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i am kiss u now posted:One thing to note with basicmed that at least my AME mentioned to me was that a lot of doctors are hesitant to take on that liability and therefore will not sign you off. If you can swing it, just get a 3rd class medical. My AME said that at least when they issue a 3rd class medical, if something were to happen, the FAA has their back. Someone who gets patients and receives money off of medicals has some FUD to say about their services not being required? Why, I never! And the only sense in which the FAA would have their back if someone had a type of medical aviation issue that would get a "normal" doc in trouble with his liability insurance would involve the FAA's knife as well as the AME's insurance company's knife. My personal physician had no issue signing my BasicMed paperwork back on May 1. Doctors sign medicals all the time for truck drivers, scuba divers, etc; it's not exactly an uncommon thing to do.
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SomeDrunkenMick posted:Isn't there a drone register in the US? That delay yesterday combined with work being done on my rail line home made what started out as a nice day into a bit of a slog. There was. But the FAA's novel interpretation of laws Congress passed specifically regarding model aircraft means the FAA regulations requiring participation in the registry were struck down by the courts.
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PT6A posted:Careful, if you speak about it too much you'll summon the idiot libertarian drone pilot who was always bitching about how the FAA was infringing on MAH RIGHTS. The thing is, in the law the US Congress passed telling the FAA they must come up with rules regarding commercial drones (the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012) they also said "the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft, if—" and then list 5 conditions: basically that it be for recreation, under 55 pounds, flown according to model aircraft community guidelines, doesn't interfere with and gives way to manned aircraft, and if flown within 5 miles of an airport that the airport operator or ATC tower be contacted about the operation. Most of the "rules" about recreational drone or model aircraft flying like keeping it under 400 feet, not over crowds, direct line of sight, etc, other than the 5 miles from an airport come from the AMA's guidelines as the "model aircraft community guidelines." But the FAA creating a model-aircraft registry falls afoul of "not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft" in the law Congress passed. I'm kinda confused why you're you're seeing a lot of NOTAMs; recreational drone flying up there is mostly covered by the interim order from Transport Canada, and in it's new version actually isn't terrible. I'd think the only NOTAMs you'd see are commercial activity going over the 300 foot height limitation which I didn't think were that common. CBJSprague24 posted:There's also a drone rating now for commercial operations (which, as I found out recently in a discussion, apparently isn't an Airman Certificate). You can either take an online ground school and test or, for the previously-aviation inclined, get current on any of your ratings and fill out the appropriate 8710 form! If you have a part 61 airman certificate of any kind and a current BFR, you can have have part 107 commercial drone rights simply by taking this FAA Safety course!  e.pilot posted:It's super easy to get the UAS cert, literally a 40 question test that you can take until you pass and fill out iacra.  edit: Am... Am I out-Apolloing Apollo?  edit 2: Just looked closer at the course and it only takes the place of the test so IACRA is still needed. fordan fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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sanchez posted:I think you'd be a good candidate for one of the accelerated "Finish Up" schools. Go somewhere, spend several days flying nonstop with a DPE already booked or on short notice and you'd be set. Or even just another instructor and a lot more often than 2x a month as xaarman said. When I talk to people thinking about getting their pilots license I recommend trying to schedule 3x a week with the expectation that you'll probably fly twice a week on average with weather/aircraft availability/etc. I saw a major change in my advancement when I did that, going from planning to fly once a week to 2-3x a week, with a lot less relearning of skills. CBJamo posted:On the other hand, that big window will bake you in the summer, it doesn't have very much useful load, and it doesn't have as much room as the planes you've flown. It has a castering nosewheel, which will take some getting used to, but isn't really hard to deal with. The landing characteristics are also very different to the 172 or Cherokee, if you can't manage your energy well it will float and float and float. Even with full flaps it isn't all the draggy, so it's quite good for training that. It's also not IFR rated, so you can only train under the hood. In short, for bug smashing or <100NM trips, its a fun, inexpensive, plane, but I wouldn't want to take it on long XCs, and if you're working on IFR, the inability to take it into actual will be limiting. The big window provides great visibility though, and I didn't think the useful load was that terrible. You can definitely feel it's glider ancestry as you say though; I think I did more slips in my first 5 hours in the DA-20 than I did in my entire primary training and subsequent flying in a C-172. I'm a fan of it over the 172, at least unless you need IFR capabilities. Or 4 seats.
