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CBJSprague24 posted:Congratulations are in order (I hope)? What are the terms of this one? Did I hear E175s? Guarantee of 40 175s. Sounds good until you consider that we're losing 46 CRJs and another 40+ 145s over the next 24 months.
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One of the instructors at my school is selling his personal Cessna 150, and my instructor has been hired to fly it to Florida (from Maine). His insurance covers use as a training plane, so my instructor asked if I wanted to go for the ride (HELL YES). I'll get to log the whole trip as training time, he'll get to log it all as dual instruction. We both win. I'll basically get about 20 free hours of training time in my logbook for the price of an Amtrak ticket from FL to ME and an awesome experience. I'm wicked excited. This makes my checkbook to checkride ratio a lot less stressful 
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Captain Apollo posted:Make sure you post pictures. I'll see if I can borrow a camera from someone to take for the trip. Mine died over the summer and I don't have a phone. Hoping for nice weather the whole way, but if we end up flying IFR I can log IFR training time, heh. I've already started studying instrument stuff because that's a rating I really want to work on right after I get my private.
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chrisgt posted:One of the instructors at my school is selling his personal Cessna 150, and my instructor has been hired to fly it to Florida (from Maine). This is awesome.
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Dec 28, 2014 02:08
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AirAsia A320 missing in Indonesia.
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CBJSprague24 posted:AirAsia A320 missing in Indonesia. This hasn't been a good year for airlines based in Malaysia, but apparently the accident airplane was operated by their Indonesian affiliate carrier. From what I've seen reported, there were some pretty massive thunderstorms along the route the flight was supposed to take, so I'm wondering if the crew didn't somehow divert themselves into the middle of a bad cell. azflyboy fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Dec 28, 2014 |
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chrisgt posted:One of the instructors at my school is selling his personal Cessna 150, and my instructor has been hired to fly it to Florida (from Maine). I can't decide what's worse-- a ride in a 150 that far, or the ride in the amtrak back. Just kidding, the ride in the 150 will be awesome. I love those things. The ride in the amtrak though? ....
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Bob A Feet posted:I can't decide what's worse-- a ride in a 150 that far, or the ride in the amtrak back. The ride back is gonna suck. I wish I had more time to spend in FL. My car is completely rusted out; I'd love to buy a new (to me, at least) car down there that hasn't been exposed to road salt for the last 25 years... My instructor and I are both 6'2" and it's tight fitting in the 152.... The 150 is gonna be fun haha. After doing the W&B we have about 3lbs each for luggage.
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azflyboy posted:This hasn't been a good year for airlines based in Malaysia, but apparently the accident airplane was operated by their Indonesian affiliate carrier. Wx was poo poo, looking at the radar, and sources are saying that it was going 100 kts slower than filed. But of course take all of that with the rest of the wild speculations that happen during the times like this.
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Spaced God posted:Wx was poo poo, looking at the radar, and sources are saying that it was going 100 kts slower than filed. But of course take all of that with the rest of the wild speculations that happen during the times like this. What if it just kept climbing all the way to the moon?
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e.pilot posted:What if it just kept climbing all the way to the moon? Nah, the black hole would've gotten it first.
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Don't worry too much about that. Plan the trip for long runways and low density altitude flying. By the time you taxi a bit and get going you'll be under gross the rest of the flight.
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Captain Apollo posted:Don't worry too much about that. Plan the trip for long runways and low density altitude flying. By the time you taxi a bit and get going you'll be under gross the rest of the flight. What an awesome suggestion to give a student pilot. Especially one about to fly with his instructor. "The Internet told me not to worry about the W&B."
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fordan posted:What an awesome suggestion to give a student pilot. Especially one about to fly with his instructor. "The Internet told me not to worry about the W&B." Calculate a legit told for what you have and then calculate separates for what contingencies you can have-- less/more luggage, less/more fuel, etc etc. Ask any helicopter pilot that has flown on a hot day with pax. Theyll do it dozens of times. Best part is that whoever you're usually carrying will tell you how much they (or their squad/platoon) weigh and then bring five more people and a mortar tube and wonder why we have to replan everything or kick those guys off.
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An Actual Real Life CFI posted:Don't worry too much about [W&B]. 
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http://youtu.be/OVM3RRd1vf0
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He had soooooooooo much room to abort after settling the first time.
