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Can't even show your genitals to your friends at work anymore. drat cancel culture.
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drat LIBTARDS! I SHOULD BE ABLE TO SHOW MY JUNK TO ANYONE I WANT! TRUMP 2024!
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KodiakRS posted:Do we know each other? Nope, but you were in the SASCAR IRC server one year for the Daytona 500 and we figured out he was two people either below or above (can't remember which) you on the seniority list there. His name was Tyler and I think he was LGA based for a bit before getting ORD.
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Pryor on Fire posted:https://twitter.com/scottiebateman/status/1376136145566765065 Bringing this old post back because I just saw it but I think the biggest problem with implementing this for every TO is that you would only be able to do a fraction of the number of normal TO and landings per runway per day.
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Anybody want to go halves on a Blackhawk? https://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucitdsc/?sl=91QSCI21178601 
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Black Hawk Down payment
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Any guesses why we (the western US) just got some big blocks of Class G up to 14.5 show up again recently on sectionals? Until something like 10 or 20 years ago, we had these tall G blocks, but they switched them to E -- so it was always a curiosity pointing them out on the old sectionals on the wall of my flight school. Curious if anyone has a better guess than "they wanted to turn them back into G".
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:Any guesses why we (the western US) just got some big blocks of Class G up to 14.5 show up again recently on sectionals? Until something like 10 or 20 years ago, we had these tall G blocks, but they switched them to E -- so it was always a curiosity pointing them out on the old sectionals on the wall of my flight school. Curious if anyone has a better guess than "they wanted to turn them back into G". Did Victor airways disappear, that the E was for?
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Apr 13, 2021 02:36
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Probably not enough utilization as controlled airspace to bother. 
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Apr 13, 2021 02:39
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vessbot posted:Did Victor airways disappear, that the E was for? Nope. The airways haven’t moved. The airspace in question is up around MSO and GPI, for reference. I don’t know the answer either
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vessbot posted:Did Victor airways disappear, that the E was for? Nah, I don't think there were airways there, and they are still broken up around the airways. e.pilot posted:Probably not enough utilization as controlled airspace to bother. Almost certainly true, just seems like a weird thing to change.
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Just gonna leave this gem from my home airport here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCJCcssBQzw
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a patagonian cavy posted:Nope. The airways haven’t moved. Totally guessing here, but maybe it had something to do with radar coverage? I know Kalispell has poor radar coverage at low altitudes, and I'm pretty sure the same is true for Missoula, so that may have something to do with the G vs E airspace decision making at the FAA. It's also possible that some GPS routes or something else not shown on sectionals changed and influenced the decision, but I learned long ago not to ask why the FAA does anything.
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Prefect Six posted:Just gonna leave this gem from my home airport here: I like the part where they decided that the altimeter setting was a heading to turn to while taxiing.
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Prefect Six posted:Just gonna leave this gem from my home airport here: Holy mother of Jesus. Is it allowed for the controller to say "8236B, return to your parking space and prepare to copy a number for your instructor to call?" Like she sounds so green it's not even her own fault. She should never have been allowed out solo
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Sagebrush posted:Holy mother of Jesus. Is it allowed for the controller to say "8236B, return to your parking space and prepare to copy a number for your instructor to call?" Also LOL @ “...you never asked me...”
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I wonder if most of her training had been at a different non-towered airport? I can't imagine someone with enough experience to solo being that bad at following taxi instructions and talking to ATC in general. DuckConference posted:I like the part where they decided that the altimeter setting was a heading to turn to while taxiing. Confession time: On my first solo XC when I picked up flight following I squawked the altimeter setting for a solid minute until the controller realized why he couldn't find me on radar.
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That makes sense, especially since she said she was doing her 3 takeoffs and landings for her private. Those have to be done at a towered airport. But wheeeeeeerre is her cfi, my god. They needed to be there with a handheld calling her back in. But considering that cfi sent this person off to solo as unprepared as she was, I’m not surprised if they were nowhere around.
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Reztes posted:That makes sense, especially since she said she was doing her 3 takeoffs and landings for her private. Those have to be done at a towered airport. Oooh yeah that makes sense. Getting the minimum 3 towered operations after having never worked with a tower before. Yikes.
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Relative to this conversation... yeah, it's all real funny and considerably cringe, but the truth is you don't hear the opposite of this situation unless someone picks up the telephone. We had a student (not mine, thank christ) go solo to an untowered field, having been fine in class C, and he proceeded to fly the wrong circuit and just generally make a pig's ear of things. We know because the CFI at the school there rang us. Same problem. We are too focused on legal requirements, and not enough on proficiency. Why? Because we get shat on every time hours are higher than expected. What do you say when the chief instructor says both "your average hours to [benchmark] are too high" and "man, we have a lot of problems with student pilots loving up..." I expect if it's a recurring problem across multiple students with multiple instructors it's not entirely our fault.
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We had that situation at my old flight school. I was getting a lot of crap from my boss for my students going over recommended course times and was encouraged to just put students up for check rides to see if they passed. This continued until the inspector (POI?) from the FSDO changed and the new one was pretty pissed off that we had a first time pass rate way under %80. IIRC it was closer to %50. Suddenly the FAA was up our asses, a few instructors were invited to take 709 rides, and I went from pariah to the golden child in less than a week. Later I worked for an airline that started doing this same thing. Lo and behold a letter from the FAA leaked a few weeks ago and apparently they're pissed about the number of serious whoopsies going on there.
