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Well ya but none of this will help me when I'm taking my written and am told to whip out a pad and a pen and calculate the density altitude by hand after being given the current air pressure, field elevation and OAT.
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May 26, 2016 20:42
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EvilJoven posted:Well ya but none of this will help me when I'm taking my written and am told to whip out a pad and a pen and calculate the density altitude by hand after being given the current air pressure, field elevation and OAT. Lol if you didn't memorize all the answers in the test prep book.
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May 26, 2016 22:02
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EvilJoven posted:Well ya but none of this will help me when I'm taking my written and am told to whip out a pad and a pen and calculate the density altitude by hand after being given the current air pressure, field elevation and OAT. I've never had to use that formula on any check ride or written I've ever had, and I've done a lot of both. Plus they'll usually let you bring a manual e6b.
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May 26, 2016 22:06
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VOR LOC posted:Lol if you didn't memorize all the answers in the test prep book. I never understood the answer memorization thing. It seems like as much effort as just learning the material.
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May 26, 2016 22:46
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It's either that or constantly having to study a dozen different books looking for answers to questions you'll flush the second you pass the test. I just figured it was a better use of my time.
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May 26, 2016 23:10
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vessbot posted:I never understood the answer memorization thing. It seems like as much effort as just learning the material. It's not though. If you do enough practice tests (and you should do practice tests regardless of whether you want to learn everything or not) you will immediately recognize the question/answer pair as you go through the writtens. It is dumb. I think they're changing out a bunch of questions and enlarging the question bank next month though. At least for some tests. Disclaimer: FAA
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May 26, 2016 23:26
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A message to those using LGW. If you are told be ready immediate don't muck around. At the end of a line check on a day when the French are striking I really do want to fly a go around from 100' because you're slow.
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May 27, 2016 00:44
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Heh, look at you noobs using charts and such for density altitude. Us REAL pilots have ACARS for that  simble posted:
It goes live June 13, and some of the questions are...interesting: https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/test_questions/media/PARSampleExam.pdf especially this gem: The Feds posted:28. The destination airport has one runway, 8-26, and the wind is calm. The normal approach in calm wind is a left-hand pattern to runway 08. There is no other traffic at the airport. A thunderstorm about 6 miles west is beginning its mature stage, and rain is starting to reach the ground. The pilot decides to
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May 27, 2016 04:52
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Yeah wtf 20 mile rule. I guess I'd answer C to avoid a tail wind during the flare? Am I right? I'm a Flight Instructor...
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May 27, 2016 05:12
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Butt Reactor posted:especially this gem: Layman here. I’m pretty sure “A” is wrong because even if “fly the pattern to runway 8” is correct, “the storm is too far away to affect the wind at the airport” is terrible justification. We must assume that the wind may be a problem, and act accordingly. B and C are essentially the same answer, but one of them has a backwards understanding of meteorology. Does wind generally blow towards or away from thunderstorms? If I were a pilot‐in‐training it would be good to know this, but I’ll have to go on my memory of primary‐school science and say that thunderstorms are associated with low pressure, and we would therefore expect ground‐level prevailing wind to be easterly. The answers refer to unexpected wind, but I think those are going to be gusts in the same prevailing direction. The headwind might vary in strength, but it shouldn’t become a tailwind. I’d go with “B”. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 08:42 on May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 08:37
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Platystemon posted:Layman here. It really depends how powerful the storm is. Typically mature stages of thunderstorms are predominantly downdrafts, but if it's a particularly severe storm (super cells) the downdraft and updraft can be separate and you get all kinds of unpredictable winds. There's really not enough information here to make an informed decision. But either way, 6 miles is far too close to be to a thunderstorm. e.pilot fucked around with this message at 14:24 on May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 14:22
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Butt Reactor posted:It goes live June 13, and some of the questions are...interesting: https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/test_questions/media/PARSampleExam.pdf I just did the AGI in January and a bunch of those questions are the same or awfully similar to the ones I saw, but that one (which I never saw in the Gleim) is so GovernmentTM that you'd just have to go with your best guess and then read the explanation as to why there was a two out of three chance you were wrong. (It feels like one of those trap questions where C feels like it could be right, but the FAA would say A because "the storm's not there YET, dumbass" or something.) The Flashing White Light one got easier, though: quote:46 Unless I missed something, there is literally one right answer there.
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May 27, 2016 14:54
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The deal is that the Thunderatorm is reaching the mature stage. Mature stages are the downdraft stages. Hence my vote for C because I want to fly into the wind instead of against it. quote:MATURE STAGE Edit:Sorry e.pilot I didn't see you said basically the same thing. Captain Apollo fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 15:21
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Captain Apollo posted:The deal is that the Thunderatorm is reaching the mature stage. Cast a nulshock and start a healaga on the next turn, and you should be good.
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May 27, 2016 15:30
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Captain Apollo posted:The deal is that the Thunderatorm is reaching the mature stage. Mature stages are the downdraft stages. Hence my vote for C because I want to fly into the wind instead of against it. Yeah, that's what I would do. If there's nobody else in the pattern and the wind is calm, there can be a "standard runway" all day long but what's stopping somebody from using the other runway? If the wind were calm/extremely light at MGY (nontowered and where I did Instrument and built time for the aborted Commercial rating), people used 20 but, if the question scenario (e- loosely since it's in reverse) translated to MGY, there's nothing stopping me from using 2. I'd just make radio calls like crazy if I had to in case somebody else showed up. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 15:49 on May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 15:44
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Fly into thunderstorm, verbally mocking God.
