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Incorrect speed for icing conditions during landing causes crash.
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A320 landing gear cam
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Pilots, what was the most embarrassing moment of your career?
What moment in your career makes you cringe when recalling it?
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Crosswind takeoff out of SFO
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Genuinely curious, what could cause an unrecoverable spin in a C150?
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PPL checkride success!
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Lufthansa A380 takeoff from Shanghai Pudong, October 2017
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Took this picture on 4/30/2020, and it came up in my memories today
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Do pilots forever exist in a state of jetlag
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genuinely say I have tried my very best, it just isn't enough, and maybe I am not coachable.
And how do I move forward? I don't like wearing the uniform anymore, I feel it isn't earned and I am not at the level I should be to wear it. And I worry about future prospects as I have no savings, and nothing else to fall back on. I'm basically scr\*wed. I doubt I will be given more chances to show I can manually fly and land, which means I am just counting down the days until I am let go. And when I am, I have nothing else to fall back on (I've an MPL so I can't look for opportunities elsewhere).
Anyway, this is where I am at. All tips/advice are welcome.
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First 1.2 hours in the air!
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CFI interested in aerial Survey
I'm currently a CFI at a small school and I don't get a lot of hours. I'm interested in aerial survey. I've looked at a couple jobs that start in the fall. CFI isn't bad, but I have an itch to fly all over the country. I'm not in a relationship and I'm certain I would have no issue mowing lines in the sky all day.
Can anyone give me an idea of what the low time aerial survey market is like? Is it as hard to get a job as CFI (it took me 6 months to find a CFI job). I'll have around 450 hours by fall (only 19 hours multi).
Is everyone's first survey job typically in a 172 or would it be worth it to build some multi time now and try to get a multi survey job?
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Just a photo I took
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An Azul Embraer E195-E2 taking off from Congonhas airport came dangerously close to a GOL Boeing 737-800 that had aborted its landing. Initial analysis indicates the Azul crew ignored the tower's request to abort takeoff
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GPS jamming Tucson
Question for you all. Last night flying from KFLG to KTUS. We requested the RNAV GPS 30 into KTUS we were on the approach and we hear an American flight tell ATC that they were getting GPS jamming and were asking if they could get the ILS on the opposite direction runway. ATC said you can do that or ai can call them and have them stop the jamming. What does that even mean? Was the military purposely jamming and does ATC have authority to stop it. Why were they affected but we were not?
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Instructor seat of a MiG-21UM
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Just completed my B777-300ER rating. Still feels unreal.
Passed the sim check last Sunday. Received my new license with the added rating on it yesterday. First flight is scheduled for Sunday.
I still have a lot to learn and a lot to work on. Looking forward to learning and growing as a pilot. Thankful to all my instructors and seniors who patiently guided me and taught me what they know. It’s been a long road getting from there to here.
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Spirit airlines furloughs
Hello, I’m a CFII with 1200 hours. Just saw the news about spirit airlines stopping operations soon which means close to 2400 pilots who are so much more qualified than me will be on the market with a lot of turbine time too. Airlines have just slowly opened hiring and I was hoping I could get to the regionals soon. With that number of pilots on the market from spirit going under, what do you guys think will happen to the new CFIs that just hit their hours and hoping to start their career?
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Spirit Airlines Prepares to Shut Down as Rescue Deal Falls Apart
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/spirit-airlines-prepares-to-shut-down-as-rescue-deal-falls-apart-5a2d5936?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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What is this plane?
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One of Mahan Air's smuggled 777s, EP-MTC, was allegedly destroyed during a strike on Mashhad International Airport on March 29th, new photos show
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A passenger captured this photo as an Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras Embraer E195-E2 departing São Paulo–Congonhas Airport came alarmingly close to a GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes Boeing 737-800 that had gone around during landing.
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Scam Flight Schools at KVNY (Van Nuys Airport)
Hey everyone,
I became a CFI about a month ago and wanted to make it clear to new students and other pilots of the flight schools at Van Nuys Airport who make false promises, take students' money, and operate unsafely. Some of these may be a surprise since online they appear to be legit. Hopefully, someone who reads this will be less likely to give these schools their money and time.
**Essence Flight School (Formerly Encore):**
* Owner (Alex) had his certificates revoked for falsifying student records.
* One of their aircraft has been involved in two separate incidents: a loss of control on landing and a ground collision with another plane.
* One of their aircraft disappeared off the coast of Catalina.
* Multiple lawsuits against them including fraud and wrongful death.
* Has students pay upfront for their whole certificate only to not provide the training and take their money.
* Fake reviews to get to the top of google search history.
**Ascent Aviation Academy:**
* Advertise in house DPE Seth Lake u/Beechdude on their website when he doesn't live in SoCal, from my understanding (Seth's content is great if you haven't seen it).
* Advertise PPL-MEI in 7-12 months when no one is earning certificates, and they don't even have a multi-engine airplane.
