2024 in Review...How Much Did You Fly?

Murdoughnut said:
Ha, no - but temps will be in the area of icing, and this is a VFR flight review - I'm not ready to do an IPC :D
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There is nothing in the rules that says - in a flight review - that the instructor can't file to get you to VFR conditions where you can then perform the flight review.

One of my favorite things when I was teaching was being creative about how to get a FR done, effectively, using the latitude we had with the FAA for it. It's rather broad and you can do some really great things for your customers/students if you and they are willing to be creative.
 
killbilly said:
There is nothing in the rules that says - in a flight review - that the instructor can't file to get you to VFR conditions where you can then perform the flight review.

One of my favorite things when I was teaching was being creative about how to get a FR done, effectively, using the latitude we had with the FAA for it. It's rather broad and you can do some really great things for your customers/students if you and they are willing to be creative.
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This is the way. Knowing what the regulations allow you to do is a better mentality than the opposite.

One of my personal favorites is “Show me where in Part 91 it says we have to land on a paved runway?” The entire bush flying community wouldn’t exist if there was such a rule.
 
killbilly said:
There is nothing in the rules that says - in a flight review - that the instructor can't file to get you to VFR conditions where you can then perform the flight review.

One of my favorite things when I was teaching was being creative about how to get a FR done, effectively, using the latitude we had with the FAA for it. It's rather broad and you can do some really great things for your customers/students if you and they are willing to be creative.
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I’m a huge fan of the latitude the FAA gives CFIs here. I’ve done FRs that are almost all instrument procedures, and FRs that only touch pavement at the first and last landing. I think it’s the CFI’s job to understand the pilot’s mission and help them do it better while expanding their knowledge base. The only thing I haven’t ever come close to doing is a bare minimum 1 hour ground and flight.
 
CFI A&P said:
This is the way. Knowing what the regulations allow you to do is a better mentality than the opposite.

One of my personal favorites is “Show me where in Part 91 it says we have to land on a paved runway?” The entire bush flying community wouldn’t exist if there was such a rule.
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FIFY. Man, do I miss Husky flying…
 
pwttogfk said:
I’m a huge fan of the latitude the FAA gives CFIs here. I’ve done FRs that are almost all instrument procedures, and FRs that only touch pavement at the first and last landing. I think it’s the CFI’s job to understand the pilot’s mission and help them do it better while expanding their knowledge base. The only thing I haven’t ever come close to doing is a bare minimum 1 hour ground and flight.
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The last FR I did, I sat down with the guy and talked with him about his flying. He had a turbo Arrow and did a lot of flying from DC down to the Outer Banks with his family. So I thought about it a bit and asked how he was approaching diverts and emergencies. He really didn't have any ideas or plans, hadn't really considered it.

And had never done a power-off 180 with his airplane.

Guess what we did?

:)
 
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killbilly said:
I miss teaching, but I'm so damned risk-averse right now I'm not sure how to mentally get myself back in it....
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Once you've spent a decade on reserve at a regional, the burnout will make life less appealing, and the risk profile of GA will become appealing again.

... oh wait, nevermind.
 
🦈💜 said:
Once you've spent a decade on reserve at a regional, the burnout will make life less appealing, and the risk profile of GA will become appealing again.

... oh wait, nevermind.
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(Seriously, though, I kinda was in the same boat, but now I actually really want to go fly some acro, even take my mates up in a three-seat waco or something. Not that I'll ever be able to afford one.)
 
🦈💜 said:
Once you've spent a decade on reserve at a regional, the burnout will make life less appealing, and the risk profile of GA will become appealing again.

... oh wait, nevermind.
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I just realized that this comes off way differently than I intended it. I was trying to say "but that's just me."

No dig (ever) intended. I haven't had my coffee yet. ^_^
 
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