The Bay Area/NorCal.

Not SF obviously, but San Jose, Livermore, or into the Central Valley. Sacramento gets hot but not Arizona hot, and has very few IFR days. San Jose might have MVFR mornings sometimes but then gets a solid amount of VFR time. I have friends that train in SoCal and they cancel a lot because of the marine layer. I had flights canceled due to maintenance and lot more than weather. Maybe 5 times through my PPL and COM due to weather, and then for my IFR I only did if there was known icing. Thunderstorms happen a few times a year if that.

I know someone with a 235 that offered to let me fly it. He’s still a student, I don’t have a high performance endorsement yet… I should work on that

I think $900 nowadays isn’t bad. That’s two lessons with a decent CFI where I am. It’s part of the training. It would be nice if it was like a drivers test, where it’s something like $35, but it’s aviation so everything is exponentially more expensive.

I paid $700 for my PPL in 2019. My PPL DPE also flew corporate jets, he justified it by trying to make it the same cost as what he would make flying a day in the jet. Fair enough

I think $800 for my IR in 2021, and $800 too for my CPL in 2022, but with an extra $100 for the DPE to travel from his home airport, which would have cost me more than $100 to get the plane to and from.

I’m paying $1800 (a bit more than I’m comfortable paying) for my CFI, but the DPE is flying in from out of state and doing rides all week at my school. I also got the ride date with him as soon as I started my CFI training. There are people at my school that are trying to get a ride with a local DPE and are looking at a 3 month wait.

I have a friend that’s been checkride ready for months and the DPE he’s been to before keeps ghosting him. I’ll gladly pay a bit more for a DPE that is fair and nice, and most importantly actually responds to my request for a ride.

This is the way to do it. No real need for ForeFlight pre solo, but you’ll definitely want it for cross country planning, and for added situational awareness on solo cross countries.

iPad as a reward for soloing

Fancy headset as a reward for completing your ppl

I built a Stratux but all the planes I fly have ADS-B in, so I’ve used it maybe 5 times

You can buy a Mobula 6 for $110, or a Mobula 7 for $117. You might be able to build something for cheap but I doubt it would be as good as either of those. I have a Mobula 7 and love it, it does great indoor and outdoor well enough

Is that a mod that fills the background of the pawn with their mood color?

CFI in two weeks. $1500-1800, he’s flying from a state over for a week to do a bunch of rides. A whole lot more than all of my rides, all sub $1k. But I’ve heard he’s nice, fair, and I don’t have to wait 2 months to even try to schedule

How does the difference between February and March happen? Flew 34 hours more but paid 9 hours more?

So if you’re guaranteed 75 hours pay a month, do you get the same guaranteed hours on reserve as you do holding a line? You aren’t flying 2.5x and gone 2x as much but making the same pay, right?

My worst life decision was being 14 when it was like this

I stopped eating it for that reason. I enjoy eating it, it’s not the best but by no means terrible. But I got tired of the next day stomach pains. Just not worth it

Beech Starship

Velocity V Twin. Because it’s a baby starship

Roller Coaster Tycoon2. Got the CD back when Office Depot sold them, or maybe at a book fair at school? Got it on GoG before it was on Steam. Got it on Steam. Got it on my phone. And I’d buy it again if I had to.

Same with Locomotion. Bought 2 CDs because I thought I lost the first but found it. Own it on steam too.

Titanfall 2, Xbox and then Origin, and then steam.

Terraria. I have gifted it to 3 or 4 friends.

Bean Battles. I’ve gifted it to probably 10 friends and will continue to do so. It’s terrible, it’s one of my favorite games on steam.

My cart currently has:

Balatro

Battlefield Hardline (only BF game I don’t have and I’ve heard the story isn’t too bad)

I’m debating getting:

Animal Well

Spider-Man (Remastered or Miles Morales)

Stray

I hate playing it on my deck, much prefer pc but Rimworld Biotech DLC as well

I have everything else I want to play that is a hit on the deck. Dredge, RDR2, Horizon 4, Guardians, Hades, Disco Elysium… I’d say I should just play what I have, but I’ve got $40 in my steam wallet burning a hole from returning Helldivers

We got KO3s before we got Half Life 3 smh