Licensed to Learn

Posted by Any-Ad779@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 68 comments

All done with my CPL now with a TT of 223.9, 110.2 being solo, 55 PIC XC, and 10 PIC Night XC.

This milestone has been the greatest of my life. Combinations of family emergencies, long breaks and dealing with grief really shaped my progress, but despite unforeseen delays, I got it done.

My 300NM was filled with lessons, mostly about personal minimums and not succumbing to get there itis, I got pretty much way into the soup and learned what not to do for next time 💀

I’m starting my Class 4 Instructor Rating training soon, as well as getting my INRAT out the way for now. For anyone on the grind, keep pushing and keep flying, addiction beats talent.

How do y’all think I did on my check ride? Attached for constructive criticism.

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185EDRIVER@reddit

Bro our pilot license looks like a passport and we still have to do full paper navlog and use paper charts for flight test.

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It sounds lame and dépassé, but it's freaking useful. When I was in the army we used to say, your gun will run out of ammo and your gps will run out of battery. So always had to carry a knife and a map with compas. It's thr same idea here. I still fly around my training area amd beyond with a map.

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185EDRIVER@reddit

Cool and some people still call their stock broker on the phone to make a trade. Doesn't mean it is more effective.

You can have mtiple up to date digital devices with their own battery backup, vs your going to buy a new chart every few months and keep your plane full of piles of paper you have to fold up?

Computers never calculate a formula wrong, humans do.

I will trust the navlog generated by foreflight over myself 1000000:1

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CAVU1331@reddit

We had 4 iPads freeze in flight while on approach. I will not shit on anyone that still backs it up with paper.

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185EDRIVER@reddit

You had four separate iPads freeze at the same time?

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CAVU1331@reddit

Multiple times. We don’t trust Foreflight much at all in our flight department. We have backups because of these issues

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185EDRIVER@reddit

Yes I have gp and fltplng

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FyreWulff@reddit

Computers never calculate a formula wrong, humans do.

Computers calculate wrong all the time, which is why planes use multiple computers and a vote system before they actually do something in response to an input or condition lol

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185EDRIVER@reddit

Your talking about single upset event level issues and the accuracy requirements of ATP level fight

If you think a single pilot using a calculator and a navlog is more likely to avoid a calculation error then silicon you are litteraly insane.

Besides the most likely cause of an error in a ATP airplane is sensor input errors, not actual silicon adding and multiply numbers wrong.

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FyreWulff@reddit

No, I'm talking about how silicon calculates math wrong all the time.

There's literally good chunks of code in the OS for both computers and phones that literally just tries to detect when the chips return the wrong math and correct it.

Parent comment just says they bring a map with them as backup. They aren't using it as primary. But unless you mark it up with a marker, it's correctness is verifiable and unchanging and works all the time. Meanwhile your GPS literally spends half it's time correcting the math it's calculating lol

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185EDRIVER@reddit

That isn't what he said he said he's still flies around his training area with a map He didn't say he uses it as a backup He implied he uses it as his primary method You're just reading into it what you want.

And unless you're getting a new map every expiry Technically you're just flying around with an expired map.

Silicon does not make calculation errors all the time these events are insanely rare, If you're speaking of a specific hardware bug like the Pentium Division or it was known and corrected.

Continuing to try and argue that the chances of making a mistake in a nav vlog are higher from hard silicon running the same operation versus a human being using a pen and paper is just ludicrous insane.

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