For reference, I fly Accra 3 out of Kenosha a lot.
I'm almost always cleared 2,500 expect FLXXX after 10. Every now and then I'm cleared 6,000 expect FLXXX.
The SID puts me at 13,000 not too long after departure, and I can make the climb no problem. What ends up being frustrating on my end is that I usually get to 2,000~2,500 when told to switch and the next frequency is sometimes busy with VFR traffic asking for flight following or the likes. The time's I've been cleared straight to 5 or 6k have been awesome.
So the question is, is there any way to politely and properly request straight to 5 or 6, or is it more when it happens it happens?
Riddle me this ... Departing TOA, everything was working fine, got my IFR clearance, holding short, cleared for takeoff. Read back the takeoff clearance on the roll. Never lost sidetone or anything.
I've rotated and cleaned up when tower asks how I hear. 5x5. I'm hitting the first scattered clouds when Tower tells me to ident if I receive. Sigh. Ident, switch to COM2. Still can't hear me. Tell me to switch to approach. I do.
No sooner I toggle back to the 430 and flip to TRACON, I hear them asking me to ident if I receive. Ident. Try to get a word in edgewise, but it's obvious no one's hearing me. I'm being constantly vectored (confirming with idents as requested) onto new headings in tight airspace with LAX right over there, so I don't want to miss anything, and while I'm pretty sure I know how to get the speaker up (I just used it to to get preflight ATIS), I'm not sure how well I'll hear it over 110 db of engine and wind noise.
Finally there's a lull in instructions and I hastily swap cables over to the right seat jacks. PTT on the copilot yoke and they read me loud and clear. Almost brand new audio panel / intercom (PMA450), all jacks and wiring are 2 years old. Probably just the PTT switch on the pilot yoke. Meh. Oh well, it's getting grounded this afternoon for a new partial panel fabrication and installation, have the PTT checked while it's down...
But what would cause this? If PTT wasn't working the PMA450 wouldn't mute the radios and I wouldn't get sidetone. If it was the Mic circuit I wouldn't get sidetone. Headset is a brand new Bose A20. Doesn't really make sense...
I mean, it sucks, but it sounds like you handled it well so congrats on yet another layer of experience? I'm beginning to think you and I have the worst luck on this entire subreddit.
That's a hell of a thing... signing a 100k loan without even getting your medical (or even doing the research to find that you'll need a medical until 20 hours in?).
I've been trying to think of what the green cube could possibly be from the Bushworld Adventures non/episode. It seems like the kind of thing that was meant to be intentionally "don't think about it, it's just some abstract shit, beside's it's non-canonical and not made by the original show's creators" which is just the kind of shit that dan harmon likes using to fuck with people.
Has anyone in here thought of any kind of link it may have? Is it similar any kind of Australian slang?
The blender dimension is the oldest rick trick in the book. Something tells me Evil Morty would be able to detect this.
I know it can be done (e.g. the Harpoon mod for the Beech Baron), but I'm curious what all's involved. I'm picking up an older plane that I have some absurd plans for.
It depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to just mess with it, but still have it as a personal plane, you can't. Only Experimental Amateur-Built will let you do that, and that needs to comply with the 51% rule. If you're starting with a certified plane, you probably will not.
If you're doing it to develop an STC, you can do it, you'll get Experimental R&D though. It'll be limited in time and scope and what you can do with it (no carrying passengers not involved in development, probably need to be perpetually renewed, etc.).
Otherwise, there's Exhibition and Air Racing as well, but those will also be limited in terms of what you're allowed to do with the plane.
EDIT: Just looked into the Baron-Harpoon mod a bit. Neat project, but would never be approved today. There was a spate of bullshit homebuilt approvals 10-20 ish years ago where a factory was clearly building the planes, and the owner was showing up, connecting a few wires and doing a few rivets, and calling it "homebuilt", so the FAA cracked down hard and now enforces the 51% rule pretty rigorously.
An A&P I knew about 20 years ago had a Beechcraft Baron Harpoon conversion. Basically it turns the Baron from a twin recip to a single engine turboprop. It's not STC'd, you had to "put it on as experimental" to do it, and the only restrictions were: 25hrs local flight, then no carriage of people/property for compensation.
https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certification/sp_awcert/experiment/
^ are the possible types of Experimental airworthiness certificates. I would reach out to that A&P and ask what type it had. I'd wager even money it was E-AB, and probably slipped through the cracks back when the FAA wasn't as strict about the 51% rule as it is now. They probably grandfathered the existing ones. The 25 hours local flight without passengers is a pretty standard E-AB condition when using a certified engine and prop.
I'll stand by that it would never be approved today, and that that conversion can never be done again now.
What I'm looking to do is take an old (50s era) aircraft, replace the spars, and do some aerobatic tests in it; I wonder if they'd be willing to grant exhibition special airworthiness for that?
