midlifeflyer

I did the same with my own logbook software. I can't help with Foreflight's reports since I never moved to it, but if you wrote your own before, it doesn't sound like pulling down the csv doing the query(ies), retaining as a template and updating the database as needed would be a big deal for you. Although MyFlighBook has greater internal query capability than Foreflight, I still find the need to update the Excel file and do a custom inquiry from time to time.

I used to do things like quit organizations when I didn't like something going on internally, but, somewhere along the way, I figured out that if I quit an organization solely because I didn't like it's internal politics, I wouldn't be a member of anything.

I browse my logbook, sometimes to reminisce, but I leave MyFlightBook to those types of milestones. My page shows over 20, including highest and lowest airports, number of airports I've landed in, number of states I've landed in, number of countries/continents I've flown in, when I logged by 25th different model of airplane, that type of stuff. Some you don't necessarily want to know, like the longest streak of not flying.

I think that's typical. A delay for release means they need time in order to fit you in. The inability to fit you in doesn't disappear with a VFR departure. Purely technique, but I'm also a believer in picking up IFR on the ground in unfamiliar areas. Using FRG as an example, I had my "expected "clearance. It was different by the time I called Clearance Delivery. A clearance easy to copy and load on the ground can be a bear once in the air, especially when there are unfamiliar waypoints. If you are heading south on departure, you can anticipate vectors in a counterclockwise box, ultimately placing you over the JFK runways.

In that airspace, based in my limited experience (twice), I’d pick it up on the ground unless you are prepared to remain VFR until well clear of the area.

Thanks. I did two versions of the video. This was the one for my flying club. The other was more for friends and family - more music, less ATC. FWIW, inbound from the south about an hour earlier that day involved a slam dunk from downwind /base to the runway. If you are given ground references, advising the Tower you are “unfamiliar” helps. I didn’t have any local knowledge (I’m based in NC). It was my first time there. I’d use ISP previously. A little further out, but I think it’s a little easier because it’s less constricted from a practical standpoint.

FWIW, I’ve done both FRG and ISP. Definitely FRG if heading into Queens or Brooklyn. And yes, it can get busy. Not only because of the airport traffic itself, but its location in JFK’s flight path. Pay very close attention to the ATIS. It’s not just weather and runway. Example at the very beginning of this video…

There is actually a defined “pilot time” that is different than either. It includes simulation. The definition is in 61.1.

I like that word, but asking that question rarely provides an antidote. Besides, you’ll usually find the technique written somewhere.

As @MikeOH indicates, you are not acting as PIC in that scenario, but you may log pic in that scenario. That’s because “A sport, recreational, private, commercial, or airline transport pilot may log pilot in command flight time for flights— (i) … when the pilot is the sole manipulator of the controls of an aircraft for which the pilot is rated, or has sport pilot privileges for that category and class of aircraft, if the aircraft class rating is appropriate;” Is quite literal. Rated for the aircraft, not the operation.

If I’m understanding the question (and like @kortopates I’m not sure I do), yes, you have to have the VOR frequency in active to track a VOR.

I used to periodically do an airworthiness question about a piece of inop equipment. There was a strong correlation between getting it wrong and learning a certain mnemonic about burning red fruit. I regularly get a wrong answer about the need for an IFR alternate when the destination has no IAP from those whose only understanding is the 1-2-3 rule. The problem isn’t that mnemonics are a shorthand, it’s that they are often a replacement.

You mean you haven’t noticed reading the regsv being replaced by mnemonics and “belief” in what they say?

Anyone can learn to read them. Problem is that CFIs teach to be afraid of reading them. I learned how to read and write outlines in 5th grade.

Please don't say that. It leads to Regaphobia., a self-fulfilling, irrational fear of reading regulations based on a belief they are incomprehensible. The sufferer simply avoids even trying.