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What’s the word with vapes. Just in my carry on before flight? What if a minor hypothetically had one? What might happen?

The Sportys course gives me access to the FAR/AIM digitally which I am reading part 61 and 91. I just finished all of the lecture videos and quizzes in the sportys course and have taken one practice test that I got an 83 on. What would you recommend I use to supplement my learning as I feel just the sportys program alone is not quite enough. Im feeling more and more confident by the day but dont want to be slapped in the face when I sit down to take the actual exam. Also what score on the practice test should I be aiming for, I have heard 15 points above passing but I would love to confidently walk out of the exam knowing I got a 90%+

Title: What was the most confusing part about starting flight training?

For those of you who started from zero, what was the hardest or most confusing part when beginning flight training?

Examples:

• choosing a school
• understanding total cost
• medical/student pilot cert process
• scheduling
• training pace
• financing
• checkride prep
• something else?

I’ve noticed a lot of people interested in flying seem overwhelmed at the beginning, and I’m curious what the biggest pain points actually are from people who’ve gone through it.

We were descending to land on 17/35 when we quickly pulled up and went around. Only thing I could see was a UPS plane taxiing on an intersecting taxiway or runway, but it seemed to be too far off. How else would I know why a plane im on aborted landing and went around? It also seemed like we were too high to even make the runway at that point. When we came back around, we ended up landing on 9L or 9R.

Hello all!

I am currently looking into purchasing an aircraft with a friend to build some hours as well as offer flight instruction out of. I am mostly looking into a way to use the aircraft and related expenses as a write off. If purchased and used for a flight instruction business would this be possible? Would it make financial sense? Could the aircraft be offered to a local flight club for use when my partner and I are not flying it? If so, how would this be done.

Neither of us have owned an aircraft but both are involved in aviation and understand the immense cost of ownership. Both CFII and One is MEI.

Any input is appreciated! Thank you!

TX, USA

Can I carry an anemometer, tachometer, clamp meter, and non-mercury manometer on a flight, including in cabin baggage?

Dear aviation professional and mods,

I’m a college student currently researching operational workflows in private aviation for a project for my Aviation Admin degree.

One thing we’ve been exploring is whether private aviation operators, brokers, or fleet managers...etc would find value in a simple daily text briefing that summarizes important market activity and tracks all critical kpis from the previous day, things like fleet movement, utilization shifts, route activity, demand changes, aircraft availability patterns, etc. And also suggests actions to take to keep up or stay ahead of the market.

We’re trying to understand whether this is actually useful in real workflows or if existing tools already solve the problem well enough.

Would something like this realistically be valuable to you as an aviation professional or your team?
And if not, what operational information do you wish was easier to track daily in private aviation?

Would genuinely appreciate any feedback. From professionals, enthusiast or mods.

PS: I would really appreciate if this post doesn't get taken down for any reason I might have overstepped unknowingly. I never used reddit and I just made an account because my mentor suggested it as the best way to find valuable insights. Thank you everybody and the moderators. I truly appreciate your help.

Anybody has any experience with pet carriers on jet blue? I have a TSA approved carrier and had no issue flying with it before but the height is 1.7 inches more than the accepted height. The other dimensions are smaller than the required dimensions. Will it be an issue? It's pretty soft/ collapsible so I can make it fit.

Hello everyone, I m(25) going to be enrolled into my local community college for: Associate in Science (A.S.) in Professional Pilot Technology. Gives me a 250 hour discount so I only have to do 1250…! But recently it’s going to take me 20 months to get to the CFI position, then another 2-4 years as CFI to achieve 1250+ hours.

By the time it’s 2030-2031, would the market have subsided by then? I’m hearing horror stories, and it’s a dream come true to have an opportunity to fly these magical beast’s through the sky!

What other jobs than CFI would pay me more, and also still give me hours to achieve the 1250+? I am a risk taker, but after reading nightmare scenarios, it’s taken me back how DIFFICULT it is to procure a job. But what about the future? I know it’s an unstable market, with high risk high reward situation, but this is the one thing in my life that hurts me to give up. I have an older mother that I take care of (financially) I don’t want to get a 100k student loan dept and not have a job.

Any help explaining it would be awesome, and any advice is welcome!

I have recently launched my own business and travel insurance company, for the first month my goal was B2B however i could not get any response from any airliner, emailed dozens of CCO's DM'd on linkedin nothing worked i have even tried going to the HQ itself and talk with the reception i didnt expect a meeting immediately but i also didnt expect them telling me to leave my contact details and wait for them to pass it to the responsible departments for them to most likely throw it in the trash the moment i leave the HQ.
The only "valuable" info that i got was that i needed someone on the inside for any airline, i am asking if anybody has connections to UK based HQ's for airlines such as WizzAir, Easyjet and other economy airlines, British airways is out of the window since they insure their own customers themselves.
If anyone has a connection please DM me thanks.

Was it comparable to flying the Boing?