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e.pilot posted:Instructor weight makes a difference, but not that much of a difference. And mostly just in acceleration and climb-out performance. Monday morning quarterbacking a bit but I’d be interested in learning how that instructor taught how to use/apply right rudder. I'm probably just forgetting how not "light" LSAs are compared to a cessna.
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hobbesmaster posted:I'm probably just forgetting how not "light" LSAs are compared to a cessna. 162 felt pretty touchy compared to a 172  dexter6 posted:Hi everyone I got my PPL today. Took me two years (with 7 months off until 2 weeks ago) and 86 hours. Congrats! On to the instrument rating!
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dexter6 posted:Hi everyone I got my PPL today. Took me two years (with 7 months off until 2 weeks ago) and 86 hours. Congrats! You know what they call the guy who finishes last in his Med School class? Doctor. You know what they call the guy that passed his PVT with 86 hours? Pilot.
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dexter6 posted:Hi everyone I got my PPL today. Took me two years (with 7 months off until 2 weeks ago) and 86 hours. Woo! Congrats!
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dexter6 posted:Hi everyone I got my PPL today. Took me two years (with 7 months off until 2 weeks ago) and 86 hours. Still looks the same and comes with the same privileges as someone who did it faster. Congrats!
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Feb 27, 2018 17:36
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Nuggan posted:There was a wreck at my airport today. "Right rudder, right rudder, right rudder" -Every CFI, endlessly.
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Is there a mechanical reason that nearly all small planes have propellers that rotate clockwise, or is it just because it's become a convention and it's nice to not have to reverse your control inputs when taking off in a new kind of plane?
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Feb 28, 2018 22:38
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Simply convention. Russian planes and some British planes are left-turning.
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Russian helicopters have an opposite-direction rotor and tail rotor, as well.
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MrYenko posted:Russian helicopters have an opposite-direction rotor and tail rotor, as well. US helos turn opposite to mainland European stuff, the Russians take it a step further with grip throttles which roll in the opposite direction as well, if I’m not mistaken.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:US helos turn opposite to mainland European stuff, the Russians take it a step further with grip throttles which roll in the opposite direction as well, if I’m not mistaken. I remember reading about training to fly the Huey during the Vietnam war, where the author said guys who rode motorcycles needed to be careful not to twist the control the wrong way. Guess the Russians figured that one out!
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azflyboy posted:"Right rudder, right rudder, right rudder" Reminds me of this you tube classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eopl5QLQ5zs
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KodiakRS posted:Reminds me of this you tube classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eopl5QLQ5zs They’re having a blast while that guy shits!
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Our program is trying to get R-ATP approved. We've checked all the boxes. Feds claim it's because we don't have an ATP-CTP course in our curriculum. (Checks internet, finds none of the other approved programs nearby have an ATP-CTP and the only college approved to have one anywhere is Riddle. Realizes we're dealing with the gubmint. Dies a little inside.) KodiakRS posted:Reminds me of this you tube classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eopl5QLQ5zs BOING...BOING...BOING...BOING I think one of those ERAU 172s in that livery wound up at the airport we train out of, interestingly enough. They re-registered it and removed the ERAU references but the eagle on the nose was still there.
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madeintaipei posted:I remember reading about training to fly the Huey during the Vietnam war, where the author said guys who rode motorcycles needed to be careful not to twist the control the wrong way. Guess the Russians figured that one out! The US way would be better IMO, as it feels more natural to roll your wrist away from you as you lift your arm to raise the collective.
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https://twitter.com/NWSAWC/status/969572219977457665
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Just landed, can confirm today is a breezy one.
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It was one of those “everyone clapped when we landed” days.
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I want to throw up when I have to ride on a CRJ too.
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I flew across the country last weekend. First a CRJ2 from SYR to IAD, that was a fun ride, and then IAD to SAN. They had to stop service several times because of turbulence, mostly on the east coast. It wasn’t too bad though. I’ve flown my PA28 in far worse.
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fordan posted:I want to throw up when I have to ride on a CRJ too. It's not *that* bad. Just make sure you're shorter than 5 feet tall, don't have a sense of smell, and are so drunk that you pass out before takeoff.
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We attempted LGA on Friday but ended up diverting. We shoulda been cancelled from the get go
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KodiakRS posted:It's not *that* bad. Just make sure you're shorter than 5 feet tall, don't have a sense of smell, and are so drunk that you pass out before takeoff. That’s how I get through every flight I have to fly, only we try to pass out after takeoff. It’s the first thing they teach us in ground. V1, rotate, pound shooters.
