For all intents and purposes, in-flight, plug fouling won't ever happen. The plane I did my PPL on started to develop occasional mag drops about half way through my training. One way of knowing whether or not I'd been good enough at leaning on an XC or even a local flight was checking the mags afte...

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Not free, but so very, very worth it

And how does one find a partnership? I very occasionally see them advertised (on here and the usual marketplace sites), but I get the impression they're mainly word-of-mouth. If you only really know your (ex) instructor, what's the best way to sniff out a good partnership (preferably in something le...

When they say the review covers all the items on the flight test, it doesn't mean the groundwork stuff (navlog etc)... I think? And thus, does it include the air nav/diversion too? Or is it literally just the airwork? Just curious, in case I ever get into that position. I just fly locally for fun, s...

On top of that you have to pay for the database updates, 24-month IR renewal, etc. New PPL here who is somewhat relieved he got in on the ground floor of radio nav going away (it ties my brain in knots). Curious what a ballpark figure would be for those ongoing costs to keep an IFR GPS up and runni...

Oh and another tip when using the SPOT tracking device, leave it on for a bit after landing if you have someone watching your progress. Because such long distances are covered in 5 minutes, if it doesn't get another check-in after you landed, it can look like you never made it resulting in some des...

Holy crap I_Drive_Planes, this is exactly what I was looking for! And from somebody that clearly knows what they are talking about, as well. YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED FOR SAR SERVICES ANYWHERE IN CANADA!!!!!!!!!!!! That's really, really useful to know and have spelled out in big fat caps :D I feel lik...

So the thread on survival equipment got me wondering. In an emergency situation, what is better... a SPOT or a "normal" PLB? Does anybody here who's technically informed know that one is better/more reliable than the other? I have a fear at the back of my mind that SPOT, being commercially driven, i...

SAR will swing by and pick you up before you can get your fire going Whatever man, I was in the Scouts!!! Bearing in mind CAR 602.61 which says that thou shalt have means of: (a) starting a fire; (b) providing shelter; (c)providing or purifying water; and (d) visually signaling distress. So you'd n...

Amongst the other "winterised" stuff, I would have a survival kit of the mini variety (the Doug Ritter Pocket Pak is tiny) and a PLB on my actual person, in jacket pockets or if you're feeling nerdy, in one of those fishing-style survival vest things. I keep hearing stories of people going down, and...

For your hypothetical of filming, crews use two way handhelds to avoid all that crap. Believe it or not I hadn't thought of that!! I can't imagine Industry Canada would be keen to hand out frequencies to every Tom Dick and Harry who wanted to natter to somebody on the ground, so the personal FRS ra...

Let me start by saying this is a theoretical question. As a new PPL I have no plans to engage in this sort of thing, I was just idly wondering really. Consider an aircraft being filmed from the ground in uncontrolled airspace (or for some other reason, talking to somebody on the ground who has a han...

Gliding is definitely something I would be interested in (I love the idea of camping out there for a weekend, especially when the weather is nice, kill two birds with one stone!), but I think right now my primary desire is to get a PPL. Doing that on a tailwheel with a suitably experienced instructo...

You need an airplane to use a freelance guy. Oh, now I feel like an idiot. I was under the impression that you could rent one via a freelance instructor or something. Oh well, lesson learned! Buy a share for example. It is quite a commitment still. I would definitely be interested in doing this pos...

...and at least a couple of good private messages. You were right Beef, I've had a few very informative PM's already! Glacier Air seems to be recommended. Unfortunately I live literally on the other side of the Lower Mainland (near White Rock) and travelling all that way every day would be problema...

Hi all, First post here but I've been lurking for quite a while. Apologies if this sounds like a tired re-hash of the usual "what do you think of flight school X" type threads. Hopefully though this is a slightly different take. Here's my situation. I'm an IT consultant in Vancouver and my current c...