Flying was great too

Kejidog,
Would you rather that all pilot medicals were to allow to be expired and then those pilots grounded until the dangers of the COVID-19 pass?
That will be months. Pilots would lose pay, air service would fail and passengers would be stranded.
Is that a better option?

This topic is giving me a headache. Doesn't anyone have experience steering an airplane on the ground using the wheel brakes? Are the brakes not the wheel equivalent of reverse engine thrust? Speaking of driving a Cat, Where is the old focker anyway. He should be here preaching the virtue of the low...

I think the flying school was upset not because of the law, but because you were trained and authorized left seat and not trained right seat.
I would have also made an issue of this

I've seen lots of Rutting Stallions on flights. Never did a flight attendant have to interfere or interject! That I know of.

Which airport has this kind of common sense security folks?

What do you do in the case of a pilot who is an awesome pilot but constantly pushes weather (and promoted it), takes risks, screw the checklist we're 1 minute behind and is a "get er done" company man? The company loves him and he just happens to be the Chief pilot. If the company is big enough, an...

piston engine has more levers than just a throttle and for sure piston engines have their own throttle controlled issues such as shock cooling and reverse bearing loading that can cause real serious damage if not operated properly. The engine I found most susceptible to improper handling was the Wr...

Yeah, Gone is such a nasty word.
Temporarily drowned would be so much nicer.

How many of us have had a loose horizontal stab on a DC3?
I personally got screamed at for 'shaking' the stab and discovering a loud clunking noise.

How many of us have had a loose float? Especially on a Beech 18.

Well here's how I think the flight training improvement plan should go BEFORE even considering the holy tail wheel training,which of course is the grand finale of the most exceptional pilot training in the whole world, the student should be able to demonstrate the flawless use of DOS, dial telephone...

Several years ago I heard via a hot mic how a pilot was briefing his passenger on how to get through customs without declaring a bunch of stuff. ATC came back after the hot mic issue was cleared and said he wondered if the Agent would like to hear the tapes!!

Switchflicker asked why the American Airlines DC-3 Flagship was taxiing with the cowl gills closed. Early civilian versions of the DC-3 were powered by The Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 cylinder engine, and may not have been equipped with cowl flaps, unlike the fourteen-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Tw...

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Thu May 09, 2019 6:28 pm

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Why is the American Flagship taxiing with the cowl gills closed?

I have a funny feeling that even the mighty DC3 needs just a wee bit of maintaining even if it is flown by the best pilot on this forum.

Where does the T come from when talking about ground effect?

There are at least 2 foolproof ways of disconnecting an autopilot. One is a switch on the autopilot controller that is marked OFF. Then there is the big red button on the control column marked OFF that when pushed, shuts off the autopilot. Sounds to me the pilot needs some Special Hight Intensity T...

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Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:05 am

Thanks. i appreciate the quick response.

So my curiosity is, what is the incentive to stay after Jazz spends the money training you?

The way you were brought up should be an incentive to honor an agreement.

I’m curious... is there something to stop you restarting the shut-down engine if you need to go around? I don't think it's good for piston engine to shut it down in the air in the 1st place, it could shock cool, you probably aren't going to have time to get a cold engine started on short final whil...

Re: $55 charge, for processing medical?! by photofly » Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:04 pm As far as I know, CAMEs still submit medical information to transport by post. ________________ And the TC employed Doctor in the region reviews each of the reports submitted by the CAME. He or she has the last say as to...

There was some kind of a delay relay on some and not on others. If my most senior memory serves correctly. If you didn't have the delay relay, on the overshoot, if the power was not applied perfectly symmetrically, the lagging engine would command an autofeather. Not a factor on TO because the power...

Re: Bad Habits Lead to Gear up Damage #7 Post by switchflicker » Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:16 pm Selecting gear up instead of flaps up is truly a careless action. I had a flight instructor working for me when I operated a school who had a student retract the gear on the runway, hell he works for T.C. now. ...

Selecting gear up instead of flaps up is truly a careless action. I had a flight instructor working for me when I operated a school who had a student retract the gear on the runway, hell he works for T.C. now. By the way it was not my airplane he wrecked. ______________________________________ Who w...

"I'm alive," said Jaynes, the passenger. "That's an extremely good thing."

Can't argue with that logic

Thanks for the note on George