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two_beer_bishes posted:No poo poo! The bonanza I used to fly developed a hairline crack from the aftermarket exhaust and was piping CO right into the cabin. Thankfully I had my own (cheapo hardware store digital CO detector) that started blaring at me on takeoff. My jackass boss asked me "well what does the dot show?" I told him my digital detector was literally reading off the charts and he simply said "how do we know it's accurate". gently caress that “I am commandeering this bonanza.”
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Rolo posted:“I am commandeering this bonanza.” The GA guys down the line had a weird one the other day. Dude in an old Grumman comes in for an annual. A week later, they hand him the list of discrepancies, one of which is a cracked prop. He said he'd like to pay for the annual and discuss the discrepancies. He paid for the annual, and while the shop manager was coming back from lunch, the guy took his plane and left. Flew off. With a cracked prop. Like, the logbook entry said "annual completed, aircraft is not airworthy due to following discrepancies...." and guy just flew away. The shop manager said he called the guy who said "yeah, I can't afford a prop, and the FAA can't afford to come and ground the plane. Thanks though."
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:The GA guys down the line had a weird one the other day. Dude in an old Grumman comes in for an annual. A week later, they hand him the list of discrepancies, one of which is a cracked prop. He said he'd like to pay for the annual and discuss the discrepancies. He paid for the annual, and while the shop manager was coming back from lunch, the guy took his plane and left. Flew off. With a cracked prop. GA is amazing
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e.pilot posted:GA is amazing This guy embodies marine corps aviation maintenance.
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 22:38 |
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:The GA guys down the line had a weird one the other day. Dude in an old Grumman comes in for an annual. A week later, they hand him the list of discrepancies, one of which is a cracked prop. He said he'd like to pay for the annual and discuss the discrepancies. He paid for the annual, and while the shop manager was coming back from lunch, the guy took his plane and left. Flew off. With a cracked prop. We had someone who died doing this. Brought it in after years of it sitting on the ramp, got just into the annual and the tech realized the parts alone were going to be thousands so the owner was called to pay some up front before ordering them and continuing the inspection. He says to put it back together for now and he’ll do it another time. Came out after close and crashed right into the tree line. I’m talking hosed cylinders, structural rot, rusted fuel lines, all of it communicated to him by the shop manager.
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 23:18 |
I hadn't considered the intersection of stubborn old boomers and refusing to pay for needed aircraft fixes. What a pickle that one is, I don't see any possible good solution.
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Pryor on Fire posted:I hadn't considered the intersection of stubborn old boomers and refusing to pay for needed aircraft fixes. What a pickle that one is, I don't see any possible good solution. The problem does tend to solve itself after awhile but I wouldn’t describe the end result as good
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 16:22 |
Well sure, but aviation is inherently dangerous to other people. Not that a boomer would ever acknowledge that fact, because other humans don't exist in their brains.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 16:44 |
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I should have known that there would be an aviation thread here.. Got my PPL 20 years ago in the UK. Flew a bunch. Got broke. Stopped flying. I now live in Canada and just sat my PSTAR and radio license today and have now fullfilled all the requirements to apply for a Canadian PPL. (including currency). To add to that, I start on my CPL(H) next month
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Someone at our airport had a runway excursion on landing today. Sounded like a solo student. She’s alright, I believe, but she sounded so shook up on the radio just after it happened. As a result though, me and my student had to land on the crosswind runway with 12G18, and my student pretty much nailed it, so that’s good!
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I should have known that there would be an aviation thread here.. Put what you have herein the OP format and I'll add you to the list.
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# ? Jun 11, 2020 18:24 |
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PPL ASEL, Rotary student. Here in Canada, the CPL(H) can be done as a straight 100 hour course. Supposedly the reasoning behind this is that instructors need min 250 hours to actually instruct, so most go out working first, before they come back to instructing and hence, supposedly, have a lot more experience. This also means that many of them still have industry contacts and often help you getting in touch with places. The downside is that finding your first job is hard and you usually end up as ground crew for 1-2 years before actually getting a (full time) flying job.
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AWSEFT posted:
While you're at it, I guess I didn't make mine official: KRDU - ASEL PP
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# ? Jun 11, 2020 20:07 |
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Landed in DFW somehow for the first time today. It’s amazing that you can taxi to the ramp without stopping and it still takes 15+ minutes.
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# ? Jun 11, 2020 20:20 |
Rolo posted:Landed in DFW somehow for the first time today. It’s amazing that you can taxi to the ramp without stopping and it still takes 15+ minutes. With 18R being closed and 17C being a left turn off only the average taxi time at DFW is probably twice what it normally is. It's still not as bad as landing 10R in ORD though. You literally talk to 5 controllers from touchdown to the gate and that's without talking to company or ramp.
