rldmoto posted:

Just outside Southern Pines, an hour south of Raleigh. Near KSOP and BQ1.

MrYenko posted:

Aviation Megathread: As long as you don’t stay somewhere for many years and do something stupid like starting a family, you’ll be fine.

Captain Apollo posted:

Well dudes.

I defended my dissertation on airplanes on Thursday. For years I had been planning to celebrate this accomplishment by changing my name to Dr. Apollo but apparently that account already exists and has 0 posts.


That's right.

Doctor. Pilot. Mooney. Bonanzas............ Apollo.

Get ready. It's showtime.

e.pilot posted:

This is one of the reasons I’m so thankful I was able to train at the airport I did. A sleepy class c that was shared with a military base. It wasn’t very busy but every flight was always talking to clearance, always talking to approach. I’d regularly see anything from CRJs to Heavy military cargo and fighters and everything in between. It made going anywhere else a piece of cake.

PT6A posted:

What do y'all recommend for winter gloves and where to get them? My current ones loving suck, I want something that will actually keep my hands from freezing at -30 while still being useful for fuelling a Cessna. I'm willing to pay whatever it takes, but I can't find gently caress all in stores or online. I don't care how ridiculous they look.

Underarmour base layer, a sheepskin jacket and good insulated boots have taken care of the rest of me, but I haven't found a glove that works worth a poo poo.

Arson Daily posted:

If a MAX crashes here or in another western country then get worried, otherwise it’s just third world aviation.

MrYenko posted:

It’s their current in-progress design.

That said, it probably won’t resemble the 757 as much as the 767. Personally, I think the 757 is the most beautiful twinjet ever built.

CBJSprague24 posted:

Talking flying careers, keep in mind there's the small "lost" generation of pilots who were hired with 1500 because of the rule change but only made $21,000 a year for their work at a regional before they started getting with the program and raised pay. I would have been one of them had I stuck with it.

This seems timely given union chat:

https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1126477710434414592

KodiakRS posted:

Julius CSAR posted:

I've got a question regarding a specific job withing aviation.

I'm currently very close to being by a company that specializes in, I guess, aircraft parts reclamation? I'm not sure exactly what the job title would be and this is an issue because I don't know how much money to ask for, which is something I've told to start thinking about (direct quote: "I need you to be thinking about how much you want to make")

Basically the company takes business jets that don't fly anymore and pulls all the engines/parts/avionics to re-sell them, then takes the airframe and (usually) scraps it. They also do some jet brokerage stuff, as well as appraisals, aircraft recovery and other things. I guess you could describe them as an aviation services company. Typically working with Dassault Falcons, sometimes Citations or Hawkers.

OK SO...my concern is this: I don't know how much I should be making, and I really don't want to low-ball myself. The job itself would be the aircraft disassembly, but google doesn't understand what I mean by that.

I have six years experience as an avionics tech in the Air Force (ECM on B-1s, also did a TON of other jobs on that jet when it needed to be done. Even helped change a wingsweep gearbox once!) and that was all flightline, I didn't work backshop. Another two and a half years as ground service tech, of which a year was as a supervisor.

I also have a fairly encyclopedic knowledge of aircraft and aviation, though I understand that means more or less nothing compared to actual experience.

Anyone have an idea how much I should be looking at here? Also I live in Kansas City fwiw

MrChips posted:

You could literally double the salary of every pilot and flight attendant at an airline and it would bump your ticket cost by maybe 5-10 percent at the most.

Cessna posted:

Or John and Martha King.

They're not real, right?

RIGHT?