Are we not doing “phrasing” anymore
I definitely had to check what sub I was browsing and from which reddit account...
/r/trebuchetmemes/ is leaking
Who needs that sub when you can get your fix over at r/GammaRayBurstMemes ?
That sub used to be ok. Now it seems more and more like conservatives pretending to be liberals...
I've been getting that vibe too... and it's pretty recent that there has been a drastic shift in that weird direction.
Nah those are just cirrostratus, they're harmless.
IT WAS AN INTERESTING PLANE, LOOKED LIKE CRAP, SMELLED GREAT ON THE INSIDE! WE RECOVERED THE COST OF THE PURCHASE USING A VACUUM!
lol! Matt Guthmiller on Youtube makes it look like a breeze to fly the Bonanza's. Then again he's a pro and im a rook. lol. I have 2 kids and at most I would want to carry 2 kids and 1 adult.
They're not hard to fly, but they're a hell of a lot faster and more complex than a standard 172.
To give a more realistic answer:
If I'm the only pilot on board, no not at all. If I have to pee and can't hold it any longer, then either the person in the right seat goes to the back or they enjoy the show as I whip it out and piss into a traveljohn -- looking's free, but you gotta pay to play.
If there's a pilot in the right seat who I have flown with before and trust there's a full brief of: I have to pee. Verify you can reach all of the instruments comfortably from your seat. You handle the next radio hand-off to confirm. In the event of a situation where you cannot comfortably handle, get my attention my holding the master-alarm test button (which is loud as fuck). Verify we will be in cruise for the duration, verify you are aware of expected weather, deviation potential (e.g. UAL flight looks to be coming somewhat near our flightpath, so we might have to do 10 right). You have the flight controls. <They have the flight controls.> You have the flight controls.
Then un-buckle, mosey back to the toilet; the higher we are the slower I go due to CG, do my business and pray the master alarm doesn't go off, make my way back.
"Frequency change? Anything I should know about? I have the flight controls."
I did this quite a few times with TD (initials for those who know him) during our dog run where we had 5.0 to 5.5hr legs block time. If you have two fully qualified pilots, who are both familiar with the aircraft, it's fine (at least part 91).
There are stories of pilots who've crashed and died due to trusting the auto-pilot, accidentally kicking it off with their foot when going back, and dying as a result. Don't ever go back as solo qualified pilot on-board.
There are stories of pilots who've crashed and died due to trusting the auto-pilot, accidentally kicking it off with their foot when going back, and dying as a result.
Any examples out of curiosity?
There's a piper navajo or cheyenne example I'm trying to find (I always go through all the ntsb reports for any airplane type I buy just in case there are any recurring themes...)
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I think theres a plan for one at MSN for us midwestern folk
I plan on flying into the jet room. Thanks for coordinating the effort and preparing the reservation /u/zeus1325 !
Whenever I say the joys of ownership I mean I'm angry at the plane for shredding my bank account.
Automating this would be awesome. So many times have I done this by hand only to have a page full of hex addresses and potential machine-code candidates for replacement, only to start confusing which one was I going to NOP or modify to a mov eax, 1.... shit.
Should be 4 sections: H, He, metals up to Pb, metals after Pb
Everyone has a Plumbum, but how is it made?
Metal AF
I mean... Trump said horrible things about McCain on the campaign trail. Did that not bother you? Glad you changed your mind, btw.
This person has posted multiple times that they've changed their mind on trump in this specific subreddit. I think they're just farming karma. Go through their post history months back.
Are sugar alcohols backed out when calculating net carbs? I honestly never knew, or thought about it that way.
It depends on the kind used. There's a chart from a recent study that showed their effective glycemic index, most were zero, some were non-zero but less than carb, and one was actually worse than sugar.
Any chance you could link this, please?
Just a random googling shows this chart: https://files.ketodietapp.com/Blog/files/2014/01/TableSugarAlcohols_New_2.gif
Rock on. I'm also 35, and I keep having this weird mental block. I'll go to amazon, load up my cart with all the stuff to do grandeur and just talk myself out of it at the last minute. I hope at some point I can convince myself to hit the buy button and get started.
Dunno about NZ; he's done quite a few videos regarding airliners in EASA airspace.
How many hours are you on right now, cant be that far off 1500 by now? I imagine you'd look pretty appealing with all that nice multi turbine time I'm not jealous or anything
I'm at about 625TT, 550 Multi, 175 Turbine, 3 Tailwheel.
Do you think you'd just stick with a regional or try and get into a major down the track? 900 hours probably wouldn't take long if you're super serious about it. I do agree that the timing could totally suck with having a young family though...
I'm not sure to be honest. The biggest thing for me would be basing out of Chicago. If I could fly a 73 out of O'hare I'd probably be happy. But I'd probably also be happy with an RJ so long as the AC actually worked.
Obviously you are not a golfer.
That's a sweet transvestite!
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