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I have never once gone to ORD when there wasn’t snow on the ground partially blocking signs. The worst thing ever. Speaking of DFW, I’m here overnight and haven’t seen a single mask and everyone’s out and about. Texas is going to be so screwed.
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# ? Jun 12, 2020 01:09 |
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Rolo posted:I have never once gone to ORD when there wasn’t snow on the ground partially blocking signs. The worst thing ever. They're having record numbers the past few days. Also I found out last time I was at O'Hare the a/c is not that strong. It was super humid, inside.
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Charles posted:They're having record numbers the past few days. Memphis was that way, too.
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dupersaurus posted:While you're at it, I guess I didn't make mine official: KRDU - ASEL PP You didn't like what I had for you before? =P
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# ? Jun 12, 2020 12:59 |
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TAF + general forecast had winds above student solo limits today, so I cancelled my reservation. METAR wind calm
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# ? Jun 12, 2020 21:48 |
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Probably better than awesome TAF, and METAR with BKN008 1 1/2 SM VIS because your aerodrome has somehow acquired a pet isolated raincloud for a few hours (Obligatory not-a-pilot but am a flight dispatcher in Canada, although we also do work for part 121 ops in the US.)
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# ? Jun 13, 2020 02:36 |
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As our chief pilot likes to say, "it's better to be on the ground wishing you were flying than the other way around." I had to cancel last week due to crosswinds 1 knot faster than my endorsement and yeah let me tell you it was really fuckin frustrating (especially since our tower is, to quote no specific person, "a bunch of idiots" and they randomly switch between magnetic and true wind direction on both the ATIS and METAR so you never know the wind angle to better than +/- (mag var) degrees and that really would make a difference when your component is 1 knot over) but I just try to remember the above. going again tomorrow though, TAF says 8 knots straight down the runway so i hope
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# ? Jun 13, 2020 03:31 |
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Anybody here know anything about 'Ohana by Empire out in HNL?
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# ? Jun 13, 2020 09:13 |
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Oooh, gonna fly an IFR XC tomorrow. I was hoping to do my last dual VFR XC before my solo one, but the weather is poo poo all week. Talked to my instructor and he's okay if we go IFR in the high performance 172 Just happy to go flying really, but extra hell yeah to getting some instrument and HP time. edit: NM all the IFR capable planes are borked Mao Zedong Thot fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jun 16, 2020 |
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:high performance 172 Since when are high performance 172's a thing? I did all my training in 180HP 172's out of an airport at 5000' elevation and the extra 20 HP would have been really nice.
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KodiakRS posted:Since when are high performance 172's a thing? I did all my training in 180HP 172's out of an airport at 5000' elevation and the extra 20 HP would have been really nice. It's a 172xp
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:It's a 172xp Or a T-41
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# ? Jun 17, 2020 01:48 |
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hey look what's still around in the 23rd century
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Sagebrush posted:hey look what's still around in the 23rd century Checks out, you just have to keep track of the magnitude of the numbers and it will work fine!
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# ? Jun 18, 2020 17:00 |
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If the Enterprise burns 17 gallons of antimatter in 2hrs 35mins how much antimatter are they burning per hour?
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I’ve got The Kobayashi Maru test coming up next week. Does Sheppard Air have a prep guide?
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# ? Jun 18, 2020 17:29 |
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calculate the correction required for a desired course of 231°, a true spacespeed of warp 4, and a solar wind from 088° at 1.2 million knots
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Cessna posted:If the Enterprise burns 17 gallons of antimatter in 2hrs 35mins how much antimatter are they burning per hour? If the Space shuttle Enterprise comes out of re-entry 129 miles off course what heading and descent rate should they fly to land in the Los Angeles River? Source: The Core an amazingly terrible movie.
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Sagebrush posted:calculate the correction required for a desired course of 231°, a true spacespeed of warp 4, and a solar wind from 088° at 1.2 million knots And then pick the answer you rote memorized because the UFP test is wrong.
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# ? Jun 18, 2020 18:31 |
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They picked a hell of a time to stick me in Louisville for a few days.
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# ? Jun 18, 2020 18:56 |
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Can somebody tell me which Runway is the front course and which is the back course here?
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Are the black ovoid shapes the marker beacons? If so, 27 would be the front course, right?
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Captain Apollo posted:Can somebody tell me which Runway is the front course and which is the back course here? That's a tough one. I don't think I've ever seen a BC with a OM/MM but I'm fairly sure that charts are supposed to depict front courses with the right side of the arrow being shaded. Normally I'd look for contextual clues like the name of the approach but since this looks like something from an FAA question bank it's probably better to just memorize the answer.
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# ? Jun 18, 2020 19:32 |
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The markers throw it off but the shading is usually on the right for front and left for back when on final. 9 front 27 back. Edit: hey so at least someone else is wrong if I am.
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Just FYI I pulled this figure out of the FAA Instrument Written Test Figures (F).
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