@casey They have to have been in chat at some point recently. I don't know what the exact rules are, but an easy test is if you type @ and their name doesn't come up in autocomplete, then it's not going to ping them.
Vising the re-open queue tonight I came across two posts nominated for re-opening due to edits made to the post. You can see them for yourself here:
Suggested edit by @ctx and approved by @egid and,
an edit by @DannyBeckett.
I am highlighting these because while the edits are normally what we...
Hmm.. Someone edited my LAHSO question, and added "holding" and "landing" as tags, now holding is in my opinion incorrect, the edit is however listed as approved by @DeltaLima, and "Community". However, looking at the question, it looks like @DeltaLima actually removed the "holding"-tag before approving, why does it list the edit as approved?
@davidricherby How if people are forced to wear parachutes during flight and then kicked out of the plane in case of failure in plane. — Aditya Patil1 hour ago
12 March 1955: Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est (SNCASE, or Sud Aviation) Chief Test Pilot Jean Boulet and Flight Test Engineer Henri Petit made the first flight of the SE.3130 Alouette II prototype, F-WHHF, at Buc Airfield, near Paris, France. Powered by a Turboméca Artouste IIB1 turboshaft engine, the Alouette II was the […] The post 12 March 1955 appeared…
@roe I agree with you that holding is the incorrect tag here, although I understand why it was added. I "improved" the edit by removing the holding tag. The system then registers my action as approving the edit. This seems to be designed to keep everyone happy.
@DeltaLima Sure, I undertand why it was added, I was just curious why it was listed as approved. But as you and @ratchetfreak said, it might very well be to keep the whining down.
Does anyone else think that this question has absolutely no value for this site if the author is essentially refusing to come back and edit details into the Q and A provided?
In a flight database that I'm working with on a project, there is a column of data called "flightCategory" with values "C", "G", "T", etc. Any idea what those actually mean? From what I understand, the database is from FAA. But I'm not 100% sure.
lol, am I allowed to ask some of the more opinion based questions I have rattling around in my mind here? Mostly about how I can possibly get my pilots license when I continue to be flat broke...
I want to flag it for deletion but want some opinions first
@JayCarr you can ask whatever you want, but if it is a question on-topic to the site it would be constructive to post it there. For the rest, ask in here
Well, tell me then. I'm broke, I desperately want a pilots license (I'm the sort that sits in parks near airfields watching the planes fly...) What do I do?
@JayCarr do you have any excess income to devote to flying? You can always just fly when you can, but you will end up spending more flight time to get the license since skills will take longer to solidify if lessons are spaced out too much
The only way you'll do it for cheap is to find someone with a plane that will let you fly it for cost or for free, and find an instructor willing to instruct in it for cheap or free
Look into clubs and see if there are specials
and on option I'm not too familiar with is the civil air patrol
which has options to get flight time rather cheap I'm told
if you are disciplined you could save it for a while, but I know that is hard
I personally recommend 2 flights a week as a good starting point, but if you could do one a week or one every other week its probably doable in a decent timeframe
Mmmm... We do have a local CAP, and summer storm season is coming up... I just am not sure how I would build up useful hours as a student pilot doing that?
Yeah, I think my minimum would be a flight a week.
if you are flying out of a busy class C or B primary airport, 2 hours can be OK, since you are burning time on the ground and getting to/from the practice area
@JayCarr X-Plane (or any sim) will help you because you have an idea of what the controls do, but they tend to breed habits of staring at the instruments
and as far as GPS units go, get someone to let you play with it on the ground for an hour or so (or download the emulator from garmin or whoever) before you attempt to use it in the air. Its a huge distraction if you arent familiar with it
@shortstheory I loved the EMB, but in the end I'd prefer whatever paid the most. I'd fly a C172 is it paid more than a 777 and I'd be home every night!
I've jumpseated in a few widebodies, and sure the are nicer and roomier up front, but my EMB was more nimble and a flew it more than those guys did their plane
@shortstheory you'll probably find the 777 isn't that fun after a while, or at least I would
Comair was the best for a while, but being the best means in contract negotiations you look out of place and they argue "everyone else does it for cheaper!"
its a hard place to maintain
The romance of being an airline pilot wears off quickly once you are actually flying the line
If 121 airlines are you goal, the requirements are 1) they are hiring, 2) you have at least 1000 hrs turbine PIC or whatever is competitive at the time and probably 3) have friends there
so military guys generally have the jet PIC and friends
so they skip the regionals
civil guys tend not to have any turbine PIC, so you get a jet job, upgrade to captain and start logging it, and the regionals are a place to do that
but if 121 is not your end game, there is no reason to go to a regional really.
Most corp jobs seem to require experience in type, and unless they fly an EMB Legacy or a CRJ, your regional type doesnt help directly
having spent some years staring at clouds was beneficial to my studies
I chased with the VORTEX2 field project, for science
If you've ever seen the (terrible) IMAX tornado alley movie, I'm in there (uncredited of course, as almost all of us academics were)
though its limited to seeing the back of my head in a sweeping panaormic shot and seeing my vehicle a few times but unable to see who is really driving
lol, darn academics! Always wanting credit for things!
Sadly all my knowledge of tornado hunting comes from the move Twister. Which I assume is panstalkingly accurate.
Though I did watch a few episodes of that reality TV show about storm chasers. They had a fun vehicle that fired metal pegs into the ground as I recall.
Possibly. I think I thought the GPS one was a dupe because it was (kind of) similar to the question about processing satellite data and, also, a few questions about radar locations for aircraft over water.
But yeah, looking at them again, I think you're right. They just feel like dupes because they are all hinting at the same question "what happened to flight 370?"
@voretaq7 thanks but that one belongs to NSSL/NOAA and not me. Funny story: those vans are part of a gov't fleet lease with a lease contract that happens to gover hail damage. Given that, they tried to return the lease on the one known as "probe 1", which has not a single piece of un-dented metal, nor any if its exterior plastic pieces remaining unbroken
that probe always happened to be where the big hail was
at one point they destroyed cracked and replaced 3 windshields in 2 days
and yes, there was a budget line item "windshield replacements" in the grant proposal :)
@voretaq7 well to be fair it was so over mileage the lease penalties woulnt have been too different than buying it, which is what they did
we were doing 3000 mi/week
:)
on a quiet week
uc boulder or cu (I cant remember) had a UAV to fly around a tornado, but the FAA would only let them fly it in a small area of NE Colorado and we never had a good intercept in their area :(
in the 80's we thought that all supercells made tornadoes, and this was one of the selling points to get congress to buy the 88D doppler radar network we have
and then when we put the radars up, we see that the majority of supercells do not produce tornadoes
It seems like if the storm moved it would lose it's energy source for an updraft? (This is just my very simple understanding of thermaldynamics at work...)
constant or nearly so (some can have cyclic updrafts where one is replaced by a new one)
supercells manage to keep the inflow and outflow separate, so the rain is falling not where the updraft is and the air the storm is ingesting for the most part is not modified by the storm
so the storm can have a constant influx of warm moist air
we call the energy CAPE - convective available potential energy
which is basically the integral of buoyancy through some vertical layer of the atmosphere
Vising the re-open queue tonight I came across two posts nominated for re-opening due to edits made to the post. You can see them for yourself here:
Suggested edit by @ctx and approved by @egid and,
an edit by @DannyBeckett.
I am highlighting these because while the edits are normally what we...
In a flight database that I'm working with on a project, there is a column of data called "flightCategory" with values "C", "G", "T", etc. Any idea what those actually mean? From what I understand, the database is from FAA. But I'm not 100% sure.
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