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Speaking of CRJ-200s... Day 3 stuck in STL for an AOG. CrewSked wants to keep me here to ferry the thing back to base... eventually. The rest of the crew is getting deadheaded out as they're into days off and keeping them here is expensive. I'm running out of Netflix.
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Hahah what the gently caress is this poo poo United:
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Better than the “get a concussion and dragged off the plane” lottery
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CBSNews posted:United President Scott Kirby How is this guy still allowed to make decisions relating to labor groups?
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As a passenger and avgeek, my perception of United is that they are as confused as their "we're United, but please think we're Continental" livery would indicate.
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i deliberately haven't flown on united since a completely poo poo-tacular trip home for christmas four or so years ago and every single time they're in the news it just confirms the correctness of that decision
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All my friends who went from regional pilots to United pilots say the same thing: it's just the same poo poo-show as a regional operation except with bigger airplanes and international flights.
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What's crewmember life like at Delta? They've been by far my best experience as a passenger.
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shame on an IGA posted:What's crewmember life like at Delta? They've been by far my best experience as a passenger. I have a friend who's currently in the right seat on the MD-88, New York based. He seems happy enough with how things are going, though he's moving his family to Detroit and switching to the 717 this month for better QOL. Anything's better than the commuting nightmares he told me about at Compass living in Virginia and being Los Angeles based. Another friend was LAX based on the 717 and just upgraded to the 767 out of SEA though I don't get to hear from him as often.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I have a friend who's currently in the right seat on the MD-88, New York based. He seems happy enough with how things are going, though he's moving his family to Detroit and switching to the 717 this month for better QOL. Moving his family to Detroit, nice. Well at least he can drive to work now. BTW do you know if he was a flow pilot from Compass or did he get hired later OTS?
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Two Kings posted:Moving his family to Detroit, nice. Well at least he can drive to work now. BTW do you know if he was a flow pilot from Compass or did he get hired later OTS? He started at ASA and left after several years when it was apparent it was a dead end in terms of upgrading. He actually got out of aviation for a bit before going back to Compass. I'm not sure how a flow might have worked into it, but he was in and out of Compass in less than 2 years. He got back into it right around the second coming of pilot shortage, which helped the timing.
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I've been commuting for all of three months and I don't know how people do this for entire careers holy poo poo.
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e.pilot posted:I've been commuting for all of three months and I don't know how people do this for entire careers holy poo poo. I'm at 8 years and counting. Yeah........... It ages you for sure. I take a very laid back approach. I give myself plenty of time both ways. I spend a little more time in the Crashpad but its good for my heart. lol
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e.pilot posted:I've been commuting for all of three months and I don't know how people do this for entire careers holy poo poo. It is truly underweighted as a determining factor in your job selection. As long as I am making decent money, no commuting takes huge precedence over my paycheck. Im convinced that a huge part of the pilot misery index is the average pilot’s inability to understand spending multiple days every month getting to and from work is making them miserable.
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6 years as an airline pilot, never commuted and that may be the reason I've been so happy to do this job. I packed my bags and lived in both DTW and ATL when I worked for a regional and not only it was great living in base and driving 15 minutes to work, but I had a great time living in those places. I'm now working for an ACMI carrier where I choose where I want to live and they buy me plane tickets and hotels to go to work and ironically I choose to live in Brooklyn. Life is good. Commuting is for suckers and people who had children way too early (suckers). Unless you are taking care of your deathbed parents moving to another town is easier than you think, and its actually one of the FEATURES of being a flight crew. If I get to get hired at a legacy airline I'll once again move to the most junior base, which probably means renewing my lease here in NYC. By the way one of the most annoying ways to be as an airline pilot is be someone who bitches no-stop about your commute. Shut up. You made your bed now lie in it, stop crying about it while the other guy is trying to his/her job. Especially if you are a junior captain commuting to a base where your FO lives in. Just suck it up and shut up because nothing makes you come across as a bigger loser than crying about commuting to a "poo poo-hole" town when your FO makes half what you make and has consciously chosen to live there and has managed to have a great time. Animal fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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I’m about two months out from living in base judging by the movement on the domicile bid list and that can’t come soon enough. It’ll be a lot less painful when I inevitably upgrade and make enough to get a hotel without feeling bad about it when a commute doesn’t work out.
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