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shafnutz05 wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:27 am
dodint wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:36 pm I watched this video the other day and was pretty much screaming at the TV by the time it ended:

The short of it is that they put it into a stall condition at 37,000ft and instead of simply lowering the nose and gaining airspeed they rode it straight down, nose up all the way, into the ocean. Killed everyone.
I really did not enjoy watching this. Just a nonstop compounding of errors.


This one will make you rage.
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The passengers on Lufthansa 456 from Frankfurt to Los Angeles might need a trip to the dentist to re-seat their fillings.

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Roughest landing in a while on a UA flight PIT-DEN last week. I don’t know if he came in too hot or what but when he hit the reversers anything not strapped in flew everywhere.
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If you have a 7th-grade sense of humor and need a new N-number, N80085 can be yours for only $3,250. It comes with an unairworrhy Culver V, but transferring a number is easy enough.
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I passed my written test, so I 'finished' assembling my home simulator. I repurposed what I could from the sports car cockpit, reusing the seat and the button box. I struggled with key binding some stuff that isn't native to MSFS, I had to learn Spad.next to do that but it turned out great.

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I now have everything I need to start working on radio proficiency in the sim. I need to fire up my subscription to the live ATC service, PilotEdge, and get to work.

Last Saturday I went to an FAA Safety Seminar at my local airport. I happened to run into the vice president of the flying club I want to join, as well as their primary instructor. They said the club has a student finishing up in May and it would be best if I joined now and started training in June. I hadn't planned to start training until the fall but I'm not going to complain about the idea of getting to fly sooner than later.

My wife and I signed up for a Discovery Flight at the local school to see how she likes it. Hopefully the weather will be good on Saturday, the forecast doesn't look promising.

As for the simulator, there are some things I'd like to do like wire in my transducers to add some realism. And also actually bolt down the components instead of using the clamps. But it's mostly finished. When I complete my media room in the basement it will move down there and I'll upgrade to a nice curved monitor, but that won't be for a while.
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That is outstanding!! Congrats on passing the written test, nice setup.
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That's incredibly awesome dodint. Keep us posted so I can live vicariously through you.
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Congrats - the setup looks terrific.
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**** yeah
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That's **** awesome
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Fair winds, mate, that's excellent.
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Great news!
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Thanks, appreciate it. :)
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What's the big red button for in the center? Jump to light speed? NO2?
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It's just the button the exits the sim and goes back to the menu. I wish it were more interesting than that. :lol: That's what it was when it was an iRacing rig, too.

Most of that box is mapped to my transponder and radio panel functions. The GPS units handle the frequencies but actually changing between radios is done with the button box.
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So the big red button is just Alt+F4? There's a company called Sierra Hotel Aeronautics that makes fun decals and stuff if you want to customize the panel.
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[ESC], but yeah.

I might go nuts when I move this to it's permanent location. But for now this is fine. I actually don't like simulators, I found that out when I transitioned from struggling in the simulator but doing well at sports car racing. Flying is much the same. But I just need to learn procedures so this is good.
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CBear3 wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 11:09 am That's incredibly awesome dodint. Keep us posted so I can live vicariously through you.
Ashley and I did a discovery flight on Saturday as a test to see if we actually enjoyed being in a 180hp flying tin can with no safety devices beyond the lap belt. We did!

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That's a Cessna Cutlass RG, which is essentially a Cessna 172 with retractable landing gear. That, combined with the adjustable pitch propeller, makes it an affordable complex plane to train in. Something I won't have to worry about until I start training for my commercial certificate.

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By a fun coincidence, we flew right over our house. Not in the general area, but I could've tossed a hockey puck out of the side window and had it hit the Saab in the driveway. :lol:

It was kind of surreal actually being in a plane after wanting to do this for so long. I dropped my application to the local flying club off this morning and should begin my actual flight training (in a Piper Archer, not the Cessna) in June. Very excited.
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Very cool
Flying falls into the "I'm not telling anybody I won the lottery, but there would be signs category"

But if you didn't yell "I can see my house from here" were you really flying?
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S**t, I say that when we fly overhead our house on commercial coming into Burbank. :lol:
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Pressurized cabin?
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I have questions.

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@dodint

My boss and I were chatting this morning about various things and we got on the topic of pilot licenses and what not... He told me that his chiropractor built his own jet and flies it around regularly. This is him:

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