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Two Kings posted:What’s the best airline in the world that isn’t subsidized by their government? (Care act notwithstanding) Delta
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Is Korean subsidized? If not that's the one I'd pick. Biz class on a 380 was fukkin niiiiiiiice. Edit: if we're going for an American airline then it's Hawaiian hands down.
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Pryor on Fire posted: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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Desi posted: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. Yeah, apart from the legally required supervision, I got advice and second opinions more often from class 3 instructors I trust (some of whom had way more experience but hadn't upgraded to class 2) than our handful of class 2s who were always overworked as poo poo because we had too many class 4s. Regardless of what class you are, the good instructors are the ones who talk to other instructors, care about self-improvement, and don't mind having a second pair of eyes on their work. The bad ones are the ones who think they're perfect and heaven forbid you ever question them about anything or fly with one of their students.
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PT6A posted:the good instructors are the ones who talk to other instructors, care about self-improvement, and don't mind having a second pair of eyes on their work. The bad ones are the ones who think they're perfect and heaven forbid you ever question them about anything or fly with one of their students. 
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hobbesmaster posted:Delta is fine which is the highest compliment a US carrier can receive. New thread title tbh
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Southwest is the best US carrier. Maybe Jetblue is close but I haven't flown enough with them to know for sure. Why? -No regional network means no tiny airplanes flown by regional tier pilots (sorry) -No bag fees minimizes over-utilization of overhead bins -Fare change rules are extremely flexible. They don't sell use it or lose it tickets even at the lowest fare tier. -Single class cabin layout improves passenger morale. The seats have 1-3 more inches of pitch than United Economy, which is a miserable experience basically forcing an upgrade to Economy+ -Anecdotally, I am charged for booze less than 50% of the time and have been given vouchers by other passengers more than once. It's still a bus but not Spirit tier. -I live close to a massive SWA hub (BWI) and can fly pretty much anywhere nonstop I love them so much we don't typically price shop domestic airfare at all unless the SWA price seems outrageous for some reason. sanchez fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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Fly Delta Jets. Delta at least attempts to give a poo poo. Southwest buying AirTran just to kill them off should never have been allowed to happen.
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hobbesmaster posted:This rules tbh. Should be standard phraseology. Yes.
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Rickety Cricket posted:New thread title tbh sanchez posted:Southwest is the best US carrier. Maybe Jetblue is close but I haven't flown enough with them to know for sure. SWA does have the best economy seat pitch in the US fwiw.
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Southwest is great if you're only ever traveling to NFL cities.
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hobbesmaster posted:Delta is fine which is the highest compliment a US carrier can receive.
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Speaking of Delta quote:Delta Air Lines reported a loss of $607 million between January and March, its first quarterly loss in five years, as the travel industry started to collapse in the wake of the pandemic. I think I was wrong and they are actually in a better spot financially speaking than United right now. Pryor on Fire fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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UAL has the most exposure to Asia flying and thus has been hit the longest and hardest. That being said, DAL loves fudging their numbers, and a lot is coming to light as ALPA is able to examine their books.
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Delta chose the right time to close out NRT and transfer all intrasia stuff to KAL I guess? Too bad I couldn’t get flights to HND before I stopped working somewhere that had me going to japan 4 times a year.
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Our full-time program coordinator ragequit (I'm assuming) and hosed off to another company, leaving behind all of the flight school management work. Looks like I'm getting about two-thirds of it.  I think it's time to ask for some sweetener to take it on. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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Pryor on Fire posted:Speaking of Delta Don't forget that Delta owns stakes in multiple joint ventures that are absolutely losing their rear end right now.
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Rekinom posted:Don't forget that Delta owns stakes in multiple joint ventures that are absolutely losing their rear end right now. At least they sold their stake in that oil refinery a while back.
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Paramotor vs Ultralight: Has anybody done both? Has anybody done either? I'm interested in starting. Get training, obviously, and thankfully I'm in a place where schools are reasonably convenient. It seems like the benefits of paramotor over ultralight are "WOOO TAKE OFF FROM THE PARK!" "is the most like being a bird including motor-off gliding," and "is small enough to fit in the garage or in the trunk of the car," and just general, "WOOOOO FUN!" While the benefits of ultralight over paramotor are "wing doesn't collapse," "structural members don't get tangled or snag on prop," "instructor can fly with you in a light sport two-seater," "faster," and "same control surfaces as a real airplane, so can help eventually get a license." My plan, if I'm still interested when the schools reopen, is to take an introductory flight with the ultralight instructor just to see if being up in the sky without a windshield makes me freeze or panic before I spend the big bucks. I'd like to read anything you have to say about one vs the other or just any experience you have.
