Where should I go for my 3 cross countries?

I second the MSP suggestion. I don't know, we were in there during their afternoon push and it didn't seem stressful at all to me. Like at all big airports, taxiing is a little more interesting, but it was pretty easy. I fly around Chicago a lot though, so that could be why I feel that way. Sounds like your instructor is pretty laid back, so I bet he'd feel the same way about going there.
 
Farva said:
I know most people fly in the morning, I do that when ever I go home to Las Vegas. It gets hot there as well but the thing I am cautioning is that when it gets that hot and since you are up in a higher altitude, the aircraft does not perform very good at all. Flying a cessna 172 or a piper warrior in that kind of heat is like flying a brick.
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Oh yeah! This past summer a friend and I flew a 172 from Martha's Vineyard over to Cape Cod for lunch and back. It was 98 degrees that day. That plane could barely crawl over the Atlantic. Not to mention the two heat-stroke victims stuck inside!! :)
 
MrLeisure757 said:
Oh yeah! This past summer a friend and I flew a 172 from Martha's Vineyard over to Cape Cod for lunch and back. It was 98 degrees that day. That plane could barely crawl over the Atlantic. Not to mention the two heat-stroke victims stuck inside!! :)
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God, that reminds me of my 325 stage check. It was 102 and god knows how hot it was in the plane. It was fine for most of it since we were up pretty high, but then when it came to doing the two instrument approaches and engine cuts, it just got to me real fast. I had to incomplete the engine cuts portion of it. I probably should have unsat. We were doing engine cuts on the runway and I let the airplane swerve all over the damn place. My stage pilot was pretty reasonable though. He could tell I wasn't anywhere close to being in a condition to continue the lesson.
 
Snickersnwa said:
50 hours PIC X/C
40 hours Instrument training
15 hours with a CFII in an airplane (appropriate to category and class of aircraft)
and a few other things...
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Just a small semantic point... it's not 40 hours of instrument training, its 40 hours of simulated or actual instrument time.

I'm sure everybody knows this, but you can get this time (except the 15 required hours of training from a CFII) by flying under the hood with a safety pilot.
 
ChinookDriver said:
Just a small semantic point... it's not 40 hours of instrument training, its 40 hours of simulated or actual instrument time.

I'm sure everybody knows this, but you can get this time (except the 15 required hours of training from a CFII) by flying under the hood with a safety pilot.
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That's 100% correct
 
ChinookDriver said:
And so you know... I wasn't trying to sharp-shoot ya... just clarifying. :)
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No worries! It’s a good thing that little things like that are clarified, because someone seeing these posts might take it at face value, or wouldn’t take the time to look stuff up on their own. I should have been more careful and actually referenced the exact wording in the regs before posting. :)
 
I am more worried about getting that 50 PIC XC time. I likely will leave und with not even 10. Whats the best way to get the other 40? Plan a lot of my training for IFR to be on long cross countries?
 
BIS is pretty cool, actual terrain and hills out that direction....

DVL is stupid

MOT is IFR the whole way (i follow roads)

FSD is IFR as well

STP would be way fun, still havent made it down there

DLH would be nice as well
 
ZUKO said:
I am more worried about getting that 50 PIC XC time. I likely will leave und with not even 10. Whats the best way to get the other 40? Plan a lot of my training for IFR to be on long cross countries?
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You got it! Make very hood flight a cross country and you knock out two birds with one stone.
 
ChinookDriver said:
You got it! Make very hood flight a cross country and you knock out two birds with one stone.
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That way my costs wont just sky rocket through the roof.

About the warm weather in Arizona. I could either wake up at 5 am which wouldnt be too bad in the summer time if I can get my sleep habit adjusted. Or I could do my summer training in Seattle if its too much of a hardship.
 
ZUKO said:
That way my costs wont just sky rocket through the roof.
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Yeah, that's one thing I wanted to make sure you understood in your other thread. This is one reason why UND is cheaper than a lot, if not most FBOs. IIRC, we only have 170ish hours experiance when we get our intrument/multi/commercial. Compare that to the 200 hour requirement for part 61. I've never really looked to see how many UND hours I have. I had 230 total when I finished 325.
 
UAL747400 said:
Yeah, that's one thing I wanted to make sure you understood in your other thread. This is one reason why UND is cheaper than a lot, if not most FBOs. IIRC, we only have 130ish hours experiance when we get our intrument/multi/commercial. Compare that to the 200 hour requirement for part 61. I've never really looked to see how many UND hours I have. I had 230 total when I finished 325.
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I know that I had fewer than 240 when I finished CFII, and since then it's grown quite a bit :)
 
Snickersnwa said:
I know that I had fewer than 240 when I finished CFII, and since then it's grown quite a bit :)
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Yeah I bet. My 323 instructor had the same mini jepp log book that I have. He said he had about 240 when he graduated, so he was about on the same paget that I'm on now and he filled that thing up while I had him for 323 a year after he graduated. :)
 
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