the "not worthy of it's own thread" thread

WDD said:
My luck I would be approved for something like 6000 - 6100.
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Haha. I would've had to divert otherwise. Or cancel and go VFR. I did get 0.1 of IMC but temp at 4k was 36 at that point. I was able to help give pireps to another aircraft heading south along my same route so hopefully I helped him successfully avoid the ice. He was initially at 7.5k.
 
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I've come to realize that flying with another pilot in the right seat is somewhat like a foursome when golfing.
  • Some guys / most / are there because they enjoy the game, the social outing, enjoying some conversation, etc. Are glad to help when asked.
  • Others see every moment as God's gift to them to teach others how to swing better, approach the hole better, and of course follow every rule known and unknown to the letter of the law.
    • They'll plug in the radio frequencies without asking - kind of like pulling a club from your bag and handing it to you.
    • You use the Moving Map and not the Default View? We will surely die.
So as long as he's annoying and not dangerous, as PIC, it's good not to get into a heated argument or num-chuks while flying. Make your requests "don't do that" politely and clearly. You complete the flight and make a mental note of what to expect - and decide if you fly with this guy again, and if so have a refresher discussion on "don't touch that".
 
WDD said:
I've come to realize that flying with another pilot in the right seat is somewhat like a foursome when golfing.
  • Some guys / most / are there because they enjoy the game, the social outing, enjoying some conversation, etc. Are glad to help when asked.
  • Others see every moment as God's gift to them to teach others how to swing better, approach the hole better, and of course follow every rule known and unknown to the letter of the law.
    • They'll plug in the radio frequencies without asking - kind of like pulling a club from your bag and handing it to you.
    • You use the Moving Map and not the Default View? We will surely die.
So as long as he's annoying and not dangerous, as PIC, it's good not to get into a heated argument or num-chuks while flying. Make your requests "don't do that" politely and clearly. You complete the flight and make a mental note of what to expect - and decide if you fly with this guy again, and if so have a refresher discussion on "don't touch that".
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I’ve always wondered how awful of a pilot I am for other pilots…

Yes I know I land the Arrow a little fast… and yes I know sometimes as safety pilot I just want to be a part of the action… sorry guys!


In other news - final phase check is tomorrow and I definitely didn’t study enough
 
WDD said:
I've come to realize that flying with another pilot in the right seat is somewhat like a foursome when golfing.
  • Some guys / most / are there because they enjoy the game, the social outing, enjoying some conversation, etc. Are glad to help when asked.
  • Others see every moment as God's gift to them to teach others how to swing better, approach the hole better, and of course follow every rule known and unknown to the letter of the law.
    • They'll plug in the radio frequencies without asking - kind of like pulling a club from your bag and handing it to you.
    • You use the Moving Map and not the Default View? We will surely die.
So as long as he's annoying and not dangerous, as PIC, it's good not to get into a heated argument or num-chuks while flying. Make your requests "don't do that" politely and clearly. You complete the flight and make a mental note of what to expect - and decide if you fly with this guy again, and if so have a refresher discussion on "don't touch that".
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If you're at the line waiting to run a 10 second in the quarter mile, sure.
 
:) If that were a car, I'd say it was from the late 70's, a big V8, and if you bump the accelerator a little it drop down from fast idle to something more reasonable. Or if it's stuck that way, you'll be driving the Marquis around the neighborhood at about a 35 mph idle, riding the brake the whole time. I miss that car...
 
There exists - somewhere - a control tower in E airspace. Something about having to establish communication at 4 miles and under 2500 AGL. I had no idea that was even a possibility.
 
WDD said:
There exists - somewhere - a control tower in E airspace. Something about having to establish communication at 4 miles and under 2500 AGL. I had no idea that was even a possibility.
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They exist, apparently during windows of time between building a tower and getting the weather observations up and running. I found a thread on aviation.stackexchange about this with a list from last year to include KJYO, KPCA, and KTNX. Of those, the first one looks like the weirdest to me.
 
