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For a kitbuild that does similar things, check out the Super STOL from Just Aircraft: http://justaircraft.com/page.php?45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ5uudaAPPY
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The Slaughter posted:Any pilots here that got LASIK? Especially those working commercially? I did lasik a year or so before getting a medical, no issues, just had my optomologist do a 8500-7 before heading to the medical. How much astigmatism (if any) do you have? The first day or two after the surgery I had 20/20 vision (had that 15 minutes afterwards when they tested me), but everything looked hazy like looking through glasses with a light coat of vasolean. But at night for a week or two after I had impressive night glare and halos with point sources of light. It was tolerable for driving after a couple days, but night flying is really almost nothing but point sources of light. It kept improving, though to get to normal (vs something I could cope with) took a month or two. I mention astigmatism since I believe that's part of the reason for the halos, so if you have a lot of astigmatism, you'll get worse night issues, without any, should be mild.
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Fortunately, night flying is pretty rare for me, and I can easily get 13 days off to recover if I need, although 6 days to recover would be easier to swing if that's do-able. My right is -3.75 and my left eye is -2, I don't think I have astigmatism although I think a doc maybe mentioned at some point I have some minor astigmatism.
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Hey. Figured I might as well post in here. Not a pilot or planning to become one, but my dad is and I work for an aviation company. Wanted to say that this thread has been a real help in understanding some of the terms and technology at work and I'd have been lost without it. That said, does anyone know when the AOPA's website folks are going to get their rear end in gear and fix the flight school database? It's been down for over a month at this point and it's severely limiting my ability to do my work. Edit: Congrats! vvvv A Shitty Reporter fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Aug 7, 2013 17:48
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Aviation Megathread: Rolo is now a CFI! First attempt baby! So happy...
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Congratulations Rolo!!! Now give me some tips before my check right next Thursday!!!!! I completed my three-day accelerated course today and I got signed off by one of Ferret Kings former instructors! Now to just worry.........
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KodiakRS posted:Well I guess the pilot shortage is here. We're already out of FO reserves for tomorrow. To make matters worse we're losing about 30 guys a month and that number is only going to go up as the doors at AAG, UAL, and Delta open up over the next year or so. Of course then there is bullshit like this: There wont be any shortage in the EU any time soon that's for sure. Last recruitment draft at my company had 500 applicants for 2 spots. Aer Lingus had over 4000 first officers applying for their 10-20 ish direct entry vacancies. Aviation sucks. EU sucks. So glad I have a job holy poo poo. People are actually lining up in droves to pay Ryan Air 20k+ Euros for a typerating and a 400 hour/year contract. And I can assure you Ryan Air keeps about half off that. Abysmal working conditions as you are payed by the hour without a minimum and your home base can change on a weeks notice. Oh you just found a decent apartment / second job to pay of your loan? Too bad we kind of need someone extra in shitknowswhere to fly 30h / month. It's actually getting me mad because sleazy companies like Qatar Airways are launching cadet schemes where the applicant has to cough up near 150k euros and isn't even guarantied to be employed for a full 1500 hours. And they will still find thousands of desperate ab initio pilots that will gladly go in life long debt. I wish pilots got their respect back over here but everyone knows they are expendable and there's 100 desperate people out there eyeing your spot rigorously. -edit- So many type-o's when I'm mad. Mikojan fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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A week of firsts for me! Logged my first 7.0 hour day flying from DC (KVKX) to Moline, IL (KMLI) via Zanesville, OH (ZZV) and Kankakee, IL (KIKK) in a Cardinal 177. Later that night my first commercial go around (passenger this time) flying into DCA on the river visual 19. The next day a flight to LAX, my first time to the west coast, to visit distant family. Did some spotting at the In-n-Out, got some good pictures, by chance even saw a United 787! Drive up to SFO, flew back to IAD on a 757. Exciting week. 49.8 XC PIC hours, and 23 instrument now! E: Forgot to ask, what is the FAA policy on aspirin while flying? My cheap headset gave me the worst loving headache by the end of that day.
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Aug 9, 2013 18:23
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Aspirin is allowed, so long as whatever condition you have isn't contrary to your ability to Fly The Airplane.
