Recent content by Velocity173

Goofing around in the desert.

Well I’ve talked about it another thread. I have a brother who retired from ATC early (50) in 2020 and one of the major reasons was the poor students that they were getting from OK City. Actually met a guy at a gas station in 2020 once who just retired early (50) as well and stated the same...

I don’t know but I have a piece of the one that crashed.

SLUF

Did a bunch a spins in gliders during my training. My instructor was an English guy who was well known and even wrote a sailplane book. One time during a spin recovery I pushed a bit hard on the stick. He yells “you almost put my head through the bloody canopy!” :biggrin:

Workhorse

Not sure I get the comparison to a glider and fighter. Just because there’s a canopy and a stick doesn’t make it a fighter. They’re about as fast as a canoe and handle like a dump truck. I enjoyed flying gliders but not exactly a kick in the pants. As far as the purist form of flying? Well...

I had 300 @ 43 kts 500 ft aloft around that time. CHA was issuing multiple LLWS alerts and using runway 33. They hardly ever use that runway. RIP.

I can attest.

Rhino

Jeez, I got a friend who flew for us, went to Envoy, COVID started, came back to us, then a few years ago went to Spirit. They go by seniority for furloughs?

Blood draw is done after an accident. Randoms are just breathalyzer and urine.

Employer. Now in the military I had annual “randoms.” I don’t think any of those were actually kept secret though. Only way you’re gonna catch your abusers is to have regular truly no notice tests.

. I think there should be a feature in filing that forwards a VFR flight plan to ATC for all any aircraft that want FF. But, the FAA still views VFR filing as nothing more than a SAR tool for AFSS. With FF being an optional service they’ll never reconfigure the current system.