* Advertise as a cadet program partnered school with SkyWest Airlines when they are not.
* Have the most poorly maintained planes on the field.
* Give students free instruction in exchange for a 5-star google review.
* Flight instruction is poor, with instructors only there to milk students for hours.
Flight Schools you **SHOULD** be flying at KVNY:
* **LA Flight Academy**
* **ActivePilot**
* **Corsair**
Please feel free to add something to this list/ join in on the conversation. It seems the FAA needs to do a better job at the monitoring of flight schools.
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First solo done! Many more to come
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A320 - Struggling with line training - when to call it quits?
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Flight training has been challenging from the get go, not the theoretical content, not the flows. My struggle has been the manual handling. I had to repeat flights when flying single engine, and multi-engine was challenging (fewer flights repeated, but had issues with flare/landing technique, couldn't handle adverse weather very well, and poor rudder authority on assymetric flights).
Long story short, I made it to the airlines and base training didn't go quite as well as I had hoped. Flat landings and inconsistent flare technique. I got another go but the winds were picking up, and my manual handling wasn't good (couldn't stabilise on final approach, therefore didn't have a good stabilised platform coming up to that 50 ft). This wasn't marked a fail and I was allowed to have another sim session, then another go. Managed to get a great day out, basically nil winds and I passed eventually.
This first set of failures, I took it hard, I cried in front of the instructor (not a good look, but in my mind the base training was supposed to be the day all my training consolidated and I could start a new chapter of training on the line, and I bungled it). I was so confident I thought I had it in the bag, I figured having passed the sim, I was ready to go. But the technique just wasn't up to par, and my confidence was completely shot. I started to think of the financial hole I had dug for myself, and what possible career I could have afterwards. Eventually passing didn't feel as good as I thought it would, perhaps because I had put so many expectations on the first day.
Anyway, I got out on the line. First week started off great, demonstrated the flows well and learned more things I wasn't exposed to in the sims. Instructors have remarked I am well ahead of where I need to be in terms of knowledge, admin, descent management, comms etc. But my handling is still poor. In that first week I got the dreaded 'priority left' on two occasions. On one of them, after the '20' call out the plane just continue to float with no indication of touching down. On the second one my pitch rate was too fast and I got the 'pitch' call.
Second week of line training, control was taken on two occasions yet again. I got the pitch callout, and I got destabilised and ended up floating and left of centerline for the other. It wasn't a great start to the week, and with wind gusts of 25-35 kts, I didn't get to do many other landings in the week, instructors didn't want to have to take control because I don't do well with weather, so they didn't want my confidence to get shot even further. On the last day, wind calm, I got two landings. The first was okay, correct flare height, good pitch rate. Manual brakes all the way so struggled just a bit with mantaining the centerline and braking at the same time, but it was adequate (could have been better). The second landing I felt I flared to high and eased off the back pressure. Turns out I flared at the right time, and needed a bit more back pressure. More sim time is being recommended.
I am really at a low point. I can't say I have tried my hand at many things in life, but for those that I have, I have either excelled, or met the standards. But with flying I can't seem to hack it. What good is it to apply all the right techniques and knowledge and get into the air only to not be able to safely land? I have read the FCTM over and over again, I've watched countless videos to see how others approach the flare. I study, I put the work in. But the manual flying is a mountain I am starting to believe I can't climb. I've had over 200 sim hours, and coming up on almost 50 hours in the aircraft (granted I have only had about 8 landings but still); this is more than enough experience to be able to get things right. And I just don't seem to be getting it.
Has anyone had issues of this magnitude, or know of those who have? And when would be a good time to call it quits? I can
Got to walk on a Grandpa today
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Phonetic alphabet fouls
What is the most egregious phonetic alphabet foul you’ve heard pilots and non-pilots say?
Mine is funny but “j like jalapeno”
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Three Honus to Honolulu
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More than one discovery flight?
I am looking for insight from some pilots about whether or not it is worth taking more than one discovery flight.
My dad is a pilot with United Airlines. I was strongly considering the pilot route like him. I nearly even quit my current MRI program to go full force into pilot training.
I scheduled a discovery flight with an old acquaintance and we flew together. While it was certainly cool, unfortunately I did get kind of sick towards the end of it, and nearly threw up. By the end of it, I was honestly looking forward to land.
Due to this, I felt like perhaps this career path wasn’t for me. Between the inherent time and expense of the training process, the lack of guarantee of landing a job with a major airlines, as well as some personal complications with my medical record, I just was not sure if becoming a pilot was the right thing for me.
This all being said, I am wondering if there are pilots out there who did more than one discovery flight in order to truly unlock their passion for it? Might it be worth trying the Discovery flight more than once to see if it actually is for me? Or would it all just be a waste of $200..?
Let me know your thoughts, I am thankful for your insight.
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The Flight Deck and Cabin Mock-Up of the Boeing 2707
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