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two_beer_bishes posted:Also, any good instructional podcasts? I have a long drive ahead of me and I usually listen to audiobooks in the car anyway. Even if it's a guy droning on about part 91! Did someone say podcasts?  Here are the aviation podcasts I listen to: AOPA Live This Week - Weekly video podcast of GA news Podcast URL: http://www.aopa.org/thisweek Feed URL: http://api.ooyala.com/syndication/podcast?id=dc8b2ee2-b9a2-4213-924b-90fbb813b793 AOPA Never Again - Monthly podcast of pilot stories of danger and lessons learned Podcast URL: http://www.aopa.org/neveragain Feed URL: http://aopaneveragain.libsyn.com/rss The Finer Points - Monthly podcast from a CFI on how to fly your best Podcast URL: https://www.learnthefinerpoints.com Feed URL: http://tfpaviation.libsyn.com/rss AVweb Podcasts - irregular news podcast; tends to have a flurry of posts around the air shows like Oshkosh Podcast URL: https://www.avweb.com/podcast/index.html?zkDo=showRSS Feed URL: http://www.avweb.com/podcast/?zkDo=showRSS AOPA's Pilot Information Center - irregular podcast; they usually put something up when something regulatory changes like BasicMed or drone rules Podcast URL: http://aopa-pic.podomatic.com Feed URL: http://aopa-pic.podomatic.com/rss2.xml Hangar Talk - AOPA biweekly podcast with discussion of events involving GA and a long interview with interesting aviation folks Podcast URL: http://aopahangartalk.libsyn.com/podcast Feed URL: http://aopahangartalk.libsyn.com/rss Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast - usually biweekly hangar flying podcast among three aviation journalist, more episodes around air shows where they also do radio shows on EAA Radio Podcast URL: http://www.uncontrolledairspace.com Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledairspace There I was... - new AOPA/Air Safety Foundation podcast about lesson learned by notable aviation folks Podcast URL: http://www.airsafetyinstitute.org/thereiwas Feed URL: http://aopathereiwas.libsyn.com/rss Haven't listened to the following that much yet; mean to go through the back catalog but haven't started on them yet. Inspire Aviation Podcast by MzeroA.com Podcast URL: http://inspireaviationpodcast.com Feed URL: http://inspireaviationpodcast.com/feed/podcast/ Private Pilot Podcast by MzeroA.com Podcast URL: http://theprivatepilotpodcast.com Feed URL: http://theprivatepilotpodcast.com/feed/podcast/ Instrument Pilot Podcast by MzeroA.com Podcast URL: http://instrumentpilotpodcast.com Feed URL: http://instrumentpilotpodcast.com/feed/podcast/
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MrYenko posted:All presidential TFRs are a giant middle finger to GA. Ask Hawaiian GA businesses what it was like when Obama was visiting home. To be fair it's a 10mi TFR with a 30mi control zone where you need to talk to ATC. But gently caress Presidential TFRs especially with President Golf in the White House.
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Bob A Feet posted:Deaf people fly? Deaf people fly. There are aircraft without electrical systems. There are even people in the US flying  without pilots licenses under Part 103 Ultralight regulations where the aircraft is basically tubing, some fabric and a lawnmower engine. "See and Avoid" is just part of being a pilot.Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of safety technology. My normal rental has TIS traffic alerts, and my flight bag has a spare radio and a PLB since most rental aircraft still have 121.5 ELTs. If you have radios and transponders you should use them. But I also fly aircraft that don't have them like Piper Cubs occasionally. And I don't see that as particularly bad.
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If you're going to do that, at least cross out the right section. "Being a pilot is playing admittedly pretty decent odds." Radios help, transponders help, "See and Avoid" helps, controllers help, but there's still risk, and that F-16 may still hit your aircraft.
