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It's super easy to get the UAS cert, literally a 40 question test that you can take until you pass and fill out iacra.
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SeaborneClink posted:Let's leave Apollo out of this. Yeah when he said Drone pilot I was like "okay this obviously isn't a reference to me." But now, hrm.
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e.pilot posted:It's super easy to get the UAS cert, literally a 40 question test that you can take until you pass and fill out iacra. Yeah, hilariously easy. I've signed off like 10 applications already.
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PT6A posted:Careful, if you speak about it too much you'll summon the idiot libertarian drone pilot who was always bitching about how the FAA was infringing on MAH RIGHTS. The thing is, in the law the US Congress passed telling the FAA they must come up with rules regarding commercial drones (the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012) they also said "the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft, if—" and then list 5 conditions: basically that it be for recreation, under 55 pounds, flown according to model aircraft community guidelines, doesn't interfere with and gives way to manned aircraft, and if flown within 5 miles of an airport that the airport operator or ATC tower be contacted about the operation. Most of the "rules" about recreational drone or model aircraft flying like keeping it under 400 feet, not over crowds, direct line of sight, etc, other than the 5 miles from an airport come from the AMA's guidelines as the "model aircraft community guidelines." But the FAA creating a model-aircraft registry falls afoul of "not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft" in the law Congress passed. I'm kinda confused why you're you're seeing a lot of NOTAMs; recreational drone flying up there is mostly covered by the interim order from Transport Canada, and in it's new version actually isn't terrible. I'd think the only NOTAMs you'd see are commercial activity going over the 300 foot height limitation which I didn't think were that common. CBJSprague24 posted:There's also a drone rating now for commercial operations (which, as I found out recently in a discussion, apparently isn't an Airman Certificate). You can either take an online ground school and test or, for the previously-aviation inclined, get current on any of your ratings and fill out the appropriate 8710 form! If you have a part 61 airman certificate of any kind and a current BFR, you can have have part 107 commercial drone rights simply by taking this FAA Safety course!  e.pilot posted:It's super easy to get the UAS cert, literally a 40 question test that you can take until you pass and fill out iacra.  edit: Am... Am I out-Apolloing Apollo?  edit 2: Just looked closer at the course and it only takes the place of the test so IACRA is still needed. fordan fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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Captain Apollo posted:Yeah when he said Drone pilot I was like "okay this obviously isn't a reference to me." We're all pilot drones, buddy.
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fordan posted:The thing is, in the law the US Congress passed telling the FAA they must come up with rules regarding commercial drones (the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012) they also said "the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft, or an aircraft being developed as a model aircraft, if—" and then list 5 conditions: basically that it be for recreation, under 55 pounds, flown according to model aircraft community guidelines, doesn't interfere with and gives way to manned aircraft, and if flown within 5 miles of an airport that the airport operator or ATC tower be contacted about the operation. Yeah, you still have to fill out an 8710. I guess you print a temporary certificate on the spot and they mail the permanent one to you.
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MrYenko posted:My favorite is the WestJet 737-600 pulling back to 230kts 100nm from the airport without telling me, and Southwest is ten in trail with the throttles buried somewhere forward of the weather radar. This just showed up on my Facebook feed:  'course then I retell myself my smug memory of being told to slow down for Southwest with my 60 knot overtake on them on a 10 mile final. Turboprops are awesome. vessbot fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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5 more reserve days and then it's off to MSP for E175 CA training* *training program consists of tests beginning on day 1 and 2 and then basically the bare minimum of sim before a LOFT and LOE
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Awesome. I start indoc on the 175 in early August. Just hit my 1500 and am taking a nice vacation til then.
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God drat it TC just shut down my flight school because their maintenance guy took a position with a different outfit and TC decided that the school didn't deserve the normal time period that operations are normally given to find replacement staff. This is the second time TC has hosed them this year that I know of. First time was when they pulled the engine over hours exception that let them put on hours above normal operating life as long as they monitored oil consumption. We did loving monitor consumption on every engine and noted when we added oil, which was almost never, because the rings on all the planes are still perfect. What we didn't do was put a 'No oil added' entry in each daily. So they grounded the fleet and are making them install new engines. Man, TC are a lot like the health and safety inspectors that go around to my wifes work sites; get one who burnt their toast that morning and your site is shut down for the dumbest poo poo.