KFNL is one IIRC…


WDD said:
There exists - somewhere - a control tower in E airspace. Something about having to establish communication at 4 miles and under 2500 AGL. I had no idea that was even a possibility.
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I think it would fall under 91.127(c)…
 
WDD said:
There exists - somewhere - a control tower in E airspace. Something about having to establish communication at 4 miles and under 2500 AGL. I had no idea that was even a possibility.
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There are also towers in G. 91.126 & 91.127 tell ya all about it
 
If it has a tower - make it D. No tower? E or G. Eh / I’m sure it was just an oversight that they didn’t see my e mail with my opinion before setting it up the way they did.
 
WDD said:
If it has a tower - make it D. No tower? E or G. Eh / I’m sure it was just an oversight that they didn’t see my e mail with my opinion before setting it up the way they did.
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What if it's a temporary tower that they put up for firefighting operations?
 
In order to avoid the ice storm in the midwest, we (co workers) changed our travel from Thursday to Wednesday. I am both amused and annoyed that changing to the same Delta flight on Wednesday cost a penny less. Now I have a 1 cent electronic flight credit, which I will have to used at some point in the future to avoid having accounting crawling down my neck.
 
bflynn said:
In order to avoid the ice storm in the midwest, we (co workers) changed our travel from Thursday to Wednesday. I am both amused and annoyed that changing to the same Delta flight on Wednesday cost a penny less. Now I have a 1 cent electronic flight credit, which I will have to used at some point in the future to avoid having accounting crawling down my neck.
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Should have just gotten the upgrade to comfort plus/first/DeltaONE and called it good! lol
 
bflynn said:
In order to avoid the ice storm in the midwest, we (co workers) changed our travel from Thursday to Wednesday. I am both amused and annoyed that changing to the same Delta flight on Wednesday cost a penny less. Now I have a 1 cent electronic flight credit, which I will have to used at some point in the future to avoid having accounting crawling down my neck.
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If I were in your shoes, I'd leave it there just to mess with accounting.

waaaaay back when, I used my frequent flyer miles for a business trip to see if it would mess with accounting. Sadly, it didn't. nuts.

edit: "my frequent flyer miles" were actually only miles that accrued during business trips
 
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Bob Noel said:
If I were in your shoes, I'd leave it there just to mess with accounting.

waaaaay back when, I used my frequent flyer miles for a business trip to see if it would mess with accounting. Sadly, it didn't. nuts.
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Why would you give your FF miles to your company?
 
WDD said:
Why would you give your FF miles to your company?
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well, my attitude was (and still is) that the miles should belong to the person who paid for the trip.

I realize that very few people would agree and it is pretty much unenforceable. And companies pretty much don't claim them.
 
Bob Noel said:
well, my attitude was (and still is) that the miles should belong to the person who paid for the trip.

I realize that very few people would agree and it is pretty much unenforceable. And companies pretty much don't claim them.
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I, and some of the companies I've worked for, consider it partial compensation for travelling outside of work hours, which happens often.
 
WDD said:
If it has a tower - make it D. No tower? E or G. Eh / I’m sure it was just an oversight that they didn’t see my e mail with my opinion before setting it up the way they did.
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Having a tower isn't enough to make it a D. D's are Surface Areas. There has to be Certified Weather Observation. Not just any ol' Tower Controller can do that. Same for E Surface Areas. Certified Weather Reporting is required. If the requirements to have a Surface Area are met, and a Surface Area is established, it's going to be a D if a Tower goes in. If the requirements are not met, there is not going to be Surface Area. It will be a Tower in Class G. I can't think of a scenario where there will be a Tower in Class E. Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough.
 
I guess there a a few towered airports somewhere in E and G. So few to make this irrelevant to me - I’ll probably never find one in my flying lifetime
 
sorry to break up your "worthy of it's own thread" discussion, but I just found out from a reliable source that The Flying Pig in Shelby is closed down. kind of a bummer, it was a nice local option to have and they had crinkle cut fries which eman likes.
 
What happened? With all the GA activity going on you’d think they would have the business? How much to buy it? I can see “POA Flying Pig”
 
eman1200 said:
it's friday.
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Three day weekend!!!!

Odd how celebrating the great contributions of Washington and Lincoln to our freedoms and very existence of a nation ……………has turned into getting a Monday off and having great deals on mattresses.
 
is 'friday' offensive because it's not inclusive to night?
 
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