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actionjackson posted:given that Mentour pilot is mostly about near disasters or disasters maybe it's not the best for me National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's flights into hurricanes loving own. NOAAs Miss Piggy and Kermit both fly into some awesome hurricanes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70n7riR6fCM
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CBJSprague24 posted:No, but I'm hearing the 14th is some sort of D-Day for them with regard to a major shake-up of SkyMiles bound to piss off many. The one mile at a time guy published this early and holy poo poo Amex is going to be pissed. Either that or maybe they both made major miscalculations.
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lol i was just going to post about that i'm in a delta hub (MSP) but rarely fly so it probably doesn't affect me much, but the flyertalk thread is pretty funny
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If you want Reddit salt this seems to be a good thread https://reddit.com/r/delta/s/g61NqR0wI9
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Jesus Christ, the spend on the Platinum card to just get SILVER Medallion, with no money spent on travel, is $120,000.  I've been Silver since 2021 thanks to the COVID rollover MQMs and enough travel and spend to keep it going, but holy gently caress.
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Sep 14, 2023 03:45
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thinking about the opportunity cost on this lol
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actionjackson posted:thinking about the opportunity cost on this lol HOW TOM EARNS DELTA 360 | ??? MQDS [*] 7x Super Bowl champion, 5x Super Bowl MVP [*] 3x NFL MVP [*] 30+ missed calls from Ed per year [*] Sent two Jet Cards back in autumn, must not've got'em [*] Anyways, I hope you get this Tom, just to chat, truly yours your biggest fan, this is Ed
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Alaska about to get a deluge of status match requests out west lmao
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Alaska about to get a deluge of status match requests out west lmao Delta could have just given up their gates in SEA if they didn't want them, no reason to self immolate like this. United leadership is desperately trying to figure out if they can change their quals and the rest of Americans are trying to figure out how the gently caress people in Delta's marketing copy have that much money with $4/gal gas and $4-800/mo on groceries.
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SeaborneClink posted:Delta could have just given up their gates in SEA if they didn't want them, no reason to self immolate like this. Delta has a promotion going on where you earn points based upon the number of points the Seahawks score this year.
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someone made an interesting point in the flyertalk thread - someone who hits diamond in this new system is going to have to be buying a lot of first and business class tickets, which makes having diamond for upgrade priority moot
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actionjackson posted:someone made an interesting point in the flyertalk thread - someone who hits diamond in this new system is going to have to be buying a lot of first and business class tickets, which makes having diamond for upgrade priority moot This is exactly their strategy: sell the premium seats instead of giving them away as upgrades. That's what Delta wants.
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idk what sort of person pays seven grand out of pocket to fly business class on a long haul but it's somebody much richer than me
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Sapozhnik posted:idk what sort of person pays seven grand out of pocket to fly business class on a long haul but it's somebody much richer than me It's right there in the name. 
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I think I can list for zed business with delta so this is actually really good news for me
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Sapozhnik posted:idk what sort of person pays seven grand out of pocket to fly business class on a long haul but it's somebody much richer than me HENRYs basically i would pay half that tho, which I see every so often
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Delta’s problem is who is going to pay delta one fares when better products are cheaper and no matter what aircraft is on the website you could still end up with one of those 767-300s where half the seats don’t work right.
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hobbesmaster posted:Delta’s problem is who is going to pay delta one fares when better products are cheaper and no matter what aircraft is on the website you could still end up with one of those 767-300s where half the seats don’t work right. people like me who are hub captives (MSP) and want nonstop flights though lufthansa will be flying from here to FRA starting next summer
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My wife just pointed out a TMG (engine was on and sounded okay) that flew over our, really slow and low. Looked up on flight radar and the altitude was reported at just below 1500ft, which is really low for a city. Next few data points were lower and lower, and it stopped being picked up at 700ft. At that time, it seemed to have been circling above some fields and parks outside of our neighbourhood (the ground track was erratic and looked like zig zag). I mean there is a glider field closeby -- landed and took of there a couple of times myself --, but people typically don't approach it from the busy city, especially not if they have power. And it was kinda going the wrong way, too. Wondering whether we might have witnesed an outlanding. edit: whoops, no it popped up again at 800ft. Dude is just flying really really low over towns and cities Lord Stimperor fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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hey, if the FAA doesn't even define "congested area," then there's no way they can say i was flying over one! -- jerry
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Phanatic posted:Great, thanks. So after much back and forth with the FAA, they've seen fit to allow my GF to hold a first class cert, which they've now mailed to her. So far so good. But let me ask: the whole point behind getting a first class is because she wants to be a commercial airline pilot, and wanted to be sure she could qualify medically before she dumps money into flight school. Now that she's got it, and it expires in November, she figures she'll just go get a third class because she can train on that and it lasts longer. Is there any reason to not do it that way? Should be be maintaining the first class instead?
