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MUSKEG · Post by **MUSKEG** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:05 am

I'm thrilled you were able to overcome your fright.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:15 am

I'm just happy I can post content you enjoy. We're going to Denny's maybe I'll take pictures of my "grand slamwich" and make another thread for you. Have a nice day!

MUSKEG · Post by **MUSKEG** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:46 am

I imagine you go to Denny's because they have a picture menu and yes, I am having a nice day! Thanks.

pez · Post by **pez** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:51 am

MUSKEG wrote:I imagine you go to Denny's because they have a picture menu and yes, I am having a nice day! Thanks.

It's all about the picture menu! Sorta a thing. I usually make it a point to get something that's pictured if at a place with pictures on the menu.... So I can point and say "that"... Usually to the great consternation of the girlfriend.... But then, I'm sorta a jerk at times. So.

Back on topic - sounds good on the flying bit!

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:17 pm

No worries pez, it's all good, welcome to the thread.

MUSKEG wrote:I imagine you go to Denny's because they have a picture menu and yes, I am having a nice day! Thanks.

Actually I like sonic because they also have pictures for us illiterates and they rollerskate to bring chicago style hot dogs.
The muskeg slam was pretty good though. I just wish he could have been there to smell the watermelon scented marker I drew the valentine with.

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Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:44 pm

Well I went for the fourth time this year and the two instructional flights really paid off. Today's flight went excellent. Most of the time I held my altitudes perfectly and my stall recoveries were usually within a hundred feet according to the altimeter.

I need some gliding practice, I ended up a bit too high on my forced approach again. I could not save it even with an excellent slip.

My steep turns to the right were excellent and to the left could use some polishing up.

I did a straight in approach which made for a flat landing. I started the flare a bit high but fixed it up so the only complaint could be I was left of the center line. The instructor was way less put out by that than I was.

Yes Trey I booked again for a couple of weeks. I'd love to go more often if I could get better sponsors.

Hi muskeg.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:37 am

I'm really getting my feel back for flying again. I noticed I am using the rudder much more instinctively again. I have been making yaw corrections by feel, then looking at the ball to check on what the plane was doing and seeing that it was what needed to be done. I can hold an altitude and heading very well and have started using the trim wheel like it should be, instead of spinning it wildly like the big show case money wheel on the price is right.

Last flight I also started to treat the upy downy/roll the wings thing like a yoke instead of a car steering wheel. Made for nice straight stalls with no wing drop at all.

The only down side to yesterday's flight was getting a late start then sitting on the ground waiting for departure instead of finishing the upper air work they need to see to sign off my currency. Yay Springbank international airport. Oh well, I suppose we didn't need that fifty bucks for something of value.

I don't mind if any Moderator type people want to send this thread to a different area.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 6:14 pm

I put 1.8 on the clock of November7813gulf. We left OGG this morning and headed north west, flew past the tallest sea cliffs in the world we were told then to LUP for a cross wind landing. I parked on the grass, we took some pictures, made one of the dogs bark, took a whizz and fired up the plane for a short field take off. Flew along the coast of Lanai, looked at some hump backs, went around Kahoolawe, past Molakini then back to OGG.

I don't mind but you should mention you're going to charge $10 for head sets.

Edit: fixed dislexic airport identifier. PUL is someplace else way out of range for a 172.

CpnCrunch · Post by **CpnCrunch** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:34 pm

Beefitarian wrote:I put 1.8 on the clock of November7813gulf. We left OGG this morning and headed north west, flew past the tallest sea cliffs in the world we were told then to PUL for a cross wind landing. I parked on the grass, we took some pictures, made one of the dogs bark, took a whizz and fired up the plane for a short field take off. Flew along the coast of Lanai, looked at some hump backs, went around Kahoolawe, past Molakini then back to OGG.

I don't mind but you should mention you're going to charge $10 for head sets.

Sounds like fun, but was there much turbulence? I hear it can get a bit blowy out there in the middle of the pacific!

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:06 am

There were some bumps but I'd say moderate and they were fairly isolated. I'm pretty good riding them out, keep the plane upright and don't make it worse by over correcting. Fortunately we practiced yesterday by driving that local road on the north east coast of Maui with all the one lane bridges.

The cross wind was not huge but I could use more practice on them. I kind of remembered what to do but was not assertive enough. The instructor put in lots of aileron when he helped correct to the centerline. I thought, "Oh, that much." then whined after, that I wasn't going to note it as one of my better landings but he chuckled and said, "It wasn't that bad."

I highly recommend www.mauiaviators.com even with the extras it was just over $500.

CpnCrunch · Post by **CpnCrunch** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:45 am

In a strong wind, as long as you keep the plane going in roughly the right direction and you don't break anything, that's a good landing! Normally I find that I'm yanking the controls like a madman, but it usually settles down when you get down near the ground.

