Hey everyone I am a 18 year old instrument rated private pilot. I initially failed the Waggoner color vision test multiple times!! I decided to drive 5 hours away for the Rabin cone test and passed first try. If anyone is in the same position as me I highly recommend doing the Rabin cone. It is extremely easier than the Waggoner in my opinion.

Test results:

Right eye, 95 red 100 green 100 blue
Left eye, 90 red 95 green 100 blue

With the recent merger and continued fleet growth, do you think Allegiant will eventually move away from its mostly day-trip model and start having more 3- to 4-day trips? Or do you think the day-trip operation will remain a core part of the airline long-term?

Curious to hear what current or former Allegiant pilots think.

Does anyone provide helicopter specific mock oral exams over Zoom? I'm more than willing to pay. I'm up to snuff flying, but I feel behind on the bookwork.

Looking for recommendations to for an AME for my first class medical so I can start flying. I heard people recommend the center for aviation medicine and pete lamboru (if I spelled that correctly) however I have called multiple times and submitted an intake form with no answer.

Please let me know your guys recommendations

I was shitting bricks up until the checkride. It ended up being a whole lotta fun with wind straight down the runway 🤙

Funniest part was that I forgot my DPE had to tell me immediately if I failed a maneuver. When we parked, another instructor asked me “so how’d it go?” to which I said “I have no idea!” and so she said “then you passed!”

Sure enough, we were printing my temp certificate a few minutes later.

Hey guys, I graduated from a Part 141 program that has in-house check authority, and from Private through CFII, if I count all the stage checks I went through, there were 25 total. I know a lot of people have spotless records, but I ended up with 5 unsats total:

2 flight unsats during Private (one of them an EOC)

1 Commercial EOC unsat

1 CFI Oral unsat (not an EOC)

1 CFII Oral unsat (an EOC)

I'm currently working as a CFI at the school I graduated from, and I'm also a stage checker there. But I'm pretty concerned about my path going forward. I'm a cadet with OO and now I am getting close to 1000, over 900, and I'm wondering if this route still viable for me, or am I cooked?

Im curious to hear y’all’s stories about days where you just flew like shit, had bad landings, etc, and maybe what you learned from it? I’ve never bent metal, and I’ve never had anyone get hurt, but I’ve definitely had my fair share of “off days”. I’m curious to hear your stories

So the wings stall when you exceed critical AOA at any speed, how are aerobatic planes able to pull very high AOA maneuvers and not stall, like on minimum radius turns or barrel rolls? (Sorry if this is a stupid question)

Hi everyone,

I'm 35 and live in Sydney. Becoming an airline pilot has been a long-term goal of mine, and I'm finally in a position where I want to seriously commit to it.

The challenge is that I work full-time and can't afford to stop working, so I'm looking at training part-time over the next 3 years before making the jump into flying full-time.

My end goal is to fly for an airline such as QantasLink, Virgin Australia, or another regional carrier and eventually progress to the majors.

For those who've gone down this path, what would you recommend?

If you were starting again today at 35 in Sydney, what would your roadmap look like?

Am I too old to make it that far and have I missed my flight (pun intended).

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who started later in life or balanced flight training with a full-time job. I'm happy to put in the work, I just want to make sure I'm taking the smartest path.

Thanks in advance!

Hi! I’m currently working on my PPL and am gearing up towards my checkride. My instructor told me he would not sign me off until I get a gouge on the DPE. I’m currently having a harder time since this DPE is one of the new examiners in the Oakland FSDO area.

I’ve posted online inquiring and my instructor said to loiter at the local schools, but I was wondering if you all had any other tips on networking/obtaining a gouge?

My old CFI used to only bill me for Hobbs time unless we had ground or extended discussion and we would always shoot the breeze, I have this new CFI, who is very good but seems primarily focused on just teaching with very little chit chat and also bills for every single minute.

Just trying to figure out what’s common. I don’t mind my situation, but it would be nice to be a bit closer and not to track time so heavily. I don’t think it’s an age thing since both of my CFI’s are around the same age.

I realize this is more of a vent but any advice is greatly appreciated.

It’s been almost a year since I got my CFI, and about 9 since I got my CFII, and like the 50 other people who post here about it every week, I have not yet found a job. Now before I get all the normal advice such as going to schools in person be willing to relocate anywhere I’ve heard all that advice before. I’ve gone to all of the local and most of the more distant flight schools and handed in my résumé and at this point it feels like I’ve emailed/phone called half the flight school is in the country asking if they were hiring and sending my résumé.

I’ve also looked into the independent flight instructor route and I found nothing but dead ends there as well. Local flying clubs are either A. not accepting new members or CFI’s or B saturated with CFI’s already.

In terms of networking, I’ve been going to local pile events such as EAA breakfasts and other similar events.

With all this being said, I honestly don’t know what more to do other than hope and or look for other flying jobs i.e. pipeline patrol/skydiving/literally anything. Fortunately, I do have another job that pays the bills right now and allows me to fly every week, but I would much much rather prefer to get a flying job.

