I get my hands on a Tesla 172.

Not sure it’s always the school’s fault. I had a number of occasions where I had to have a pretty tough heart-to-heart with student’s who had spent various amounts of money and time, from not too much to quite a lot, on their training. The not so much were students who had started with us and just w...

Bravo Sulako!

It would be a very miserable place if we lived in a world where we only read or heard information we agreed with, stated in a manner we approved of.

Curious what your plan was if you encountered an issue during your run-up?

Here’s a proposed change that is being recommended to require ADS-B In along with the existing ADS-B Out.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all ... dium=email

May be time for some NOTAM hierarchy? Totally disagree. NOTAMS are issued for specific things that can seriously affect any flight that it impacts. And have totally zero impact on all other flights. There is no way to determine beforehand how severe the results could be for any flight that is in co...

If you’re doing the training a year apart and you won’t be using either rating much, if at all, then I assume it is primarily out of simple interest and exposure to different aspects of flying. As such it likely doesn’t really matter. However, I would still recommend doing the taildragger first. Thi...

May have to drop by and see her again next winter when I’m down south. Saw her in 2016 while at Oshkosh and certainly is an impressive bird.

North Shore wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 9:13 am There's already an aircraft that does this - it' called a 'Twin Otter'..

Hmmm, I didn’t think a Twin Otter could be had for a million bucks. Where would I find such a deal?

This thread got me to do a quick look at Cornwall’s website and I noticed a page that I haven’t noticed on other school websites. It titled “Sexual Violence Policy”. I've never seen that before on other websites and I’m wondering if that's something all schools are going to be required to do?

Interesting that you use a personal attack response. All I was doing was making a wee bit of fun about the somewhat commonly used phrase “...a far bigger problem than any of us realize” since the mere act of using that phrase is intended to show that the user does, in fact, realize the magnitude of ...

rookiepilot wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 9:52 am Ah. Its swissports fault.

Loser people and loser companies always blame someone else.

This is bigger than Sunwing. Its a broader mentality that has taken over, and a far bigger problem than any of us realize.

Apparently you realize it since you’re the one warning the rest of us.

There’s no answer to your question, really. If it truly is (and only you know that) a toss up, then just flip a coin because there’s no absolute way to choose because no one can accurately predict the future. The real key is, whichever you choose commit to it 100% and do the very best you can both t...

Airbrake wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:03 pm “But finally, after 50 years, a threat of an airport is over and our future is bright,” said Jennifer O’Connell, MP for Pickering-Uxbridge.

Oh, those horrible airports! Ain’t it great when our government takes such pride in keeping us all safe?

Bede wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:25 am Do NOT get TC involved. If you're claiming that there were airworthiness defects they will ask you why you flew a plane with defects

Hefty +1 to this! TC are not your friends.

co-joe wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 10:47 pm It's not fair, it just is.

What?!??! You mean being an airline pilot isn’t better than the rest of the world?

SpyPilot wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2024 12:20 am Indoubatibly.

Did you perchance mean “indubitably”?

I think your logic is a bit flawed. If things were slow, you'd be flying more because there would be more availability of aircraft and instructors. I think you may have missed that the original poster is an instructor and apparently is reporting that the school, or at least he, has fewer active stu...

If it flies, floats or f@#*s, its cheaper to rent. An oldie but a goodie. I heard that way back in the 70’s and proceeded to totally ignore it for some reason. :rolleyes: I’m married, have owned a few boats and also a number of airplanes. Which I guess just proves another old but true saying - “You...

Just another reason not to ride in an aircraft that has to beat the air into submission in order to fly.

https://edmontonsun.com/news/local-news ... ta-airport

Sadly, both people died.