@flyingfisch its more fun knowing if you cross the north shore of the river you get 30 days unpaid time off while the FAA suspends your cert, if you dont have a trigger happy guy manning the missile batteries downtown :)
one of our pilots departed due north over the wash monument twice in one 4 day trip. They told us the only reason he wasnt shot down was that he was climbing the whole time. He got 90 days off.
I'm convinced this is what happened - the FAA had been operating on continuing resolutions for the better part of a decade, they finally get an actual authorization bill and budget so we have to shut the whole damn government down to stop them from doing...whatever it is they're supposed to be doing :P
@Lnafziger fine, answer updated. And I deleted your comment... out of spite. Also to reduce clutter because it was no longer relevant, but mostly out of spite.
@Lnafziger that's interesting about the type rating, I guess I always assumed type ratings had somewhat different criteria based on the airplane, but it makes sense that, regardless of the airplane, you still are looking for the same types of procedures.
@voretaq7 also no comment. Trying to keep PeTU off our backs. They believe unicorn slavery is "wrong."
@BretCopeland a type rating is basically an ATP level checkride with an extensive oral
and the oral is pretty much all systems and operations related. e.g. "which buttons and screens still work if I lose 3 of the 5 generators on board the airplane? What systems do you lose? What are you going to do."
@casey so I assume then, if you get a type rating with your PPL (for some reason), when you get your CPL or ATP you don't have to retake the type rating exam (unlike if you get your multi-engine on the PPL, you still have to take the multi CPL exam).
@BretCopeland Yes, if you get a type rating with your private/commercial and then "upgrade" to an ATP, it will be valid no matter what type you take your ATP checkride in. (that was surprisingly hard to find, you may want to ask it on the site. :) )
@casey That's what I thought too, but the PTS says that they have to use both the private/commercial and the ATP PTS now... I'm thinking that they changed that.
@casey: "If an applicant is taking a practical test for the issuance of a private or commercial pilot certificate with an airplane rating, in an aircraft that requires a type rating, private pilot practical test standards or commercial pilot practical test standards, as appropriate to the certificate, must be used in conjunction with this PTS."
@Lnafziger that sounds like it applies if you are doing your initial private/comm in an airplane requiring a type and not if you are just adding the type to a cert. I could be wrong
@casey Actually, I think that they were just saying that if you are getting a private/commercial license at the same time that you have to do the tasks specified in the appropriate PTS that isn't included in the ATP PTS.
I always thought that it was amazing that they used actual certified parts for the entire cockpit in a simulator. If we needed a part for the airplane, we could just borrow it from the sim! :)
I believe anything the FAA refers to as a "rating" upgrades automatically with your license. For example, if I get my instrument rating on my Private Pilot License, I don't have to retake the instrument checkride when I get my commercial license in order to fly IFR commercially. This is not true ...
@voretaq7 car electrical diagrams arent much better. Took me days to figure out I couldn't start because the wire between the ignition and the clutch cutout was bad.
@Lnafziger Pick your own arbitrary constant - I already have to share this one with Piper! :P
(by the by I couldn't find SB 886 but I found 978A in my paperwork which has a more restrictive 62,900 hour service life before you have to magnaflux the spar. It is now my mission in life to put that many hours on this airframe :P)
@BretCopeland What's going to be really annoying is if I'm at 1,950 rep or something and we graduate out of beta and then i have to grind up to 10k to get moderator tools.
I think I've sorted out what the factory gnomes did with this electrical system. I have that sinking "I'm going to have to crawl behind the panel at annual time with the mechanics and a multimeter" feeling now though.
@casey You lose the privileges that you don't have rep for. That's why it's important to have enough people at the higher rep levels before they let us graduate.
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@casey I think both should survive. The commercial operations tag is useful when discussing the legal issues view from a pilots perspective. And the more general term commercial aviation could focus on the profitable aspects of aviation. The Ryanair question which has the commercial aviation tag would look strange to me with a commercial operations tag. Although one could argue to make them synonym tags.
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