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Once this first wave has passed, I think that domestic travel is going to start to come back fairly quickly, but it's going to take time to return to near-normal; the most pressing issue, after a few months of lockdown, is that you have a huge percentage of the pilot community who are now out of currency and recency - that's going to take a long time to work out of the system, probably a year or so. International travel is gonna be hosed for a long time after that though, I'm gonna figure at least three or four years, but it too will come back in time.
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e.pilot posted:I broke you Yeah, I think you got me with that ability to get down to the nice restaurant in the fog. I'm definitely jealous of having the ability to do so! I really need to find some way to take off the couple/few weeks it would take, and see how the "place to stay" would pencil out. Not sure how stupid it would be to have some kind of extended stay place. Might also be better to get completely proficient before the attempt, as I'm still stupidly afraid of myself. (For probably no reason, but having psychological barriers to overcome is nothing new to pilots) I've been doing the King knowledge course while we're all 'rona'd indoors. Also did their GTN650/750 course, which is stupidly expensive for learning how to use a GPS, but also nice to actually get proficient with the thing. At least it has all been 21% off or better. I'm mad that I spent the GPS course money, but also glad and I'm going to share the knowledge by teaching it to my lil' 12 person club at RHV.
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Apr 16, 2020 04:40
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Better to be unsure and careful than be Jerry Wagner.
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Apr 16, 2020 04:51
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I bought a used GTN650 and GTX 345. Will buy G5’s in May and have it all installed at that time. Current avionics only price: 17K Installed price: ?????
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I have a day trip scheduled on the first! I’m gonna fly a plane! If they don’t cancel!
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Captain Apollo posted:I bought a used GTN650 and GTX 345. If the shop's not open by then, fly me out and I'll install it for Room and Board 
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Captain Apollo posted:I bought a used GTN650 and GTX 345. This with a flightstream 510 (install is very simple on that, it's an SD card) is what we had in the airplane I used to own. It was pretty sweet, I think you will be happy. There is something to be said for having ADSB IN running on certified equipment that won't overheat/go flat even if the GTN map screen is kinda cluttered and useless. I've been working on my IFR in that airplane and now in a rental with the same setup, it's probably ruined me for lesser equipment. It does feel extremely safe compared to a typical vacuum driven AI and DG/CDI panel.
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sanchez posted:iPads die Yeah I just said that to myself I didn’t want to rely only on an iPad if I’m around bad weather. I’ve been there done that. I want my stress level to be as low as absolutely possible when flying and I don’t want technology slow me down. Also, baby, when you coming son?
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Apr 16, 2020 19:55
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Nice clean emergency landing on a highway outside Quebec City this morning https://i.imgur.com/HhFooHH.mp4 also pictured: Quebec drivers et voyons quoimanann espèce d'idiot hein? GET OFF DE ROAD, FUK, putain, tellement de bizard *HONK*
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KodiakRS posted:Oh man....the stories I have about the pavilion. I even got a $63 check from the class action lawsuit! Does the guy who runs the little convenience mart still end every sentence with the phrase "my friend?" I lived in Western Springs when I was based at ORD so I never had the pleasure of The Pavilion, but I went there a few times and holla'd at the squalor. My pilot/FA ghetto experience comes from stints in crash pads in Middletown, PA, Arlington, TX and Kansas City, MO. Same family, different species. Curious what the lawsuit entailed. Can you elaborate?
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Apr 16, 2020 22:31
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Sagebrush posted:Nice clean emergency landing on a highway outside Quebec City this morning Did that guy seriously tailgate an airplane that dropped out of the sky in front of it then swerve around it and continue on?
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Apr 16, 2020 22:36
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as noted: Quebec Drivers "ouais maybe en Quebec you don'turn right on de red light, but tabarnac, i can still go right tru it!"
