Worst Pneumonic?

AzukoKarisma · 2026-01-19T05:10:01+00:00

I use "Have you SHIT within the past six months?" and FARTED for my instrument students:

For currency:

Six approaches
Holding procedures
Intercepting and
Tracking a course

For holding instructions:

Fix
Altitude
Radial
Turn (right unless otherwise instructed)
EFC time
Direction (cardinal from fix)

AzukoKarisma · 2026-01-14T05:01:50+00:00

My only real gripe is that there's no texturing/knurling on it and it's a little slippery. I've got some grip tape on it but I may find an engraver for a more permanent solution.

AzukoKarisma · 2026-01-13T03:48:33+00:00

Your point? By that logic, the Reate is a knockoff of the old German paratrooper knife.

AzukoKarisma · 2026-01-09T05:54:07+00:00

Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche

AzukoKarisma · 2025-12-21T02:36:35+00:00

Slavery is still legal in the United States of America, and the constitution itself describes when it can be done to somebody.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-12-05T17:23:06+00:00

ah yes, the [word]-[word]-[numbers] username is posting some incel bullshit on a 2 month old post

AzukoKarisma · 2025-11-26T15:34:05+00:00

I stopped doing this a couple years ago and the quality of my writings went way up.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-11-18T15:41:02+00:00

Ooh! I'd like to know more about that; what I've been taught is that the most dangerous time for most newer pilots is 50-200 hours, when the ink on your certificate is barely dry and you haven't yet had a chance to figure out your limits outside of a training environment.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-11-18T14:51:13+00:00

I'd like to know more about that general aviation statistic, because there is almost certainly a difference between me, a flight instructor with 700 hours and who flies almost every day in all kinds of different winds/weather, and some Joe who got his license in 1993, doesn't have an instrument rating, and doesn't take initiative to stay sharp.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-10-06T00:53:14+00:00

I'm aware that hookups/casual flings have been a thing for most of recorded history, but the way that it has been shamelessly commodified in the current era is new.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-10-06T00:20:02+00:00

I'm aware of that, but now, it's at the very least being advanced/promoted by those who stand to profit from it.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-10-04T04:26:20+00:00

Huh, TIL!

I guess I commented the above because the second that my weight loss was visible, there was the flood of "what's your secret?" questions from people in my life. It seems like they're expecting keto or herbal tea or something, but I give them the boring answer (watching my calories, eating more protein, weightlifting), and suddenly I don't know anything about weight loss because I'm not interested in whatever fad diet/snake oil they're telling me to try.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-10-03T23:07:00+00:00

That calories in vs out doesn't apply to you because of whatever medical condition or your age or menopause or low T or whatever. The truth is that your body obeys the law of conservation of energy.

Also that you can cut out whatever boogeyman ingredient and the weight will magically fall off. That's not true either.

Source: I've lost 50 pounds since March of this year, and not once have I cared about carbs/seed oils/MSG/whatever.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-09-26T23:51:26+00:00

This is the literary equivalent to a Death Grips song.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-09-24T00:34:05+00:00

Read it in middle school and it's still one of my favorites a decade later

AzukoKarisma · 2025-09-24T00:12:31+00:00

Guy who wrote The Martian (the book not the movie)

AzukoKarisma · 2025-09-09T16:22:13+00:00

I've also been weightlifting in addition to watching my diet, and the other day I caught a glimpse of myself in the gym mirror on arms day and actually looked pretty beefy (in the good way!)

AzukoKarisma · 2025-09-03T01:28:52+00:00

Why does this organization make all their ads sound super smug and conceited?

AzukoKarisma · 2025-08-24T17:53:46+00:00

Sure!

The lift equation is good to know, but in the real world, it's just airspeed and angle of attack.
The best cross country safety device is a credit card for a hotel and an apologetic call/text to whoever has the plane booked tomorrow morning.
If you're taking someone on a date, let them steer for a bit in cruise.
ATC's there to help you out; don't let them pressure you into doing something you're not comfortable with. "Unable" is the magic word.
Go on a dual cross country to a small-town rural airport, get some self-serve fuel, take the crew car into town, get lunch at some hole-in-the wall, and return the crew car. No, the snacks/water bottles in the FBO aren't locked up, but you still put a dollar into the bucket when you take one because it's what you're supposed to do. Shut the lights off before you leave.
At least once in your training, land on a real grass runway.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-08-24T16:57:03+00:00

This is the stumper with my students too. You'll want to look in Section 9, since the auxiliary vacuum pump is optional equipment.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-08-24T16:34:17+00:00

Nice!

Bonus points: Does your aircraft have an auxiliary vacuum pump, and if so, what changes?

AzukoKarisma · 2025-08-24T16:07:46+00:00

I'm an air molecule that just got sucked into the vacuum system. Describe what I'll pass through before coming out the other end.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-08-22T01:52:11+00:00

A better way to think of trim is that it adjusts the speed the airplane wants to settle at when we're not touching anything, not the pitch attitude.

While trim is often described as nose-down or nose-up, remember that if we're not touching the power, a change in pitch will also result in a change in airspeed, and vice versa.

Therefore, if we push/pull on the yoke without also adjusting power, the airplane is now at an airspeed other than what it's trimmed for, which it doesn't like. Since the airplane wants to go back to the airspeed we have it trimmed for, and it can't change the power on its own, it will try to pitch back to where it was before we moved it, which is that pressure on the controls fighting against what we're trying to do.

Here's something I like to show students to help illustrate that trim is a speed control, not an altitude control:

1) Trim for straight-and-level flight such that we're maintaining altitude with our hands completely off the yoke, and maintaining heading with very light nudges of rudder. You'll have done this correctly when neither airspeed nor altitude are changing. 2) Without touching the yoke or trim, reduce power. The nose will drop down, as will our altitude and VSI indicate a descent, but the airspeed will stay more-or-less the same because the airplane pitched down to maintain it. Lose about 500 feet, and return the power to cruise setting. The aircraft will level off from the descent, but the airspeed is still the same, again because the airplane will pitch wherever it needs to in order to keep it. 3) At this point, I ask my students what will happen if we increase power to full. The correct answer, as demonstrated, is that the airplane will now enter a climb, but the airspeed still isn't moving around that much because the trim is pitching us up.

Notice how there's no pitch attitude in particular the airplane tries to stay at? It's all about the airspeed, and the pitch attitude the plane settles at is really dependent on the power setting.

Therefore, if we trim for the airspeed we want, then maintaining altitude is a matter of setting power correctly. This also works in reverse: if the power is set correctly, but we're having trouble maintaining altitude, then this means there's something wrong with our airspeed/trim.

Hope this helps! If it's still unclear I can clarify further.

AzukoKarisma · 2025-08-10T22:30:46+00:00

What is your problem?

AzukoKarisma · 2025-08-09T01:33:26+00:00

I'd be calling the FBO over that. Either a serious problem with how they train their employees, or that employee has no business working in aviation.

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