PPL check ride passed today! Exactly 4 years from when I took my first discovery flight6mo ⋅ BreadFruitYum ⋅ r/flying
I haven't seen one of these in over 22 years - my CFI's reaction to the wind triangle I prepared for my dual cross country today2yr ⋅ surfimp ⋅ r/flying
How would you go about filling a VFR flight plan like this, where I plan to follow the coastline visually, then intercept an inbound VOR racial?11mo ⋅ neocamel ⋅ r/flying
There's better ways to do this, but i found it interesting that I could have AI quiz me on radio calls.7mo ⋅ yukon737 ⋅ r/flying
Anyone that has spent time in the E terminal at Charlotte knows this is an eerie sight4yr ⋅ UncleCougar ⋅ r/flying
This still isn’t intuitive to me. If I wanted to “turn onto rnwy 25L,” I’d want to turn left here (wrong) instead of right. All other airport markings seem to be laid out with the (intuitive) inverse. How do you remember this?1yr ⋅ WhitecoatAviator ⋅ r/flying
Bought a plane and I’m trying to get it him. It’s in Denver I’m in Dallas. Need advice.2yr ⋅ darnok128 ⋅ r/flying
Got my instrument rating this weekend and took my first solo flight in actual today4yr ⋅ AIMIF ⋅ r/flying
Pilots who wear ladies sized shoes - what shoes do you wear with your uniform?5mo ⋅ jellybeancountr ⋅ r/flying
Landed at a new spot in the SoCal desert. Someone bought up this vintage roadside stop in Amboy with a gravel strip and is working on restoring it.4yr ⋅ pronghornpilot ⋅ r/flying
FIRST SOLO!!!! After many months of training and knee surgery + physical therapy I finally soloed today!4yr ⋅ MrBowman1FPV ⋅ r/flying
Would this be a wrong way to enter a non-towered traffic pattern, and if so - why??1mo ⋅ Mysteroo ⋅ r/flying
GPS Outage? Bad antenna? Doing GPS approaches with a student this morning and got this. GS went first...then everything else about a minute later. WAAS enabled (yes it was turned on) GNS530. Thoughts?1yr ⋅ gratefulflyer ⋅ r/flying
I got the chance to be a ferry Pilot for the first time and deliver a Cessna 421B from OCF to SDL.1yr ⋅ ImmortanBen ⋅ r/flying
I created a fiber-optic based METAR map and the updated python software to run it.4yr ⋅ jamesr219 ⋅ r/flying
In the Canadian barrens, a Twin Otter impacts terrain during near white-out. Canadian Forces releases video of the rescue jumpers. Link in the comments.3mo ⋅ ansonchappell ⋅ r/flying
Runways? Where we’re going we don’t need runways! Airplane Single Engine Sea obtained!3yr ⋅ KronesianLTD ⋅ r/flying
It took me three years off and on of studying and flying, but I took my ppl checkride today and am now officially a pilot!!5yr ⋅ shotzgoboom ⋅ r/flying
What purpose would getting this degree serve. It’s from from Embry Riddle1yr ⋅ Material-Strain7893 ⋅ r/flying
I got to fly Buzz Aldrin today, during the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission5yr ⋅ ChicagoBoy2011 ⋅ r/flying
What could've caused this? Tire is new. Would you fly like this to the maintenance?1yr ⋅ fezl100 ⋅ r/flying
Why don’t we have these stop signs before active runways in the US to prevent incursions? Seems like a simple and good idea.1yr ⋅ Ok_Skill_2725 ⋅ r/flying
I wish I could share the full 360 shot with you; I found a break in the rainy desert weather and caught a rainbow over the poppies.4yr ⋅ pronghornpilot ⋅ r/flying
As an IFR rated pilot, does this type of precip pose any real threat? (Light single)5mo ⋅ Bingobango52 ⋅ r/flying
Despite many shenanigans, I finally earned my instrument rating! Here's what it cost.1yr ⋅ sir_crapalot ⋅ r/flying
Thoughts on what is going on with Boeing and how it will effect the future of aviation in the US1mo ⋅ Any_Emergency4262 ⋅ r/flying
CFIs — What're your weirdest, funniest, quirkiest or most original teaching aides? Which tool, analogy or exercise worked to help a student understand something when nothing else would?1yr ⋅ mtncfi ⋅ r/flying
Dusk giving way to the night as the sun dips below Vancouver Island, British Columbia.3yr ⋅ NorthernCamel ⋅ r/flying
Noticed the obvious lack of First Solo posts in the last couple weeks - so here's mine!4yr ⋅ xfxian ⋅ r/flying
FedEx Winning Hearts.... Chief Pilot Grants FedEx Wings to CAP Pilot that Died in MS Before Her PPL Checkride.5yr ⋅ SSMDive ⋅ r/flying
I expected my first passenger as a commercial pilot would actually pay... I guess I was wrong.4yr ⋅ BeefyMcPissflaps ⋅ r/flying
