SlowDuc

Good on all these people devoted to keeping history alive, but no way would i be interested in flying things from the “they just crash sometimes” era of aviation.

Nailed it. And as for all the “but peer conflict” people, every bonfire has embers around it.

It’s not an A-10 replacement. It’s a U-28 replacement.

It’s a replacement for the U-28, not the A-10

I didn’t think I could hate this cringy thing more, then I listed to Spike and hear that it’s his 6th Guntherwerks. Just some gluttonous billionaire asshole.

Your plan is the right execution, but the OPs creating fallbacks and backups is the right mindset. Imagine he has a medical issue or a reason to leave flying early in the career. He’s doing a great “what if” exercise to give himself options. OP, I would recommend picking up whatever you can extra on the finance and economics side. Something where it would ease returning to school for an MBA. That would give you good education to support either side hustles or a career pivot.

/crime?

There’s 30 years of penthouse centerfolds glued on the ladder door underneath the IDANG graphic.

If this was someone you were flying with, how would you make it clear to them you found it unprofessional and didn’t want to be involved?

Where there’s a will there’s a waiver

Do it like a leaflet airdrop. Make a package of the ashes with a static line wrapped throughout. Tether the static line to the aircraft in a safe way and throw the whole package out. At the end of the static lines travel, it will break the container open and release the ashes well clear of the plane. https://youtu.be/DLvHuDSH0KU?si=VSRU3sVEZmQQT7If

Anyone who isn’t transparent on pay and contractual obligations is guaranteed to be a nightmare in the future. You should put it out of your mind and move on to the next.

Lots of little wars pop up around big wars.

Okay. Last response. Instrument landing aimpoint is the Captains Bars 1000 feet from runway threshold. On a precision approach, you aim here and it's coincident with where you will touch down on a 3\* landing approach with a typical 50 ft threshold crossing height. Computed landing data also accounts for a touchdown at this point. Lastly, this is where visual landing aids like PAPI of VASI land you. You can short it in real life, but if you don't have the numbers for landing distance you aren't legal in the first place. For a visual approach, you can aim shorter toward the threshold, aka land on the numbers, but Piano Keys and runway threshold marker bar are the beginning of the runway. Anything short of that is off the runway and presents numerous hazards, primarily that a drug in low approach will hit something, landing lights, fences, airport equipment, aircraft tails on a taxiway, etc, or that the surface is not load bearing. At SXM we see the runway threshold markings, then pointer arrows and taxi lines, then yellow chevrons. Why you see aircraft begin their takeoff roll from the arrows, absolutely not the chevrons, is because the solid yellow taxi lines tell them that they are on part of the taxiway which is stressed for the aircraft weight of the taxiway. Starting your takeoff roll from those arrows is a little bit of bonus runway, but still not within the letter of the law. That does not mean you should land there. You will never see an aircraft taxi or intentionally land on the chevrons. They are not runway, nor taxiway, nor likely even stressed surface. They are at best blast clearway meant to limit erosion from the jet wash, and at worst deliberately frangible pavement meant to collapse and catch you in the event of something like a brake failure.

No. It isn’t. This is the under run.

On the numbers is on the runway. This is short.

Yes. Short of the runway threshold isn’t runway. Big no no.

Bolstered by wildly inappropriate and irresponsible comments by senior officials, NYT, and the president. (Mods, that is not a political statement. We all as aviation professionals should know to “wait for the full report.)

You’re making it confusing for yourself by making a barometric pressure problem, which correlates easily to altimeter settings, a temperature problem.

Look into Betterment or one of the other robo advisors. If you’re financially literate (or willing to learn) they will give you all the tools you need.

“Gear, flaps, pressure, cleared to land”

Is it cake?

Military, so huge grain of salt, but a skydiving license is an aviation license and a moderate demonstration of not dying. I’d include it.

Don’t underestimate Fat Amy.

I could see an F-111 modernized to carry 40 AMRAAMs or an SR-72 as a hypersonic cruise missile carrier, to riff on the OPs pictures

Tires, wheels and tires, brake pads and tires, fluid pads and tires, winter and summer tires, tires and adding CarPlay.

