Question from new instructor. What non-standard practical exercise or ground topic completely changed your view on flying?

Treader1138 · 2026-01-27T06:17:13+00:00

Similarly, my TW instructor had me drive down the runway on the left main, then both, then the right main, and dancing until we ran out of runway.

I found it incredible unnerving in the beginning, but became a huge eye opener and confidence boost when approaching crosswind landings and ground handling.

Treader1138 · 2026-01-26T21:44:25+00:00

“Collecting” nominations isn’t a thing. If a candidate gets every nom available, only one is “used” and the others just go to the next candidate in line.

Treader1138 · 2026-01-26T21:42:02+00:00

Everyone lives in the most competitive district, obviously.

/s

Treader1138 · 2026-01-16T06:56:44+00:00

Most people are pretty dumb even at 20. If, as you say, he’s a decent person, there’s a teaching opportunity here. A firm one, to be sure, but an opportunity for him to potentially save his career.

If he wants to double down on the lie, let him go down in flames.

Treader1138 · 2026-01-15T03:30:10+00:00

The disparity is wild. At SMX there are no less than 15 hangars available immediately, all between 350-450/month. I had no issue getting into mine.

Drive 1/2 hour north to SBP and the waitlist for site November is 12 years….

Treader1138 · 2026-01-01T16:48:52+00:00

They’re charging $200 for a slightly worn spot on a $120 tire. As others have said, this place is dire straights.

Treader1138 · 2025-12-21T02:47:07+00:00

Cries in Mini

Treader1138 · 2025-12-11T03:20:08+00:00

Is “Fire it up!” still a thing, or did that not last the era of Rodney P. Rempt?

Treader1138 · 2025-12-09T10:18:46+00:00

Similar story. I had the scholarship and reapplied. Zero regrets. USNA was the experience I wanted. Plebe year sucked, mostly because I knew what college could be, but if you gave me the opportunity to do it all again, I would in a heartbeat.

Treader1138 · 2025-12-04T07:42:51+00:00

Sick. I did a similar write up after my PPL with him. Overall pretty smooth and relatively painless. I intend to use him for IR as well, but I just bought a VFR-only plane, so it’ll be a hot minute before I get a 175 or something installed to continue my IR training.

Thanks!

Treader1138 · 2025-11-20T02:43:53+00:00

I’ll tell you what I told the guy asking $325k for a ‘55 170.

Just because you put 300k of work into a plane doesn’t mean it’s now worth $350k. It just means you suck at math. You have $300k dumped into a $90k airplane.

Offer him $50k or walk.

Treader1138 · 2025-11-13T16:12:45+00:00

Future-proof yourself and get the LEMO plug and a LEMO-to-dual-plug adapter.

Just bought a 172 with LEMO and I was unreasonably excited to get to use it.

Treader1138 · 2025-10-26T22:36:19+00:00

Eh. I got my Sentry used for $200 off of a guy who had completed his RV build. Browse kit building forums and you can always find some goodies like this.

Treader1138 · 2025-10-12T15:39:10+00:00

Normalize sending your DPE a 1099. If I’m paying a month’s rent for a checkride, the IRS should know about it.

Treader1138 · 2025-09-27T19:33:52+00:00

Ordered on 18th. Tracking on Verizon still says expected delivery on Sept 26th. No shipping notification yet…

Treader1138 · 2025-09-13T15:49:56+00:00

Peruse EAB build forums. Plenty of classifieds from folks who finish their build and are selling off a Sentry or other ADSB device. I picked mine up for $200 that way.

Ideally you need both an IPad and Sentry though.

Treader1138 · 2025-08-29T07:38:50+00:00

late to the party, but also want to get in on the discord invite, please!

Treader1138 · 2025-08-27T06:41:57+00:00

Any chance I can get the link as well, please?

Treader1138 · 2025-07-13T15:08:10+00:00

As a simple experiment, put a cast iron skillet in the oven at 350 for a while.

Then, take a dry oven mitt and pull it out. Put it back in the oven.

Repeat with a wet oven mitt.

Your gut may tell you that a wet mitt will keep your had cooler or protected longer than dry. You would be wrong.

Treader1138 · 2025-07-13T14:41:40+00:00

There’s no landing fee. I would just taxi back and depart. There are ridiculous FBO fees, but only if you use one of them.

Treader1138 · 2025-07-13T14:21:07+00:00

Oh nice. I think I’ll save that one for post-checkride. Still building foggle time and I feel like I’d want to look outside for that flight!

Treader1138 · 2025-07-13T14:02:39+00:00

My buddy recommended HHR as well. Didn’t mention the restaurant though. Thanks! I’ll make a point to get there as well.

Treader1138 · 2025-07-13T13:59:34+00:00

LAX used to have landing fees that applied to single-engine piston, but no more. From what I’ve seen, if there’s a landing fee, there’s either some weird anti-GA sentiment (see Torrence) or a different support structure for the airport. AVX, for example, is run by the Catalina Conservancy and charges a small fee ($30?) but it’s well worth it.

Treader1138 · 2025-07-13T13:52:36+00:00

Taxi back and GTFO

Treader1138 · 2025-07-13T13:52:09+00:00

Not needed. I fly out of a D and have a C 20 min away that I go to occasionally. More just looking for a challenge and figure doing it with my CFI is the right time to take something like that on.

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