5s are ideal obviously, but what about these cases?
*highly selective meaning like T10s
I am a 17 year old who is super excited to start working toward my PPL. This has been a dream of mine for several years. I don't plan to fly commercially or anything, I just want to fly as a hobby.
For anyone who earned your PPL via part 61, how long did it take from your first lesson to your checkride?
I'm still in high school, so once the school year starts I'll have to balance flying with school/homework/extracurriculars. My plan is to fly as much as I reasonably can this summer (ideally a few lessons per week) so that when school starts, I'm already well into training rather than just beginning. During the year, I'm willing to do early mornings, after school, weekends, literally anything. I know it's not a race, but I'd like to be done before college applications in about 6 months.
Does that sound like a reasonable strategy? Is 6 months feasible for someone who is willing to invest a lot of time and effort? Weather is good where I live, and I've already found a school within my budget.
Thank you so much!! 🙂
I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit for my question, but I'd really appreciate any advice.
I am a high school junior whose main extracurricular is research. I am a 2x Regeneron ISEF finalist, did a NASA internship last summer, have published in RNAAS, and have presented at multiple conferences, including AGU and AAS.
My most recent research project, which I recently presented at ISEF 2026, is on dark matter and gravitational lensing, and I am hoping to publish it. I would love to publish in ApJ, but I know that it is a rigorous peer-reviewed process, and I am not sure if my work is the right fit. I conducted my research under the guidance of two mentors, so it is scientifically sound, but I'm not sure if it is novel/complete enough to be published in ApJ.
I have published in RNAAS before, which was very cool because it's such a quick process due to not being peer reviewed, but I think it would be amazing if I could publish my work in a peer-reviewed journal. (BTW, I am not looking to publish in a high school research journal.)
I am fully aware of the associated costs to publish. It is a hefty fee but I'm wondering if it might be lower, since I am an AAS undergraduate student member? Or does that not matter?
If anyone has advice regarding ApJ or any alternative journals that might be a good fit, please let me know! Thanks so much!
Rank:
- Dark matter/dark energy
- Neutrino masses
- Relativity
- Asymmetry
I'm doing a basic trivia game for my create task, and it fills all the requirements, but it's only ~150 lines of code in Python. This seems crazy short and simple.
I've been working with Python for like 5 years now, and just took this class as a GPA boost/for fun, so maybe that's why, but it seems ridiculously simple?? Am I missing something?