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I am about to fly from LGA to GSO at 6,000ft MSL... In a CRJ-700... 420nm... wtf
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Aug 9, 2013 19:17
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Animal posted:I am about to fly from LGA to GSO at 6,000ft MSL... In a CRJ-700... 420nm... Why so low? How much extra fuel is that gonna burn? Positioning or revenue?
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Aug 9, 2013 19:26
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Hey, just think of this as extra pay (if you're paid by the hour) for a flight with a better view.
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Aug 9, 2013 20:04
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Rickety Cricket posted:Why so low? How much extra fuel is that gonna burn? Positioning or revenue? One of the engines is MEL'd perhaps
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Aug 9, 2013 20:23
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That got exciting quickly... A passenger went ragdoll and eyes rolled into her skull... Medical emergency, had to speed up to 330kts at 6,000msl and held that till 10 miles out, fun approach and landing. Pax is ok now. Altitude was due to congestion going out of NYC its the only way they can let flights out. Apparently its the new fad, they have been doing it all week. This is my fourth medical emergency in a year, including one incapacitated flight attendant. Animal fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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Aug 9, 2013 21:19
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The answer to NYC congestion is 6000 ft? ... Well okay. I wonder what passengers thought.
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Aug 9, 2013 21:27
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Apparently. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL4949/history/20130809/1825Z/KLGA/KGSO Look at the flightlog and guess when the emergency was reported
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Aug 9, 2013 21:30
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Pretty normal for LGA and JFK actually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwLTOYKOVFU Our dispatchers have been known to throw a few thousands LBS of dispatch add on the fuel slip in case it happens.
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Animal posted:Apparently. 345 at 6000ft? Is that accurate?
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hobbesmaster posted:345 at 6000ft? Is that accurate? Yes. 330 indicated.
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Animal posted:Yes. 330 indicated. Duh of course the track wouldn't be KIAS.
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How'd you get out of the 250kt limit under 10k ft? Operational necessity? That'd be my claim.
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The Ferret King posted:How'd you get out of the 250kt limit under 10k ft? Operational necessity? That'd be my claim. Animal posted:That got exciting quickly... A passenger went ragdoll and eyes rolled into her skull... Medical emergency, had to speed up to 330kts at 6,000msl and held that till 10 miles out 91.3 (b) n an in-flight emergency requiring immediate action, the pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extent required to meet that emergency.
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Aug 10, 2013 04:54
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Rickety Cricket posted:A week of firsts for me! Logged my first 7.0 hour day flying from DC (KVKX) to Moline, IL (KMLI) via Zanesville, OH (ZZV) and Kankakee, IL (KIKK) in a Cardinal 177. Wow, ZZV is my hometown. How'd you like the fancy FBO that's always vacant because nobody flies there?  Also, August 9th (yesterday) was the 8th anniversary of my first solo and the 7th anniversary of passing my Private checkride.
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KodiakRS posted:91.3 (b) n an in-flight emergency requiring immediate action, the pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extent required to meet that emergency. Doh. Short term memory.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Wow, ZZV is my hometown. How'd you like the fancy FBO that's always vacant because nobody flies there? That FBO was beautiful... and empty. Haha. The ramp was pretty empty, other than us the only thing I saw was a Citation V. Great people and great facility though!
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Rickety Cricket posted:Later that night my first commercial go around (passenger this time) flying into DCA on the river visual 19. My favorite approach. Animal posted:That got exciting quickly... A passenger went ragdoll and eyes rolled into her skull... Medical emergency, had to speed up to 330kts at 6,000msl and held that till 10 miles out, fun approach and landing. Pax is ok now. Altitude was due to congestion going out of NYC its the only way they can let flights out. Apparently its the new fad, they have been doing it all week. Exciting!
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This summer I'll be racking up 30 hrs (at least) with an instructor to get the complex and HP endorsements; Otherwise it'll be a royal pain to fly into Steamboat this winter. Lots of mtn flying, flight following, and an IFR familiarization flight maybe? Cant spin a 182 or I'd do a couple hours of that.
