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Day to day bullshit: there is nothing like risking the hotel breakfast buffet and it actually being good. We got delayed hard and got done at like 0300 HBT last night and I just ate my weight in fruit, french toast, turkey sausage and somehow good scrambled eggs. Why can’t it always be at least passable
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i know its terrible for you but i love scarfing a breakfast buffet and then going the gently caress to sleep. i did it a lot when i flew freight and that is why im the lithe Adonis i am today!
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Flew under the hood for the first time. God drat it's crazy how your brain can just not understand it's orientation after a while.
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May 12, 2024 08:16
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Rolo posted:somehow good scrambled eggs. Hah, I had similar recently, where the scrambled eggs at the buffet were actually decent!.
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May 12, 2024 15:41
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Kwolok posted:Flew under the hood for the first time. God drat it's crazy how your brain can just not understand it's orientation after a while. Just wait until you do recovery from unusual attitudes! I would close my eyes and try to follow the movements of the plane to predict what the attitude would be when the instructor handed it back over. I was wrong 100% of the time.
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Walrusmaster posted:Just wait until you do recovery from unusual attitudes! I would close my eyes and try to follow the movements of the plane to predict what the attitude would be when the instructor handed it back over. I was wrong 100% of the time. I did do that! I was actually really really good at staying on my heading altitude and speed the first time I did it, at after about 30 minutes of only making a few small mistakes my instructor was like "you're really good at this so it's time to gently caress you up!". Needless to say I did hesitate way more when I was finally able to look at my instruments because I kept predicting wrong too.
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Ya unusual attitudes is all about IGNORING what your inner ear is telling you, opening your eyes, interpreting your instruments, and then acting on that information instead of whatever your reptile brain is screaming at you. Which is wrong.
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What is the best website to see real time tracking of general aviation planes, not just big commercial jets
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Kwolok posted:What is the best website to see real time tracking of general aviation planes, not just big commercial jets They all do it, it’s just more likely that a GA puttering along low to the ground is more likely to disappear in gaps in the receiver network. Just a question of who has better coverage in the specific area you’re looking in
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May 14, 2024 12:06
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ADSB exchange is also better though.
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Kwolok posted:What is the best website to see real time tracking of general aviation planes, not just big commercial jets FlightRadar24 has altitude filters so you can screen out everything above 10,000’, if that would help for what you’re trying to do.
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hobbesmaster posted:This is drifting off into trivia land that may be better for one of the other aviation threads (AI or the TFR Cold War one which appears to be on a forum safari atm) but has there ever been a bail out from a transport category aircraft which… well, didn’t involve DB Cooper, I’m feeling too lazy to figure out the qualifiers there. I'm told the sabreliner was designed to be able to discretly insert agents in East Germany. There is a maintenance hatch accessible through the passenger compartment, and when the speed brake is deployed you can leave the plane in flight through the floor. This is not exactly a transport category aircraft though.
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May 17, 2024 19:52
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I'm invited for the first step of the selection procedure at the airline flight academy. Time to brush up my skills in matrix puzzles.
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I'd love to hear your experiences with the selection process. which airline ab initio program are you involved in?
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I'll PM you 
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Did probably my last sim in the 737 today, we finished early and the instructor set us up to try something different for fun. Start about 6 or so miles out on an ils at 200 kts, gear up, flaps up. Add thrust and fly the glideslope down while accelerating to 320 or 330 kts. At around 50 feet level out and fly down the runway. Near the other end your colleague cuts the engines and you pull up hard, trade speed for height and bank around for a circuit, manage your energy throw the gear and flaps out when you think you need them and put it back down at the other end. I've done a good few sims where you have time at the end and you try some weird approach or something dumb just to see if you can do it, anyone got any good ones to suggest for the next time?
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May 24, 2024 20:55
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Depending on how accurate the sim visuals are, trying to fly under the "sky bridge" on the south terminal at SEA is a fun one.
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i flew the 747 sim under the gold gate bridge at 300+ knots and the pulled up hard enough afterwards to set off the stick shaker. it was awesome
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Every military sim always had the ability to program in a boat. So naturally we’d try to land whatever we were flying on the boat. In the Osprey sims I always loved dropping some enemy (ZSU-23, MANPADS gunner, a technical etc) in the landing zone we were practicing in without telling the guys I was instructing. Their surprise when they saw tracers arcing across the LZ was amazing.
