Raptor05121

Thats a damned good DME ARC! Did he log the approach as well?

Part 121 airline pilot with one eye on a first class

I've found its gone the other way around- With COVID, I was flying a 172 all the way to 1200 hours and got hired into a C208 gig simply because my best friend knew the Chief Pilot and walked my resume in- I beat out furloughed airline pilots with 10,000 hours. Attrition right now is so high with pilot shortage I've got friends with 300 hours getting hired into 310s and Navajos with NO contracts. We've got captains leaving at an all time high and airlines are just now realizing it costs more to train a replacement than to give them a competitive salary in the first place. Now is the best time to be a commercial pilot. I've never seen more "NOW HIRING" posts

So far they seem to be the creme-de-la-creme of the props. You get the benefits of the 3-blade (t/o roll, climb, and aerodynamic brake on landing) without any negatives (weight). I don't know much about them other than some I've heard have had paint delamination issues but I think that was a few isolated examples. I'd certainly put the 3-blade MT in a serious contender category for purchase if I were shopping. If they spent that much on a prop, I can only imagine what the panel looks like.

Not getting out of flying but getting out of owning sure is in my mind a lot for all the reasons you listed. Work makes it easy to deal with most of those but having two sides to flying is almost harder

I though the M10 was their savings grace. RIP

I would buy one for the symbol aspect only.

Check with Alan Fox- I believe he was in the middle of sourcing a set.

I have the Whelen Chroma series in my wingtips

I didn't think they were legal for us. Has that changed?

My panel is older than yours and I did my IFR in my Mooney. ILS, LOC and VOR approach

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The continued rise of 100LL prices has given me pause in determination for continued ownership. At some point I just cant take dropping $300-400 to go have fun for a couple hours.

Are any of the hosts ATP-rated? GA me would agree with that but since being hired on 121, there is a huge prevalence on ground-based nav in the industry. On our 40 million dollar airliner that shoots 5+ approaches a day, we aren't certified for WAAS-based navigation. When it comes to RNAV, we can only do LNAV with 50 feet added to the minimums, which means several hundred feet higher than a standard ILS. But with a glideslope and CATII, we can go down to 100RA. Bigger airliners of course have CATIII. Sure one day I could see it. In 5 years? No freaking way. It would take 5 years alone for us to simply get the OpSpec paperwork for WAAS to even *allow* us to shoot LPV let alone getting the fleet equipped, trained, etc etc.

Even if we got approval tomorrow- whats the timeline for fuel farms to carry it, truck it, and airports to begin stocking it? Any mention of price difference?

I'd be curious for billable install time for those.

happens quite often

Insurance company paying to split the case? Sounds cheap to pay out of pocket to get that "SMOH" tag added and increase your aircraft value

Latest "buzz" you can now see he had two fire extinguishers strapped to his legs under his pants. That's confirmed staged in my book

If you notice when he lets go of the yoke, the plane immediately pitches nose-down. Seems as if he forced the trim down to keep the crash site near to where he could parachute to it

If you go on his channel, 90% of his videos are clickbait: "ALMOST DIED WHILE SKIING" or "DEADLY FISHING TRIP ALMOST KILLED ME"

Its 100% doable and while CFI is great because it gives you that nerdy book knowledge, a lot of people scraping by the 1500hr rule have done so because they have like 1,000 dual given, so they only have 500 actual hours flying a plane. Hell I just took my oral checkride yesterday and my examiner said: "i dont see any college transcripts or a CFI ticket on file, thank god. you probably actually know how to fly a plane" Survey is a GREAT way to build hours. We were doing anywhere from 80-150hrs a month in 172s with a company credit card in our back pocket and almost free reign on where we went. My task before I left was to map the entirety of South Carolina. I spent 3 months jumping from college towns making friends and having fun every night with people my age and then getting paid to wake up and go fly and do it all over again in another city the next night.

Mine is the same as last year

I'm not familiar with how JSO does things, but a few counties west, any accident involving death, a homicide unit (usually FHP's traffic homicide) responds because they are equipped to deal with processing remains, etc.

Only 60 hours this year in the Mooney, but 500 hours in other aircraft (172/208/PA44/CRJ9 sim)