Aviation BS and Photo Thread

For student pilots, Foreflight is a spectacular planning tool and great for reducing the clutter of a folded sectional(s) on an XC, just don't let it distract your learning in the cockpit. Learn the fundamentals of flying the plane first, then introduce the technology as you gain experience and proficiency. By all means, get a subscription and play with it on the ground for a while, learn both how to use it effectively as well as how it works. Don't make it into a "magic box with all the answers and magenta lines"

 

I’m not a pilot, but I manage 3 G450’s, 1 G550, and 1 G600.

The maintenance management world is awesome!

 

The stuff I’ve seen those things do in person is amazing.

The school at Davis-Monthan has a practice of following tractor trailers on the highway. Acquire, target, hold in targeting for 3 seconds, break off, then reacquire.

In traffic.

At highway speed.

When they got to Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan, there wasn’t a single target they couldn’t hit.

 

Just picked up my brandy new custom hang glider! Now gotta wait until Spring to fly the damned thing unless we get a freakishly warm day up here.

 

Did this once in my younger years...Would love to do it again....stupid long list with short bankroll....lol

 

Nice!

There's a couple of places out in the Seattle area too if you get transferred out this way.

 

Nice, I fly para gliders....nice to have that upwind penetration
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That flying wing looks fantastic! Looking forward to seeing some go pro (get a helmet cam) footage of a bird looking at you with "what are you doing up here?"

Oddest campfire trivia, a bunch of pilots we all had a fear of heights! I was too heavy in a 152, so I trained in a 172. Height never bothered me until I looked back over my left shoulder to spot the runway and "gasp, that wheel is 1000 ft off the ground".

We have neighborhood hawks that dive bomb GA planes. 3000' airstrip down the middle of the neighborhood. I was scared to death of hitting one of those guys, but they would outmaneuver any GA plane.

We were in a small commuter turboprop flying into Theif River Falls, MN. I would see all the plowed fields and lakes and knew thermals and air sinks. My poor coworker looked green, I just smiled. First time I wasn't air sick as my mind understood what was coming. Oddly enough heights, nor turbulence bothered me again.

Just do it.

Do study up on METARS and weather. We use ISO for the weather, so French Terms. Even bicycling cross-country I may not have cell coverage but can SMS METAR weather and understand what the next 24s will bring (better to find a hotel or keep riding!)

Pilot Training. Immersion is good! Take two weeks off and just fly daily, it gets ingrained much faster. Minimum three days a week if local flight school, for me work, weather, the family kept pushing out but I wasn't in the plane for a week, that first day felt like a repeat. Took a while to get that loved PPSEL!

I was building a Bearhawk, and looking forward to the flight. Alas, lost my medical. Too many challenges. Generic $10 a month, medical not possible. Another Generic. Ditto. Two combined, $400 out of pocket a month, FAA Approved! Best to stay on the ground, but my head is still in the skies. No cell phone, no distraction, just the freedom of flight.

 

Dabbled with a PG after HGing for 20 years a couple years back. And while I was told I was ‘a natural’.. im not keen on the damned strings everywhere and being frameless and shameless It was fun though but I like my speed and airframe. We had a couple PG pilots try to HG and were like ‘how tf do you fly headfirst like that and carry that heavy crap around?!”

 

Yes, an iPad mini with cellular data capability (iPads come two ways, with or without data capability). You don’t need a data plan, and frankly you can’t count on cellular data at altitude anyway, but the data capable iPad Has an internal gps chip which will help immensely with situational awareness on the moving map.

Just remember the iPad is a tool, and nut a crutch. Don’t focus too much on it and slowly integrate it into your flying. There is something to be said for knowing how to use an E6B and plot out a flight on a chart with a pencil and old school planning form.

iPads are becoming the staple in professional flying. Hundreds of pounds of books, charts and manuals are now easily referenced through tablets. I’ve ferried light airplanes coast to coast with nothing more than a headset and ForeFlight.

 

hahha E6b I learned as a young boy and in ROTC ,, now just a alpha pilot RS )

 

I might be able to figure out an E6B again if I had to and given enough time. That shit is some devil magic on a wheel that no one should've been smart enough to figure out how to make.

 

Glad it isn’t just us. My husband hang glides as well and we’re both afraid of heights. Almost every pilot at the flight park is. I hate ladders, roof edges, etc but you strap a wing and a reserve chute on me and I’ll hurl myself off just about anything.

 

Someone sold their soul to create that thing.

 

The E6B is voodoo magic. It's incredible how one tool can calculate so many things.

 

The modern day version is called the FMS haha

 

Ain't that the truth. I can't remember how to spin an e6b. Between using foreflight when I was flying pistons to now the FMS in the jets, I haven't manually done those calculations in years.

 

And to think I used to teach students how to use an E6B...I’d have to take a class on it now.
Slide-rule math has been around for generations, but the E6B is magical.

 

Been a cold week. Hope you Southerners are staying warm!


^Can you tell which airport is in the bottom photo?

 

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