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This nifty article explains a lot of it: https://www.verticalmag.com/features/20112-flying-the-v-22-html/
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Finally got to fly over the best named VOR in the system today: https://imgur.com/a/PstFwRickety Cricket posted:Finally home. Welcome to the good life.
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KodiakRS posted:Finally got to fly over the best named VOR in the system today: https://imgur.com/a/PstFw I love hitting Flatrock and calling it “FAK” in my worst New England accent when heading up that way.
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vessbot posted:The above is just some guy's supposition on PPRUNE. Ok, I should have clicked the link.  I guess I'll wait for the definitive conclusion from AvHerald.
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Airline guys: So it looks like I'm going to have to do about 4 months of commuting (from the west coast ugh) to LGA. I'd rather do hotel rooms then a crash pad, but LGA/JFK hotels don't seem cheap. What do the veterans do? Is it even worth going home if I only have two days off between blocked reserve time? Enjoy a 4 month New York deployment? xaarman fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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From what I remember of LGA the hotels are super expensive and it can be hard to find rooms sometimes. Back then we mostly had a "don't ask don't tell" policy about sleeping in the crew room so that happened a bunch. I think most people these days just get a crashpad.
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xaarman posted:Airline guys: You can find crashpads in Queens (Kew Gardens particularly) for around $300/mo depending on how nice you want.
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hobbesmaster posted:This nifty article explains a lot of it: https://www.verticalmag.com/features/20112-flying-the-v-22-html/ This article is great.
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vessbot posted:Bob A Feet, please tell about the collective/power lever on the V-22. Which way does it move? In airplane mode, it's blindingly obvious that they would make it like an airplane, forward=more power. And I'm sure they wouldn't make it reverse direction when it transitions to helicopter. Which means that in helicopter mode, it would be forward= collective up. yeah you have it right Our "TCL" (thrust control lever) moves forward and backward, similar to any traditional fixed wing power control- forward is more power, back is less power. It operates in the same manner in helicopter/conversion mode-- forward increases collective pitch (forward is up), back decreases collective. You get into an interesting mix of control blending when you get halfway between helicopter and airplane. So yeah, it is slightly different for transitioning helicopter guys-- but I don't know of anyone who's had a problem with it. I've heard the phrase "collective dyslexia" in reference to helicopter guys who it doesn't translate to immediately. honestly, hovering and helicopter stuff is super simple due to our flight control system. lots of transitioning pilots (EA-6B, Japanese and USN guys) have never flown helicopters and get it fine. I find it simpler than a conventional helicopter.
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hobbesmaster posted:This nifty article explains a lot of it: https://www.verticalmag.com/features/20112-flying-the-v-22-html/ this article is very accurate-- honestly looks like it was written by a v-22 pilot.
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Anybody have info on the CFI job market in south Florida? I know in the Midwest you can get a job the day you pass your CFI checkride, is FL the same?
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two_beer_bishes posted:Anybody have info on the CFI job market in south Florida? I know in the Midwest you can get a job the day you pass your CFI checkride, is FL the same? It is. I’m literally in the same boat and location that you are and I was offered a job at the flight school I did my training at and I haven’t even passed my CFI checkrides.
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xaarman posted:Airline guys: I hated my Kew Gardens crash pad. it was a $24 round trip cab ride to the airport. If you want a crashpad within walking distance to LGA Terminal C lemme know.
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two_beer_bishes posted:Anybody have info on the CFI job market in south Florida? I know in the Midwest you can get a job the day you pass your CFI checkride, is FL the same? The airline hiring boom has created a pretty significant drain on CFI's all over the US, so you shouldn't have a problem finding a CFI gig, especially in places like FL that tend to have a lot of schools training foreign contract students.
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Do any schools have strictly ground instructors? Do you need to be a CFI to do ground instruction?
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I'm not in FL yet but my wife wants to move there for a job and I'd love to get the gently caress out of where I am. Sounds promising
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a patagonian cavy posted:It is. I’m literally in the same boat and location that you are and I was offered a job at the flight school I did my training at and I haven’t even passed my CFI checkrides. Canada's quite similar. Nothing formal, but our CFI "offered" me a job as soon as he heard I was interested in doing an instructor rating. We're so short-staffed for instructors that the ones we have right now are booking three to four weeks ahead.
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sleepy gary posted:Do any schools have strictly ground instructors? Do you need to be a CFI to do ground instruction? I think (legally) you just need the faa requirements of reading, writing, speaking English, be 18 and have taken your Advance Ground Instructor test and, if you aren’t a certified teacher already, your Fundamentals of Instruction test. The school would probably want you to be a CFI, but I don’t think you technically have to, someone care to correct me?
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sleepy gary posted:Do any schools have strictly ground instructors? Do you need to be a CFI to do ground instruction? We're hiring ground instructors so we can keep our line pilots out flying instead of stuck in a classroom. Want a job in DFW?
