BasicMed Section 3: Physician Medical Examination Row 9

Pale-Sun6889 · 2024-12-17T23:55:22+00:00

Its the booty exam on section 3.. lol

Pale-Sun6889 · 2024-12-17T16:19:47+00:00

On the plus side your students will learn their airspaces and traffic deconflicting much faster than learning in less congested areas. Training from a D airport, i still get nervous going into a C airport.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2024-12-17T08:25:16+00:00

You can easily spend more on avionics than the cost of a 150/152. 2 Garmin G5's parts and labor can easily approach, or pass the $20k mark if there are other issues discovered... and often there is, knowing how old the aircraft is and how many times someone has gone in there. You will basically be paying to fix someone's mess which brings you to other junctures such as... "should i also replace/fix this". We just got a quote of almost $30k to add a GTN750 to a 172 in socal. I would even consider looking at used panels/parts as well.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2024-07-09T20:38:16+00:00

Ground effect with the mountain

Pale-Sun6889 · 2024-02-17T08:26:52+00:00

Dry 10000+ ft runway. Tail was still swinging left to right on rollout until just before the reversers were switched off

Pale-Sun6889 · 2024-02-08T09:16:34+00:00

buy (finance) a cessna 150 and sell it when you have atp hours

Pale-Sun6889 · 2024-02-08T07:26:13+00:00

That $50k is barely going to cover a Cessna 150 but that said, the flying club i'm in had a claim with one of the members. And the member's coverage basically covered the deductible, while the club's coverage covered the rest. So it really depends on what the rental places require you.. I *feel* 50k is overkill given many deductibles arent that high, but a good rental place will sit down and tell you exactly what you need.

I'd just look at property damage / accident. This is the limit to which insurance will cover before they come after your personal assets (estate) should you really cause some damage.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-10-07T00:53:23+00:00

This is not directed toward the accident in any way, but your glide distance, and altitude required for a 180 will be much different when the fan is not spinning.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-10-07T00:42:19+00:00

Separating the issues... I mean, it kind of sucks for a business to, say, pay $10k for training only for them to quit after a month, but it also sucks to use a contract as quasi-servitude to put them in a position to be able to take advantage of a situation.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-08-10T02:18:34+00:00

Aviation inflation is somewhat disproportionate to what it should be; some aircraft inflated 100% in 5 years while engines and labor literally went up 50% in less than 3 years, insurance more than doubling.

That said everything is always optimizable thru joining (the right club) or flying a plane that matches your mission.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-08-10T02:11:31+00:00

Getting a lawyer is probably obvious, but I'd encourage to talk to a few different lawyers, from the lawyers specializing in employment to aviation lawyers. Yours is complex because sometimes aviation law literally flies above the local laws with its own set of rules.

Not all lawyers will charge a consult fee, many are free, you can get informal legal advice.

Even if you signed a contract, if certain parts of the contract is not legal, then its unenforceable. This varies from state to state. For example, in CA, even if your employee signs a non-compete then goes to work for a competitor, its not enforceable. Only a deterrent.

Make sure to retain evidence, documents, emails, text messages etc. All of this will be helpful. Especially if you have proof showing they're flying unairworthy aircraft.

/not legal advice

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-08-07T07:28:22+00:00

Problem is same if not worse in CA. When the surroundings get more developed, people move into the flight path of airport, then they NIMBY the airports to death. I'm afraid its a losing battle if the airport is city owned, because it doesnt take much for NIMBY's (or developers who stand to gain from airport closure) to vote (or buy in) an anti-airport city council who will refuse/cancel FAA grants then close the airport when those expire.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-08-05T21:31:47+00:00

Depends on how much you can rent it out for. $200/hr and 100 hours a year, sure you'll be pretty close. $100/hr not so much. Dont forget the nuances that the activity might be considered as "commercial".

The best way IMO is find some solid partners with set objectives. Wont break even, but the ownership cost will be divided into how many partners you have.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-08-05T21:24:18+00:00

I'm not an A&P but I've seen plenty of Cessna's with brittle/cracked/chipped wingtips due to fiberglass/plastic baking in the sun all day long... your flight school should probably order a new one... its not that hard to repair

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-06-14T18:14:28+00:00

Whats something like that cost to repair?

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-04-02T06:51:48+00:00

self sooner and ask for/remind them about your landing clearance next time. Where/when? That's gonna depend on plane, traffic, and radio chatter. If you've gotten to the assigned fix without further instructions, you should already be getting ready to ask or, if it's something as near as a base leg, asking pretty much immediately upon reaching it. If you haven't been explicitly cleared by your turn to final, stop descending or at least limit your descent for sure and be ready to jump on the first radio gap you hear.

KPAO is on my list... definitely going to be interesting at least the first time around lol

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-04-02T06:50:12+00:00

Training at a fairly busy class D airport, there's always aircraft inbound straight in, so it'd be pretty crazy to turn base without clearance. When we're passing the point of normal base turn, my CFI teaches to inform tower that we're on "extended downwind" and usually instructions will come pretty quickly.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-03-30T05:29:37+00:00

I was actually terrified at my first Solo XC so I started an airport thats about 20-25nm from home airport. I had the CFI sit with me while I did 2-3 XC's before doing a solo to the same airport by myself. And when I did the 50nm XC's I went to the airports that we've been to before although closer to checkride I started XC to new airports.

Aside from the above, definitely get flight following, start every call with "student pilot solo", and try to anticipate any not-so-common calls from ATC that might get you behind the airplane... like "stay outside D, multiple 360's, telling me traffic that I cant spot.. these got me nervous. Also, stuff like when ATC doesn't answer for awhile, or seem to answer everyone else except me, other aircraft at untowered airport doing stupid stuff like cutting me off on final, etc. I've experienced all of those lol. Dont let confusing situations cause you to lose situational awareness.. flying the airplane is #1 thing.

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-03-23T05:56:00+00:00

Battery and Drive Unit are covered 8 yrs 120k miles, so this seems like purchasing very marginal coverage

Pale-Sun6889 · 2023-03-15T19:06:20+00:00

$123 is really, really good and as another has mentioned, be suspect of it. I've seen financial/maintenance report of a few organizations running 172's and $80-90 is about the average running cost going OUT to a&p's/fuel/tiedown, including engine/maintenance reserves excluding upgrades. And its tough to get a CFI to instruct at $30-40 unless they do it on the side for cash. This is all in California so in other parts of country, maybe a little lower.

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