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- Sun Jul 30, 2017 8:08 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Winnipeg Aviation?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1467
Winnipeg Aviation?
Anyone have any experience with these guys? Thinking of renting from them next I'm in the peg.
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 1:24 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Instructor bashers your wish has come true
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3585
Re: Instructor bashers you wish has come true
Hi BPF
Do you have any stats on that? Just curious if that's anecdotal or if you have TC numbers?
Do you have any stats on that? Just curious if that's anecdotal or if you have TC numbers?
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: ~ Is Foreflite worth it ? Navigation Questions
- Replies: 59
- Views: 6559
Re: ~ Is Foreflite worth it ? Navigation Questions
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...
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:21 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: ~ Is Foreflite worth it ? Navigation Questions
- Replies: 59
- Views: 6559
Re: ~ Is Foreflite worth it ? Navigation Questions
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...
- Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:36 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: ~ Is Foreflite worth it ? Navigation Questions
- Replies: 59
- Views: 6559
Re: ~ Is Foreflite worth it ? Navigation Questions
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...
- Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:43 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: AC Lining Up with a Taxiway SFO...?
- Replies: 830
- Views: 85880
Re: AC Lining Up with a Taxiway SFO...?
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...
- Fri Jul 14, 2017 11:30 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Wheel landing or three point?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8532
Re: Wheel landing or three point?
Who cares? Switch to tricycle, and you don't have to worry about it.
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:13 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: I CAN'T LAND A C172
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5616
Re: I CAN'T LAND A C172
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.
- Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:16 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Learning to fly in a taildragger: historical
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5807
Re: Learning to fly in a taildragger: historical
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...
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 11:55 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: What will it take to be employed ( instructor candidate 50 years old)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1637
Re: What will it take to be employed ( instructor candidate 50 years old)
FWIW looks like a lot of over 50 year old instructors here with pretty varied backgrounds....
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- Sat Dec 10, 2016 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Benefits of learning gliding as powered aircraft pilot?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3269
Re: Benefits of learning gliding as powered aircraft pilot?
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...
- Sat Dec 10, 2016 4:01 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Benefits of learning gliding as powered aircraft pilot?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3269
Re: Benefits of learning gliding as powered aircraft pilot?
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...
- Sat Dec 10, 2016 12:54 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Benefits of learning gliding as powered aircraft pilot?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3269
Re: Benefits of learning gliding as powered aircraft pilot?
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.
- Sun Nov 20, 2016 4:56 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The future
- Replies: 228
- Views: 31630
Re: The future
You mean the war that Hillary Clinton voted in favour of?Hillary Clinton's misdeeds pale in comparison to that sh*tshow.
- Sun Nov 20, 2016 3:48 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The future
- Replies: 228
- Views: 31630
Re: The future
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...
- Sun Nov 20, 2016 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: The future
- Replies: 228
- Views: 31630
Re: The future
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 ...
- Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:00 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: Calgary Flight Training Centre
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4264
Re: Calgary Flight Training Centre
Not quite - they have a 172S available.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.
- Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:30 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: 172 P or R for PPL
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4023
Re: 172 P or R for PPL
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...
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 4:56 pm
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: 172 P or R for PPL
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4023
Re: 172 P or R for PPL
BFC Is a good facility. I used to rent from them. They have a Citabria if you want to do tailwheel.
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 11:30 am
- Forum: Flight Training
- Topic: 172 P or R for PPL
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4023
Re: 172 P or R for PPL
oops yes sorry about that...it's been a while. Post corrected.Someone needs to review the POH procedures for the C172 Models R and S ...