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A video of a near-miss at the Reno air races last weekend (the pilot posted a great explanation in the description of the video). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyfK1tea3zo This was an interesting year for incidents at Reno, since a de Havilland Vampire landed in the desert on Friday after an engine failure (totaling the airplane), one of the Sport class airplanes had an engine fire on Saturday (again, totaling the airplane), a biplane ground-looped on Saturday , this happened in the Formula 1 final on Sunday, and was immediately followed by two biplanes running into each other on the runway after landing from the very next race. As far as I'm aware, the only injury was the pilot in the video suffering a broken hand, which is pretty amazing. I was there Friday-Sunday, and can post some pictures here if there's any interest.
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So, uh, how horrible an idea would it be to get my CPL provided I don't intend to actually get a full-time job as a pilot (yet)? I got my medical renewed today and the doctor said he ended up getting his commercial license after being inactive for 15 years, because if he had to do training to get current anyway, why not really work to improve your skills and become a better pilot? I'm... at least considering it at the moment. I'm already at 112 hours total time, so I'd be quite close to 200 after completing the CPL-specific training anyway, and at worst I figure I'd have more training and be a better pilot, even if I never exercise the privileges of the commercial license. So: large waste of money, or obscene waste of money?
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Sep 21, 2016 22:03
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Just do it.
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Having a commercial license can save you quite a bit of money on insurance if you own an aircraft, especially if you are a relatively low-time pilot.
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MrChips posted:Having a commercial license can save you quite a bit of money on insurance if you own an aircraft, especially if you are a relatively low-time pilot. Oh great, more motivation to make another horrid financial decision 
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MrChips posted:Having a commercial license can save you quite a bit of money on insurance if you own an aircraft, especially if you are a relatively low-time pilot. The training is an all around good experience too, refines what you learned for your private and it all makes a bit more sense since you're not just trying to learn how to fly.
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PT6A posted:Oh great, more motivation to make another horrid financial decision If you're looking for a smarter financial investment than aviation, I would suggest any of the following: Boats Trains VHS tapes Commemorative silver coins Pinecones Milk Rain Old lightbulbs C batteries SomethingAwful account upgrades
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Rolo posted:If you're looking for a smarter financial investment than aviation, I would suggest any of the following: Burning bundles of money for warmth in Texas in July.
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Rolo posted:If you're looking for a smarter financial investment than aviation, I would suggest any of the following: True enough, now I'm just trying to balance the money spending vs. enjoyment ratio. At this point, I don't think plane ownership is in the cards (but who knows about the future? I've been checking controller.com every now and then...)
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SeaPort ceased operations and liquidated assets. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2016/09/seaport_airlines_to_be_liquida.html e.pilot posted:Welp I failed my MEI check ride because I couldn't remember if the ELT inspection was 12 or 24 months and what the date for battery replacement criteria was, knew it was an hour of cumulative use and the date was based off the age of the batteries but couldn't remember the specifics. And after giving him 90% of the answer, he wouldn't let me look it up in the FAR because "I should know it off of the top of my head because I'm a CFI" this after going through all of the oral portion without looking a single thing up. Because god forbid you have a brain fart and can't remember something verbatim that's not related to the immediate safety of flight. I've posted before about my Instrument checkride with the DPE who was notorious for having his own interpretation of three of four FARs pertinent to Instrument flight (though one was fairly clever, I have to admit) and getting them wrong (by giving the published reg) was punishable by something ranging from an rear end-chewing to a failed Oral. He also screamed at me for calling "Airspeed alive", which is something I'd done on every flight with a CFI since day one and wouldn't let me cruise the airplane out to get set up for the hold and first approach, which caused me to almost bust on altitude PTS. My original Instrument instructor was going to try and have me do it with another guy, but she left before I finished and the one I finished with was like "Naw, you'll be fine, he likes you!". That was five years ago today and I still hate that checkride even though I passed.
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Haha their official customer guidance on unused tickets is "issue a chargeback"
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shame on an IGA posted:Haha their official customer guidance on unused tickets is "issue a chargeback" Not much other advice you can give when going into bankruptcy. Customers who are owed flights are now creditors, and they don't have better priority before the bankruptcy court than any other creditor and worse than some. Better the customer get made whole by their credit card company who will then be the creditor trying to squeeze blood from the dead airline stone.
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I'm curious what happens with the merchant services agreements during bankruptcy? Would the credit provider even be able to chargeback? Would the chargeback become a debt as part of the bankruptcy and subject to discharge?
