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Sportys still has the free 172 poster for all your chair flying needs https://www.sportys.com/free-cessna-172-poster.html Great snipe
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Speaking of accelerated courses, there's a place called Blue Line Aviation advertising that one of their students got 7 ratings (PP/IR/COMM/Multi/CFI/CFII/MEI) in 5 months. I call bullshit because even the Pilot Mill I started at had you planning for at least 9 to get through CFI. Salami Surgeon posted:Sportys still has the free 172 poster for all your chair flying needs I should have
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CBJSprague24 posted:Speaking of accelerated courses, there's a place called Blue Line Aviation advertising that one of their students got 7 ratings (PP/IR/COMM/Multi/CFI/CFII/MEI) in 5 months. RDU/JNX? I worked there when they were just starting out. I believe any “bullshit” accusations to be exactly that.
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The only way I could see that claim being true is someone who'd grown up around aircraft and had been flying/riding along for their whole life undocumented, then finally actually getting the paperwork done. But I'd only expect this somewhere really backwoods, like the middle of Alaska or something.
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Or they just have several hundred hours of documented student pilot time.
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Rolo posted:Or they just have several hundred hours of documented student pilot time. Yeah. Either way it's at best disingenuous to advertise that as possible for AB initio students
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Just got my flight review done after a 14 year hiatus. It started good then got rather rough on a few lessons last week, but then all clicked today and felt like a pilot again. Hoping to get some solo time in now to keep getting into the routine of things. I thought I did the long solo cross country for the CPL requirements way back when. I don't know if it changed since or I just completely missed it, but I only went to an airport 250 nm from my origin. I did stop at two other places along the way, but they were basically in line so the total route doesn't add up to 300 nm. If I'm understanding things correctly, then I need to redo that before I can get back to training for CPL maneuvers. I went KCDC - KMLF - KDTA - KLGU.
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Took this photo of a C-17 refueling over the Atlantic. I couldn't really find a good angle anywhere to get the heft of the refueler in the picture. This seemed to be the best way. Here's 24 C-17s doing formation over Charleston. 
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cardiacarrest123 posted:I’m an anesthesiologist we build realistic simulators in mock operating rooms to practice intraoperative emergencies, and actually a lot of our safety literature draws parallels to the safety culture of aviation . I want to do this as safely as possible so that was another reason I was looking into simulation to practice whichever parts of flying that lend themselves well to simulation You're going to be fighting with MFS all the time if you want an realistic experience out of it. My favorite thing to do is do the ILS approach that goes by my window from San Jose to Burbank, there's usually some glitch that screws me over and I often can't even load the loving STAR most of time, it rarely goes smooth and there's a new issue every time I try. It's also deficient in its modeling in parts and there's not really anything we can do about that. Time is finite and you're likely to get more out of the 3 hours a night you might have to play this on actual study. Vahakyla posted:Also, not that I am super expert on things, but the US Army chopper school makes people fly some 5-10 hours first on a real chopper, then it pushes them into the simulator, with the idea that you gotta have some real flying in you to get the benefit out of sims. And these are fancier sims, too. I'm a pretty big believer in the same idea. I can believe this. This is why I tell people not to go straight to Rocksmith to learn guitar. It's not going to teach you the proper context for why you're doing what you're doing and you can't follow the screen and figure out where to put your fingers at the same time when you're new.
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Sent absolutely the most harrowing first solo of my life today. My student showed me three beautiful circuits, the weather seemed decent and stable, we taxiied back so I could get out and... all hell basically broke loose, and ten minutes later I look out the window to see him landing on the opposite runway he'd taken off on. The weather had shifted in a really hosed way (basically giving significant low-level windshear) so they did a runway change, and my dude handled it like a champ. I know we have a few student pilots or possibly future student pilots reading the thread, and to them I say: this is why the "almost ready to solo" to "ready to solo" phase takes for-loving-ever. Obviously we do not plan to give you a really difficult first solo, but... poo poo can and does happen, and when you are ready -- not nearly ready, but actually ready -- you will handle it.
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Whelp, for the first time in my career I did something that requires real medicine. Strained something in my neck, threw in the towel from the pain and went to my orthopedic doctor. They ran tests to rule out serious injury and gave me some prednisone and a relaxer to use for a couple days until the initial pain subsides. I’m not worried about work, I have loads of sick time but I do have my medical at the end of the month. What are the odds they care about do-not-issue meds if it’s a single use script that ends a few weeks prior? My take of the reg is that it’s up to the doc outside of the hard “must be off it this long” requirements of do-not-fly meds.
