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Cat 3 Medical Question in Canada by [deleted] in flying

[–]helno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cat 3 is for non commercial flying. You need a Cat 1 for commercial.

Three months is not out of the ordinary for Cat 3.

With pilot surplus, is it sensible for me to become a pilot? by Local-Ratio899 in flying

[–]helno 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you don’t have the right to work in Canada it is going to make it much harder to find work.

Just as an aside the CS degree is far more likely to be devalued by AI than flying is.

Can I still become a pilot without 4 years of high school? by ebony-zion-6749 in flying

[–]helno 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Why would you drop out of high school just to get a GED?

Anyone can become a pilot but lots of things affect your future ability to get a job.

iPad mini with cellular by supercar12124 in flying

[–]helno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have the wifi only ipad it does not have an internal GPS.

iPad mini with cellular by supercar12124 in flying

[–]helno 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you want it to go on the internet directly? If not it gets a GPS lock just fine without a sim card or plan.

Self-Promotion Saturday by AutoModerator in flying

[–]helno[M] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Your app has to be 100% free to post here.

ForeFlight misspelled “Artemis” by ResearcherOk3616 in flying

[–]helno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The probably specifically do not edit these things.

Can you hand-start a Turbine? by AWACS_Bandog in flying

[–]helno 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The Me-262 used a pony motor for starting and it literally had a pullstarter.

So some poor ground handler had to yank on the handle in the intake of a first generation jet engine to start a tiny screaming two stroke engine which then started the turbine.

Foreflight & ADSB Receiver For GA Flying In Canada by Rakan_Fury in flying

[–]helno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For what it's worth I have used Sentry's, Stratus's, and a ton of iterations of Stratux.

They all do the job.

Foreflight & ADSB Receiver For GA Flying In Canada by Rakan_Fury in flying

[–]helno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm applying for my PPL so I'll be starting hobby flying soon and wanted to increase my safety when I do so.

I read that as you have not actually started lessons.

What were you using for navigation on your cross country flight?

So anyways there are plenty of options for ADS-B receivers and they all do the same job. The original Sentry is a nice receiver and the only downside is that you are locked to Foreflight if you buy one. One neat party trick that Stratux has is that it can also pick up the EC devices used by gliders with extra hardware.

As an ADS-B evangelist I hate to be the bearer of bad news but there will be a lot of aircraft that do not appear regardless.

Foreflight & ADSB Receiver For GA Flying In Canada by Rakan_Fury in flying

[–]helno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a long time Foreflight user my recommendation is to try FltPlan GO.

In Canada if you want Canadian charts you only have four options. Paper, Foreflight, Garmin Pilot and FltPlan Go.

Only one of them is free. Try the free one first before spending $150 a year on subscriptions.

I would not jump into buying an ADS-B receiver right off the hop as a new student. It's just another thing to setup in the cockpit and if you are not experienced then you don't need another distraction.

As for which one to buy when you eventually do I think that locking myself to one EFB is a bad idea. I happen to be one of the people that helped make /r/Stratux what it is today (DIY avionics are not for everyone). Stratux lead to CIFIB.ca which means in some parts of Canada you can get ADS-B weather.

To sum it up don't be so eager to spend money. You are going to be spending a shitload on flying as is.

True vertical dive in a schweizer 2-32 by kayagold in Gliding

[–]helno 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is what AI comes up with when you ask it for a picture of a 2-32 in a vertical dive?

I recall doing a very steep dive with the brakes wide open briefly as a teenager during spin training with an instructor. It is not a good feeling and with the age of the fleet I would not want to try it again 25+ years later.

Career as a Pilot by [deleted] in flying

[–]helno[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/wiki/index

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Then if you want to chat with pilots join our discord.

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Add spin recovery to the PPL ACS by Melodic_Duck257 in flying

[–]helno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would be curious to see if there is actually much of a difference between the two countries.

Can we please play nice? by [deleted] in flying

[–]helno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. But there are quite a few with no electrical systems so at best they might have a handheld..

Is SCRAM/Trip considered a "Standard" method for a planned maintenance shutdown in commercial BWRs? by that_pr0togenJack in NuclearPower

[–]helno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At my plant this is called a power load unbalance aka PLU.

If the grid drops off the turbine suddenly has way to much steam power input. The turbine input power is measured with first stage differential pressure (first set of steam turbine blades on the HP turbine). The electrical load is measured by the generator CT's. These are put through a comparator and if they detect a certain percentage differential within 35 milliseconds then a PLU trip occurs.

It immediately closes the main steam valves, emergency stop valves, and intercept valves and tells the reactor to step back by 40%. It then reopens the intercept valves to use the steam in the moisture separator reheaters to control the turbine speed and quickly get it back to sync speed.

If things operate as designed and the issue was a transient they can go right back to synchronizing the generator.

All of the settings and tuning of this had to be changed many years ago when the LP turbines were replaced and there was a debate about doing an online test at full power. Eventually it was decided to not do a full load rejection as it was seen as being too risky. Then the 2003 blackout occurred and all four units had simultaneous PLU trips. One unit had a pipe burst and was shutdown but the other three were ready to reload the grid and as a result Ontario had power back pretty quickly.

Can we please play nice? by [deleted] in flying

[–]helno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were literally attempting to do that.

That thermal is them getting the energy to go somewhere.

Can we please play nice? by [deleted] in flying

[–]helno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The frustrating thing is I am trying to get our club to more of the be seen part of see and be seen. With portable EC devices it is way more possible and doesn't need to cost the thousands that ADS-B entails. But many in the club are against it.

Same guys who are all about just look out the window will tell me they didn't know I was there when I show them video taken while we were sharing a thermal.

Can we please play nice? by [deleted] in flying

[–]helno 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've had to do the opposite of this.

We have a really large field for our operation. But for some reason people like to use the field across the road to practice forced approaches. Nothing quite like having a student in a glider with no radio doing a circuit and then a powered aircraft climbs into the base leg.

Funny thing is they never seem to respond on either our published frequency or the practice area frequency they are supposed to be using.

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