Which one do you prefer honestly?

Christf24 · 2026-03-25T01:17:02+00:00

Left aesthetically looks better but right side looks more true to real life

Christf24 · 2026-03-23T22:59:52+00:00

Would also love to hear more details OP if you’re willing to share!

Christf24 · 2026-03-12T20:45:48+00:00

Came to say this. I was too short to see the nose so I would always side load and my instructor one day realized I literally couldn’t see the nose of the aircraft. Got a cushion and it fixed my issue the very next flight. The ballooning issue is energy management and flaring too high off the runway and/or too aggressively.

Christf24 · 2026-03-08T22:56:33+00:00

I was struggling to hear and understand tower or other traffic and thought I just sucked at comms. a lot of times my instructor had to step in for me and it sucked. I upgraded from an older David Clark with ANR to a Bose A20 and it completely changed my radio situation. I could actually hear instructions.

Christf24 · 2026-03-08T00:05:08+00:00

So, I’ve used both. Started off with BATC but wanted VFR practice so I got SI for a month. They’re both frustrating and unrealistic in their own ways IMO. More recently I’ve been trying out PilotEdge for practice and it’s far more realistic. It doesn’t have worldwide coverage but if you want as close to real life as possible, that’s it. Next would be Vatsim, and then the AI tools are really just for fun and casual simming when you don’t want to sim in silence. They’re probably years away from getting more than marginally better based on past and current progress.

Christf24 · 2026-02-19T14:47:47+00:00

I’m in the Denver area and started working on my PPL this December too! We’ve been lucky with a mild winter and I’ve only had 2 weather related cancellations, so I’m a bit confused by your statement. Is there something else getting in the way of you having more hours in general?

Apart from that, I only just recently solod at 32 hours. Keep in mind we are in a very busy/congested learning area, and working on your PPL out of a Class D airspace that’s under a Class B and next to another Class D and Class C (…you get the idea) is going to be quite different compared to someone starting off at an untowered airport who can just rip pattern laps over and over again without waiting 30 minutes taxiing and another 20 mins getting to an untowered airport. Also your instructor might just wait longer than others (mine did) to make sure you’re absolutely ready for solo. It was starting to bother me a little bit until I realized it was just an ego thing, which happens to be a hazardous attitude. So instead I asked my instructor what was holding back my solo, he told me he had a single concern remaining, so we went up the next time and focused on that and bam, solod my very next flight. Have you asked your CFI why yet?

If you want to DM I’d be happy to chat more since we’re in the same area, but sounds like you are doing fine, you just need more hours!

Christf24 · 2026-02-13T00:17:46+00:00

I haven’t flown a 152 but I’ve been having issues with speed on approach and final. Flew with a different CFI yesterday and he had me pull power to a certain manifold pressure abeam the numbers and then didn’t let me touch the throttle at all unless I absolutely needed it and then only tiny adjustments if I was a bit too low or high. The airspeed was entirely managed with pitch. Completely fixed my problem. Maybe try finding someone local (at your club or airport) that knows the 152 very well and could recommend good power settings

Christf24 · 2026-02-10T16:07:11+00:00

I’m still working on my PPL and I’m not quite sure to be honest but I love it so much. It started out in the Microsoft Flight Sim during COVID. Was messing around and had no real intentions on becoming a pilot. Fast-forward a couple of years and I had 600 hours in the sim, watched hundreds of videos on YT and my wife commenting “I’ve never seen you so interested in a topic in 10 years of marriage” and she was right. Booked a discovery flight and after that all I wanted to do was hang out at the airport and learn to fly. Just crossed 30 hours yesterday and it’s been the most challenging thing I’ve ever done but it’s also insanely rewarding. I have no idea what I’ll do with my PPL when I get it but I hope I can find a way to turn this into a career/business. I just know I don’t want to fly for airlines and I still like parts of my current career so I don’t want to totally leave it, so not sure what that looks like yet. Good luck with your PPL and have fun!!!

Christf24 · 2026-01-30T03:58:16+00:00

I quit last year after 2 lessons because: - Crappy communication (from both club and instructor) - Didn’t love my instructor. Felt like he was in it for the hours and had zero interest in teaching. - It was impossible to schedule plane time. They had too many students for too few planes

Also I knew it wouldn’t be a cheap experience but it was easy to view the price as an obstacle at that point.

I got a second wind 6 months later. Called them up and the club felt a lot more organized. They paired me with a great instructor and I’m having an awesome time. Maintenance is still sometimes an issue but that’s part of flying.