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Jul 5, 2017 15:26
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Jul 5, 2017 16:14
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Transport Canada. They're fun haters.
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EvilJoven posted:God drat it TC just shut down my flight school because their maintenance guy took a position with a different outfit and TC decided that the school didn't deserve the normal time period that operations are normally given to find replacement staff. My first flight school didn't have a resident staff A&P for several months and nothing happened because  .
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EvilJoven posted:God drat it TC just shut down my flight school because their maintenance guy took a position with a different outfit and TC decided that the school didn't deserve the normal time period that operations are normally given to find replacement staff. lovely loving timing for you too. Thanks, Trudeau  ! 
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They should hopefully be online by Friday. IDK if I should reschedule my test because I'm not going to get any practice time or just go for it and hope I pass. My folks visit in two weeks and I really really wanted this poo poo done so I could take them flying.
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EvilJoven posted:They should hopefully be online by Friday. IDK if I should reschedule my test because I'm not going to get any practice time or just go for it and hope I pass. My folks visit in two weeks and I really really wanted this poo poo done so I could take them flying. How long since your last flight/recommend? I expect you'll be fine, but it's all about how you personally feel. If you feel like you can pass the test, then go for it. You don't get a recommend unless your instructor is confident you'll pass, so chances are very likely you'll pass, barring a random fuckup, which can happen whether you flew two months ago or two days ago. When I partialled my RPP, I had flown the day before. I made a better landing my first time after not flying in 10 years. I flew out to Drumheller today. Holy gently caress is that area cool to see from the sky, you really understand why they discover fossils and poo poo in abundance. Do your flight test so you can fly to cool places and see neat things!
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Most likely doesn't matter they now apparently don't expect to sort this out until late next week. gently caress this poo poo.
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Rickety Cricket posted:Awesome. I start indoc on the 175 in early August. Just hit my 1500 and am taking a nice vacation til then. Start 175 CA long term in about 2 weeks. Are there really going to be 3 of us from this thread in 175 training at the same time?
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I'll probably start B-767 captain training soon. I haven't bothered checking when I'll get it so I'm sure I will be notified by a friend and then I'll be super stressed out trying to catch up on all the studying I should be doing already
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The FAA is taking applications for Air Traffic Controllers until the 14th. Air Traffic Control Specialist - Trainee Additional information in the A/T ATC thread, including clarifications on the pay. A/T ATC Thread
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Animal posted:I'll probably start B-767 captain training soon. I haven't bothered checking when I'll get it so I'm sure I will be notified by a friend and then I'll be super stressed out trying to catch up on all the studying I should be doing already Wow that seems really quick. You've only been with them about a year right?
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Rickety Cricket posted:Wow that seems really quick. You've only been with them about a year right? A year and a half. Upgrade is down to 2.5 years, expected to drop down to 2 years thanks to Amazon. I have been bidding all the flying to crazy destinations so at least I'll have some experience. Don't wanna be the clueless captain with a brand new FO who fucks up and violates airspace over some conflict zone. A few weeks ago I had to go-around at Incheon (thanks Air China for stopping to do your after landing checklist right there on the active runway) and let me tell you, when you are just a few miles from the North Korean border, you make drat sure your missed approach procedure is spot-on.
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Wide body captain in 2 years. That's crazy.
