Just set a new record today -- logged a 5.1 doing the 61.65(d)(2)(ii) long IFR XC. And that over a 260nm course! I'd forgotten what it was like to spend all day in a Cessna 150. Had a lot of fun, including an approach to 200 above mins on arrival back at the training location. My trainee was...
Paul Greer, and attorney in the FAA Chief Counsel's office (and also a CP/CFI) wrote a nice piece on the subject called "Come Fly With Me (But, Let Me Check the Rules before You Pay Me)" in the Sept/Oct issue of FAA Safety Briefing (formerly FAA Aviation News). It gives some good insight into...
Based on a post over on the SR-22 crash thread, I'd like to know how many of you ever (or never) got actual training on landing on a grass runway. I'm not talking about doing simulated soft-field landings on pavement, I'm talking about actual taking off and landing on a grass runway.