Are there any hoops to jump through to fly on a Canadian PPL in the USA? Or did you just fly with an instructor all the time?

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:21 am

You need an FAA license to fly an American registered plane solo.
Apparently it is just a written air law exam to Get one based on your Canadian license.

Edit: don't read this next part I made red.
It really looks like a good way to purchase an N registered plane, keep it registered there and save the hassle of registering it here.

I was looking for something about this and found a post about a guy getting a million dollar fine for not re-registering his plane in Alberta.

As for these trips I find they are short enough that by the time I would get checked out it will add more than the $60/hour for the instructor to come along.

I must admit for myself, even if you would prefer to talk to ATC, I feel having a local guy that knows all the check points and frequencies is luxury. I do hold the chart.

CpnCrunch · Post by **CpnCrunch** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:53 pm

Is it possible to fly with an instructor in an N-reg plane in the USA using a Canadian PPL?

Colonel Sanders · Post by **Colonel Sanders** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:32 pm

You need an FAA license to fly an American registered plane

No.

Apparently it is just a written air law exam to Get one based on your Canadian license

No.

It really looks like a good way to purchase an N registered plane, keep it registered there and save the hassle of registering it here.

No.

Is it possible to fly with an instructor in an N-reg plane in the USA using a Canadian PPL?

Uh, yes. If the aircraft is certificated for single-pilot operation, the instructor is PIC and you don't need any qualifications, even a student pilot permit from Tanzania.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:34 pm

Stop saying no and word it properly.

Colonel Sanders · Post by **Colonel Sanders** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:35 pm

My 4th answer was yes.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:45 pm

True

Colonel can be difficult but seems to know a lot about the FAA workings. If I flew more often I would be looking for the valuable info he has posted here about conversions and it's not called a license there maybe.

I have a Canadian PPL and flew N registered flight school c-172s with an instructor, both this time with my wife and last year by myself near LosAngeles when I had only flown once since 2006.

If you are doing a short flight I believe it is slightly less expensive this way because doing a check ride might even take as long as the flights I did took. Then you would drop off the instructor to acually do the flight. In the case of this time I would not have wanted to go solo partially because it was nice to have another pilot looking for helicopters.

You need the FAA license to do a rental check and fly solo. If you have an instructor on board you are flying with him as the pilot in command since he has an FAA license. If you clicked the link their website says you need to be a licensed pilot to do the Familiarization flights but he told me they would do one if you were not. I guess you just wouldn't control the plane. For me that was the best part. Both times the instructors I had were like passengers that had local knowledge and were great guys, friendly and helpful because I did not have to know when to call on the way back and they tuned in the right frequencies. I just relaxed and flew the plane this time, I did a bunch of the radio calls last time.

I did very close to all the flying, he just put in some more right aileron since I was being way too timid and started to drift a little left close to touch down. The airport http://hawaii.gov/lup/overview is uncontrolled and so we don't know what the winds were exactly they were pretty fair and slightly from the right of runway 05.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:49 pm

Here's the thread with the first trip.
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=71256&hilit=Catalina
It was also a spectacular way to spend a morning.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:43 pm

Colonel Sanders wrote:
You need an FAA license to fly an American registered plane
No.

Apparently it is just a written air law exam to Get one based on your Canadian license
No.

You know I meant solo on the first one. I can't find your post about Canadian pilot's license conversions. I must have imagined it.

This could be good because it's starting to make me hate the Internet.

Colonel Sanders · Post by **Colonel Sanders** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:43 pm

In case someone is writing a book:

You don't need an FAA Pilot Certificate to receive dual in the USA from an FAA Certified Flight Instructor (CFI), though technically TSA is supposed to know about it ahead of time. I'm sure you couldn't care less what a federal agency like the TSA thinks.

You don't need an FAA pilot Certificate to act as PIC of an N-registered aircraft in Canada.

As the holder of a Canadian Pilot Licence you can get an FAA Pilot Certificate two different ways:

FAR 61.75 allows any holder of an ICAO PPL/CPL/ATPL to obtain an FAA Private Pilot Certificate which relies upon the foreign licence. No medical, no written test, no flight test. Valid for night, SEL, MEL as appropriate. If you write the IFP you can get an instrument rating on it. All you have to do is fill out the verification form and take the letter the FAA mails you, to a FSDO.

Now for something completely different. The IPL allows you, as the holder of a Canadian PPL/CPL/ATPL, to obtain a normal, self-standing (different from a 61.75 above) corresponding FAA Private/Commercial/ATP Certificate. Same verification letter. You need to do an FAA medical (and keep it valid). You also need to write a little test. Same visit to the FSDO.

PS I'm not sure why people feel they are entitled to the above sort of information, for free. Reminds me of a certain federal Liberal Cabinet Minister:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dingwall

When questioned while giving testimony before Parliament as to why he felt he should receive a severance package after the voluntary resignation, he remarked "I'm entitled to my entitlements."

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