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Spaced God posted:Guys, I hate to say it, but we've been found out quote:My experience started as a freshly hired 25 year-old flight engineer for a major airline. My starting pay? $24,000 per year. During initial training guys worried about making ends meet. Whoever wrote that forgot to adjust for inflation. $24k in 1988 dollars is about $50k today
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CBJSprague24 posted:I...don't think Allegiant, Spirit, or Southwest are hiring at what they deem low time, regardless of 1500 being in place, but thanks for playing. Its easy to look up at least... Southwest posted:Certificates/Ratings: U.S. FAA Airline Transport Pilot Certificate. Unrestricted U.S. Type Rating on a B-737 not required for interview, but required for employment1. "B-737 CIRC.APCH.-VMC ONLY" limitation is accepted. allegiant posted:What are the minimum requirements to be a First Officer? spirit posted:MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Spirit has surprisingly picky minimums.
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CBJSprague24 posted:This was the point of the story leading into their segment, which I missed the first couple minutes of: the seeming ridiculousness of pumping six figures into training and a degree to make $22-24k starting at a regional, which seems a liberal estimate based on what I've seen at AirlinePilotCentral in the past. Clearly anyone that does that is insane and thus not qualified to hold a first class medical.
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Rickety Cricket posted:How is it that if you can't get the lights on 33L, you don't just try for 33C? Why would they just turn around and go home? The article is really confusing. Trying to correlate the airport diagram and the article it looks like the lit runways are significantly smaller. There's still a precision approach though.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:57
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Did it have one of those click the mic to turn on systems? You think they disabled the system instead of just turning off that runway?
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Apr 11, 2015 21:50
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The Ferret King posted:He'd expressed his intent to do this last year and was interviewed by secret service. This news article has more information about his plan (which started last year) and the contents of the letters he sent to congressmen. The secret service that had agents going around bragging about their posts to prostitutes in Brazil, let several agents crash a car into the white house while DUI without penalty and let a crazy guy run past secure entrances and up to the 2nd floor of the white house? That secret service? (I bet crazy old people threaten to deliver messages to washington dc constantly) DNova posted:Hey some loving rear end in a top hat in a gyrocopter did a thing that will certainly cause news reporters to ask ridiculous questions about GA and further damage its reputation. Was this gyrocopter was light enough to not require a license? hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Apr 15, 2015 |
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Apr 15, 2015 19:48
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Bondematt posted:Ultralight will now be included under Sport Pilot Cert in 3...2...1... I can see it now.... Why was this crazy person allowed near an airplane? After this and the Germanwings tragedy should there be stricter restrictions on pilot's mental health?
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Apr 15, 2015 20:14
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fordan posted:News report on NPR this morning was saying "if he came closer we were prepared to shoot him down..." How much closer to the Capitol can you get? On it? With what exactly. 
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Mortabis posted:Obama's skeet gun Legitimately the best option for shooting it down. Real question is whether the secret service have any labradors.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Somebody operating a Pilatus requiring an ATP, maybe? I know there are a few EAS carriers using PC-12s as their weapon of choice.
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Apr 24, 2015 21:09
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SeaborneClink posted:Bush ops in Caravans? Scheduled float operations is mostly twin otters isn't it?
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Apr 24, 2015 22:35
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Kenmore air even has international scheduled service using single engine sea planes out of Seattle. You must need an ATP for that right?
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Apr 24, 2015 23:09
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fordan posted:And being in the northeast, avoiding Mode C veils is pretty challenging, so a transponder (and eventually ADS-B) isn't really optional. And God help me if I wanted to use my secret decoder ring to fly down to College Park in the Washington DC FRZ. They seem to have trouble noticing ultralights in the DC FRZ.
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Could a look down radar really tell apart an ultra light 20 ft above the ground traveling 30-50 mph from a flock of birds or a car? I imagine anyone that could answer would not be allowed to answer it in public but usually the way look downs work is by looking for fast moving stuff against the static terrain. I would think that an ultralight would blend in to the noise.
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Apr 27, 2015 22:54
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They had a propensity for crashing partly because the marines saw the never exceed ratings as a challenge.
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May 1, 2015 02:21
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fordan posted:Anyone feel like flying to LAS tonight? Looking forward to future boxing related NOTAMs.
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May 3, 2015 07:25
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I wonder if anyone asked the air force about overflow parking. 
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May 3, 2015 17:34
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Captain Apollo posted:Can you explain any of this? Delta, look at the wings. He's saying to go from military into a shiny
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May 7, 2015 21:48
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The traditional path was military or regional.
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May 7, 2015 22:28
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Isn't that 100% airframe though? If you want an airline job afterwards to get the hours wouldn't you have to fly a 707, P-3/8, C-17, C-130 or C-5?
