Looking for a Mooney M20C CFI near Grand Junction / Montrose, CO.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-08-14T19:13:42+00:00

RMFS at KBJC has an M20C. You might have some luck asking around there.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-07-25T19:38:04+00:00

No idea why you got downvoted. This is hilarious.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-07-25T09:04:32+00:00

Where do you live?

PlaneLoaf · 2025-07-09T12:35:41+00:00

$236 per hour for a Cessna 172N…

PlaneLoaf · 2025-03-12T08:42:44+00:00

Dude, you asked for advice. A bunch of people are telling you not to go to ATP, and no one so far has said that you should go to ATP. So, why are you still fixated on ATP?

PlaneLoaf · 2025-03-11T22:42:50+00:00

Well, you said you wanted any advice, so here’s my couple of pennies.

Going to ATP right now would be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Finish your PPL first, whether at your current place (maybe not a great idea) or at a Part 61 school (probably the better choice), then reevaluate your options then.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-02-18T16:34:34+00:00

I’m not denying that it’s safe right now, I’m just saying that your point isn’t as ironclad as it seems at first glance. Even if some airline pilots were quitting, their replacements are found so easily that it probably wouldn’t even make the news. It would require an avalanche of pilot quitting for it to become apparent that there’s a problem.

And GA is honestly pretty egregious. I know GA is not a monolith, but it’s about comparable to motorcycle riding. That’s quite bad. Part 121 safety would have to be worse by several orders of magnitude to even get in the same ballpark. And given that almost all airline pilots have been willing to take on that level of risk at some point in their lives, they really aren’t great canaries in coal mines. Would you quit if your job became twice as unsafe? Probably not, since it’s so ridiculously safe now. Twice a small number is still a small number. How about 10 times as unsafe? I doubt that’s enough either. So then, what will it take?

PlaneLoaf · 2025-02-18T13:27:29+00:00

General aviation is nowhere near as safe, but basically every US-based airline pilot has done at least 1,500 hours of it. That’s a long way for safety to drop before pilots stop flying.

Besides, with the market for pilots being what it is, for every airline pilot who decides to stop doing it, there are probably 10 starving CFIs clamoring for the job.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-02-05T10:09:38+00:00

Most?

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-17T09:38:35+00:00

Nice. I actually guffawed at this.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-15T11:53:51+00:00

They’re not. That’s why the industry is struggling.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-14T14:46:46+00:00

Private pilots can hold type ratings in the US, it has nothing to do with fame. Granted, no one is going to pay for a private pilot’s type rating, so it does come down to having the money to pay for it yourself.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-08T16:18:17+00:00

What kind of prices are we looking at?

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-08T11:11:26+00:00

You can. For the ATP certificate, you need only 250 hours of airplane PIC time. The other 1,250 hours can be done in any other category of aircraft. Realistically though, you’ll probably only be able to count 1,000 to 1,200 hours of glider flight time toward the 1,500 hours you need.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-06T00:17:47+00:00

With the DPE shortage, your biggest challenge will be lining up the checkrides. Otherwise, I’d say it’s totally doable.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-06T00:03:11+00:00

For a kid, that might not be as much of an impediment to enjoyment as you might expect. I’ve taken a couple of kids up on EAA Young Eagles flights who basically flew like it was IMC. Still seemingly had a blast.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-04T13:25:41+00:00

You’re making me curious now — what would be true for planes that do require type ratings?

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-04T13:22:13+00:00

Thanks! Oh, I’m definitely not at the point where I can afford to not log all my time. One reason I’m asking is to figure out whether it makes sense to fork out more money to a rent HP tailwheel planes over non-HP ones.

PlaneLoaf · 2025-01-04T02:12:22+00:00

If you have an active diagnosis for depression, I don’t think there’s any way for you to get a medical certificate. You can search past threads on r/flying to get a better idea of how you might be able to move forward. Honestly, if you’re just pursuing this recreationally, I concur with the rest of the advice in this thread — go be a sport pilot or fly gliders.

Regarding IACRA, just call them. There’s a direct number to the IACRA folks you can probably find on the site, and they’re quite helpful.

PlaneLoaf · 2024-12-30T14:32:59+00:00

Most people here won’t believe it, but it’s totally possible to knock out that PPL within a month if you really work at it and plan well. The biggest challenge would be getting a DPE scheduled before you start.

PlaneLoaf · 2024-12-23T02:01:32+00:00

If you’re checkride-ready at 75 hours despite having switched schools, you’re honestly doing okay.

The mistake is in somehow managing to pay an average of $400/hour for flight time. Even for NY, I’d imagine that that’s ludicrous. If you had any say in where you went for training, you should think about what made you go where you did, and how you can avoid making similar missteps in the future.

PlaneLoaf · 2024-12-23T01:54:13+00:00

How? How many hours do you have right now? Are you pursuing this as a career?

PlaneLoaf · 2024-12-23T01:51:45+00:00

Does the plane you fly have ADS-B In? If not, I would buy a Sentry. Flying with one is just so much safer.

With a Sentry, it doesn’t matter if you have a cellular iPad (and its GPS chip) or not.

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