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Captain Apollo posted:Don't worry too much about that. Plan the trip for long runways and low density altitude flying. By the time you taxi a bit and get going you'll be under gross the rest of the flight. Well we're delivering a plane that neither of us own, so it's probably best if we don't crash it. I used to work delivering boats; my crew and I were always wicked careful on those trips. It's kinda embarrassing crashing someone else's thing. Even if insurance does cover it... Startup and taxi allowance is like 0.5 gallons or something, and you probably don't even burn that when you stop, take a piss, grab fuel and take off again. Anyway, a friend of mine gave me his old camera to replace my broken POS, so I'll definitely take pics of the trip and stuff.
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chrisgt posted:Well we're delivering a plane that neither of us own, so it's probably best if we don't crash it. I used to work delivering boats; my crew and I were always wicked careful on those trips. It's kinda embarrassing crashing someone else's thing. Even if insurance does cover it... You should set up some stop action camera somewhere. I've always wanted to try that while flying.
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chrisgt posted:Well we're delivering a plane that neither of us own, so it's probably best if we don't crash it. I used to work delivering boats; my crew and I were always wicked careful on those trips. It's kinda embarrassing crashing someone else's thing. Even if insurance does cover it... Find a friend with a GoPro, and time lapse the entire trip.
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I have a relative interested in becoming a flight attendant. She's going to a hiring event next week. Any advice she should have (other than run away!)? I've been out of the airlines for a while now and am not sure of the current state of things.
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AzureSkys posted:I have a relative interested in becoming a flight attendant. She's going to a hiring event next week. Any advice she should have (other than run away!)? I've been out of the airlines for a while now and am not sure of the current state of things. As far as Delta flight attendant goes, she should NOT be too much of an individual. She should try to be a woman who is perfect and also nice. Be whatever they want you to be. If they ask about flaws give them some bullshit about how your friends think you like to work hard instead of going out to party with them. Once she gets the job and clears probation then she is free to be a huge rear end in a top hat to everyone.
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"Hey, we can't get people to use WingX over Foreflight, maybe if we give it away free to CFIs they'll recommend it to their students!"
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fordan posted:"Hey, we can't get people to use WingX over Foreflight, maybe if we give it away free to CFIs they'll recommend it to their students!" Apollo should get this. I bet it has a weight and balance function.
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Hey guys I've been busy lately I just stopped by to wish you all a Happy New Year and catch u...
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Have any of you professional pilots tried job hunting in Asia? http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_INDONESIA_PLANE_PILOT_SHORTAGE?SITE=OHCIN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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Kilonum posted:Have any of you professional pilots tried job hunting in Asia? Too soon.
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Leviathor posted:Find a friend with a GoPro, and time lapse the entire trip. Hah, like the battery would last that long. Seriously though, they never ever last in mine... I've never even come close to filling an SD card before I have to swap the little bricks out. 
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Duke Chin posted:Hah, like the battery would last that long. Yeah, I figured. That's why they can round out the remaining 3# or whatever of the W&B with GoPro batteries!
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Duke Chin posted:Hah, like the battery would last that long. With the battery backpack I can get about 3 hours out of my 3+ silver.
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Duke Chin posted:Hah, like the battery would last that long. Yea, I do high altitude weather balloon stuff. They often go above 120,000 feet. And the stupid gopros almost never last the whole flight, even with extended batteries.
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New Year's Eve in a hotel room studying flows #pilotlife e: posting about studying flows #goonlife vessbot fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Jan 1, 2015 |
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chrisgt posted:Yea, I do high altitude weather balloon stuff. They often go above 120,000 feet. And the stupid gopros almost never last the whole flight, even with extended batteries. Can't you get a USB external battery?
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hobbesmaster posted:Can't you get a USB external battery? That would require putting a hole in the gopro case. Which risks the chance of air leaks, either through the hole or through the wire itself. The problem is, these sometimes land in lakes. Usually when the gopros go up the pressure inside the case is so great it lets air out, and when they come back down the vacuum is so strong it's incredibly hard to get them open. With that much vacuum it would be entirely possible to draw water in if it landed in a lake. It isn't out of the question, though. On one of the next launches I might fly an empty gopro case with an external battery setup, then dump it in water right away and see if i can make it air tight. I've also built a vacuum chamber to simulate high altitude, so this will make a lot of these problems a lot easier to deal with.
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I only have experience with the exact opposite (electronics for dives) where you can throw it all in a plexiglass case and have it be ip67. You might need a parachute though at that point though
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hobbesmaster posted:I only have experience with the exact opposite (electronics for dives) where you can throw it all in a plexiglass case and have it be ip67. You might need a parachute though at that point though Yea, we run a parachute anyway. Payloads have to be less than 3 or 4 lbs per box as per the FARs to be legal as an unmanned unregistered balloon flight, though. So that's always a restriction.
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