January 2012
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Just when I already thought these million dollar...
…fake smoke comes pouring out of the circuit breakers to simulate an electrical fire. Thick, relentless smoke that smelled like a bad frat party fog machine. I did not see that coming.
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mk1civilian asked: What's your take on cockpit automation? Where do you trust it, where for you find it helpful, where don't you? (P.S. Have fun in the idiot box. If you turn up the ICS volume, you can hear the circus music!)
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The second biggest misconception I always get after telling people what I do for a living is, “Oh you must be good at math.” (The first, and even more wildly inaccurate, is “You must make a lot of money.” HA!) The truth is most of the math that takes place on a flight deck is fairly simple mental estimation. Distance = rate x time type stuff. The CRJ travels upwards of 8...
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caelumipsum asked: where did you go to college and receive your flight training?
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dubiousmerchant asked: You're all totally pulling a fast one on us. You don't need wings to fly. Rockets don't have wings. Nice try, Big Aviation, but we're not going to fall for it anymore!
wallofdis asked: Ha, no, I don't think anything is superfluous. I was just wondering about the (obviously hella obvious) differences in the design of commercial and military planes, as one is wont to do, and then about how some commercial jets have little fins in places that others don't (like the vertical ones on the edge of the wings, which airlines conveniently put their logo on so you can see it from...
wallofdis asked: Is there any exterior design feature on a standard commercial jet that is there for show, so to speak? For example, if it wasn't there, passengers would freak out and think it couldn't fly?
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imarealist93 replied to your photo: Thanks for the encouragement, worksheet. I really…
gotta ask what the middle one says, “and maintain 9,000 and I hate….” haha
Valid question. Each of these exercises are trips that we simulate on this little FMS program on the computer. They come complete with a flight release, weather, weight and balance data, etc. The worksheet with the checkmarks is...
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Domicile awards came out this morning
MSP. Hey Hollygonightly, can I crash at your place for awhile?
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Acronyming myself to death
How do airplanes fly? If you said some combination of Newton and Bernoulli, you’re technically correct but that’s not the answer I’m looking for. If you said jet propulsion and magic…well…you’re pretty close.
Airplanes fly on acronyms. I’m finding this especially frustrating when studying the the six display screens in the cockpit and the ways in which...
Anonymous asked: I am considering a career as an airline pilot or cargo pilot and I attend mass every weekend. Do the airline companies allow you to attend mass on weekends? - Doug
dainelthegreat asked: Did you join the airforce? How much did you pilot career cost? How long did it take you?
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Why did I get like 30 new followers in the last 3 hours? Who are you people and where did you come from?
Edit: Ah ha! Thanks a lot Chase! Much obliged for the shout out.
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Perspective
I’ve been away from home for two weeks with five more to go. I haven’t seen my girlfriend in almost a month. I’m in a shitty hotel with a roommate. My social options include the dive bar next door because I don’t have a car. I’ve got more to read and study in less time than is humanly possible. It snowed last night.
I’m in a city surrounded by gorgeous...
deadpresidents asked: I just started reading a book that a publisher sent me to review and it's really interesting, so I wanted to see if you've heard of it. It's called "The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying In Alaska" by Colleen Mondor (Lyons Press, 2012). I'm not sure if it's been released yet, but it was written by a woman who worked as a dispatcher in a flight...
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Anonymous asked: What means to pilots have in the cockpit to fend of a potential hijacking?
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I got the 4am simulator block
For three weeks. 16 days. 4-10am.
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Choosing sim partners is a lot like picking teams in middle school gym class. It’s terrifying, awkward, and no one wants to get stuck with the fat kid.
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dollar-and-a-dream asked: hello. im going to school at western michigan university for aviation flight science. i have already soloed twice, so just in the traffic pattern. soon ill be doing my solo out beyond the airport. do you have any advice for the rest of my training and afterwords?
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In a profession that’s generally full of type A people, my class is full of type B’s and the uninitiated. And so I begin 2012 as a leader; the wise old soul who’s been through the airline training thing before and the one who the flight instructor types seek out for advice. I’m hardly the most experienced in the class but I am the person who has consistently stepped up as a...
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Anonymous asked: 1st procedure for engine failure for a C172 is to maintain airspeed 65kts which means we have to pitch up to reduce the airspeed and descend when the airspeed descend to maintain at 65 (all while trying to restart the engine). why do we have to do that instead of continue gliding and descend only when the airspeed drops to 65?
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