Anyone have any experience with these guys? Thinking of renting from them next I'm in the peg.

Hi BPF

Do you have any stats on that? Just curious if that's anecdotal or if you have TC numbers?

How long ago? When it started out it wasn't the most reliable on middle- or low-end hardware. I've always used it on high-end devices and have not seen the failures, crashes, etc. that others report. It is working the graphics pretty hard and needs a fair bit of memory... A 1GB RAM/16GB Storage dev...

But you can get all that for free in FltPlan Go. I haven't used ForeFlight, but I gather it just has a better user interface and some more features. My experience with FltPlan Go was pretty negative. It failed constantly and was generally unreliable. Now that could be because I using a Samsung Tabl...

Since you have to do your flight test with paper charts, there is little point in worrying about ForeFlight. I use it (iPad mini, with a Ram yoke mount and Bad Elf GPS). It's slick. I also have a GPS in my plane (Aera 796), and paper charts. I have no excuse if I get lost Laura does the bad elf mak...

Yup, a visual is a visual. Bus, Boeing, Bizjet, Catalina, Cessna, Piper, and so on. I find it quite sad that eyeballing seems to be cut out of this skill set. For my humble time in the business, it accounted for 80% of my job...............But times change priorities. Like blindly relying on techno...

Who cares? Switch to tricycle, and you don't have to worry about it.

Took words out of my mouth....if your instructor is letting you post for advice then that might be your problem. Follow mraviator19s advice just keep doing it over and over and one day it'll just click.

The reason that the C172 sold so well in the stone-age was because of the hypr put on it by Cessna's sales department! Who wouldn't want a "modern" all metal airplane with "land-o-matic" landing gear for $9000.00 Exactly. The C172 was -- and is -- an engineering marvel. There's a reason there are 4...

FWIW looks like a lot of over 50 year old instructors here with pretty varied backgrounds....

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I personally believe that being competent in flying tail wheel airplanes makes for a better pilot. Yes I get that but it still begs the question why doesn't the military use tail wheel trainers. Obviously they don't see a significant value in it. I am going to assume that the air force abandoned th...

Quote: If tailwheel airplanes produce such superior pilots then why doesn't the military still use them? Well lets look at this objectively. There are several tail wheel airplanes that are or were used commercially in aviation. It's a serious question. The RCAF clearly doesn't see a lot of value in...

If tailwheel airplanes produce such superior pilots then why doesn't the military still use them? Last time I checked the RCAF had some reasonably competent pilots and there hasn't been a tailwheel trainer in the air force's inventory since the early 1960s IIRC.

Hillary Clinton's misdeeds pale in comparison to that sh*tshow.

You mean the war that Hillary Clinton voted in favour of?

You might outta preface your posts with a little fact-checking. Just trying to be helpful. It's cute when people use Wikipedia for their fact checking. Sort of the lazy man's debating point. I guess this guy doesn't know what he's talking about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/20...

George Bush Jr. took the US to war by invading Iraq based on intelligence that was at best misrepresented, and at worse fabricated. George W. Bush and coalition forces liberated 33 million Iraqis from a psychopath. What were you doing in March 2003? That war cost the lives of 4491 American service ...

I did my night rating last year at the Calgary Flying Club. There's lots of planes to choose from, but they're all long-in-the-tooth 172s.

Not quite - they have a 172S available.

Yup, great aircraft to learn in, plane is rather docile on the ground in my experience, and a great way to instill the excellent tool of slips into your students belt, always thought a slip is one of the manuevers you better know well, side to forward, it will one day, given enough flight hours, sa...

BFC Is a good facility. I used to rent from them. They have a Citabria if you want to do tailwheel.

Someone needs to review the POH procedures for the C172 Models R and S ...

oops yes sorry about that...it's been a while. Post corrected.

Hi All, im starting my PPL and just curious as to your thoughts of my training in either a 172 R or P. Getting hands on the P on a regular basis is almost impossible at flying club. Thoughts? M The 172 R and S models are nice airplanes. Performance-wise there's not much difference with the 172P whi...

Assuming the same parameters as a nexrad display -- yellow can get rough and be moderate precip. Can also change to red without warning. Green is much safer, generally lighter precip and turbulance. That is quite a concerning line by the looks of the picture, especially if it was dark / IFR embedde...

I should like to hear about the conditions from the occupants of the club's other aircraft that was shortly ahead of the accident plane on the same route at the same time.

Night IFR in potentially stormy conditions...pretty sporty for low-timers at a flying club.

A 120 knots also suggests a stall/spin doesn't it? Especially if the speed was relatively constant over the last few thousand feet....

GTNT took off from YLW five minutes after I did yesterday; I doubt it was weather related. My condolences to those affected.

So no icing conditions were present in the area at the time?