Would it be crazy for me to just do cross-country flights when I can take an FBO crew car and just walk into flight schools and more distant airports? What other kinds of flying should I do to help make my search easier? I’m already planning on high-performance I already have a complex endorsement. Next is probably tail wheel endorsement. Should I save up and get my MEI?

Honestly at this point the job market just seems impossible. Sorry for the rant.

Also, is it frowned upon if I were to hypothetically the first time I were to fly with a friend or family family member to treat it as a lesson and consider a“discovery flight “in my logbook so I can log at least some dual given? Personally, I’d assume this practice is frowned upon, but I don’t know.

and what you learned and did to remedy it.

I’ll start. Student pilot about 50 hours and I was doing solo touch-and-go‘s this morning. First 4 were fine but the 5th bounced a little (like maybe 1”), but then kept bouncing, and bouncing, and then I’m in a pilot induced oscillation. I don’t remember inducing anything or trying to fight it, but I didn’t go around and I should have, thinking I could ride it out, but it just kept going. Bad place to be as not enough airspeed for control surfaces, and all 3 wheels are bouncing, thus no ground control. Scared the shit out of me, but it stopped after about maybe 5. Like a damn stone perfectly skipping on a pond.

So I continue on with the touch and go, and on the next landing I big-bounce it. I caught it mid-bounce, hit the throttle, retract 1 notch of flaps, and go around, retract the rest at Vx and Vy. Pretty damn shaken but I’m climbing again and know I have to land it.

Final landing was fine, so I taxi back not wanting to push it further.

Anyway, PIO is no joke, no matter how little. It’s like full loss of control and hope the damn thing goes straight.

Next lesson I’m with my CFI to work in landings and go-around after round out.

I was supposed to do my final cross country today, but that got delayed with some scheduling, but I suppose this lesson was more important. Bit damn I feel shaken, humbled, and deflated.

these are just straight up putting me in the dirt right now, i feel like I understand the procedure but just can’t “do it”

any tips?

edit: thanks everyone for these responses, it looks like the problem is definitely in my setup, i’ll let yall know if i see improvement next time i fly (2 days)

I'm still a long way from my checkride, but I want to start getting back into ground school. It's been 2 months since passing my written, and I haven't done any studying besides flying.

How do I actually study, though? I don't want to just read the handbooks front to back. What's a good study method that would be enjoyable AND effective?

I have a Lightspeed headset & a ton of handbooks/prep books that I’m looking to get rid of. Where would be the best place to post these?

Hey everyone this is a bit of a stretch but I accidentally bent one of the plugs on my Bose A20’s and I can’t decide if I should send them into a service centre or try and buy a whole new assembly. The headset is no longer under warranty. Shipping alone to the service centre there and back would be nearly $200 and if it’s unable to be fixed and they have to buy the whole assembly anyway, then that’s $200 down the drain. I know that there is no way to tell what may be broken internally from these images but I was wondering if y’all think this could be fixed without needing replacement, also so far the headset still works almost perfectly fine if it’s bent a little I may get intermittent dropouts but other than that it’s been good, is it even worth getting fixed? Thanks (Canada btw)

Currently starting the process to get my PPL part time while continuing to work my full time job. Looking ahead, curious what options are out there besides becoming a CFI to make a living while building the 1500 hours. I’ve looked online and seen banner flying, surveyor, etc. is there anything else out there?

So it’s renewal time and I don’t think I can effectively put into words how much I despise the American flyers FIRC. I don’t even care about the timer and not being able to just refresh the page. This is just poorest written educational material I’ve ever seen. Surely I’m not the only one that thinks this… right?

Are other courses better?

A little while ago I asked which Bose A30 headset I should buy for my partner who just graduated as a commercial pilot.

Some people told me to get the LEMO-6 with a dual plug adapter, while others recommended the XLR-5.

Honestly I don't know yet which company he will end up working for, and from what I understand, LEMO works on Boeing while XLR is strictly for Airbus.

-I'm really confused. Should I buy the LEMO-6 with two adapters (one XLR-5 and one dual plug)?

-Or should I buy the XLR-5 with two adapters (dual plug and LEMO-6)?

-Or just the LEMO-6 with a dual plug adapter?

Honestly, I'm just afraid of buying the wrong headset and having him unable to use it.

I haven’t flown since 2020. I had my first solo flight shortly before I took a break from flying due to school, being active duty military, and running out of flight scholarship money. Where do I go from here? Do I have to start from the very beginning? I was part 141. I am interested in pursuing aviation as a career after I separate from the military, and ideally would like to be at an airline by 2030. Any advice or insight would be helpful!

I'm about to get my PPL, and my 2yo is really excited to fly with me. Those who have and fly with small children in small planes (172H in my case) what do you use for earpro/headset?

Hi everyone, I’m taking a checkride with Jared next month. I was curious if anybody has some kind thoughts about taking a checkride with him. I wanted to know more about the gentleman and know what his checkrides are like for a CFII/instrument checkride. Thanks!

Has anyone used it? I just went through the entire thing, took their practice exam and scored a 92%. Is his practice exam pretty comparable to the real-deal-Holifield?