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I used to do a lot of online gaming. It started about 200 years ago with Battlezone, (aka ‘BZ’,) then into Medal of Honor, Doom, Call of Duty, et al. Before online, I used to play all the single player levels and thought I was pretty good. When I found BZ online I thought I should be able to hold my...

Excellent write-up, excellent pictures.
Good thing the golf course had tie downs available.

...I watch some of the streamers like Castrator and Jon Fly and many others and their level of understanding about Airline flying is beyond impressive. So I wonder where did this knowledge come from?... Trickledown effect. Guys like you shared your knowledge with guys like us. Plus we searched the ...

rtataryn wrote:(From Marlon Robinson,)... I know this does not solve the issue with all others not flying the STAR to ILS...

There is no issue since ATC can delete any published restrictions.

It was quirky. I use FSX. I approached from Fairfield VOR, had good i/d, dme, and no apparent anomalies. The cdi was to the right, as it should be, but approach swore I was to the right of the final. Then I was disconnected so it didn’t matter at that point. It was a drag to go through the prep and ...

What a great fly-in, what a crummy fly-in. Great: P/E was "da bomb" Excellent, expeditious. Chase ran a clean, quick departure out of Phoenix. Listening to the sequencing was fun. Getting delayed added to the realism. The unexpected hold was a blast. Declaring min fuel was sweet. Crummy: S...

The onus to ensure the airplane is established on the approach rests with ATC, not the pilot. (7110.65/5-9-1, 2) Put another way, the pilot is not responsible to be established one mile prior to the FAF. P/E does not have PAR monitoring so, unless you’re wildly off course/altitude, there’s really no...

Every now and then, I like to practice IFR air work on P/E with crummy wx. This gives me a chance to scrape off the rust, but without having to plan a long flight. I do most of the air work around one VOR. Some P/E controllers may remember me asking for a hold at any VOR so long as it’s not more tha...

HRutila wrote:There are virtually no cases in which you can deviate from an assigned heading or route without approval from ATC.

Unless an emergency exists. Or, the heading will place the aircraft in an unsafe condition, (wx, terrain, traffic. 91.3 and 91.123)

I say “Go!” Imagine yourself ten years from now having done nothing to advance your dream. At 40, you will look back on this post and wonder if you could have made it a career. Some peeps reflect and ponder, “what if?” On the other side are those who dive in with both feet, “sink or swim, here I go....