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azflyboy posted:Nice! They did not. They said any answer they could give us would be wrong and change anyway. The last class had two Boeing spots so they said we have no clue.
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The Slaughter posted:Hired at Alaska today. Woop woop! Hell yes! Congrats man.
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The Slaughter posted:They did not. They said any answer they could give us would be wrong and change anyway. The last class had two Boeing spots so they said we have no clue. I'm surprised they had Boeing slots, since my understanding is the Virgin people are generally abandoning the Airbus as fast as possible, since Air Group has made it clear they don't want the airplanes.
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So finally in a position to start training for my PPL. I'm doing it as a business tool (travel 4+ hours one way by car to see clients, goal is every once in a while cut that down and be home for dinner with the kids) and for pleasure. I've got an appointment with an AME this coming Friday, but after submitting my medxpress app and talking to some guys it sounds like I was way too honest on the application. My PCP found an enlarged lymph node in my neck this summer and we've been to see specialists who did biopsies that were negative for lymphoma. So the experts are 95-98% sure it's not cancer, but still no solid diagnosis. An allergist thinks it's allergies, but don't have blood work back to confirm anything. I put all these appointments in the application. My PCP nurse has me in every three months for physical blood work because I made myself anemic by giving blood too often (I'm O- so they call me constantly), so I put that on there as well. I take zero prescription medications, no diagnosis. Did I screw myself?
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The way my AME put it was "nobody's going to check into your medical history unless you make some really serious error or crash the plane, in which case they will absolutely look at your medical history, and then you'd better have told the truth." The FAA is concerned with whether you might be unsafe to fly, not that you be in perfect health. It sounds like your lymph node condition is something that most doctors wouldn't have a problem signing off as "this condition won't cause problems in the air." The anemia sounds like a bigger question to me; if it's something that could, say, cause you to pass out unexpectedly then it's objectively a risk in the air, and again, you'll need a doctor who will put their name to a document saying it's under control. I'm sure there are a variety of attitudes on how to handle medical exams, but IMO if you're safe to fly then there will be a way to get the certificate*, even if it's more of a pain than usual; and if the doctors say you aren't safe to fly then that's unfortunate but it's stupid to try and game it. *mental health of course being an enormous 
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Aug 24, 2019 20:03
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Sagebrush posted:The way my AME put it was "nobody's going to check into your medical history unless you make some really serious error or crash the plane, in which case they will absolutely look at your medical history, and then you'd better have told the truth." This jives with what my AME told me. He also said to bring in a printed copy of your submission so you can go over it with the AME first in case something needs changed before the AME opens it in the system and it can't be changed. He didn't literally wink at me when he said this. He also said the FAA wants you to fly if you're safe, it might just be a bunch of bullshit you have to jump through to get there. Like you can have had a heart attack and still fly, you just have to do a lot of poo poo to prove it's under control. Had a pretty MEH day of flying today. Was originally planning to maybe first solo this weekend, but got stuck in a plane I'm less familiar with, and didn't get to fly it yesterday because fog, and oh also can't touch and go anyway until it's new engine is broken in another 20 hours. And then we flew into a little rain that turned into a bunch of lightning and had to GTFO. Finally got to a sunny and clear practice area but neither me or my instructor were on our A-game. He was telling me to watch my altitude doing ground refs, and then would demonstrate a maneuver and gain 300ft lmao. At least it was flying though!
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:Had a pretty MEH day of flying today. Was originally planning to maybe first solo this weekend, but got stuck in a plane I'm less familiar with, and I was a little freaked out about not getting the plane I like to fly* for the first solo, too, thinking like "aaa but this one has a less powerful engine so what if all my RPM/airspeed settings need to be different, and that one has busted nosewheel steering so I lurch around a lot more on the taxi, and that one has the STOL kit so slow-flight is even slower..." yada yada But then when the day came for my pre-solo phase check, something had gotten hosed up in the schedule and all of the 152s were unavailable. So the chief pilot was like "hmm....we could reschedule....but have you flown a 172 before? They're basically the same thing" and I said "yeah, but only for like 2 hours and a few times from the right seat with my friend" and he goes "good enough, we'll take one of those, don't worry I'll tell you the different airspeeds and starting procedure." and then the phase check went totally fine despite being in a different model of plane entirely (yeah I know 152/172 but I'm new, cmon) and it was a good lesson in realizing that all you need to do is fly the plane and respond to what's happening instead of trying to memorize a specific sequence of actions for every situation. And then on the solo I got the one with the busted nosewheel steering (and one brake that I swear is sticking, because it's way harder to push around on the ground) and still did fine. *I sometimes get a little indignant when I'm listening to liveATC and I hear MY PLANE's callsign, lol. Be careful with my baby, dammit Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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Sagebrush posted:*I sometimes get a little indignant when I'm listening to liveATC and I hear MY PLANE's callsign, lol. Be careful with my baby, dammit TOO real
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Well, got myself a Sentry mini ADS-B and a kneeboard for my iPad. Flying around in bad weather with no moving map/foreflight has been a humbling experience. Hoping this kneeboard can hold up to some G's. Not doing anything crazy but did some sustained -1g the other day and I have to say, its the loving worst.