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After 6,000 consecutive hours of flying transport category jets I've been looking at getting back into some casual flying for fun. A co-worker mentioned paramotor a few months ago and after some poking around on the internet it seems exactly like what I'm looking for. The ease of storage, portability, and turning pretty much any open space into a runway is super appealing. Ultralights really don't appeal to me as much. As a licensed pilot if I was going to fly something with a fixed wing I'd just go get checked out in a Cessna. I was starting to look at taking a paramotor course before everything shut down and losing my job became a real possibility.
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I also think that the paramotor thing looks more fun than the (American) ultralight path. You just stick it in the trunk of your car and go cruise around at 0-30mph a hundred feet up and do whatever you want, flying like a bird. If the engine fails, you're already under a parachute. I wouldn't imagine that flying an (American) ultralight would be much of a step to getting a real pilot's license either. I think PT6A had a PPL student who had come from ultralights and he wasn't even aware of what an approach speed was, or something like that? A full size plane is a lot more complex than a hang glider with a tricycle underneath. If you're in a country with real ultralight rules, like Canada, then scratch the above because then you're just flying a very smol airplane with all the normal systems. But that isn't in the same category as a paramotor at all.
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Sagebrush posted:I also think that the paramotor thing looks more fun than the (American) ultralight path. You just stick it in the trunk of your car and go cruise around at 0-30mph a hundred feet up and do whatever you want, flying like a bird. If the engine fails, you're already under a parachute. To be fair to ultralight pilots, that guy's problem was that he was a weird, stupid, racist, sexist moron. It was just a coincidence that he also flew ultralights, and you can certainly fly ultralights in a safe and knowledgeable way that will serve you well if you plan to get a PPL at some point. But, that guy was an ultralight instructor so absolutely do your research if you plan to learn to fly ultralights, because even morons can somehow manage to instruct on them. It seems a big part of the ultralight community exists because it's a fun and cheap way to go flying, and the other big part exists because they don't want to manage with bullshit like "knowing things" and "following procedures."
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PT6A posted:To be fair to ultralight pilots, that guy's problem was that he was a weird, stupid, racist, sexist moron. It was just a coincidence that he also flew ultralights, and you can certainly fly ultralights in a safe and knowledgeable way that will serve you well if you plan to get a PPL at some point. But, that guy was an ultralight instructor so absolutely do your research if you plan to learn to fly ultralights, because even morons can somehow manage to instruct on them. It seems a big part of the ultralight community exists because it's a fun and cheap way to go flying, and the other big part exists because they don't want to manage with bullshit like "knowing things" and "following procedures." Those pesky regulations always getting in the way.
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Got my GTN 650 and GTX 345 in today. Scheduled for my shop to order the Dual G5s and I am going in for surgery on May 1st. IN OTHER NEWS I want an iPad. Anybody flying GA with the 11inch iPad Pro? PIREP I have had the iPad mini since it came out, and am thinking about the Gen 5 iPad mini, but I really wish it had Apple Pencil 2 support. I guess I could wait until September on an update for the mini but the 11inch already has pencil 2 support. I also need a new iPad for online teaching so the Pro might scratch two itches for me....