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You very much CAN spin a 182, you just shouldn't do so since it's placarded against it. And the owner would probably disapprove. (yes, i am nitpicking your language)
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Newbie student here. After 4 lessons and ~3.5 hours, today was the first time I actually felt pretty comfortable and confident flying the plane without being too overwhelmed. Things slowed down in my brain quite a bit for how everything works together and I had a lot of fun flying. We went back to slow flight and MCA and I felt myself "flying" the plane during the maneuvers rather than chasing the instruments, overthinking, etc. Did very well at it and I'm looking forward to getting more practice. I am pretty sure I also landed the plane, since we were doing the same slow flight all the way down through final and my CFI never explicitly took over controls. In any case I pretty much thumped the plane down. My CFI was telling me to nose up right at the end, and I tried, but it was too late and we plopped onto the runway. A far cry from my CFI's greasers. No harm no foul for my first quasi-landing, though!
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Another lesson down, this time with stalls! Stall practice was pretty fun, though I think I had more fun getting into slow-flight in prep for the stalls since I've actually become pretty proficient* (*as proficient as a sub-10 hour student can be) with slow flight. We did both power-on and power-off stalls, and after getting the hang of them after 2-3 reps I started to have fun practicing them. Still need to work on internalizing the procedures for both (moreso for power-off stalls with carb heat/power/flaps/etc), but I felt pretty confident after doing the reps and look forward to doing more of them! My CFI warned me about getting bored doing any one maneuver for a long period of time, but I'm not even close to that point and just love being at the controls and flying a motherfucking airplane! Ha!
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If you get to do spins, you're gonna poo poo your pants with delight based on how much fun you seem to think regular stalls are.
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DNova posted:If you get to do spins, you're gonna poo poo your pants with delight based on how much fun you seem to think regular stalls are.
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Depends on what kind of a person you are.
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DNova posted:Depends on what kind of a person you are.
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The Slaughter posted:One of the engines is MEL'd perhaps Wait could someone expand on this? MEL is minimum equipment list, right? Why would an MEL engine cause them to cruise at 6,000? (In my private pilot mind I read that as one engine is inop but it's okay by MEL to fly so they decided to go at 6,000 ft on one engine, which doesn't make any sense to me)
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Might've been discussed in the last thread, but what's the consensus on tablets? Is everyone leaning towards the ipad/ipad mini or is there some Android use as well? I like the aspect ratio on a lot of the 7" android tablets but overall there just seems to be a lot more available for the ipad...
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I use my iPad Mini in the plane and I love it. Get Foreflight and the iPad with the data plan chip. Whether you activate it or not it can use the chip to track yourself on sectionals and approach plates.
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Rolo posted:I use my iPad Mini in the plane and I love it. Get Foreflight and the iPad with the data plan chip. Whether you activate it or not it can use the chip to track yourself on sectionals and approach plates. So, as long as you buy a data ready ipad, you don't necessarily need to activate a data plan? This is something I've been wondering about a lot because I don't want to pay for a data plan that I would only be using in the plane... but I'd really really like to buy a tablet and be able to use one of these fancy navigation apps.
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Rickety Cricket posted:Wait could someone expand on this? MEL is minimum equipment list, right? Why would an MEL engine cause them to cruise at 6,000? First of all he was kidding. Second, in 121 an MEL list is pretty much all inclusive. (Just about) everything on the plane is on the list. When something is broken, the MEL provides direction on how it is to be defered, how it should be placarded, and what procedures must be done/changed. So, lets take a Wing Tip Nav Light. We'd call Mx (maintenance) and they'd reference an MEL number that we can use to defer it. The MEL says quote:"2 installed, one required". Place placard adjacent nav light switch, no procedure. Now lets say both are burned out. quote:"2 installed, zero required". Place placard adjacent nav light switch, procedure "no night time ops". AWSEFT fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Aug 13, 2013 |
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Knockknees posted:So, as long as you buy a data ready ipad, you don't necessarily need to activate a data plan? This is something I've been wondering about a lot because I don't want to pay for a data plan that I would only be using in the plane... but I'd really really like to buy a tablet and be able to use one of these fancy navigation apps. Correct, you'll still have the built in GPS. HOWEVER, I use the ipad mini wifi and an external Dual GPS. The price of the Dual is cheaper than paying the ~150$ more for the Cell version of the ipad, and it (external gps) will get better location data. The only downside is it's another thing to charge and keep track of, but I absolutely love it.
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