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May 27, 2016 17:36
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Correct test answer: C Correct part 91 answer: Divert Correct part 121 answer: Hold until EFC, unless you won't make guarantee for that day/trip/month. If the latter applies and it's the go home leg land on 26, otherwise divert. Correct part 135 answer: Rolo posted:Fly into thunderstorm, verbally mocking God.
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May 27, 2016 18:58
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You can use any runway you want because all the people with smarts diverted a long time ago.
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May 27, 2016 19:00
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KodiakRS posted:Correct test answer: C Perfection.
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May 27, 2016 21:31
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Should be getting my offer letter next week once I get my drug test done (holiday weekend  )All we've agreed on is pay, schedule and benefits. Should know which jet next week. Small chance I might be 91 only 
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May 27, 2016 22:26
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Rolo posted:Should know which jet next week. What are the possibilities?
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May 28, 2016 02:35
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MrYenko posted:What are the possibilities? CJ2 or a Phenom 100. I'm on a LR60 now that I loving love, so I gotta learn to fly slow again, but man that QOL.
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May 28, 2016 02:43
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Rolo posted:CJ2 or a Phenom 100. I'm on a LR60 now that I loving love, so I gotta learn to fly slow again, but man that QOL. Fancy Jet syndrome is a helluva drug.
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May 28, 2016 02:52
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Rolo posted:CJ2 or a Phenom 100. I'm on a LR60 now that I loving love, so I gotta learn to fly slow again, but man that QOL. Would you say that your new favorite beer is "red stripe?"
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IceLicker posted:Would you say that your new favorite beer is "red stripe?" No but I get that reference 
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May 28, 2016 04:25
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For the record, fully half the time we say hello or goodbye to a Red Stripe, either that controller, or someone else in the control room says "hooray beer" off frequency.
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May 28, 2016 04:29
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MrYenko posted:For the record, fully half the time we say hello or goodbye to a Red Stripe, either that controller, or someone else in the control room says "hooray beer" off frequency. We do jazz hands every time we hear Spirit. Spiriiiiiit
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May 28, 2016 04:30
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Who is red stripe? Our call sign over seas was "Swifty." Even better it was for our squadrons V-22s. I'd always check in as T Swifty flight of however many 22s and no one would get it. And now that we're back stateside we've lost that sweet call sign 
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May 28, 2016 05:34
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Bob A Feet posted:Who is red stripe? 
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May 28, 2016 06:17
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Bob A Feet posted:Who is red stripe? JetSuite. I've always wondered if Jazz requires their flight attendants to finish their safety demos with jazz hands.
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May 28, 2016 08:26
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Feeling pretty lovely today. I know I'm not that far into my PPL, but just logged my 7th hour and can't land for poo poo. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
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May 29, 2016 02:54
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dexter6 posted:Feeling pretty lovely today. I know I'm not that far into my PPL, but just logged my 7th hour and can't land for poo poo. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. That feeling happens to every one at one point or another. At some point things will click together. Could be at 10 hours. Could be at 30. Everyone is different. Landing is more about feel and sight picture than study. Just keep at it and don't get too discouraged.
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dexter6 posted:Feeling pretty lovely today. I know I'm not that far into my PPL, but just logged my 7th hour and can't land for poo poo. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. lovely days are better for your development than you think. Even when you get your PPL, all it is is a license to suck at flying by yourself. If you keep going you will slowly suck less, I promise.
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May 29, 2016 04:00
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dexter6 posted:Feeling pretty lovely today. I know I'm not that far into my PPL, but just logged my 7th hour and can't land for poo poo. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. 7 hours is nothing, you're doing just fine.
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May 29, 2016 04:39
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dexter6 posted:Feeling pretty lovely today. I know I'm not that far into my PPL, but just logged my 7th hour and can't land for poo poo. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. I don't think I've know a single student who I would trust to land the airplane at 7 hours, including myself. Hell, I have 4,000+ hours and there are still have days when I can't land the drat airplane well.
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dexter6 posted:Feeling pretty lovely today. I know I'm not that far into my PPL, but just logged my 7th hour and can't land for poo poo. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Don't feel shiity. It's the hardest part of your flight training and the part you've spent the least amount of training on. It's tough, but know this.... Gone are the days the instructor steps out after a few hours and says "time to solo". Going to repeat myself but 90% percent of greaser landings are by accident. And the absolute key to a good landing is a good approach/pattern. Break it down to three phases and if any one of those phases aren't right and don't feel good; go around. There's no harm in a go around but don't develop landitis Develop your downwind, develop your base, develop your final. It will come together. Ask your instructor for slow flight instruction. My instructor keyed on slow flight from the beginning and it paid huge dividends at the end.
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Just yesterday I was jumpseating on a Delta 737 and the captain landed a real hard poo poo landing into JFK. We all looked at looked at each other like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ without even a word of excuse or sympathy and within seconds forgot about it as we all reached into our pockets for our smartphones to turn off airplane mode Btw guys I live in Brooklyn now if any of you poor souls are junior enough to hold JFK in your respective airlines (i am crazy enough to choose NYC cause I love it) lets go for beers Animal fucked around with this message at 06:22 on May 29, 2016 |
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May 29, 2016 06:17
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Tide posted:
This. The last trip I flew had both the captain and I making six landings each, and of those 12 landings, the only greaser happened on the final leg of the trip, in a very light airplane, which is basically a recipe for a not-so-great landing.
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Two Kings posted:Landing is more about feel and sight picture than study. This cannot be said enough. The only way to get better at landing is to go bounce the airplane off the runway a few dozen times. Immediately post-solo, I spent a large chunk of my solo practice time seeing how many decent touch and goes I could fit into an hour. It helps a lot.
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