Sport Pilot Talk

Thankfully I've never been involved in a SAR for a downed aircraft. But I have gone looking for missing or lost hikers here in the Appalachians. It can be exceedingly difficult to find someone even if you have a pretty decent idea of where they are. When looking at a map the direct distance from one...

In your mind that comment probably wasn't over the line. Way to keep it classy.

Funny, but that ever shrinking minority of conservatives still out number the liberals. In honesty, I don't think anybody wants to go back to 1776. But at the same time we don't need to give the government the authority to regulate every aspect of our lives. The fact that the third class medical exi...

Maybe you and Rand Paul can move to an island somewhere and start your own country. People with the ideals put forward here did start their own country. They called it The United States of America. You sound like Sarah Palin. I guess anybody that can't afford to pay for their own healthcare doesn't...

Funny thing about the government, the vast majority of those making decisions have no medical training at all. Letting them make decisions about anything health care related makes as much sense as letting a bunch of lawyers take your appendix out. The government is good at one thing, and only one th...

Lexington is about a two and a half hour drive for me. While doable, not ideal. I agree that a drawback to the Sport Pilot is lack of availability of light sport aircraft. But flying a modern aircraft with glass cockpit appeals to me, so the older certified aircraft don't really fit for me either. I...

I thought I'd take a moment to introduce myself. Before I do I want to thank all of you for the great information you've made available on this forum. There is a wealth of information to be found in this forum and I am very thankful for all of it. Now, a little about me. I am probably not all that u...