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Captain Apollo posted:Got my GTN 650 and GTX 345 in today. You have an advantage in that you fly your own plane and can set up proper mounting for whatever you choose. I don't think you'd regret going with a large iPad, provided you can find a place to mount it. If you're looking for something that's going to go on a kneeboard, I can only advise the Mini. Even that tiny little fucker seems to be in the way at times. Also, in personal news: I finally said gently caress it to staying at home and decided to rent a plane (in a thoroughly socially distanced way, I might add) and it was great. Sadly it did not have a PTT on the instructor side so I got to have an adventure with flying from the left side for the first time in probably two years or so, but minus one dodgy crosswind touch-and-go, it went well. I don't know if this will mean anything to anyone who hasn't flown in the Calgary area, but I did the loop from Springbank to Banff and through Lake Minnewanka (then elsewhere to do some circuits) and it was an absolutely gorgeous flight. Though I must say, even on a beautiful day, the mountains don't let you take a second off. Two seconds not paying attention and you're up or down 300 feet... And, boy howdy, does a 172 not want to loving descend worth a poo poo with just one person on board. It's been so long since I've flown alone and VFR, flying a tight circuit and even with a decent forward slip, I had to overshoot on my first landing attempt. PT6A fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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Actual part 103 ultralights are not much more than a paramotor with a fixed wing instead of a canopy. That said, in the US, probably 90% of things that would be an ultralight in most of the rest of the world is actually Light Sport. Part 103 is really, really restrictive. I really wanna go paramotoring, but money and time keep getting in the way. 
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Captain Apollo posted:I have had the iPad mini since it came out, and am thinking about the Gen 5 iPad mini, but I really wish it had Apple Pencil 2 support. I guess I could wait until September on an update for the mini but the 11inch already has pencil 2 support. I upgraded from the mini 4 to the mini 5 and is a massive speed upgrade and it can use the Pencil 1. I doubt they’ll ever add Pencil 2 support since the 2 needs to attach to the side of the iPad to charge and that seems unlikely with the smaller size and width of the mini and the Pencil 1 being available 90+% of the 2 lacking only the button and side charging/storing I wouldn’t want to discourage you from the pro but I wouldn’t let lack of Pencil 2 support stop you if the mini is the better form factor
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fordan posted:I upgraded from the mini 4 to the mini 5 and is a massive speed upgrade and it can use the Pencil 1. I doubt they’ll ever add Pencil 2 support since the 2 needs to attach to the side of the iPad to charge and that seems unlikely with the smaller size and width of the mini and the Pencil 1 being available 90+% of the 2 lacking only the button and side charging/storing Thanks! I’ll just grab the latest mini then 
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I have experience in small and large cockpits with the mini, 9.7 and 10.5 and I recommend the mini. Anything smaller than the 11” pro has to use the Apple Pencil 1 regardless, which is a great accessory, it just charges via lightning port. It’s kind of a pain to charge it that way compared to snapping it to the side of a pro but it charges fast and stays charged. A yoke-mounted mini is great. Edit: I didn’t see all the new posts but my points stand.
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helno posted:It works well on the yoke of a Cherokee. Can confirm, I use the same setup
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dupersaurus posted:Can confirm, I use the same setup What mount? I have a ram mount when I would keep the iPad on the windshield but with all my upgrades I’ll mount it to the yoke. Any mount you prefer to mention?
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Got a mini 5 as well and love it. Getting into the first days of high heat + direct sunlight and so I have to dedicate one of my AC vents to keep this thing cool.
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Captain Apollo posted:What mount? I have a ram mount when I would keep the iPad on the windshield but with all my upgrades I’ll mount it to the yoke. Any mount you prefer to mention? I have the cheaper ram yoke mount
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This is getting deep into obscure airplane nonsense, but a lot of pre-jet/early jet age instrument panels were all made with the same black material, like this guy:  I can't imagine that's plastic on account of wartime rationing, so is it painted aluminium? Or plywood with a lacquer over top?
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Omi no Kami posted:This is getting deep into obscure airplane nonsense, but a lot of pre-jet/early jet age instrument panels were all made with the same black material, like this guy: It's usually just painted or anodized aluminum sheet, there's nothing much to read into it.
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MrChips posted:It's usually just painted or anodized aluminum sheet, there's nothing much to read into it. Ooh the anodization is what I was missing, thanks! (I'm making airplane cockpits for fun in 3d, and getting the material properties of the panels right was driving me nuts- I've been using polymer toolgrips as the closest visual equivalent I could find.)
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It is much more likely that the panels were just painted black, not anodized. Anodization is tougher than paint but in this context who cares, and anodization is a complex electrochemical process while painting requires a can of paint and a brush.
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While we're on the subject: why did Russia decide "Bright teal! Yes, that's the colour cockpits ought to be!"?
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PT6A posted:While we're on the subject: why did Russia decide "Bright teal! Yes, that's the colour cockpits ought to be!"? Because Russia
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