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The first class will expire to a third class, so there's no need to get a new medical for training. She'll have 3rd class for 60 months (under 40 years old) or 24 months (over 40 years old) from when she was issued the 1st class.
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Personally I’d maintain a first class just in case, it’s not that much money in the grand scheme of flight training and will keep you from any unexpected surprises.
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Sagebrush posted:hey, if the FAA doesn't even define "congested area," then there's no way they can say i was flying over one! This is when someone on some forum busts out the map to start rules lawyering about how many feet above or below amsl Dutch cities are
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right by the runway at the airport I noticed that some of the power lines had these orange balls attached to them. Is that for visibility for the pilot?
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Phanatic posted:So after much back and forth with the FAA, they've seen fit to allow my GF to hold a first class cert, which they've now mailed to her. So far so good.  Refreshing to see someone do this in the right order for a change. Good on her.
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actionjackson posted:right by the runway at the airport I noticed that some of the power lines had these orange balls attached to them. Is that for visibility for the pilot? Yes.
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actionjackson posted:right by the runway at the airport I noticed that some of the power lines had these orange balls attached to them. Is that for visibility for the pilot? 
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Sometimes I see those balls where there's no airport or even a helipad. I wonder what that's about.
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yeah me too it must be strange to say you are from California... Missouri
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sleepy gary posted:Sometimes I see those balls where there's no airport or even a helipad. I wonder what that's about. It’s probably an area where low-altitude air-ops of whatever kind are known to happen and there’s nothing else keeping them above the obstacle
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sleepy gary posted:Sometimes I see those balls where there's no airport or even a helipad. I wonder what that's about. Powerlines are often inspected and maintained by helicopter and powerlines can be incredibly hard to spot. This is how some of them are installed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTMJadYZV4 ImplicitAssembler fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Sep 18, 2023 |
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actionjackson posted:right by the runway at the airport I noticed that some of the power lines had these orange balls attached to them. Is that for visibility for the pilot? they’re to de-ionize the air around them so they don’t arc when the plane gets close
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I smooshed a gummy bear onto the outside of the window of my airplane and then flew from SJC to HNL and then KOA and he stayed stuck there the whole time. I need better hobbies.   I don't have a picture from Kona because it was dark so you're just gonna have to trust me
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What a fascinating result, not what I would have expected. Did the gummy puff up at altitude?
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e.pilot posted:Personally I’d maintain a first class just in case, it’s not that much money in the grand scheme of flight training and will keep you from any unexpected surprises. I've looked at the cert now and it has a restriction on it to the effect that when it hits the expiration date it isn't good for any other class. And the letter attached to it says than when she gets a new one, that new one must also bear the same restriction. With that in mind, is the answer the same? I figure she should just keep renewing the first class for the reason you say: prevents any unexpected surprises.
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Phanatic posted:I've looked at the cert now and it has a restriction on it to the effect that when it hits the expiration date it isn't good for any other class. And the letter attached to it says than when she gets a new one, that new one must also bear the same restriction. absolutely, they’re going to have to maintain a first class eventually anyways, why not start now
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Arson Daily posted:I smooshed a gummy bear onto the outside of the window of my airplane and then flew from SJC to HNL and then KOA and he stayed stuck there the whole time. I need better hobbies. How much effort was involved in removing it after all that?
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