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Jealous Cow posted:I'm curious what happens with the merchant services agreements during bankruptcy? Would the credit provider even be able to chargeback? Would the chargeback become a debt as part of the bankruptcy and subject to discharge? The merchant bank would probably be a creditor if they didn't see it coming with the previous chapter 11 bankruptcy and crank up the reserve requirements to have more of the failing buisness' cash on hand to fund chargebacks with (which would kill cash flow and hasten the bankruptcy of course). The aircraft are probably leased and will go back to the lessors. Curious how much more in assets they're likely to have to pay creditors (and that haven't already been used as collateral), especially since they'd already been operating in Chapter 11 before being forced into liquidation, since debt acquired after bankruptcy have precedence.
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Passed my 135 check ride today, just waiting on my background check to finish up and I'll be on the line 
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e.pilot posted:Passed my 135 check ride today, just waiting on my background check to finish up and I'll be on the line Is this at Boutique?
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Rickety Cricket posted:Is this at Boutique? Yes it is.
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Congrats!
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Thanks, can't believe how easy the PC12 is to fly.
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Got back in the saddle this weekend. 2.4 hours Friday and 1.4 today. It's amazing that even after a few weeks off the rust starts building. Shook it all off by the end of Friday though. Feels like life is getting back to normal. I'm going to be bummed out when I do finally get my PPL, I won't have nearly as much of an excuse to go flying this frequently.
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I got my first solo in years Thursday and my first in a cessna.i feel comfortable and excited.
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Rolo posted:If you're looking for a smarter financial investment than aviation, I would suggest any of the following: Hookers
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Just had my second PPL check ride postponement due to a combination of weather and a DPE who is always booked weeks out. Did the ground portion on labor day which went great and have been sitting in limbo ever since. Sigh. Attempt 3 is in a couple of weeks, trying to balance staying current vs. burning money on review flights. I'll probably get this done just in time for the first good blizzard of the year.
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sanchez posted:Just had my second PPL check ride postponement due to a combination of weather and a DPE who is always booked weeks out. Did the ground portion on labor day which went great and have been sitting in limbo ever since. Sigh. Attempt 3 is in a couple of weeks, trying to balance staying current vs. burning money on review flights. I'll probably get this done just in time for the first good blizzard of the year. Denver FSDO has the same problem with DPEs. They're impossible to book less than a month out, it's super frustrating.
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I passed my 141 IR checkride yesterday.
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e.pilot posted:Thanks, can't believe how easy the PC12 is to fly. Awesome. I'm super jealous.
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Rickety Cricket posted:Awesome. I'm super jealous. Me too. The PC-12 has always been my "if I hit the (really big) lottery" dream plane.... Capable enough, fast enough, possible to fly with a single pilot, and only one engine to worry about maintaining. After I got a lovely disease of some sort last week which made me cancel my lesson, I once again have my first lesson scheduled soon... hopefully this time nothing will delay the fucker, I feel like I've been waiting months for this, what with getting my hernia repaired and all that garbage. I think I've talked myself into going for the CPL, but I'm still going to discuss it with the instructor before I make any commitments. RIP my money.
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A buddy of mine flies a pc-12 for a firefighting company in Spokane. He seems to really like the airplane but is upgrading to the rj8 next "season." I seem to remember that Cessna was working on a competitor to the Pilatus, called the Yukon or Denali or something. Anyone here know anything about it?
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KodiakRS posted:A buddy of mine flies a pc-12 for a firefighting company in Spokane. He seems to really like the airplane but is upgrading to the rj8 next "season." Cessna Denali. G3000 cockpit, GE93 full-FADEC engine, basically a PC-12 but slightly bigger in every dimension. Maybe not quite as good at short field ops, but carries more, farther, faster, for less. Or at least that's the idea. It's still a paper airplane, at this point.
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MrYenko posted:Cessna Denali. G3000 cockpit, GE93 full-FADEC engine, basically a PC-12 but slightly bigger in every dimension. Maybe not quite as good at short field ops, but carries more, farther, faster, for less. That could be a pretty great airplane. How much less good at short field (and presumably hot/high/unprepared) ops is it forecast to be? That seems, to me, to be one of the not-insignificant advantages the PC-12 holds over competing planes. Mind you, I also look at this from a Canadian point of view -- I'm guessing it's not nearly as much of an issue in most of the US.
