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BIG HEADLINE posted:I just noticed earlier that the Geneva airport is *right* up against the border with France. It was a feature at one point before Switzerland joined the Schengen area. There was a French section of the airport that allowed French people to fly domestically within France without going through Swiss border controls.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It was a feature at one point before Switzerland joined the Schengen area. There was a French section of the airport that allowed French people to fly domestically within France without going through Swiss border controls. Like Tijuana’s US terminal?
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Jun 19, 2023 03:21
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Sagebrush posted:how can it be?? 10 minutes is not an even factor of tenths of an hour! When I got my Fixed Wing PPL in the UK, we calculated time in 5 minutes intervals and not the decimal system used in NA.
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Jun 19, 2023 05:44
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It was a feature at one point before Switzerland joined the Schengen area. There was a French section of the airport that allowed French people to fly domestically within France without going through Swiss border controls. It's still a feature but it matters less these days. There are, however, still two different rental car sectors, one with French-regged cars and the other with Swiss, and yes, the massive price differences to match. Pity the tourists just flying in to ski at Chamonix who pick the wrong one. But, I mean, it's Geneva. There are urban trams that run across the border, much less an international airport.
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Jun 19, 2023 07:29
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ImplicitAssembler posted:When I got my Fixed Wing PPL in the UK, we calculated time in 5 minutes intervals and not the decimal system used in NA. Does your hour meter count in twelfths?  Or did you just use a stopwatch and keep careful notes?
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Sagebrush posted:Does your hour meter count in twelfths? Not UK, but we have a "Check time" checklist item after starting and stopping the engine. You write down the actual time, not what the counter on the dash says. When doing the admin later, you round to the nearest 5 minute increment. It makes it relatively easy because all the different times we track are in HH:mm Format, not h.m Format.
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Maksimus54 posted:We don't have to do it but there are tons of airports on the US/Canada border. I know a couple patterns out here that will put you within a mile of the border. It's not a big deal. Don't land there and they don't tend to care as long as you don't violate the Bravo Yeah, one of the departures at the airport where my school is takes you across the CAN/US border for a brief period of time!
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Jun 20, 2023 05:37
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I soloed at KDET. A little extended downwind could have put me in Canada.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:rip to the Dr. you called it, was a dentist. unfortunately he also had his 8 y/o grandson with him, both died.
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Zero One posted:I soloed at KDET. A little extended downwind could have put me in Canada. I flew into Detroit City once. once
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https://silodrome.com/messerschmitt-bf-109-for-sale/
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6 mil is a pretty good price for a flying museum piece like that. Wonder what spares costs are like.
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Arson Daily posted:6 mil is a pretty good price for a flying museum piece like that. Wonder what spares costs are like. Depends on how close you live to unplowed fields in Normandy.
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Jun 22, 2023 10:52
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Go for it as long as it is not that cursed BF109 Red 7 or whatever it is called, because that one crashes basically any time it takes off
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Arson Daily posted:6 mil is a pretty good price for a flying museum piece like that. Wonder what spares costs are like. You got a machine shop that can custom-fabricate anything your heart desires? Costs that much.
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I figured. Def out of my price range but I'm sure someone out there has enough scratch to daily it.
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Arson Daily posted:I figured. Def out of my price range but I'm sure someone out there has enough scratch to daily it. For $5mil, you could daily this big bitch. Why buy a motorcycle when you could have a bus? More room, more friends. Be the envy of lakes Como and Constance.
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madeintaipei posted:For $5mil, you could daily this big bitch. This is legit my dream. just fly this fat lady around giving free rides. it would almost certainly end up being my tomb but it'd be worth it imo e: holy poo poo 800 gallons an hour. you'd be singlehandedly causing developmental disabilities anywhere you flew, just dusting the landscape with tetraethyl lead. while i'm dreaming i'd definitely be converting her to turbine Cactus Ghost fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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madeintaipei posted:For $5mil, you could daily this big bitch. You mentioned the daily running cost, but what's the sale price?
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Jun 23, 2023 11:22
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twenty five thousand dollars, give or take, to gas that thing up. mother of god
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OMGVBFLOL posted:twenty five thousand dollars, give or take, to gas that thing up. mother of god yeah, when people lament that old surplus WWII planes, boats and equipment was just trashed outright rather than finding a second use, a lot of it is through ignorance of just what a difference a military opex budget (especially wartime) looks like compared to nearly any other endeavour.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:yeah, when people lament that old surplus WWII planes, boats and equipment was just trashed outright rather than finding a second use, a lot of it is through ignorance of just what a difference a military opex budget (especially wartime) looks like compared to nearly any other endeavour.
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stealie72 posted:Worked in an auto/aviation museum for a while and we had two WWII warbirds that had been bought surplus after the war, pretty much entirely gutted of anything military down to the avionics and the fuel tanks and rebuilt as racers. Even in 1948 their pilots were only interested in the airframe and the engine. Besides the avionics & fuel tanks, what else was there? I can’t imagine the guns are still on it when they sell it.
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david_a posted:Besides the avionics & fuel tanks, what else was there? I can’t imagine the guns are still on it when they sell it. That may just have been lighter equals faster and not "I don't have 10 enlisted guys to do 10 hours of maintenance for every hour I fly" too.
