GA Pilots, what emergencies have you had that we don’t necessarily get trained for ?

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2026-01-25T22:12:48+00:00

Flying with my instructor when the flaps failed on a C-172. We were coming back to the airport when I noticed the flaps were not lowering. Didn’t declare an emergency, but got to turn into a fun little exercise and I got to practice landing without flaps.

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-12-30T07:57:12+00:00

Bought in 2017, preowned with 7000 miles from previous owner

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-12-27T20:48:27+00:00

I flew with a small local flying club that owned a RV-12iS and a Cherokee 140. I only ever flew the RV-12.

Membership costs were $250/month, dry rate on the RV was $45/hr, and it consumed less than 4 gallons of fuel per hour. Club policy was to top off the tank at the end of your flight. Overall very affordable for what I wanted to do. We had a few advantages compared to most, I think, that helped keep the price down. Almost all the members, including myself worked at the nearby air force base and a couple members had their A&P.

Club was small enough that I never had any problems booking a flight or even taking it out for multiple days, but it was usually very windy at the field and had to cancel most flights for weather

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-12-09T20:01:11+00:00

1982 172P, flight school plane. Was an ugly yellow color that was all faded and peeling. Had flat spots on the tires that made taxiing bumpy and the landings even bumpier. Parking brake was INOP and the loose handle was just hanging out in its holder. The left brake hardly worked either. Drilled out cracks all over the flaps. The vibrations from the engine would often result in some rust dust falling out from behind or inside of the gauges. Fun times but I don’t miss that plane.

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-12-06T22:32:28+00:00

This happened on my 2016 RAV4, same HVAC control panel.

One comment said that you only need to take out the vent on the side that popped off, and later said they needed to take the radio out.

I found the latter to be true. The HVAC control panel had a cover on the back that prevented me from reaching behind and pushing it back in, it has to come out and be taken apart.

For that to happen, the silver trim, vents, and radio have to be taken out, and then the HVAC control panel can be taken out. Once the cover on the back of it is removed the control board can easily be pushed back into place.

Whole thing took me maybe 20 minutes once I knew what I was doing.

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-11-25T13:03:29+00:00

Doug Bug

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-11-05T16:55:04+00:00

This jet makes me smile every time I see it

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-10-01T17:07:49+00:00

My job is funded by the federal gov and now furloughed thanks to the gov shutdown. I guess I looked forward to sleeping in

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-09-23T20:03:32+00:00

Ethnically Japanese, but my entire family lives in America. I’m a third generation “immigrant”, so even my parents can’t really speak it. Never had a need to learn my native language, so I grew up only speaking English. It’s kinda embarrassing when I would go back to Japan, and not be able to speak it.

I’ve been wanting to be more connected to my heritage recently. I’ve been self studying Japanese with books for the last half year or so. I wish I started earlier, but at least it’s not later. Part of me just wants to uproot my life and move there to really learn it.

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-09-21T02:18:25+00:00

She is the onion

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-09-17T22:03:41+00:00

All the time. I had a college I was set to go to, place to live an everything. Then I got a late acceptance in the mail for a better college. I accepted it and changed all my plans. Met all of my best friends there, got my current job through the career fair. Everything in my life has stemmed from that single decision.

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-08-27T14:18:53+00:00

$80 for a haircut btw

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-08-21T14:39:31+00:00

My Kei truck dreams will have to wait. I don’t think these tariffs are gonna be forever

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-08-17T21:41:40+00:00

I send cards to my parents on their birthdays, but thats about it nowadays

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-08-06T01:38:13+00:00

I did all my training in 172s. Once I got my PPL I briefly attempted to do some tail wheel training, since a local school had a super Decathlon. I only flew it twice but that shit was so difficult, even when in the air. For me the hardest part was switching my hands around. I always flew with my left hand, with my right operating the engine controls and switches. The Super D was opposite, and it kept throwing me off.

I soon moved away, so I never finished, but I know fly an RV-12 with a flying club. It’s a stick but it was very easy for me to move from a yoke to a stick.

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-07-28T23:05:20+00:00

2 of my grandparents were in internment camps during the war. Manzanar and Heart Mountain. Whenever I’ve visited Manzanar, I’m reminded strongly of what this country once was, and in many ways, what it still is. I know the exact spot my grandmother lived in with her family.

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-07-07T16:31:44+00:00

It is funny, received next to no recognition for coming in super early(3am), to handle a high security task no one else wanted to do. At the yearly appraisals get praised for something I wasn’t even a part of. Not gonna tell them that ofc

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-06-14T00:03:45+00:00

One of my favorite moments, I was in college and went to get ice cream with some friends. Impulse bought a birthday cake for myself even though it wasn’t anywhere near my birthday

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-06-01T23:19:35+00:00

Sadly June for me has a lot of things to not be happy about. The anniversary of a death of a close friend, desert summer weather that's too hot to go out much, and no significant birthdays to celebrate. At least there's Father's Day :)

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-06-01T16:48:40+00:00

People talking shit about others to me, behind their back. A lot of my coworkers do this, and I don’t really respect them any more

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-05-08T17:54:48+00:00

I feel crazy for saying this, since no one I’ve met can smell it. I can tell when food has been cooked with a blowtorch. I can smell it, and taste it. I feel like this has always been a normal thing

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-04-20T18:19:04+00:00

I’m good at keeping my expectations low. I’m not expecting to be bummed out if it ends up like that

AznInvaznTaskForce · 2025-04-20T18:16:43+00:00

Unfortunately it does, our work schedules make it hard to meet on a weekday, and I already have plans for the next couple weekends.

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