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The METAR for a towered airport like KLAX only updates once an hour (whenever the ATIS is update), so it can change pretty significantly and suddenly. You must have flown it just as your sim pulled an updated METAR from the web. If you don't want that to happen, you can initialize the sim weather fr...

So, I flew the I-06 rating last night and made a real mess of things. My troubles started on the takeoff roll. There was a moderate crosswind, yet it was trying its best to flip my 172 and I ended up on the right wheel briefly before taking off. (Have you figured out my mistake yet?) After take-off ...

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The first time I soloed at a towered airport, my CFI on the ground was given a number to call by the tower...

So I was reading some other thread on the CAT 10 and looking at the Miniroute part of the TAC and noticed something I hadn't noticed before: the class E west of KHHR and under the Bravo shelf? That's not class E. It's class D airspace up to 2500' that's designated for KLAX itself. There's another ar...

On my CAT-06, I was cleared to take off runway 30R but didn't get any departure instructions with the clearance. Once I was off the ground on the departure leg, the tower instructed me to contact Bakersfield Departure. I did, and then since I didn't have any specific instructions I just made a 165-d...