When I was a student pilot, 1967, the idea of the hand held
computer was only on StarTrek, Bill Gates was still broke
and I was having to learn the regs. I was a fan of Dragnet
and Sgt. Joe Friday. Whenever he would make an arrest he
would say something like, "You're under arrest for violation
of 187 PC" instead of murder.

So just made a game out of the regs in order to memorize
them. Did just fine until they renumbered them, which is
much better since they are grouped rather than scattered.
But it was fun to make the feds squirm when they didn't know
the number until they were flipping the book looking for a
question to ask. Sometimes they would even call me to ask
what a regulation meant.

But if I was learning to fly today, I'd certainly have a big
screen PDA with a GPS and a flash card with all the FARS and
charts.

--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
. ..
| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:vENJf.95896$4l5.91480@dukeread05...
| When I would go over to the local FSDO for my 6 month
135
| checks and annual chief flight instructor checks, the
old
| hands at the FSDO would send me to the new guys. When I
was
| asked about some rule or procedure, I'd do my Jack Webb
| impression.
| Q When does the flight require oxygen? A. "FAR (I'd
quote
| the rule and paragraph number) says" and the inspector
would
| interrupt to ask a different question. After about 15
| minutes of them asking questions and me starting with
the
| FAR paragraph number they'd call it a day. Then they
| government renumbered part 91 and that made it necessary
for
| me to either memorize the rules again or actually give
| answers.
|
| Or just bring a handheld PC and search in real time for
the relevant FAR.
|
| --Gary
|
|