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Another highway emergency landing in Cincinnati earlier today: https://twitter.com/CincyPD/status/1250821853519773702
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greasyhands posted:Did that guy seriously tailgate an airplane that dropped out of the sky in front of it then swerve around it and continue on? Yes. You've never been to Quebec, have you? My first time in Montreal, the cab driver that took me from YUL into downtown did approximately 140 km/h through a construction zone with a posted speed limit of 60. Later, I was in a cab that was aggrieved the car in front of him was attempting to turn left. He remedied this untenable situation, which might have lasted literally tens of seconds, by passing said car, on the left, into oncoming traffic. I cannot express how absolutely frightening Quebec/Montreal drivers are. I've been in major cities in the developing world with fewer traffic problems and better adherence to the rules of the road. But, you get used to it, and the incidence of people doing dumb poo poo like sitting at a green light face-down in their phone is low compared to Calgary, where half the drivers behave like they're on valium and the other half like they just smoked meth. PT6A fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Apr 17, 2020 |
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Sagebrush posted:Nice clean emergency landing on a highway outside Quebec City this morning Any idea what caused this? The prop seems to be spinning even at speeds where windmilling shouldn't be a thing. I'm not sure what the other options were but having to land between two 40'-50' tall road signs with busy-ish traffic was probably a little sporty. ausgezeichnet posted:Curious what the lawsuit entailed. Can you elaborate? "Adrian Alani, et al. v. FC Harris Pavilion Apartments Limited Partnership, et al. Tenant-plaintiffs have asserted claims against defendants under: (1) the Chicago Residential Landlord-Tenant Ordinance (“RLTO”) Sections 5-12-070, 5-12-080, 5-12-110, and 5-12-140 and (2) other state statutory and common law, in connection with defendants’ practices concerning security deposit handling and disclosure, early lease termination disclosure, and maintenance and repair of the premises at the Pavilion Apartments in Chicago, Illinois. The Class Period is from 1-1-2012 to 12-18-2015." From what I can tell they were running a slum and charging tenants to fix problems that should have been taken care of by the Pavilions Maintenance. The place was a total dump, mold everywhere, frequent floods due to burst piping, central AC that got turned on way too late and off way too early, a prostitution ring being run out of one of the buildings, ect. I moved there while on first year regional FO pay. As soon as I was on second year pay and my lease was up I moved back to AZ. A few years after that I got a notice saying that because my name was on a lease and it was a class action suit and that I was entitled to money unless I wanted to opt out so I could sue them individually. A few months after that I got a $63 check in the mail. KodiakRS fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Apr 17, 2020 |
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KodiakRS posted:Any idea what caused this? The prop seems to be spinning even at speeds where windmilling shouldn't be a thing. I'm not sure what the other options were but having to land between two 40'-50' tall road signs with busy-ish traffic was probably a little sporty. News just says generic "mechanical problem" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/aircraft-makes-emergency-landing-quebec-city-1.5534384 quote:Around 10:30 a.m. Thursday, the pilot of the Piper Cherokee aircraft called the Quebec City fire department asking for permission to land on the highway just a few kilometres south of the Jean-Lesage International Airport. "Asking for permission to land on the highway" must be the journalistic interpretation of the pilot declaring his choice of emergency landing site, because I can't imagine a situation where you need to land on a highway but are like oh, well, if the center says no go, I guess I'll go somewhere else. If they were only a few kilometers from the airport it must have been something pretty urgent. Maybe it's just that Canadian politeness. "Hi there, tower, uh, if you got a moment, this is C-SORY, requesting clearance for mayday, thanks in advance"
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Sagebrush posted:"Asking for permission to land on the highway" must be the journalistic interpretation of the pilot declaring his choice of emergency landing site, because I can't imagine a situation where you need to land on a highway but are like oh, well, if the center says no go, I guess I'll go somewhere else. If they were only a few kilometers from the airport it must have been something pretty urgent. "Cherokee SORY cleared to land highway 40 east bound follow the grey yaris"
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"C-SORY, possible pilot deviation, looks like you landed ahead of that Yaris you were supposed to follow. Exit the highway at Jean-Gauvin and contact ground point six for a number to copy"
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Based on the stories I've heard I thought it might have been a class 1 instructor candidate on a flight test and an examiner who wanted to see a precautionary landing 
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Joke all you want but I heard a Canadian pilot get a phone number to call from a Canadian controller a few years ago and I'll be damned if they both didn't use "soorry" in the transmission.
