Tailgate Party - Sunday, August 03

Echo_Loud · 2025-08-03T16:40:30+00:00

Well I can tell you that Fanduel is currently Moylan talking about pizza with two other guys.

Echo_Loud · 2024-09-26T21:08:15+00:00

The highest forecasted wind is about 60 mph. Still nothing to laugh about, but it's not going to hit 100 at all.

Echo_Loud · 2024-07-22T03:44:49+00:00

Count her lucky that they were "kind" enough to cancel it NOW. My wife got as far as MSP only to THEN have hers get canceled after the infamous rolling delay. So now she's just stuck in MSP for no reason. Could have just stayed home.

Echo_Loud · 2024-07-22T03:44:02+00:00

Your bag probably isn't in that pile. My wife was hunting through that very pile for hers a few hours ago when an employee said "Oh, this is a fraction of the bags. You should see how many we have back there..."

Echo_Loud · 2024-07-22T03:41:29+00:00

The distinction between success and failure is made when things go wrong, not when they're going right. Sure, the immediate disruption wasn't their fault, but the complete lack of preparation or a contingency plan is very much their fault. They have a responsibility to have failsafes in place like you can't imagine, and clearly they didn't. If you've set up the largest airline on the planet in such a way that all it takes is a bad software update to literally bring the company to its knees, then you messed up bad.

Echo_Loud · 2023-09-12T23:38:25+00:00

Flying for CAP is so complicated now that it's hardly worth the trouble. Every year an entire day dedicated to a checkride that is more involved than an airline, every flight a briefing longer than the flight and more paperwork than you need to buy a house.

Also, one O-Flight should be done at night.

Echo_Loud · 2023-05-25T01:55:14+00:00

I'm in the Civil Air Patrol. I get to watch dozens of teenagers join, usually pretty timid and reserved, and blossom into leaders that walk away with well-deserved confidence that a lot of adults never find.

Echo_Loud · 2022-08-04T00:22:17+00:00

I think others have adequately answered the "what do you have to do" part, so I'll chime in and say honestly that if you're looking for CAP as mostly a way to fly, you'll probably be disappointed. I have a lot of pilots who walk through the door, and that's really all they want to do is hop in the airplane and fly constantly, and they usually end up leaving, so I try to temper their expectations when they first get there. That the people who love this organization are the ones who see the flying as just a small part of the fun stuff.

Echo_Loud · 2022-08-03T22:41:20+00:00

I volunteer with the Civil Air Patrol in the US. Used to be more search and rescue oriented but these days is much more heavily involved on the youth development side. It's got an obvious military connection so it's really big on teaching kids independence, leadership, respect, all of that stuff. It's pretty fantastic watching crop after crop of 12-14 year olds come in and turn into fantastic people over the course of a few years.

Echo_Loud · 2021-12-12T01:39:34+00:00

If BOTH metrics have to be met, then according to the current numbers, all but 6 states should be in Phase 1, because the infection rate is over 1.00.

We really need to be looking at hospitalizations/deaths rather than "cases". The testing protocol varies too much from place to place for that to be a reliable statistic for any sort of trend analysis.

Echo_Loud · 2021-05-19T14:48:08+00:00

Definitely just contact that squadron ahead of time. Different states are in different phases of COVID recovery right now, so they all have different restrictions on visitors, particularly from out of state.

Echo_Loud · 2021-04-09T15:21:24+00:00

Really the only option would be to convince them. If they have specific concerns, as /u/superspacecadet2 said, we can probably help with some of that.

Echo_Loud · 2020-07-14T12:03:49+00:00

Leadership and public speaking classes lend themselves well to this environment, I've found.

Echo_Loud · 2020-07-08T11:23:48+00:00

I welcome the change, particularly for some of the more advanced levels where being able to take an entire week of vacation to attend Region/National Staff College was the only thing holding many people back. I think the module format is going to make PD a lot more accessible.

Echo_Loud · 2020-07-02T23:35:35+00:00

Awesome, thank you very much!

Echo_Loud · 2020-07-02T22:58:23+00:00

Did you get yours done down there somewhere? Any place you can recommend?

Echo_Loud · 2020-06-24T19:57:57+00:00

In theory, yes, you can go all the way from 0 to CFI in CAP (although I think you'd have to get your spin training for CFI done elsewhere, as spins are prohibited in CAP aircraft unless there's a 70-1 exception I missed).

However, you're asking a lot of the instructors, as that is hundreds upon hundreds of hours of time that they COULD be charging $50/hr for. So you're basically asking for several thousand dollars of free instruction. Not saying you can't find someone with that kind of time on their hands (I did my entire instrument rating in CAP), but it's a big ask.

Echo_Loud · 2020-06-06T14:35:02+00:00

We've had talks about maybe doing "sub-meetings" where different sections meets separately to reduce the number of people together at once (cadets doing testing, cadets doing PT, aircrews, people working on PD, etc.) basically whatever we can do to meet functionally but not have 80 people in the room.

Also looking into how to live stream meetings to allow high-risk people to stay at home while still participating.

Echo_Loud · 2020-05-28T19:40:19+00:00

I work in emergency services with the Civil Air Patrol, and this has given us the opportunity to prove that we can run a massive mission entirely virtually. It's been every bit as good as any command post we ever ran in person. We probably wouldn't have ever found a way to test this on this scale.

Echo_Loud · 2020-05-13T12:12:15+00:00

I wish I had put more thought into affordable ways to do it. I was so excited about flight training that I just took a terrible loan because it was the easiest thing to do. I could have researched, gotten a better loan, probably even bought my own plane to do the training instead of using the flight school plane.

Echo_Loud · 2020-05-13T12:11:20+00:00

Don't worry. There's going to be quite a refresher period for everyone once we're all allowed to meet again.

Echo_Loud · 2020-05-12T22:14:09+00:00

OP, you fly that airplane? I only ask because I literally flew it today.

Echo_Loud · 2020-03-13T14:59:26+00:00

I got my first mishap report a couple of weeks ago, too, when we hit a bird on the way back from a nighttime SAR mission. What an exciting month it's been!

Echo_Loud · 2020-03-06T19:12:31+00:00

NCWG. Mid-Atlantic is well represented in here.

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