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An inside look at the work of the Ukrainian Mi-8 crew hunting Russian drones.
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A 747 mid flight over a windfarm in the Netherlands on Google Maps
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I got drugged before my class date
Hey guys, I know this is going to get a lot of controversy. But, I need to know the best way to handle this. A couple days ago, I was hanging with a group of “friends” while at a bar. I was offered a hit of their vape. I asked to confirm it was nicotine before hitting it and they lied to me. It was a THC dab cart. What the hell am I supposed to do when I just signed an offer letter??
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Hey guys, I know this is going to get a lot of controversy. But, I need to know the best way to handle this. A couple days ago, I was hanging with a group of “friends” while at a bar. I was offered a hit of their vape. I asked to confirm it was nicotine before hitting it and they lied to me. It was a THC dab cart. What the hell am I supposed to do when I just signed an offer letter??
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Might be too foggy to fly in Wisconsin, but at least it's a beautiful morning
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Got fired from job while flight training
Hello all. Currently in flight training. I was working an entry level job to help pay for flight school and was fired for a stupid mistake I made. Employer claims there will be no record of me being fired but I don’t know if I believe that. What extent will an airline or 135 go to when hiring me in the future as far as reaching out to former employers? Will this hurt me? If so how much, and what can I do to mitigate the damage?
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Hello all. Currently in flight training. I was working an entry level job to help pay for flight school and was fired for a stupid mistake I made. Employer claims there will be no record of me being fired but I don’t know if I believe that. What extent will an airline or 135 go to when hiring me in the future as far as reaching out to former employers? Will this hurt me? If so how much, and what can I do to mitigate the damage?
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Emergency into Class B airport or military base
Private pilots that had an emergency landing at a busy class b or into a military base what was it like after you land? I'm guessing at class b they try to get you out of the way as quickly as they can but what about military bases? I fly in busy airspace with class b and scattered D's around and a military base nearby so I've always wondered what it'd be like to have to set down at one of those fields.
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Private pilots that had an emergency landing at a busy class b or into a military base what was it like after you land? I'm guessing at class b they try to get you out of the way as quickly as they can but what about military bases? I fly in busy airspace with class b and scattered D's around and a military base nearby so I've always wondered what it'd be like to have to set down at one of those fields.
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First actual IMC while solo - Definitely is harder than you think
I'll start this with a confession of where I've been complacent. I never really saw "actual instrument is way harder than simulated instrument" as something that was true for me. I got my instrument rating with 5.9 hours of actual, and that was part 141, so my instrument training wasn't that long. The first time I went up with my CFI for practice approaches, we were in and out of clouds. I thought I'd just circumstantially lucked out of finding actual way harder than simulated, because I was so used to it.
Anyway, yesterday I had my 250NM XC for my commercial, which was about 7 hours, 0.8 of which were in IMC, and I get it now.
It was definitely scary when I was descending through a cloud layer and staring at my OAT of 3 degrees, and there was definitely some disorientation when I was in and out of some puffy ones, but I could handle that.
On the other hand, when I misprogrammed the G1000 for my hold and had to hand fly it in unfamiliar airspace waiting for an approach I'd never done before into an airport where I was already worried about how easy the FBO would be to deal with, that sucked. It didn't help that the moment I entered the hold, I had to descend 2500 feet, and overall I could hardly have been more behind the plane.
And that's even with over six hours of my life spent inside clouds, with so much practice hand flying holds during my training, and my constant concern over where the ground was made no sense because I was literally over the actual ocean.
Anyway, I just wanted to share as a reminder to any other instrument rated pilots out there (or people getting their rating) to not be complacent about how you think about clouds. They're not just restrictions to visibility. I was so glad to have my instrument rating yesterday, even though most of the flight was in VMC. My destination was reporting scattered clouds at 3100. I broke free from the bases on the ILS at 900, with nobody beside me to nudge me if I started looking between my airspeed and localizer too long without remembering the glideslope.
Stay safe out there. Don't be invulnerable, don't get behind the airplane, don't assume that clouds are no big deal.
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I'll start this with a confession of where I've been complacent. I never really saw "actual instrument is way harder than simulated instrument" as something that was true for me. I got my instrument rating with 5.9 hours of actual, and that was part 141, so my instrument training wasn't that long. The first time I went up with my CFI for practice approaches, we were in and out of clouds. I thought I'd just circumstantially lucked out of finding actual way harder than simulated, because I was so used to it.
Anyway, yesterday I had my 250NM XC for my commercial, which was about 7 hours, 0.8 of which were in IMC, and I get it now.
It was definitely scary when I was descending through a cloud layer and staring at my OAT of 3 degrees, and there was definitely some disorientation when I was in and out of some puffy ones, but I could handle that.
On the other hand, when I misprogrammed the G1000 for my hold and had to hand fly it in unfamiliar airspace waiting for an approach I'd never done before into an airport where I was already worried about how easy the FBO would be to deal with, that sucked. It didn't help that the moment I entered the hold, I had to descend 2500 feet, and overall I could hardly have been more behind the plane.
And that's even with over six hours of my life spent inside clouds, with so much practice hand flying holds during my training, and my constant concern over where the ground was made no sense because I was literally over the actual ocean.
Anyway, I just wanted to share as a reminder to any other instrument rated pilots out there (or people getting their rating) to not be complacent about how you think about clouds. They're not just restrictions to visibility. I was so glad to have my instrument rating yesterday, even though most of the flight was in VMC. My destination was reporting scattered clouds at 3100. I broke free from the bases on the ILS at 900, with nobody beside me to nudge me if I started looking between my airspeed and localizer too long without remembering the glideslope.
Stay safe out there. Don't be invulnerable, don't get behind the airplane, don't assume that clouds are no big deal.
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UAL 737 with a cracked windshield at FL360. Flight was enroute from KDEN to KLAX
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What FOD hazards are typically present at FL360? (Photo from United incident on Oct 16th)
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