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The Ferret King posted:I don't believe see and avoid actually helps any more than random chance. Nobody sees poo poo. I agree that the "Big Sky Small Plane" theory plays a much bigger part in keeping most people safe. But that breaks down near airports. See and Avoid has helped me identify an aircraft with a strong likelihood of colliding with me and avoid it (was on right downwind for Rwy 1, guy was announcing via CTAF he was on a 45 for right downwind for 1 but he was really on a 45 for a left downwind for Rwy 19 and basically aimed right for me). Radios were involved, transponders were on (not that that helped), but it was S&A that identified the threat, and my maneuvering to turn away that triggered the other aircraft to see me and realize his mistake (and do a 135-ish degree turn to get on to downwind behind me).
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I'd argue to train where you're going to fly, and if one airport is 10 min away and the other 30, I'd probably lean towards the 10-min drive as long as the schools/rental setups seem comparable in quality and price.
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xaarman posted:Anyone have any strong opinions on living in MIA vs PHL? Philly also has a city wage tax of around 3.5% on top of PA tax. You’ll pay it if you live and/or work in Philly. Whether that applies at PHL, I have no idea. The airport is partly in Philadelphia and partly in Tinicum Township (which also causes fun with the Philly soda tax in the terminals).  Miami does have a Metrorail station at the airport, I’m just not sure the train goes anyplace cheap to live. I’m not sure I’d compare Philly winters to ones my midwestern friends tell me about. Many winters we don’t get snow that sticks around more than a few weeks before melting away. But it’s certainly not Miami in the winter (Or the summer either happily).
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Desi posted:This discussion is so much easier and/or depressing on the Canadian side depending on how you look at it. Junior regional base? YYZ. Senior? YYZ. Mainline? YYZ. Corporate? YYZ. Basically, as an airline pilot in Canada, you're probably going to spend a chunk of your career in Toronto as the YUL/YVR/YYC bases some airlines have are hilariously small. I imagine if you fly for Porter you’d be looking at YTZ. For you know, some variety.
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Alternatively, if you have the time, look into donating platelets. It’s a longer process, like 2 hours for the donation, but you don’t really lose significant blood volume since they pull your blood, run it through a centrifuge to pull out the platelets, and then return it to you with some saline. I started doing that when a friend was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and needed platelet transfusions. They’re also needed for cancer patients and other illnesses, and they don’t last as long as whole blood so there’s always a need.
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This seems like an especially unfun runway excursion: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/world/europe/turkey-plane-skid-runway.html
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sellouts posted:In that case it kind of matters when it comes to hard product? And soft product and policies for that matter. Saying metal is a lot simpler than saying “operating carrier.” And it really is heavily used by frequent flyers, at least the ones who talk about it on online forums like Flyertalk.
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fatman1683 posted:Can anyone recommend a good Part 61 PPL ground school? I get the same emails from John and Martha that everyone does, but they seem pretty dated and waaaaaay too cheerful. With King Schools you can definitely see that history of making VHS tape flight training, but the older videos are mostly on stuff that hasn’t really changed in aviation since the 70s. You’ll notice a change in voice or a new video featuring an older John or Martha when they cover newer topics. They’re cheerful and have corny senses of humor but it helps keep you awake when covering dry topics, or at least it helped me keep awake. Sporty’s have their videos which are arguably a little more professional and polished, but it’s harder to push through the dry material. I did King for my private and have King and Sporty’s for when I finally get off my butt and do the Instrument.
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azflyboy posted:Attention flight instructions: When becoming frustrated by a Chinese students' poor English skills, do not attempt to perform a "do it yourself deportation", since that is apparently frowned upon. This story is everything I dreamed it would be based on your description.
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CBJSprague24 posted:The Force was not strong with this one. Sadly, Tron Guy had to sell his plane back in the Great Recession. 
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CBJSprague24 posted:Our school has a show time of 45 minutes prior to wheels up in which you're to do the ground brief and pre-flight. I THINK if you arrive after the scheduled start time of the block you might as well not come because it's a no-show. I know when I did my primary training that unless it was the first flight of the day, there was about a 75% chance the aircraft wouldn't actually be back at the airport until anywhere between 10 minutes before to 5 minutes after my start time, at least on weekends.