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Sagebrush posted:The way my AME put it was "nobody's going to check into your medical history unless you make some really serious error or crash the plane, in which case they will absolutely look at your medical history, and then you'd better have told the truth." Mao Zedong Thot posted:This jives with what my AME told me. He also said to bring in a printed copy of your submission so you can go over it with the AME first in case something needs changed before the AME opens it in the system and it can't be changed. He didn't literally wink at me when he said this. Thanks guys. I'll print out the app just in case. The anemia was from giving blood every 8 weeks when I was eligible. I stopped giving blood and iron levels all returned to normal. Hopefully that will pass muster.
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Hey pilot goons, y’all ready to be mad?quote:Effective August 28, 2019, KCM-authorized Crewmembers will be required to wear uniforms while using KCM access points.
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They never specified what kind of uniform, so I'm totally showing up with a civil war reenactor uniform and seeing what happens.
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My anger at this is only slightly stronger than my eye-rolling at everyone posting how they're gonna so cleverly take their shirt off after passing security and expose to the screener the futility of the new rule, shaking them to their core aghast at their role in security theater and the emptiness of their life's devotion
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azflyboy posted:They never specified what kind of uniform, so I'm totally showing up with a civil war reenactor uniform and seeing what happens. I own this shirt, I want to try it. 
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Wow four bars look at this guy! They cut my Canada trip a day but I’m still loving it here. I got alcohol’d last night with some people from Saskatchewan that I met at the hotel bar. Hoo man they do not like Trump.
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e.pilot posted:I own this shirt, I want to try it. Getting this for my first solo shirt
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Rolo posted:Wow four bars look at this guy! Nobody should like Trump.
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Just traveled to training without my uniform. I guess I'm going home without my toothpaste.
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Sagebrush posted:Thanks all! It feels really good. Can't wait to get up there again... And now the schedule is way more open What's the difference between a Captain and Jeffrey Dahmer? Dahmer didn't eat every single leg.  ANYWHO... We had a DPE show up a few months ago and I was talking to some buddies and we decided to
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e.pilot posted:I own this shirt, I want to try it. If only that was a bike jersey
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cigaw posted:My question is what kind of operation would warrant ATP seaplane ratings, particularly single engine? Can anyone think of any actual companies that do this? My hometown airline: https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/part-135/kenmore_air I don't know if their pilots have to hold ATP certs but they have regularly scheduled flights to a number of places on the Washington/BC/Alaska coasts so I wouldn't be surprised.
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dupersaurus posted:If only that was a bike jersey oh man, I need that
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KodiakRS posted:My hometown airline: https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/part-135/kenmore_air There are a couple of different companies that do seaplane shuttle services between Vancouver and Victoria, and they have scheduled service in planes carrying more than 9 people so I think an ATP (or Canadian equivalent) would be required for that, right?
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Sagebrush posted:There are a couple of different companies that do seaplane shuttle services between Vancouver and Victoria, and they have scheduled service in planes carrying more than 9 people so I think an ATP (or Canadian equivalent) would be required for that, right? Don’t know how it works in the states, but in Canada the ATPL requirement only exists for PIC of an aircraft with a minimum flight crew of two or more. However, I also think that our class ratings are not specifically related to our license type, so you could have an ATPL with a AMES class rating even if there’s no aircraft for which you would need that specific combination.
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KodiakRS posted:My hometown airline: https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/part-135/kenmore_air I’m *pretty* sure they only need commercial ASEL/ASES as applicable to whatever they’re flying. I know one of their Caravan guys so I’ll ask around.
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NYC has a number of seaplane services to summer destinations, but they all seem to be flown with Cessna Caravans or similar, so I imagine that's not ATP rated.
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Not part of the official curriculum but it was pretty great, and surreal, to take a plane solo for an hour or so and just hit the pattern. Winds were variable at like 5-6kt (endorsement is for max 7 crosswind) so it was absolutely perfect for what I wanted to do. Second dual cross country flight planned for this weekend. The first was 120 miles of dead reckoning then GPS/flight following on the way back. VOR nav for this one. edit: also goddamn one person would be hard pressed to fly via dead reckoning alone. Instructor and I were both super busy that entire time, especially as we were flying over terrain and managing altitude and updrafts took a lot of my attention yellowD fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Aug 26, 2019 |
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The Slaughter posted:Hired at Alaska today. Woop woop! Congrats! Glad you were able to get out
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Excellent new thread title! The gods of flying heard my prayer/whine, and one of my students passed a flight test today! I am extremely happy, because I thought he was very well prepared for it, and that he'd do very well, and he did in fact do very well.yellowD posted:Not part of the official curriculum but it was pretty great, and surreal, to take a plane solo for an hour or so and just hit the pattern. Winds were variable at like 5-6kt (endorsement is for max 7 crosswind) so it was absolutely perfect for what I wanted to do. I don't know what it's like at your flight school, but if any of my students ever say "hey, I want to practice X solo" and X is a thing they're approved to practice solo, I will happily sign them out to go solo, I don't give a gently caress what the syllabus/curriculum says for the "official" number of flights which ought to be done. Solo practice is always a good thing, and if you're training for a license, it should presumably be because you enjoy flying, so what the hell, take a plane and have some fun and get some practice. Flying, even during training, is supposed to be enjoyable, and honestly I think any instructor who forgets that is going to have miserable students.
