Sport Pilot Talk

For the record Fisrt Landings aviation In Apopka FLA was amazing. I didnt know what to expect but I happy to see that it is a clean, modern,well organized facility with great instructors. I honestly could not have been happier!

Well I did it. took a total of 14 days but today I passed oral and check ride. I am the USA's newest sport pilot!

Sounds good 1/2. I Will be heading down to start training on Saturday. Going to be '"drinking from the proverbial fire hose"'. 8 straight days of flying sometimes twice a day with the check ride scheduled for the last day. I will be the short bearded Italian guy wearing square aviators. Th...

I've decided that getting my sport ticket in Georgia is going to be damn near impossible. My CFI had major surgery and cant fly for a long while. The only other place that offers LSA training is down to one plane (the other one was just destroyed in a storm on the tarmac) plus it is a 1 1/2hr drive ...

Yep, I was supposed to go up this Saturday and got a call from them that it was totalled in the storm.

Well Im gonna go up in a 172 tomorrow. After flying a light sport It will probably feel like flying a mac truck...lol
Have to weigh it all out cost/time etc. so we'll see.
Great advice on here, thanks all.

I am serously considering just giving up on the whole sport pilot ticket and switching over to PPL. There were only 3 LSA's for rent here in Atlanta. One of them, a Skycatcher, was destroyed on the tarmac the other day during a violent storm. So that leaves only 2. The other LSA has been crashed lan...

Did the 36 hrs include any endorsements for towered controlled airspace?

Congrats! If you dont mind me asking how many hrs. did it take you before you were ready. I've got 12 hrs now and just trying to guage how far Ive got to go.

Thanks Tim, What is your opinion of the Skycatcher?

Just curious has anyone had any training experiences positive or negative with Lanier Flight Center in Atlanta?

I have to agree with you guys. I heard back from quite a few CFI's and they all say the same thing. Just leave it alone and study the PLT codes for the questions missed. My CFI is the only one that is recomending that I take it again. Perhaps it is because I studied and took the test a few weeks bef...

The consensus seems to be to leave it alone and roll with it. My CFI on the other hand recommends taking it over. He says the DPE that he uses will undoubtedly look at the score and make the oral an ordeal. He is vey experienced and I respect his viewpoint a great deal. It bears mentioning that I se...

Im in the middle of my flight training and decided to go back over my knowledge test results to have a look at the PLT codes. Ever since I received my score of 78 I thought something was wrong. I studied hard and was consistently scoring in the 90's on all my practice exams. I came in fully prepared...

Yes its an fk-9. The manaul does say one of the dangers of zero G is fire due to the carbs. on the Rotax. So am I to understand that now in training we are not really required to do a full stall but initiate a recovery just before the break?