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greasyhands posted:Even after a mentally Ill guy ran a plane full of passengers into a mountain, they still encourage hiding things. Unbelievable The argument is usually that by banning certain meds/conditions the medical certification process encourages pilots to allow potentially serious conditions to go untreated. In the Germanwings case the pilot was actively in treatment including prescription meds and had a sick note from the doctor saying he was medically unfit to fly (without giving details since that’s barred by German law) but chose to fly and kill himself and his passengers anyways. The only way being in the open about his condition with his employer and regulatory authorities would have changed things would be if he was barred from flying because of his meds/medical condition which I think is the opposite of the point you’re making. I’m all for more loosening of the FAA’s strict stance on medicals (and BasicMed is a huge step forward for those not looking to fly commercially), but invoking the Germanwings crash doesn’t really make the case for that.
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You mean something like https://www.clarityaloft.com ?
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah, the only piston-engine planes they allow are Cirruses. But only if the highway in question was Porsche’s private test track. Moffett is a private airfield; you can’t land there without prior permission regardless of aircraft type. There were efforts to make Moffett a public airport back in the 90s but local residents killed that idea for fear of heavy cargo aircraft usage.
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MrYenko posted:Depends. Are you a congresscritter? Han Solo gets to land on a taxiway; congresscritters get to take off from taxiways (after earlier landing on a closed runway at that airport buzzing the construction workers fixing the runway).
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DrDork posted:It always kinda amazed me how often random GA flights would waltz right through the middle of an active Restricted area, talking to no one, and either pretending they didn't hear the frantic calls on guard, or having decided to turn them off entirely. I’d be kinda surprised if any significant percentage of GA aircraft keep 121.5 tuned on their radio, especially among pilots who would unknowingly wander through restricted airspace.
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DrDork posted:You can get handhelds to monitor guard for $200--they're not fantastic, but they're good enough to at least alert you to the situation, and it seems a minor price to pay considering all the other expenses of GA. Especially if I know I'm going to be puttering in and around areas that regularly do all sorts of stuff that might get me dead if I wander in there at the wrong time. I think most GA pilots are fine talking to ATC if they are are planning to fly through R space to verify it’s inactive. The people who aren’t aware of the R space and bumble through it aren’t going to be talking to ATC, and aren’t going to be monitoring 121.5 even if they have multiple radios. I’d argue even the non-oblivious pilots are mostly not monitoring guard regardless of how many radios they have. I know I generally don’t unless planning to do some ADIZ/SFRA/FRZ flying or I know there’s a Presidential TFR nearby. But I am usually talking to ATC if they aren’t too busy for flight following.
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We have to do a checkride, but apparently up there you need to do solo takeoffs and landings which would cause seaplane schools down here conniptions. You don’t get to rent a seaplane without an instructor or examiner in one of the seats. On the plus side, it’s a really fun way to get to skip a biennial flight review since new ratings reset the BFR clock.
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azflyboy posted:Someone online is selling this. I think it's hilarious, some of my co-workers, not so much... Yeah, saw this earlier this week and ordered mine after it was forwarded to me by a fellow goon who was like  about it. I'd feel differently about it if there were passengers who'd died, but as is...
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The Ferret King posted:That's so badass, I wanna hear about the places you launch from. I'm imagining taking off from public parks but I can't figure out how to easily determine whether local ordinances prohibit that kind of thing. My state has a rule that you can’t take-off or land anyplace other than a state-licensed airport/seaport/heliport/etc except in an emergency. 
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Nuggan posted:Which state is this, so I can not fly there? New Jersey. I believe Ohio & Indiana have similar laws based on the Seaplane Pilots Association’s website (since seaplanes also tend to land at not-airports). hobbesmaster posted:Is this even enforceable? Sure. Gustafson v. City of Lake Angelus has a seaplane pilot arguing that a law banning seaplanes on Lake Angelus was preempted by federal authority over aviation, but the federal courts decided on appeal that this was more a land/water use question than an aviation one so it wasn’t preempted by federal authority.