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Rickety Cricket posted:Wide body captain in 2 years. That's crazy. And I thought upgrade times at my craptastic regional were nuts 
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Yep, if you think about it, it's scary. The way attrition is going, with negotiations for a competitive contract in a stalemate, a lot of the new hires are regional FO's with not an hour of PIC time outside of their instructor days. They may fly the 767 for a few hours a month for two years (a guy from my Feb 2016 class hasn't even finished consolidating), and then they will upgrade after maybe two and a half years. At which point if things in Congress go a certain way, they may possibly be flying with a sub-1000 hour FO who doesn't even have regional experience... ...with a couple of hundred US soldiers sitting in the back, around conflict airspace, with Trump in power. Let that sink in. This is an awesome job with a fantastic pilot group (for now), flying insanely sweet aircraft; but with a really stupid management group bordering on criminally negligent. I'm having a blast, but unless we get a good contract yesterday to attract quality pilots in command, it's a powder keg. Animal fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jul 9, 2017 |
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It's crazy, thinking about how much I've learned just in the past few months building time toward my CPL, and thinking about how much I still don't know. Even if I could get a regional FO job or something right after completing my multi/IFR, I don't know it would be a good idea. I had a conversation with the assistant CFI from my FTU (ironically, right before he left for a job at a regional) and he said, "yeah, I've got over 2000 hours and there's still so much to learn and improve upon." I don't want to say that Sully is right, but I'm not sure he's entirely wrong either. The fundamental problem with the industry, as I see it, is that pilots really do benefit from experience, and experience is loving expensive, no matter who ends up paying for it.
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Animal posted:an awesome job with a fantastic pilot group, flying insanely sweet aircraft; but with a really stupid management group bordering on criminally negligent
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The vast majority of pilots don't want to be managers. The vast majority of mechanics don't want to be managers. The vast majority of competent managers don't want to be involved in anything as complex, regulated, and with such low profit potential as aviation. What do you get when you put all of these things together?
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An Air Canada pilot attempted to Harrison Ford onto a taxiway with 4 waiting passenger jets at SFO: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/10/exclusive-sfo-near-miss-might-have-triggered-greatest-aviation-disaster-in-history/
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Sounds like a perfect cue to remove pilots from autopilots.
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Truga posted:Sounds like a perfect cue to remove pilots from autopilots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzD4tIvPHwE I mean, at least the Air Canada moron went around. edit: ok I guess that video wasn't really an auto-land attempt. sleepy gary fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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sleepy gary posted:An Air Canada pilot attempted to Harrison Ford onto a taxiway with 4 waiting passenger jets at SFO:  Until you pull up Facebook and see from a friend who's a United F/A: quote:We were the first plane Air Canada would have hit. We were next for takeoff. Fortunately, because our captain's quick thinking, I am alive today. Thanking all my guardian angels. 
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Pilot license finally came in the mail, and the weather this weekend looks like it might actually clear up enough for me to take another flight! I've missed being up in the air these past few weeks.
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Two Kings posted:Who does one need to know to get to play with toys like these? Also, what's the insurance like for those birds? Well, there are different roads. If you're rich, you buy your own. If you're connected, you can fly someone else's. Like in WWII, the prerequisite to any big single seat warbird is T-6 time, and there are many places to get training in that. For me, I got my start when I ran away with the circus to do T-6 rides with a touring ride company. Later, that experience helped me get hired at an acro school, where I taught for 5 years and got typed in the L-39 to do intro lessons. The TBM was for a project that didn't pan out... also kind of a favor to me. I can't speak to the insurance aspect of things.
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sleepy gary posted:I mean, at least the Air Canada moron went around. And I was joking if it isn't obvious, you obviously want someone around for when the computer breaks. It is true, however, that computers have a far better track record these days.
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I remember doing my first night flight and expecting everything to look like it did on FS X. It's a wee bit of a shock when you realize FS X doesn't simulate "gently caress you, we're only paying for 2-4 threshold lights on each end, and you best loving believe nothing's as bright as on the sim." Nor does it simulate "we decided not to re-paint the centreline". That was fun too!
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If poo poo went as wrong or generally was as difficult in flight simulators as it does and is in real aviation I might still find flight simulators interesting.
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EvilJoven posted:If poo poo went as wrong or generally was as difficult in flight simulators as it does and is in real aviation I might still find flight simulators interesting. I take it your 5 hours instrument was done under the hood and not in a simulator? Either that or our sim is particularly hosed. It's loving impossible to trim that son of a whore properly, and the strange elastic feel on the controls makes everything 10 times harder. Fake Edit: The autopilot in the sim once managed to get itself into slow flight unintentionally. For what it's worth, it did very well. Real Edit: I think simulators are lovely and difficult, but sadly not in a way that would ever prepare you for actual problems you'll face in flight. PT6A fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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