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And all three of the "local" (within 50 miles) airports with instructors had this to say: Airport 1 (two miles from my home) "Why in hell would you want that? We don't have any of those toy airplanes for it, and we don't offer it because we can't make any money off it." Airport ...

Do you have any pics? Do you know precisely what failed? Glad you are ok!

Another great NC destination is KILM at Wilmington, NC. Stunning coastal flying, Wrightsville Beach 5 miles one direction, downtown historic Wilmington 5 miles in the other. Let me know and I'll show you around. Enjoy your training.

Great stuff! Thanks for the explanations.

QUOTE- 1) Wind affects it. You need to glide faster into a headwind and slower in a tailwind to get maximum distance. Rather than get out a chart and/or a calculator, you're probably fine just adding or subtracting a few knots. But if you're gliding into a really strong headwind, gliding faster may ...

Fast Eddie, awesome pack!

Man I wish I could make this, sounds like a blast! Pls point me to videos from previous years? thx and have fun!

I'm so happy there will be more Portlandia! That is awesome! Cacao!

great read, thanks.

I've been asked my name and pilot cert # when I didn't know the tail #. That still lets ntsb that you at least made a call preflight?

You're absolutely right. The web site needs major overhaul. No phone hard sell, in fact, unfortunately, at this point, probably the opposite. Thanks for your input.

gingoglia WOW, that's pretty dramatic, glad you are OK.

Where in NC are you?

Congratulations on your new ticket! Good advice given to me was 'this is a license to learn (more)'. As for check rides, I failed my CFI checkride within about 10 minutes of sitting down with the examiner. He asked me to pull out my AIM which I didn't have with me. As soon as I said I didn't bring o...

Hate to sound like an advertisement, but here is a new partnership program started by US Sport Aircraft, the importer of the Sport Cruiser by Czech Aircraft. It's a little hard to hear the understated Don Ayers, but is a cool program I think. It's already up and running in Dallas, Ft Pierce Fl and S...