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sleepy gary posted:Do any schools have strictly ground instructors? Do you need to be a CFI to do ground instruction? Rolo posted:I think (legally) you just need the faa requirements of reading, writing, speaking English, be 18 and have taken your Advance Ground Instructor test and, if you aren’t a certified teacher already, your Fundamentals of Instruction test. My school just hired two AGIs to teach ground schools- the one girl is working on Commercial but seems like she's sharp enough to run the Private ground she's doing this semester. Don't know what the other guy's credentials are. The chief flight instructor was thrilled and encouraged them to do it to have two additional instructors to free the CFIs up to fly. AGI allows you to teach ground schools for all ratings except Instrument, for which you need IGI. The only place where it might get tricky on the AGI test is if you come across knowledge for a rating you don't have (I stopped at Instrument, so I had to watch videos to understand some of the Commercial maneuvers I'd never done. There are also multi questions.). You have to be employed by a flight school/FBO to legally put to use the benefits of the BGI/AGI/IGI and there's a refresher due every two years. The FOI is a cakewalk, especially if you've taken a psychology class at some point. I think the Gleim only had five study sections. I'm an AGI, but there's some legalese which prevents me for working for both our college (current employer) and the flight school simultaneously; there was another scenario under which I could've shifted to the flight school but it fell through in September. e- KodiakRS posted:We're hiring ground instructors so we can keep our line pilots out flying instead of stuck in a classroom. Want a job in DFW? Aren't airlines heavily preferring people with ATPs/experience in type for these gigs? I thought I saw one which also required applicants to be able to pass the new hire training, too. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:
Typically, yes, but the current hiring climate means that regionals in particular are getting way less picky about who they'll hire for instructing slots. Where I work, we have several ground instructors who have never been pilots and aren't rated on the airplane, so it's certainly possible to do that job without being an ATP.
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AWSEFT posted:I'm in Kew Gardens. You obviously called the wrong cab company. I've never paid more than $12 to cab to either airport from Kew $12 there, $12 back. $24 round trip. Kew Cab. The 8 minute walk to LGA is infinitely more convenient
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I’m debating if I should spend my paycheck on flying lessons. I’m 16 and not sure if I should just save it up for college and take the aeronautical course or just spend it now.
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AutisticAwl posted:I’m debating if I should spend my paycheck on flying lessons. I’m 16 and not sure if I should just save it up for college and take the aeronautical course or just spend it now. Are you in a state which has something like Post-Secondary Enrollment Option or College Credit Plus where the state will pay your tuition? Do you have a college with an aviation program somewhere nearby? If you can say yes to both, I'd consider doing it on the government's dime. We have CCP students taking Private ground for free every semester. They've nipped flight labs being done pretty hard once they found out they were paying $8,000 for somebody's Private, but you could at least get your feet wet and work toward bigger and better. If not (or even if so), it might not hurt to splurge for a discovery flight and go from there.
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AutisticAwl posted:I’m debating if I should spend my paycheck on flying lessons. I’m 16 and not sure if I should just save it up for college and take the aeronautical course or just spend it now. probably least popular opinion in this thread: college degree + commission + pilot contract theres a few other mil pilots in this thread. I haven't paid a cent for all my flying experience. well except my soul but you can't put a monetary value on that. plus airlines love military pilots
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I mean, speaking as a Real Life Adult working on saving up for my license, I do wish I did it when I was young and lacking annoying things like obligations.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Are you in a state which has something like Post-Secondary Enrollment Option or College Credit Plus where the state will pay your tuition? Do you have a college with an aviation program somewhere nearby? I live in Hawaii but plan to go to college at Utah State. Not sure if they do that. What I am excited for is flying diamonds.
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AutisticAwl posted:I live in Hawaii but plan to go to college at Utah State. Not sure if they do that. What I am excited for is flying diamonds. You'd have to be a resident to be eligible for CCP-style programs, so you'd be looking in Hawaii. Do any colleges out there have a flight training program?
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CBJSprague24 posted:You'd have to be a resident to be eligible for CCP-style programs, so you'd be looking in Hawaii. Do any colleges out there have a flight training program? I think Hawaii Pacific University has a program. Otherwise I don’t think we have any at all 
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If you have the money (and that's a big if) then there's pretty much no way you'd regret starting earlier and flying more, in my opinion. Probably doubly so if you'd start off in a different place with a different aircraft in different conditions -- that's all experience, and it will probably make you a more well rounded pilot than flying the same kind of aircraft in and out of the same airport over and over again. So, if you can reasonably afford it, I'd say start now.
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Which Island? Training part 61 might actually be a better route to paying jobs if you already have friends/contacts in the area. Also, a cursory search tells me that on Oahu at least, aircraft rental is really not that much more than it is on the mainland. I figured it'd be like 50% more. Not so, apparently.
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Children of the Magenta redux: "When you gaze long into the EFIS, the EFIS gazes back into you"
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vessbot posted:Children of the Magenta redux: "When you gaze long into the EFIS, the EFIS gazes back into you" [Stares in EICAS] 
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Haha nice, I never noticed that! Now I'll see if it becomes like the Fedex arrow.
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Luckily it’s practically never at 0.0 in the jet or it’s all I’d ever see.
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