@BretCopeland @egid @Inafziger - more than to happy to get rid of "AGL"... just a thought, if there are 3 different sets of info for clouds, it could read "whatever @ 10,000ft; whatever @ 7,500ft; whatever @ 5,000ft (AGL)" instead?
maybe also add something like this to the description? "You can get METAR and weather data for a 4-character ICAO airport by typing !!metar KJFK or !!weather KJFK"
5 January 1941: Famed British aviator, Amy Johnson, CBE, a First Officer* with the Air Transport Auxiliary, took off from RAF Squires Gate, Blackpool, in an Airspeed AS.10 Oxford Mk.II, V3540, enroute RAF Kidlington, Oxfordshire. The twin-engine airplane was commonly used as an aircrew flight trainer. For reasons not known, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Johnson bailed out […] The post 5 Jan…
5 January 1954: Three days after his record-setting transcontinental flight, Colonel Willard W. Millikan set a record flying from New York City to Washington D.C. in just 24 minutes in his airplane, Minuteman, a North American Aviation F-86F-25-NH Sabre, 51-13393, assigned to the District of Columbia Air National Guard. Willard W. Millikan was a triple […] The post 5 January 1954 appeared…
5 January 1956: The prototype Piasecki Helicopter Company YH-16A-PH Transporter twin-turboshaft, tandem-rotor helicopter, serial number 50-1270, was returning to Philadelphia from a test flight, when, at approximately 3:55 p.m., the aft rotor desynchronized, collided with the forward rotor and the aircraft broke up in flight. It crashed at the Mattson Farm on Oldman’s Creek Road, [……
@DannyBeckett it's not that bad - it's probably warmer than the Orkneys a good chunk of the time
it was pretty comparable to weather in Seattle, where I'm from. the weather it gets comes out of the south (caribbean) rather than the north, like canada
@egid I was listening to some Aussies on a podcast talking about IFR training - I remember they paid some ungodly amount PER PRACTICE APPROACH ( not even landing, just to shoot the ILS to a missed)
had it set to the other room... basically means that if the bot hiccups, you actually see the error message, instead of the error being sent to the testing room (it does happen infrequently: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/13005764#13005764)
but there's no general prohibition other than the burn test requirements - if you post the question on the site I'll see if I can find the relevant FAR
Eh, idk if that was ridiculous - hard to really answer though. Like I said in my answer anything good will probably be taken away from you by security.
ugh. does anybody use LogTen? I really just need a csv/tsv export of my logbook so I can migrate to a different platform. I'd rather not spend $100 to upgrade the software :(
Like pre-9/11 when American made me check my toolkit (soldering iron, screwdrivers, etc.) -"DaFUQ you think I'm gonna do? Disassemble a freakin DC-9 at 30,000 feet?!"
In the US (at least in NY) you can usually get cops to do a welfare check if you call & report that you can't contact your neighbor, they're old/ infirm, etc. -- it's a lie priority thing tho :-/
I was just curious, in the past, smoking on planes was permitted. What is the law surrounding smoking in your own private plane?
For the purposes of this question, in the United States.
after all, on non-fly-by-wire planes, you could theoretically remove your seat and slice the cables underneath... no doubt someone would pound your ass into Timbucktu, but still
@egid on one of the Transport jets there are cables in the tunnel under the cabin floor. There's an explosive decompression incident where the cabin floor buckled & pinned the cables & the flight crew literally sawed through part of the impinging structure fighting to move the ailerons
Most SE site chat rooms get a clever name at some point. What ideas do you have?
I was just curious, in the past, smoking on planes was permitted. What is the law surrounding smoking in your own private plane?
For the purposes of this question, in the United States.
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