Flight Currency to Rent ASEL – How Many Days Before Requiring Another Rental Checkout Ride in Same Type Aircraft
There’s quite a variety out there. Entirely up to the place doing the renting, and often based on experience and sometimes insurance. Most common ones I’ve seen are requiring an annual review and ...
Answered by: Mark Kolber 228 views
Can a pilot/owner change the old style rotating beacon to a tso/pma led beacon ie sunbeacon ii
In the case of a SunBeacon II, it has a PMA and complies with a TSO. The installation instructions include a STC as the approval for installation. So I believe if it is installed as an STC, it is a ma...
Answered by: John D Collins 510 views
Can a pilot/owner change the old style rotating beacon to a tso/pma led beacon ie sunbeacon ii
John, according to a 2009 Chief Counsel interpretation, the list is not exclusive. (https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/agc/practice_areas/regulations/interpretations/Data/interp...
Answered by: Mark Kolber 510 views
Can a pilot/owner change the old style rotating beacon to a tso/pma led beacon ie sunbeacon ii
You are allowed to perform preventive maintenance as described in Appendix A to Part 43—Major Alterations, Major Repairs, and Preventive Maintenance (c) Preventive maintenance. That’s not on...
Answered by: John Scarry 510 views
61.129 Night Requirements
It’s not about mixing and matching 10 hours or 80 hours or 2 hours. The key word is “solo,” not “hours.” You cannot mix and match real solo and the “PDPIC” substitute solo to meet 61....
Answered by: Mark Kolber 491 views
Cross Country Solo Question
The basic definition of a cross country is any flight to another airport. 61.93 says that if the cross country flight more than 25nm, a student pilot needs an endorsement authorizing it. Neither deal ...
Answered by: Mark Kolber 544 views
9 Years since last Flight logged
Mark, Acknowledge, Thank you, Yes stopped right after PPL due to short of funding, but looking into start back again and continue with further Ratings & Certificates, been keep up with aviation...
Answered by: NBV 684 views
9 Years since last Flight logged
I would start with two things. On the knowledge end, find one of those free practice test sites. The goal there is to find the gaps so you can target your studying. On the flight end, a session with a...
Answered by: Mark Kolber 684 views
Commercial Cross Country
I'm going to take a different position on this. I'm pretty familiar with the rules and the interpretations. It's actually older than the two 2009 Chief Counsel letters. I've seen it as early as 1997. ...
Answered by: Mark Kolber 650 views