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I understand that instructors are supposed to maintain a first-time pass rate of better than 80%, while DPEs are supposed to maintain a first-time-pass rate around 50%. How does that work exactly? (or maybe I misinterpreted and it was just my DPE saying "I personally fail half the people I get") Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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Apr 15, 2021 19:35
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Pretty sure there aren’t FAA requirements for pass rate but they do start looking when it drops too low.
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Don't students pay for those hours? Why would the school care how many hours it took before trying to pass?
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Cojawfee posted:Don't students pay for those hours? Why would the school care how many hours it took before trying to pass? Probably so they can advertise low hours to the lenders and/or parents
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vessbot posted:Probably so they can advertise low hours to the lenders and/or parents This, so very much this. Our school recruiters would advertise course costs as minimum time * hourly rate. Unfortunately perspective students and their parents believed these to be the actual course cost and not the bare minimum estimates they were. This lead to a whole host of problems and was a huge disservice to our students. I don't mean to make the school sound like a terrible place, it was actually a pretty good place to be a CFI, but it certainly had it's fair share of flaws.
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dexter6 posted:Thats what I was thinking. That person was definitely not ready to fly solo. Being nervous as poo poo is one thing. Being unable to follow taxi directions on the ground is another. "You never asked me." Jesus H. Christ. At DCA, it was a requirement you inform the tower that you were on a first solo prior to takeoff. She bungled her callsign at least once, too. e- KodiakRS posted:This, so very much this. Our school emphasizes that the advertised cost of each rating is the minimum number of hours required by the FAA and that additional training costs may occur based on individual student performance. We try to make it plain (almost typed "plane" there) as day and people still get it confused. KodiakRS posted:We had that situation at my old flight school. I was getting a lot of crap from my boss for my students going over recommended course times and was encouraged to just put students up for check rides to see if they passed. This continued until the inspector (POI?) from the FSDO changed and the new one was pretty pissed off that we had a first time pass rate way under %80. IIRC it was closer to %50. Suddenly the FAA was up our asses, a few instructors were invited to take 709 rides, and I went from pariah to the golden child in less than a week. God, that feels good, doesn't it? The Chair of the program I started in dragged me through the mud when I expressed concerns about the MX of DCA's planes (which, at our satellite, were shitboxes with more flaws than your typical trainers) only to have to publicly eat poo poo 11 months later when we found out they were leaving and the Chief minced no words in saying our new partner "would have airplanes that worked for a change".  Never experienced it in 121 as I never got that far, but I know somebody who saw first-hand one growing regional whose training is a horror show. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:She bungled her callsign at least once, too. The tower is calling her 36B and she's calling herself 63B every single time. I assume they're giving her a long hard look through the binoculars so I guess that one's on her too e: no, she must be getting it right because 8263B is a C172 and 8236B is a helicopter. Cmon tower Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Sagebrush posted:The tower is calling her 36B and she's calling herself 63B every single time. I assume they're giving her a long hard look through the binoculars so I guess that one's on her too When the other plane called in, I was waiting for tower to give them an extremely wide berth in case 63/36B found a way to turn final right in front of them (or worse).
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vessbot posted:Probably so they can advertise low hours to the lenders and/or parents It's this, and some of the less scrupulous "pilot mill" flight schools are set up to cram foreign students through as fast as possible, with the logic being "well, if they screw up and kill a bunch of people, it'll be in *insert foreign country*, so we really don't care as long as they pass a checkride" That attitude can get reinforced by the fact that of the school is large enough, they can try and bully DPE's into passing marginal students by simply refusing to use DPE's who they don't think pass enough people.
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This video has made my morning. https://www.reddit.com/r/Shittyaskflying/comments/mr1t5z/instrument_checkride_passed/ The sax squeal at the end gets me every time.
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Slow thread these days. Why do some METAR stations report "SKC" for sky clear while others say "CLR"?
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Sagebrush posted:Slow thread these days. CLR: Clear below 12000AGL SKC: Sky clear When I went through FSS weather class, the NWS guy said "SKC for 'some kid called it'" meaning it's a manual weather observation. I don't know if that's still the case though.
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Ah, I think I vaguely remember that now. 12000 feet is the limit of the sensors on the automated stations or something. And the ones where I see CLR are primarily ASOS/AWOS stations while the towered airports tend to report SKC so yep, makes sense.
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Why do some controllers report “weather is better than 5000 and 5”?
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Two Kings posted:Why do some controllers report “weather is better than 5000 and 5”? Saves more time for "read back and comply with all hold short instructions" 
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vessbot posted:Saves more time for "runway 12 and 30 VASIs are out of service" It's been more than two loving years, guys, just put it in the NOTAMs
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Apr 28, 2021 20:39
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Bob A Feet posted:It is pretty lovely that important notams will be buried in hundreds of tower obstruction or vdp or mda changes I was recently teaching my student how to brief a flight between two airports in Washington state and an FDC notam for a private helipad in Indiana showed up, modifying the (private) IFR departure procedure like come on
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