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I was given miss approach instructions going into Cairo and it was prefaced with “Inshallah”
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KodiakRS posted:Joke all you want but I heard a Canadian pilot get a phone number to call from a Canadian controller a few years ago and I'll be damned if they both didn't use "soorry" in the transmission. The one time I heard that, buddy getting the phone number read to him was still trying to defend cutting straight through YYC's instrument approaches without so much as a contact. Very un-Canadian. The, uh, controller was not in the mood to say sorry either, I promise you. Bob A Feet posted:I was given miss approach instructions going into Cairo and it was prefaced with “Inshallah” Makes sense. Better on a missed approach instruction than a landing clearance
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Bob A Feet posted:I was given miss approach instructions going into Cairo and it was prefaced with “Inshallah” This rules tbh. Should be standard phraseology.
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hobbesmaster posted:This rules tbh. Should be standard phraseology. Agreed. A very apt use of the term, I would say.
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KodiakRS posted:A few months after that I got a $63 check in the mail. Nothing better than unexpected returns from the pockets of assholes. FTW!
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United is probably in the best position financially speaking to weather this virus downturn. quote:United Airlines lost more than $2 billion in the first quarter, a decline driven by the virtual stalling of the global airline industry in March, the company said in a securities filing on Monday. And they are utterly dependent on continued bailouts to survive. That is the only good news for aviation: the check is in the mail. Smaller airlines will collapse, others will be outright nationalized depending on how much bailout money they need.
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So when you get the poo poo beaten out of you prior to being bumped off your flight next year, you get an officially endorsed Grade A American rear end beating handed out by a federal employee of a nationalized airline instead of a low pay rent-a-cop! How exciting!
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TC gave me the go-ahead to e-mail them all my poo poo for my instructor rating upgrade! At least when this poo poo is all over I won't have to deal with class 4 supervision requirements (if I still have a job...)
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PT6A posted:TC gave me the go-ahead to e-mail them all my poo poo for my instructor rating upgrade! The job of a Class 3 instructor is an order of magnitude better than Class 4, albeit still pretty lovely. By now you have a reasonable idea of how to teach and don't need someone constantly micromanaging your poo poo, so its nice to have the powers-that-be back off a bit. That being said, don't be afraid to keep using those resources. I did some time as a Class 2 and was always more than happy to have frank closed-door conversations, offer second opinions, or even go on non-required supervisory flights if and when the situation warranted - but it would be up to the Class 3 to ask, I wasn't going to insert myself into your business the same way as I did with the Class 4s. Plus you're a shitton more marketable if you do get laid off.
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hobbesmaster posted:United being the only major US carrier to survive is a horrifying thought Disagree, just think of all the houses and boats I could eventually buy. It would never happen tho, Delta has a better financial position I feel like. AA is probably hosed but government bailout so who knows.
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I can’t wait for American Airlines to fail. Card carrying Southwest Airlines supporter here. Wonder why no goon pilots fly for southwest hrmmmm
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Having any major US airline fail is going to suck for everybody. If it happens then in a year or two, when the world is no longer insane, someone is going to start up another airline like Virgin America or JetBlue and hire a bunch of unemployed, experienced pilots for pennies on the dollar and undercut everyone else.
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It would be smart for airlines to offer vouchers for cancelled travel. I know I will travel again, just don't know when. Brussels airlines did this for me; Czech Airlines tried to get me to reschedule and then charge me more because it's more expensive at that time of year  . I don't even know when to reschedule to because who loving knows? United gave me a refund although I would have taken a voucher cause again, gotta travel.
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Charles posted:It would be smart for airlines to offer vouchers for cancelled travel. I know I will travel again, just don't know when. Brussels airlines did this for me; Czech Airlines tried to get me to reschedule and then charge me more because it's more expensive at that time of year The last person you want to be when corporations are collapsing left and right is the guy who owns vouchers, gift cards, miles, etc from said corporations.
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Sagebrush posted:I like Delta Peep delta
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Delta is fine which is the highest compliment a US carrier can receive.
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hobbesmaster posted:Delta is fine which is the highest compliment a US carrier can receive.
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