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Here's a video showcasing the features on a top-of-the-line prototype competition glider. Unfortunately they don't show the jet engine. Most RADICAL 18m GLIDER Design - JS3 X Special Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JebJJFGnmwk
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Rolo posted:My take of the reg is that it’s up to the doc outside of the hard “must be off it this long” requirements of do-not-fly meds. If you're not taking the meds at the time of the medical, you don't need to report them, since the FAA isn't doing a drug test, and they don't ask what medications you've taken previously. Since I'm slightly paranoid, I keep the prescription (or a copy of it) around for a couple of weeks after I finish taking anything like that, just in case it pops on a drug test at work.
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azflyboy posted:If you're not taking the meds at the time of the medical, you don't need to report them, since the FAA isn't doing a drug test, and they don't ask what medications you've taken previously. Ok cool, that’s what I was thinking I’d do as of last night so hearing it from someone else helps.
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dude i know planes guy where the cannons go krakow krakow and the browns fall down but dont worry theres more where that came from
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Apollo you forgot to log out of your throwaway again
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PT6A posted:Obviously we do not plan to give you a really difficult first solo, but... poo poo can and does happen, and when you are ready -- not nearly ready, but actually ready -- you will handle it. On my solo, TMB was so fuckin busy that they extended my downwind so far east it may as well have been a cross-country.
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My first solo was very nice and chill On my check ride though I had 130 degrees of variable winds and had to do the power off landing with a 7kt tailwind 
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Rolo posted:Apollo you forgot to log out of your throwaway again Why would anybody have a throwaway here? Like anybody cares enough LOL
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Jan 7, 2000 was my first flight and first solo was in feb of that year. So old
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Time flies  Just had my 12 year anni of my solo 
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I hit 10 years since my disco flight last October 
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Jesus, I just looked it up in my logbook... June 21, 2005 for my first solo. Christ I'm old. I did take the 10 years off in the middle, but things are going pretty well now.
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My first logbook entry is from 1994, but I didn't solo until 2004.
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10/1/2005 for me. Also took a while off from like 2007-2016 but passed 200hrs a few weeks ago.
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07/30/20 for first heli solo. Now approaching 200 hours and hopefully soon, first revenue flight.
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I can’t find my first logbook. I suspect it was destroyed when Hurricane Maria flooded part of my mom’s house and they threw it away because it looked like garbage😔
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First glider solo was 28 July 1999 for me, first powered solo was 11 July 2000. I had to look up my first powered solo because honestly it didn't feel anywhere near as memorable as my first glider solo was.
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17 years ago I told my ATP-CFI father that I don't wish to use him to get my own PPL in Finland, and that learning to fly with your parents for free is loving lame as poo poo. We had a fight. I got my half-self paid PPL two years ago in the USA.
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First solo was August 9th, 2005. I passed my check ride August 9th, 2006. In other news, I hope nobody needed to look at NOTAMs today or do anything else in the national air space system.
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Today I re-learned about the rename to Notice to Air Missions, that was a good idea  even if the old name was kinda cool
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CBJSprague24 posted:
why start now?
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AzureSkys posted:My first logbook entry is from 1994, but I didn't solo until 2004. 1993/2013 for me.
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Inner Light posted:Today I re-learned about the rename to Notice to Air Missions, that was a good idea It's a valid thing to want to change I guess but the old name was way better. A pleasure flight over the coast is not a "mission." A cattle car from Chicago to Newark is not a "mission." It's going down the dumb CAP military fetishism hole. Also I like calling myself an airman and I'm gonna keep doing it
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I don’t really care either way but if it pisses off boomers I tend to support it.
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Sagebrush posted:It's a valid thing to want to change I guess but the old name was way better. A pleasure flight over the coast is not a "mission." A cattle car from Chicago to Newark is not a "mission." It's going down the dumb CAP military fetishism hole. It's probably to gender neutralize the phrase even though "man" is gender neutral in this context already. Just don't be like pilots of a certain generation and mumble about the FAA going "woke"
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I am on the fence with the change on one hand it pisses off boomers, which is good on the other it was a pretty empty gesture that didn’t fix any of the actual underlying problems with with NOTAM system, they could’ve rebranded the whole thing with actual fixes “hey we fixed everything and it’s such a drastic change we’re calling it “X” now” instead of doing nothing and just making it a weak backronym
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I thought the NOTAM system was finally going to be dealt with after the Air Canada near miss at SFO. At that point it was undeniably broken. It’s said that when I fly personally my Foreflight app does a better job highlighting important NOTAMs than the flight plan I get from my airline.
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e.pilot posted:I am on the fence with the change Why would updating the acronym to non-gender specific language have anything to do with fixing all of the other problems with the system? It doesn't make sense to conflate these things unless the underlying problems you mention are acronym-related. My hot take is that making the name non-sexist is an unequivocal Good Thing and anyone who objects is the kind of regressive rear end in a top hat I don't want anything to do with.
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