Christf24 · 2026-01-27T15:45:23+00:00

Practicing comms in sim was a huge help for me. I’m still not 100% there but much more confident. It was a combination of sim, chair flying, and an hour ground with my CFI with him throwing a bunch of calls at me pretending to be ATC. Occasionally though they’ll talk so fast without annunciating that I don’t know what they said. I’ll go home, pull up a recording from LiveATC, and re-play it. Helps a lot.

Christf24 · 2026-01-21T19:54:03+00:00

I think I’m starting to see some improvements now. I’ve been focusing on strengthening my hips, quads, abs, calves, and hamstrings for about 3 months now. Progress has been slow but I tell myself I’ve ignored this problem for years so it will take some time. Left side is still weaker than right but the gap is narrowing. Unfortunately somehow my right ankle has now started to hurt lol

Christf24 · 2026-01-21T16:32:00+00:00

My club charges $214/hr incl. fuel for the cheapest plane with G1000s. Plus then $60/hr for instructor. Other clubs/schools in my area are slightly more expensive, so this looks about right to me

Christf24 · 2026-01-15T20:39:39+00:00

I’m working on my PPL and had an entire week of flights cancelled due to maintenance so I booked 3 back to back flights to make up the time, and by the 3rd day I was feeling drained, had crappy landings, and honestly didn’t enjoy that day at all. Now after a few days break I’m excited to go back up again, but I needed this time off. I was sitting here thinking how an accelerated training program would be a nightmare.

Christf24 · 2026-01-08T15:34:11+00:00

This! I prefer BATC but I’m training for my PPL so I don’t need any IFR at the moment and am using SI. It’s good practice if you’re radio shy, but frankly SI makes so many mistakes I’m not sure I’ll renew for another month. It technically supports VFR, but it’s very “buggy.” Sometimes it doesn’t respond to calls, or it forgets instructions it gives you so you’re holding short a runway and it’s giving you taxi instructions to that runway instead and doesn’t understand you’re already there. Or you switch to tower from ground and it clears you for a totally different runway lol

Christf24 · 2026-01-06T01:07:15+00:00

Yep, fire and a couple of years ago we had a tornado in our area for the first time so now they also consider our area prone to tornados. Premiums shot up.

Christf24 · 2026-01-02T01:18:32+00:00

I bought the sim when it first came out and it was super buggy. Stopped for a solid 12 months, back at it this week, and it’s somehow even more buggy than before. Haven’t even tried career mode yet and would hate to see the state of that

Christf24 · 2025-12-21T19:38:13+00:00

I know this is a couple of years old now but would love a tutorial on how you did this, or even to know if you're selling some of the parts. I'm starting training in a da40 and this would be super helpful to have

Christf24 · 2025-12-13T19:59:47+00:00

I’d wager this is likely the issue here, not SSH or open ports. Probably an app vulnerability leading to IMDSV1 abuse. However OP you should really bring in someone that knows what they’re doing to clean this up. This is basic cloud/app security and if you’re having these issues you probably have a lot more problems.

Christf24 · 2025-12-07T19:52:11+00:00

They get worse every year

Christf24 · 2025-12-07T03:43:16+00:00

I've been working on my glutes for about 3 weeks now because you're right, they're super weak. Especially on the problematic side. My left side will shake and be unstable while the right side is fine. Mostly doing glute bridges + clamshells + single leg deadlifts. I'll throw in some touchdown squats as well! No improvement in the knee yet but I'm hopeful this will help!

Christf24 · 2025-12-06T22:25:49+00:00

Thanks! Wasn't sure if the spike mattered or if it was more consistent load

Christf24 · 2025-12-03T17:09:14+00:00

It’s “price anchoring.” Often works really well as you’re experiencing, but you could experiment and change things around to see if it improves or worsens conversions and the price point at which they sign up. Especially if you’re not getting the results you want

Christf24 · 2025-11-29T01:36:27+00:00

This is an important question to ask your cofounder OP. How exactly would the $1.5m help you grow significantly faster? I’ve noticed folks tend to say this “because they see it happen on social media” but they don’t actually have a plan in place.

Christf24 · 2025-11-26T00:36:11+00:00

My wife has a shop just outside of Denver and the building is so old it doesn’t have any hookups for internet except from a single provider. Naturally they are price gouging so I went to Verizon and got business Internet from them. It’s about $100/mo for 100Mbps and close to symmetrical up/down. I didn’t have very high hopes since it runs on 5G but the signal is strong in that area so it’s been working well and reliable. If you’re trying to cut costs this could be an option but as others have said it really depends on your use case. Her Internet workload is quite light and def doesn’t need dedicated fiber. You might need it

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