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So just some quick update from my part. I should have had my international flight a couple of days ago, but it fell through due to weather. Instead, we just briefed the flight as well as the upcoming checkride (preparation). One interesting tidbit that I didn't notice initially is that the destination is so close to the border, that the circuit actually goes across it. For the same reason - it being more or less directly on the border - I am informed that the destination flight information service doesn't want to hear us calling up on the radio when we cross the border. I mean practically speaking it makes sense -- you'd log off from their frequency immediately after making two way contact, so it's basically just noise for them. But them not wanting you to contact them is not written down in any part of the AIP as far as I can find, so I hope there won't be any angry letters after having a little border raid. We also went over what the most likely program will be for the checkride. My FI reckons that we can schedule it in a couple of weeks. There'll be a threotical part about flight planning and preparation, aircraft systems and so on, which should* be okay. Then we'll probably fill in a mock flight plan for an international route. International because it's just a reality of flying in the middle of Europe but also to give the flight a bit more room than just flying in a circle around the towns in the area. It's a mock flight plan, because once we're in the air and navigating to our destination, the examiner will inform me that our destination is unavailable and I'll have to plan the diversion en route. So there'll be a bit of in-flight E6b, navlog filling, and discussing charts, before changing course. Once the examiner is satisfied that I can succesfully and safely bring the plane there, the navigation part of the exam is concluded. The next section would be airwork. I'm told to prepare for steep turns, slow flying, IMC escape maneuver, and if we are in a plane that has a VOR receiver, dialing in and finding a station. Then there'll be approaches to and full stalls in various configurations and flight phases. Then emergency and cautionary landings, and finally a couple of touch and goes in different configurations. On of the emergency exercises or touch and goes will feature a simulated engine failure. She informed me that the upcoming lessons will be a fair bit longer and more intense than usual, and she'll be extra careful that I will perform the exercises not just safely, but also in good accordance to the SOPs. She is very good with sticking to the exact procedures mentioned in the SOP; other FIs tend to use a little bit more discretion in, for instance, the order in which certain things are done. So I've got the best FI for that. I've made myself a little training document containing all the SOPs for what's outlined above, with the relevant reference data from the manual. I guess I'll spend a lot of time just rote-memorizing procedures with that guide in MSFS, to make sure they really stick. * There is one minor complication: the plane I'm supposed to train on has been in the shop for months now and should be back any moment. In the meantime, I've been training on a different variant of the same plane with just slightly different ref speeds, procedures, and systems. I would actually prefer to continue on the current plane since its manual is like 1/4 of the original plane; I just hope I don't this doesn't trip me up too much.
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Saw a plane earlier. It was rad.
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A first for me: go-around due to a boat in the way.
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Speaking of seaplanes, I saw the Sikorsky VS-44 at the New England Air Museum today. And the nearly-restored Burnelli CBY-3, which is not a seaplane but looks like it was stolen directly from Tailspin or Crimson Skies. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Jun 24, 2023 |
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Lord Stimperor posted:l This situation where your pattern (circuit) can get extended into adjacent airspace isn't too uncommon. We have one here in San Francisco; the Palo Alto airport is tiny but very busy, and when all of the Google executives are out in their Cirruses on the weekends, the pattern downwind can get extended all the way into Moffett Field (NASA) airspace to the south. The Palo Alto and Moffett towers have some sort of agreement about this so you just stay on the Palo Alto frequency, and as long as you make your base turn instantly when they tell you, nobody gets a phone number to call. It's a little more weird to me that it goes over an international border, but I guess that's Europe for you. Also FYI we have a pilot-specific thread (this one is more airplane-specific) in A/T. There's some overlap of course, but that thread is more focused on the activity of flying than on the hardware, if you want to talk about these sorts of things with a bunch of professional/amateur pilots and flight instructors.
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Sagebrush posted:This situation where your pattern (circuit) can get extended into adjacent airspace isn't too uncommon. We have one here in San Francisco; the Palo Alto airport is tiny but very busy, and when all of the Google executives are out in their Cirruses on the weekends, the pattern downwind can get extended all the way into Moffett Field (NASA) airspace to the south. The Palo Alto and Moffett towers have some sort of agreement about this so you just stay on the Palo Alto frequency, and as long as you make your base turn instantly when they tell you, nobody gets a phone number to call. Thanks; I'll take a look in that thread. Last time I peeked in there was years ago and I was a little intimidated by all the pros in there.
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Yes it detonated just out of frame, this is the result 
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I posted this in the milhist thread, and I'm posting it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4am5c8hUE
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Lord Stimperor posted:Thanks; I'll take a look in that thread. Last time I peeked in there was years ago and I was a little intimidated by all the pros in there. Come on by! We're mostly all pilots in there and all pilots are terrible so you'll fit right in! Maybe you'll even find some non terrible advice in there
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Lord Stimperor posted:Thanks; I'll take a look in that thread. Last time I peeked in there was years ago and I was a little intimidated by all the pros in there. Imagine them all in their underpants.
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Platystemon posted:Imagine them all in their underpants. Not all of us are cargo pilots.
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Here's some fun propagandistic pictures from a time gone by. Sadly no subtitles, but the 1950s of it all, gosh. And about the Lance, gosh again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuGX_u9nWuY
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Minor whoopsiedoodle over at CLT this morning, no one hurt though. Turns out you don’t need your nose gear to land so I fully expect airlines to remove them for cost savings and add a skid instead.
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