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Speaking of hosed schedules, I’ve had to cancel this checkride redo :checks watch: five times now for weather yellowD posted:Not part of the official curriculum but it was pretty great, and surreal, to take a plane solo for an hour or so and just hit the pattern. Winds were variable at like 5-6kt (endorsement is for max 7 crosswind) so it was absolutely perfect for what I wanted to do. Yeah solo pattern work is great don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
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dupersaurus posted:Speaking of hosed schedules, I’ve had to cancel this checkride redo :checks watch: five times now for weather Yeah, until you’re a pilot you don’t realize how frequently the weather is poo poo.
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PT6A posted:I don't know what it's like at your flight school, but if any of my students ever say "hey, I want to practice X solo" and X is a thing they're approved to practice solo, I will happily sign them out to go solo, Totally, and not a dig at my school. (I'll save that for their maintenance issues.*) They're cool with booking a plane and going as long as it is within the endorsed minimums and their SOPs. It's more trying to balance progress toward finishing / fun / total cost on my end. It was a great and needed way to burn a bunch of cash. I did manage 9 trips around in exactly one hobbs hour.  *their planes have taught me, several times now, the importance of the preflight and run up, and if that something doesn't feel right, end it. dupersaurus posted:Yeah solo pattern work is great don’t let anyone tell you otherwise Before I could land consistently I admit I had to sometimes remind myself I was in control of an airplane and that is cool as poo poo, even if in the patttern yellowD fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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PT6A posted:Yeah, until you’re a pilot you don’t realize how frequently the weather is poo poo. I’m particularly suffering from The South. DPE is only available mornings and afternoons. Guess what season it is? Morning fog and afternoon pop-up storm season!
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dupersaurus posted:I’m particularly suffering from The South. DPE is only available mornings and afternoons. Guess what season it is? Yeah, you’ve just described Alberta too, it’s not just the south. Here you can sometimes wait out the storms and take advantage of the long days after 6PM.
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PT6A posted:Yeah, until you’re a pilot you don’t realize how frequently the weather is poo poo. Amen
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PT6A posted:Yeah, until you’re a pilot you don’t realize how frequently the weather is poo poo. Starting my PPL was a huge wake-up call that, hey, there's this giant sky above me and it does lots of weird poo poo all the loving time.
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It’s kind of funny with all of this weather talk lately. The older I got and the more I flew, the more I really began to educate myself about atmospheric science. It’s pretty amazing the amount of tools that we have in place that while can’t accurately predict the weather 100% of the time at every location, can definitely give a good synoptic overview for a local area up to a week in advance. Even days before, we can get a very accurate idea of what to expect and when. As a I pilot, I’m very interested in what’s happening in the environment I fly in and not just barfing out information the local TV weather-joker repeats but truly understand the why and how of the synoptic and mesoscale occurrences. In fact, we have a thread right here on these very forums about weather! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3762868 I really think that once people pass all their pilot tests that learning more about the science goes out the window. i am kiss u now fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Aug 28, 2019 |
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PT6A posted:Yeah, until you’re a pilot you don’t realize how frequently the weather is poo poo. Related, getting an instrument rating decreased my stress around planning cross-country trips with friends by a ton. Cancelled probably 50% of them for weather before that, and only one since (winter storms and no FIKI). Anybody else find long cross-country cruise when nothing is happening to be the scariest part of flying, like in the immediate, strictly emotional sense? If I have some task to distract me, I don’t worry at all, but when I’m just cruising along without much to do my mind starts going “hey man what if the wing snaps off. What if it just snaps right the gently caress off. Think about plummeting to earth, helpless.”
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kathmandu posted:Anybody else find long cross-country cruise when nothing is happening to be the scariest part of flying, like in the immediate, strictly emotional sense? If I have some task to distract me, I don’t worry at all, but when I’m just cruising along without much to do my mind starts going “hey man what if the wing snaps off. What if it just snaps right the gently caress off. Think about plummeting to earth, helpless.” Cruise flight is when I get paid to read books, eat lunch, drink coffee, and most importantly talk about how I’ve really been hosed by my schedule.  e: Related 
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Started college yesterday, hoping to grind for two years then head to ATP. Hoping this shortage does not close in between then.
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