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Desi posted:My CL-65 type ride was last week from 1am-6am... Jees, that was a pretty loving quick transition from A to B to C, well done!
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AWSEFT posted:Red-eye Transcons suck. New gig? CPDLC is indeed the poo poo but thats offset by how lame HF is when you have to use it.
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The Ferret King posted:That action which is most important from a safety standpoint is preformed first. Sorry, I cannot resist... I assume it's preformed into a plane shaped hole? I'll get me coat
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Animal posted:New gig? Please heaven put HIWAS on CPDLC. Please, pretty please. Then we might actually bother with it. hjp766 fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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hjp766 posted:Sorry, I cannot resist... I assume it's preformed into a plane shaped hole? 
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hjp766 posted:Please heaven put HIWAS on CPDLC. Please, pretty please. Then we might actually bother with it. Woefully related: Our TMU refuses to accept PIREPS through our information display (ERID) because the computer in TMU that receives them doesn't have speakers, and doesn't make a noise to let them know there is a PIREP. Therefore, PIREPs have to be handwritten, and then hand delivered to TMU. We have an all-hands briefing this week because management cannot figure out why we aren't soliciting more PIREPs.
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AWSEFT posted:Yep. I posted in here about it. Driving an Airbus now. Searched your post history, must have missed it or been drunk, congrats. I see you are spending time in NY, let me know if you wanna meet here since we didn't meet in DTW (though we probably crossed paths dozens of times) How about a Goon Pilots NYC Meet? I can throw something in my backyard or one of the craft beer places nearby where I live (Clinton Hill, Brooklyn)
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AWSEFT posted:Absolutely. I'm in drat  There's an awesome street meat cart across the street from the old JBU building in Forest Hills.
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AWSEFT posted:Absolutely. I'm in How about the lovely part of NY like SYR? We can get dinosaur BBQ and uh, see a polluted lake? I'd come down but gently caress my rear end if I'd fly a GA aircraft into any of those airports. That plus the TFRs make it nearly impossible to get anywhere close. I've been flying a lot for fun lately and every once in a while the thought crosses my mind again of doing it for a career. Please talk out of even dreaming about it again.
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i am kiss u now posted:How about the lovely part of NY like SYR? We can get dinosaur BBQ and uh, see a polluted lake? I'd come down but gently caress my rear end if I'd fly a GA aircraft into any of those airports. That plus the TFRs make it nearly impossible to get anywhere close. I've been flying a lot for fun lately and every once in a while the thought crosses my mind again of doing it for a career. Please talk out of even dreaming about it again. I'll try and nick the next clear day JFK I see...
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You guys need to get together an plan a RSV Hobbit like expedition all the way out to Brooklyn
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Animal posted:You guys need to get together an plan a RSV Hobbit like expedition all the way out to Brooklyn I'll be there and off duty on Saturday.
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AWSEFT posted:I'll be there and off duty on Saturday. Just collected a JFK night stop on Saturday October 7...
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Ok, what's it like working at Allegiant? I've heard some good things, but not from goons. This would specifically be a corporate job, not flight line or anything like that.
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Like Mr Wiggles, I just discovered this thread. I work at Pratt and Whitney and, like any company, they only feed good news to employees. I'll enjoy seeing any perspective from the outside.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Ok, what's it like working at Allegiant? I've heard some good things, but not from goons. This would specifically be a corporate job, not flight line or anything like that. http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/investigations/allegiant-air/mechanical-breakdowns/ Allegiant has a mechanical failure rate something like 4X higher than any other airline (and double the failure rate of other MD-80 operators), and it's mostly down to blind luck (and some good crews) that they haven't destroyed an airplane or killed anyone yet.
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I completed my PPL oral with my examiner basically skimming everything because I was ahead of all his questions (have a great CFI) but my practical has been cancelled twice due to thunderstorms gently caress florida
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a patagonian cavy posted:I completed my PPL oral with my examiner basically skimming everything because I was ahead of all his questions (have a great CFI) but my practical has been cancelled twice due to thunderstorms No big deal, just increase your personal minimums!
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My super incredibly sketchy 135 employer had a mechanic who left Allegiant because their maintenance department was too sketchy.
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Didn't an Allegiant captain get in trouble (or even fired) because he evacuated an airplane after what he determined was a mechanical emergency on the ground? -edit- Here it is http://abcnews.go.com/US/pilot-sues-allegiant-malicious-firing-emergency-evacuation/story?id=35165366
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Animal posted:Didn't an Allegiant captain get in trouble (or even fired) because he evacuated an airplane after what he determined was a mechanical emergency on the ground? "Smoke infiltrating the cabin" is not something I would make a judgement call about as a pilot, unless I were absolutely certain of the source and my ability to extinguish it. gently caress. Look at the videos of planes that were evacuated just in time, before the entire thing went up, and the fatalities that have resulted from not evacuating a smoke-filled cabin quickly enough, or treating smoke as less than a serious matter. How dare the company second-guess the PIC in such a situation? PT6A fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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a patagonian cavy posted:I completed my PPL oral with my examiner basically skimming everything because I was ahead of all his questions (have a great CFI) but my practical has been cancelled twice due to thunderstorms The instructors at my original pilot mill flew at the home campus before the satellite opened and basically said if you might as well not show up if you had a flight scheduled for 2pm or after in the summer.
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PT6A posted:KCRP 260151Z AUTO A2932 RMK OHFUCKNO also mostly edited for content, the .gov website has most of the information missing for ~some mysterious reason~
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a patagonian cavy posted:also mostly edited for content, the .gov website has most of the information missing for ~some mysterious reason~ The sensors have had a rough night, give them a break.
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PT6A posted:The sensors have had a rough night, give them a break. They're probably having a relaxing vacation in Mexico now.
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hobbesmaster posted:They're probably having a relaxing vacation in Mexico now. Poll for the thread: What's the highest windspeed you've seen on your local airport's sensors? Mine was 45G51KT, and thank gently caress I wasn't flying at the time...
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I landed with 43kt sustained once. Chinook events are a hell of a thing, luckily it was straight down the runway. Observed I've seen in the 50s a few times.
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I flew in 30G45 at Yuma once. Just take it all on the nose and you'll be fine. Trying to loving taxi was the hard part.
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e.pilot posted:I landed with 43kt sustained once. Hmm, where was that, out of curiosity? As far as I know, this (Calgary) is the only area that calls those winds Chinooks. If it was indeed Calgary or area, yeah, I can believe it. Our winds are right hosed around here. My max was sustained 20, gusting 25, but in a 172. We're not allowed to fly much beyond that. Straight down the runway, though.... usually when those winds hits, it's straight out of the west.
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We had some microbursts roll through the desert so it was VRB07G45. Training was flat cancelled that day.
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PT6A posted:Hmm, where was that, out of curiosity? As far as I know, this (Calgary) is the only area that calls those winds Chinooks. The front range of Colorado, we call them that here too. I wouldn't do much more than upper 20s low 30ish in a 172. Did the 40+ monster in a PC12. My friend put it well once, flying GA you check the weather to see if you're going to fly or not, flying commercial you check the weather to see how much your day is going to suck. e.pilot fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Aug 26, 2017 |
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Bob A Feet posted:I flew in 30G45 at Yuma once. Just take it all on the nose and you'll be fine. Trying to loving taxi was the hard part. gently caress that. Park it into the wind on the run-up apron and wait it out.
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37G45 when I was deliberately checking to see what the winds were doing on a day I was otherwise supposed to fly. I saw a gust of 73 knots at Rickenbacker one time when a line of storms was pushing and I checked out of curiosity, though.
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