If you want to keep the stakes lower you can even specify practice PAR under VFR

Navy bases will let ANYONE into the pattern if you are willing to do PAR with them.

Never driven one but the reviews all say that the stability control is extremely aggressive. Makes sense given the physics they are fighting against.

Fat Amy

When I had radar, FLIR, and NVGs

I think you are a bit limited by your imagination or perspective here.

Yes. Local and Zulu. Highly highly useful.

Not playing the “can you land here? Should you land here?” Game is a missed opportunity for all sorts of good instruction.

Yes. Weather radar is extremely low powered compared to other functions or even the emissions of other onboard equipment.

I actually have some good friends who lobbied for it. I wish them the best, but in the life of a MIL pilot, there are about a thousand things that could give you cancer. Its gonna be tough.

There is no easy answer. There are numerous ongoing studies regarding military pilots and cancer. It will be extremely hard to isolate radiating equipment on the aircraft from all other hazards.

VR-1801 ORIGINATING ACTIVITY: 174ATKW, DET 1, P.O. BOX 320, ANTWERP, NY 13608 DSN 772-5990 SCHEDULING ACTIVITY: EADS/DOS 224 Air Def Sqdn, EASTERN AIR DEFENSE SECTOR, 366 Otis St., Rome, NY 13441, DSN 587-6247, C315-334-6247. Primary method of scheduling is via CSE. It's probably herks maneuvering off route for training. I'd use a low approach to your runway as assault approach practice if I were them.

I would encourage you take a few steps to deconflict your flying with the military training. Look on the VFR sectional to confirm that your field is annotated, and displays glider. See what low level routes are near you and call the owning base ops who schedules those routes. You can get a NOTAM published associated with the route that annotates glider activity. Call the ANG squadron and ask to speak to the tactics shop. Tell them that you are a local pilot who represents the glider club and you would like to add the field as a hazard to their local read file. If you come in angry or accusatory you’ll get tossed in the “noise complaints” file but if you’re speaking Pilot to Pilot I’d expect a good outcome that keeps everyone safe.

I think your post can help me rephrase my point in a more helpful way: It's good that you see the weather trend coming. The best thing you can do now is determine what your hard go/no-go criteria are, and then set the decision points for when those calls need to be made. Then as time gets closer, it will all be easy, unemotional decisions and you'll be less prone to all the negative human performance traits we read about.

All good! Let’s help make each other better and stay safe!

I really tried to make my response not an attack, and I’m sorry if it came off that way. I just want the developing generation of pilots to not grow up dependent on advice and forums rather than the sources and rules. It’s a trend I see

You’re right that it’s an indicator of potential issues, but I’m worried that you’re trying to make a weather call based on vibes and opinion. What are your VFW requirements at origin, destination, and enroute? Do you have alternates? What’s the mins. Can you go IFR if need be? How will you get a weather brief and can you receive updates? What are the turbulence limits for the aircraft? What’s your personal limit? All in all, you need to decide what your decision points are, what your hard and fast requirements are, then make informed choices when the time comes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKzaP1Cx0X2/ This post from NYT is what I first saw. Edit: FlightRadar 24 says full length with backtaxi. NYTimes fucked up. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/live/air-india-boeing-787-8-crashes-on-takeoff-in-ahmedabad/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKzaP1Cx0X2/ This post from NYTimes is what I was basing it on.

The NYT recreation showed them departing from the intersection with about 6500 remaining. Accurate?

Don’t discount the value of a backup plan. If plan A is generally on track, then adding to plan B and getting a masters done to be competitive for O4, O5 might pay off huge (like Recession Huuuuuuge).

You’re gonna be pissed when you hear about Palentier

The livery is so good. I hope the changes don’t go through

BMW E30 325i. Good looking 3 box shape. BMW's wheelhouse of great inline 6's. 4 doors, 4 seats. Presumably it would be a little safer and more reliable with modern materials and build.