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YouTube links are probably not the best content for the thread, since there are so many vids out there, I thought this one was cool if anyone was interested in the topic. It delivers what it says on the tin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1wkx1V1qHY Includes all sorts of stuff in 4K like de-icing service for a Polish charter Boeing jet, coming to visit some sort of festive Santa Claus village in Sweden. I skipped around the digging parts later, he seems to also do earthwork stuff outside the airport for more of a job job. Inner Light fucked around with this message at 23:59 on May 25, 2024 |
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Can I take a skateboard in the flight deck as a crew member? It’s not a weapon or something dumb right? I’d keep it in a black bag maybe sticking out of the top of my suitcase a little or something.
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I mean a skateboard’s allowed through TSA as a regular carryon, so they shouldn’t care. Presumably there’s nothing in your FOM about prohibited items in crew baggage including skateboards. Unless you have a grumpy captain who sees it and gives you poo poo, who else is gonna stop you? If e.pilot gets a bike I say you get a skateboard 
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May 28, 2024 17:19
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If you ride it around the terminal at least take off your epaulets.
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Two Kings posted:If you ride it around the terminal at least take off your epaulets. No, give the skateboard epaulets
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Clearly you need more epaulets when you ride through the terminal.
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Give it wings, a nose and a tail! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6fGdBJ3y_U
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e.pilot? i think carries a folding bike in a suitcase with him on trips if i remember right
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 hail Milu! the Hawaiian god of the underworld. not really Satan, since it seems Hawaiian myths dont really have a devil figure, but seeing as this was taken in Honolulu i gotta get the hails where i can
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This is how HCF lets you know you're not getting the altitude you wanted going home.
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weirdly they did so that just proves hailing the dark lord of (whatever) works. plus i made the early commute flight home! thanks Milu!
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I have my checkout solo ride with a separate instructor scheduled for mid June and I'm awfully nervous.
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Kwolok posted:I have my checkout solo ride with a separate instructor scheduled for mid June and I'm awfully nervous. For your PPL? You mean a checkout for your first solo? If that's the case I understand the anxiety but realistically you'll be fine. They don't want to see you do spectacular maneuvers, they want to see you be safe, i.e. bring the plane back in one piece. Know the procedures ad call out things you do. Making mistakes is fine, but call out that you notice them and that you're managing them.
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Lord Stimperor posted:For your PPL? You mean a checkout for your first solo? If that's the case I understand the anxiety but realistically you'll be fine. They don't want to see you do spectacular maneuvers, they want to see you be safe, i.e. bring the plane back in one piece. Know the procedures ad call out things you do. Making mistakes is fine, but call out that you notice them and that you're managing them. Yeah for my first solo. My school makes me go up with an instructor I haven't been with so they can assess me without bias to make sure I have the skills necessary to bring the plane back in one piece prior to my first solo.
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I think that's actually pretty cool and a good policy.
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We had a similar policy but you had to fly with the chief pilot prior to going solo. Called it a "phase check." Doing a mock checkride with a different instructor was another phase check prior to the real one. Good school imo
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Yeah I definitely think its the right and good thing to do. So far I am in love with my instructor and the school as a whole. I AM STILL NERVOUS THOUGH AHHHHH (But its not till mid june soooo)
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Kwolok posted:Yeah I definitely think its the right and good thing to do. So far I am in love with my instructor and the school as a whole. I AM STILL NERVOUS THOUGH AHHHHH If you aren't nervous you aren't taking it seriously enough. The school you're at wouldn't benefit by putting you up by yourself if you weren't ready and your instructor wouldn't risk their certificate over it either. The solo flight is truly a milestone to enjoy
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As important as the first solo is, it was the solo cross country that really clicked in my brain and had me go “holy poo poo” several dozen times.
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MrYenko posted:As important as the first solo is, it was the solo cross country that really clicked in my brain and had me go “holy poo poo” several dozen times. Can you expand on what you mean by holy poo poo and what those moments were?
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i will jump in and say that for me there was a "holy poo poo" moment on my first solo, when i took off and turned right for the crosswind turn and really realized there was nobody in the seat beside me. on my first solo xc i'd already spent a bunch of time solo in the pattern, so that part wasn't new, but i had a huge smile on my face as i left the local airspace and handed off to another controller all by myself and then just got to...enjoy it. nobody watching me, nobody talking to me or testing me, just me and the plane and occasional radio chatter. of course your heart is pounding at first, but then you kinda just start doing what you've already done dozens of times with the instructor beside you, and you realize you're ready and it's easy. turn to the next waypoint, put the plane in a gentle climb and just sit back and look around. all by myself 2000 feet in the air, lazily floating over san francisco bay on a lovely sunny day. it's magic Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jun 1, 2024 |
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