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PT6A posted:That could be a pretty great airplane. How much less good at short field (and presumably hot/high/unprepared) ops is it forecast to be? That seems, to me, to be one of the not-insignificant advantages the PC-12 holds over competing planes. Mind you, I also look at this from a Canadian point of view -- I'm guessing it's not nearly as much of an issue in most of the US. Eh, it's still important. Rich people like to go to isolated/lousy airports in the US too.
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PT6A posted:That could be a pretty great airplane. How much less good at short field (and presumably hot/high/unprepared) ops is it forecast to be? That seems, to me, to be one of the not-insignificant advantages the PC-12 holds over competing planes. Mind you, I also look at this from a Canadian point of view -- I'm guessing it's not nearly as much of an issue in most of the US. Only marginally. Depending on what GE does with the GE93, it might actually be BETTER at hot and high. It's looking to be a mighty impressive engine. The Denali looks like it's going to be just a touch heavier per horsepower, but really not by very much. It's almost a PC-12 clone.
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MrYenko posted:Only marginally. Depending on what GE does with the GE93, it might actually be BETTER at hot and high. It's looking to be a mighty impressive engine. Wikipedia claims the (planned, I assume?) takeoff distance will be 2950 ft. instead of 2600 ft. I'd call that a pretty significant difference. The RCMP, for example, operates some PC12s and there are certainly a number of strips they need access to that could take a PC-12 but not a Denali if those performance numbers turn out to be correct. It will be interesting to see how it develops, though.
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A lot of PC-12s operating on my area of West Texas. Strips are usually never better than 3500 feet. I know a lot of oil Barron's that have a pic-12 to land on dirt oil field strips. They love the gently caress out of that thing.
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PT6A posted:Wikipedia claims the (planned, I assume?) takeoff distance will be 2950 ft. instead of 2600 ft. I'd call that a pretty significant difference. The RCMP, for example, operates some PC12s and there are certainly a number of strips they need access to that could take a PC-12 but not a Denali if those performance numbers turn out to be correct. Absolutely, but RCMP and say, Flying Doctors are exactly the kind of operations the PC-12 excels at. I think Cessna is betting there are (possibly a lot of) people who'd like the PC-12 to have a little more load, a little more range, and are operating out of 3500-4000ft paved runways, instead of really short strips like the bush operators.
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Rolo posted:If you're looking for a smarter financial investment than aviation, I would suggest any of the following: Have you tried owning/learning to sail a boat in Europe at all... close to the same as a CPL, although when you go fro Yachtmaster I'd then go with boats as dearer.
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hjp766 posted:Have you tried owning/learning to sail a boat in Europe at all... close to the same as a CPL, although when you go fro Yachtmaster I'd then go with boats as dearer. At least you can theoretically use a boat as a house, even if it's still a bad financial plan. MrYenko posted:Absolutely, but RCMP and say, Flying Doctors are exactly the kind of operations the PC-12 excels at. I think Cessna is betting there are (possibly a lot of) people who'd like the PC-12 to have a little more load, a little more range, and are operating out of 3500-4000ft paved runways, instead of really short strips like the bush operators. It also depends what runway performance is like when the Denali is carrying the same payload as the PC-12s max useable payload, with enough fuel to match the PC-12's range, of course. If that brings it down close to where the PC-12 is, then it's hard to say the Denali is any less capable.
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Just got back from Portugal. Here, have some advice on passports. ************** If you are travelling internationally, look NOW to see if you have an electronic passport. Google epassport and you'll see the 'chip' icon on the front of your passport if you have one. I spent 2 hours in a 'All Passports' line (everything but EU because I was in an EU country). This is the line where there are like 500 people from zimbabblestan and urkistan (and some pushy loving French stop touching me you smell like complete poo poo) and you all wait to get stamped by the passport guy. Unfortunately, I had to get out of line to use the bathroom and to my bewilderment I saw an incredibly fast moving line for 'Electronic Passports.' I scanned and went through within seconds. It DOES require you to take a photo while you get scanned (gently caress the feds). But, I bet I'm on every security camera anyway when going through the passport section. Anyway, I mention this because I saw at LEAST another 100 Americans that didn't know they could go through the Electronic Passport line, and many of them didn't even see the line in the first place. I know half of them missed their international flights because of the lines.
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This popped up on the AOPA forums and it sorta blew my mind so I'll share it. I expect this guy isn't a goon. It's very long. Here's the NTSB factual to go with it (it's much shorter): NTSB Factual quote:AOPA Poster Said:
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