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May 14, 2015 12:47
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I was merely referring to be hours requirement, but F-18 pilots making enough hours makes sense. Probably also goes for anything else that would patrol over *random desert country*
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May 14, 2015 17:27
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Rolo posted:Surprised the Feds didn't flip out about making safety a joke or some dumb poo poo. Fun *deltalina finger wag* is not allowed on this or any FAA regulated flight.
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May 21, 2015 17:25
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That doesn't prove you can hear and follow crew member instructions in English. (Or whatever that phrase is)
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May 22, 2015 18:16
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xaarman posted:IFR makes you feel like a real pilot though. No clouds/icing/airport/atc/equipment restrictions are gonna stop me! Pretty sure my cousin is dead because of that. Icing and a c170 on floats do not mix. Edit: I know what you mean but...
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May 25, 2015 00:35
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Clearly we shouldn't have women in the cockpit because men will randomly forget how to fly an airplane and stall into the ground while discussing cold remedies.
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May 27, 2015 20:15
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That is true for all professions. Why do you think the birth rate is plummeting in the west.
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May 28, 2015 03:57
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Captain Apollo posted:The 182 is so mild mannered I feel like it needs a separate endorsement. "High performance-lite" You should try it with floats if you haven't. Its downright "low performance" when you throw those on.
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Jun 1, 2015 16:32
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To the contrary, if nobody wants to fly then regionals will have to pay a reasonable wage for people to actually consider going through the training.
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Jun 9, 2015 02:43
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What 3d resolution do you need for that kind of inspection anyways? What's usually called LIDAR isn't typically used for inspection.
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Jun 10, 2015 13:48
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poo poo, 30 thou? Whats the required inspection time for an entire aircraft?
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AWSEFT posted:Unless you enjoy being like cattle then shoved in a dog crate. My sister in law claims its great if you have a purse large enough to double as a weekend bag! (She's also like 5'4") LAX-LAS can be done for about $70 which is probably on par with $20/each way southwest fares from the 90s.
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Rolo posted:And it's your loving airplane. This must be awkward if you instruct with it. "My airplane" "No it's loving mine ... ... Your controls your voice"
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The Ferret King posted:I suppose a piece of paper works too but you're going to get gas on your hands anyway. And oil. And dirt. You should be wearing proper PPE for the precedure including gloves, a nomex flight suit and a respirator.
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Seriously though glasses and some gloves would be a good idea.
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The Ferret King posted:Seriously though I'm not putting on protective gear to preflight the kind of airplanes I fly. Tetraethyllead is readily absorbed through unbroken skin. When fueling your car you are never working above your head or taking samples of fuel. 100LL does have a low amount of lead but those lead compounds aren't things you gently caress with regarding exposure. Even very small amounts can have lasting physiological effects.
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Hauldren Collider posted:Holy poo poo. Ok, you've persuaded me. I'm wearing gloves. The Ferret King posted:Someone should tell all the CFIs. I nominate hobbesmaster. Jealous Cow posted:I'm not worried about getting a bit of 100LL on my hands occasionally. Tetraethyl-lead is bad news, but getting half a teaspoon on bare skin will only give you 1.6% of the permissible skin exposure for TEL according to OSHA over an 8 hour period. So wash your hands after and don't pick your nose and you'll be fine. Yes small spills aren't going to kill you with lead poisoning if you wash your hands, but the point was to just be more careful than you would when using unleaded gas on your car.
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azflyboy posted:From what I've heard, there were several low speed incidents at altitude this year, which may have been exacerbated by SKW issuing ECON cruise speeds that were slow enough to be a setup for an inattentive crew to get themselves in trouble, which is why they also issued new minimum cruise speeds. Just got off a 2 hour long Skywest CRJ200 flight, the FO said "climbing through-to, TO 27,000 feet" I like to believe that it was her disbelief that they were cruising that low.
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I bet they only gave him a 30 day suspension because if they gave him enough that he'd actually pay to fight it an administrative law judge would see that he used an FAA publication and the judge would blow up and demand they fix it. Perhaps too cynical. Also: John Kerry demanded that no TFRs be put over cities he campaigned for president in. Probably because as a general aviation pilot in New England he found them ridiculous.
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KodiakRS posted:This right here is a steaming pile of %100 pure bullshit. Sure, this guy hosed up but not willfully, and not criminally. Yet they denied his ASRS form? The whole point of the program is to get people to open up about things that we would otherwise not know about, and they're not going to open up about them if the FAA is just going to ignore the system (because :reasons:) and hit the guy with a cert suspension anyway. It's not a criminal case though, it's a civil license suspension. ASRS isn't going to count after you've been "pulled over." If you can get immunity to the violation after you've already been caught then there is literally no way for anything to be enforced.
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MrYenko posted:Yes, but again, there is case law arguing that the FAA doesn't regard ADS-B distributed TFR information as complete or accurate, either. Is there case law or just the FAA citing the pilot and the pilot not contesting it because it would cost a lot to get it in front of a judge?
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