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Groda posted:I am constantly To be fair, banana hammocks are probably uncomfortable in Stockholm at this time of year.
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PT6A posted:Ft. Lauderdale Beach is a hateful place filled with garbage people. I must be a broken affluent white guy because literally everyone I've interacted with up to and including the TSA have been more pleasant than my fellow vacationers. I pray for a biblical plague of manowars to descend on the beach. And Zika-infected mosquitoes, that they may not reproduce. Fort Lauderdale beach is plagued with Québécois. Always has been, always will be.
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Jealous Cow posted:Edit: could also never get a plane with less that full tanks because they obsessively filled them between every flight. This is SUPER common down here, because of (legitimate, but waaaay-overstated) fears of condensation inside the tanks causing water entrapment and corrosion. It's fine for a flight school, it sucks rear end at a flying club where you sometimes actually want to use all four seats and do something other than drill holes in the sky.
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A coworker of mine used to tow banners. It's an even more itinerant lifestyle than the airlines, and is some of the most dangerous flying out there that isn't fire-fighting or crop-dusting. He's crashed three super cubs. Two ground loops in waaaaaay more than demonstrated crosswind conditions and the last one was a maintenance failure that almost killed him; He never flew a banner plane again.
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I've never flown an airplane with an airspeed indicator in knots.
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Watching an 800ft <100kt 1200 code get bounced by an F-22 isn't fun for anyone involved. Read your NOTAMS, guys.
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I just didn't know we had any fledgling mechanics in this thread.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Laws are for poor people, not for private pilots. All the private pilots I know are poor BECAUSE they're pilots.
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JacksLibido posted:People say this all the time, but I find it hard to believe that if the airlines weren't paying so much pilots would still be getting out. From what I'm seeing in the Ops sqs, the only dudes getting out in droves are the dudes who have really high paying jobs (pilots), while all the CSOs are staying in forever. Start following the Air Force thread in GiP (or any of the branch threads, for that matter,) for a good dose of the extra-special dumb that the USAF makes their people deal with.
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KodiakRS posted:Just an FYI: If you hit a goose with the cockpit at 200 knots check your switches. Apparently the impact can be hard enough to pop switchlights out of the overhead panel. On a related note does anyone know where to buy some clean underwear in OMA?  gently caress geese.
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I know of at least one instance where a controller flashed his FAA ID, insinuated (but never outright stated) that he was an inspector, and snagged a jumpseat. He almost got fired. (He should have gotten fired.) This was pre-2001, though. Post 2001, I've walked through TSA checkpoints (not pax checkpoints, but airport employee checks) with a rifle case with absolutely no questions asked. I put nothing past TSA incompetence. 
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Don't get too attached to it. Airways has a raging, throbbing hard-on for NDB/VOR/VORTAC shutdowns. They're hilariously expensive to maintain, in relation to how many aircraft are still using them. I think we're scheduled to lose four or five major radio navaids just in the southern half of Florida in the next year or two.
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e.pilot posted:Oh hey I passed my upgrade check ride for 135 slave labor. No more being an O2 thief in the right seat of a PC12. Do PC-12s have comfy crew seats? Massagers? All the PC-12 drivers I talk to are chill as gently caress. Piaggio guys, too. King Air guys tend to have real bad get-there-faster-itis.
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Yesterday was a lovely day, I guess. An MU-2 inbound to KTIX from TJBQ went NORDO and disappeared from radar. SAR hasn't found anything yet.
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