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wolrah posted:Well that's a bummer, one more reason to want to leave Ohio (insert astronaut joke here). I have a GA airport literally around the block from my house, but half the appeal was the idea of being able to just fly out to my friends' houses who live out in farmland and have plenty of property. From a quick look at Ohio laws, it seems like they only want to license airports before being used for commercial purposes and prohibit flights from/to public lands & waters without approvals/hearings/etc (which is why the SPA calls them out since basically all bodies of water are public). IANAL but if you wanted to do it you could probably confirm by calling the Ohio office of aviation.
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Sagebrush posted:What is the least expensive floatplane you can get that can carry two people, preferably in an enclosed cabin, and is a real plane (not an inflatable dinghy on a hang glider etc)? A Piper J-3 Cub on floats?
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PT6A posted:Nah, seaplanes are for getting somewhere. Boats are for going somewhere slowly and then drinking and relaxing. Seaplanes are for having an awesome time while getting to skip a biennial flight review because it's a new rating with a checkride. (And then realizing that no one will rent a seaplane without their CFI on board) And as for getting someplace; I don't think I went above 500 ft AGL (or MSL; it was Florida) or faster than 60mph in the Cub on floats I did my rating on. I did a demo ride on a Revo weight-shift trike that same weekend where I went both significantly faster and higher.
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e.pilot posted:Why you don’t even need pilots anymore. All the commercial planes take off and land themselves anymore anyways, didn’t you know? I'm sure he's just confusing the autopilot with the Otto Pilot, which does have a demonstrated ability to take off. https://i.imgur.com/C8DHmOc.gifv
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mactheknife posted:Is it ever a good idea? I mean, it seems to be working in the light sport aircraft certification with ATSM which is migrating over to GA, if I understand things correctly. There are also reasons besides the unwieldiness of the FAA process that causes aircraft to choose to go the experimental route.
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PT6A posted:Yeah, that's a weird aspect of the US training syllabus in my opinion. We do spin recovery at the PPL level right after teaching power-on stalls, in general. It's fun and occasionally terrifying! The story (as I'm sure you know) is that when looking at the stats they were seeing more accidents from practicing spin recovery than from actual unintentional spins that were potentially recoverable. My instructor enjoyed aerobatics so when I wasn't cleanly recovering from stalls in a 172 it was "My airplane. Here, let me show you what could happen..."
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Carth Dookie posted:Can't hurt! Checking out pricing, it seems that per hour costs roughly the same as light sport aircraft training, largely because of tug plane fees, unless you get good weather and can soar longer to offset the initial launch fee. Also having an engine may allow less aggressive maeuvering to help overcoming initial airsickness. Hmmmm That seems high? I don't have much in the way of glider experience, but the local group to me, the Philadelphia Glider Council, charges around $1k/year and average tow fees of $35/tow with instruction included (by CFI members I believe, I think all members are required to take turns doing support activities like wing running, and CFIs do support by letting students try to kill them) Alternatively, maybe light sport is real cheap near you, and you should do both!
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Sagebrush posted:idk about seaplane ATP in particular, but the first rating I want to get after the PPL is ASES. I love love love the idea of flying a little floatplane up to a secluded mountain lake and camping for the weekend far away from everything. Bear in mind that as far as I know almost no one actually rents seaplanes without their instructor in the seat next to/in front of you so you’d probably need to buy a seaplane. Getting the rating is a fun way to spend a couple days though.
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Captain Apollo posted:I have had the iPad mini since it came out, and am thinking about the Gen 5 iPad mini, but I really wish it had Apple Pencil 2 support. I guess I could wait until September on an update for the mini but the 11inch already has pencil 2 support. I upgraded from the mini 4 to the mini 5 and is a massive speed upgrade and it can use the Pencil 1. I doubt they’ll ever add Pencil 2 support since the 2 needs to attach to the side of the iPad to charge and that seems unlikely with the smaller size and width of the mini and the Pencil 1 being available 90+% of the 2 lacking only the button and side charging/storing I wouldn’t want to discourage you from the pro but I wouldn’t let lack of Pencil 2 support stop you if the mini is the better form factor
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