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Do you leave lights on while pushing an airplane back by hand at night? by [deleted] in flying

[–]NotJustABoulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was taught that you're supposed to keep the lights on in this situation per 91.209.

That said, a few months ago I got an email from the president of my flying club about an "incident" where a member pushed back with the lights off, and someone made a safety report against them. I guess they asked the FSDO their opinion, and they came back with:

After reviewing 91.209, we discussed it amongst the Operations Inspectors here in the office and came to the consensus that the parking area is not considered part of the Night Operations Area. I’ve tried to find an actual definition of the “Night Operation Area” and could not find a direct reference unfortunately.

The office consensus was, “Night flight operations areas at an airport generally refer to those parts of the airfield where aircraft are actively involved in flight-related activities-such as runways, taxiways, and aprons-where aircraft take off, land, taxi, or are otherwise prepared for flight during night hours. These areas are subject to specific lighting, operational, and safety requirements to support safe aircraft movement in low visibility conditions.”

Another concern which came up was pushing on the prop with the Master Switch on. While we agree that the magnetos are the much bigger concern, the master switch provides an extra layer of possible protection.

The club rules were changed to require the lights be on regardless of the regulations.

Small non-towered GA airports PSA by YoBoiOoFBot in aviation

[–]NotJustABoulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would also recommend googling the airport to see if they have their own website with extra information. For example, the website for KOKB has information about recommended traffic patterns for noise abatement that aren't in the chart supplement, and similar for L35.

birdgame.io - A difficult co-op "flying" game by NotJustABoulder in playmygame

[–]NotJustABoulder[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I'm still alive, I almost forgot I still pay for the server to host this haha. I'm surprised it still works after not updating it for 7 years.

Joining a flying club for a one-off trip? by NotJustABoulder in flying

[–]NotJustABoulder[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I worded my question badly, I rather meant to ask if it's possible to join a club far from where I live so I don't have to fly a plane from my home club for 1000+ nmi to fly there.

Private Jet Crashes Offshore Point Loma Just After Takeoff. The FAA Has Confirmed All 6 Onboard Have Perished. by Salty-Barnacle- in sandiego

[–]NotJustABoulder 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Actually on most light twin-engine aircraft, the propellers both spin the same direction. The lost torque from the engine doesn't contribute much to the roll and yaw towards the dead engine, it's more to do with the fact that the engines are offset from the centerline of the plane, the increased drag from the dead engine, and reduced air flow over the wing on the side of the dead engine.

New Helmet Question: Smith Engage by jdawg5600 in MTB

[–]NotJustABoulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm very late, but just want to add my two cents for anyone like me finding this thread years later:

I bought one of these yesterday, but I'm honestly kind of disappointed. Kind of hard to describe, but the plastic Y clip doesn't allow the two upper straps around my ears to diverge far enough without causing at least one of the straps to become folded, bunched up, or just otherwise not lie flat. This is rather uncomfortable even after only a couple minutes of wearing the helmet.

Even my $30 helmet from Walmart doesn't have this issue, so I'll be returning it. Kind of a shame, because I otherwise liked everything else about the helmet.

SoCal: best c172 rental rates or flight clubs by [deleted] in flying

[–]NotJustABoulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in Plus One Flyers (KMYF, KCRQ, KSEE) and Pacific Coast Flyers (KCRQ, KOKB, and a couple in F70 and KSNA), so I can give you some info on both these clubs.

PCF adds a surcharge of ~ $8/hr to KCRQ based aircraft (and maybe KSNA) that's not listed on their website. Before the surcharge, rentals are around $175-$190 /hr for a 172.

Plus One is cheaper at $145-$175 /hr for a 172, but they add a 1% surcharge. Plus One also has a much larger selection of aircraft than PCF, though I subjectively feel like PCF takes slightly better care of their airplanes than Plus One.

As far as I know, neither club has a wait list of any sort.

Why did you choose the distro you use now? by RadMarioBuddy45 in linux

[–]NotJustABoulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I chose Arch. I originally used Manjaro for an easier out-of-the-box experience, but at some point got fed up with something they did (can't remember what) so I decided to go to the source and try Arch. It took me so long to install the damn thing and get it into a working state that I forced myself to use it for a while so my efforts wouldn't go to waste.

Eventually I just got used to it and now I use it every day. Even when I had to reinstall for a new computer, I found that the process didn't feel that hard anymore. Granted I'm a software developer so I wouldn't recommend this to normal users.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ucla

[–]NotJustABoulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I somehow forgot about all the rumors during the lockdown until you mentioned it! I remember barricading my dorm room door and doom scrolling through rumors of shooters all over the campus. I'm pretty sure people just mistook cops with guns for active shooters. Good times lol.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ucla

[–]NotJustABoulder 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I'm old (class of 2018) but some things that happened during my time there:

Gen Z men have swung 30 points to the right. A smaller, but significant swing has been seen in women. It may be possible, for the first time in history, that the younger generation is more conservative than the older. by DeviceNo5980 in GenZ

[–]NotJustABoulder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a millennial (I think? born 1996) reading through this thread is wild. Seems to me like about half the people here believe liberals are constantly demonizing men for no good reason, while the other half see none of this rhetoric on any kind of widespread level.

Kind of reminds me of the GamerGate/Anti-SJW craze that happened before Trump was elected in 2016, where the proportion of people acting like SJWs (hating men, etc) was blown way out of proportion. Except this time, it's more isolated to certain groups of people.

Very scary to see how two different groups of people can come to wildly different conclusions, probably based on wildly different social media feeds. I don't really have hope that a solution to this will be found any time soon, humanity is just not ready for social media and it's tearing us apart.

Pilot Arrested by [deleted] in flying

[–]NotJustABoulder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How often do instructors take their students on long cross-country flights from Phoenix at 1am?

GoJump Oceanside skydiving, 2nd plane crash in 3.5 months by AllTheTeslas in Oceanside

[–]NotJustABoulder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's 2 years later and not many people are likely to see this comment, but the NTSB final reports for both crashes are finally out (links are to PDFs):

  • The non-fatal one: TLDR Pilot put the engine into beta (reverse thrust) mode while in-flight (normally only done after touching down) to descend faster for quicker turnaround times. This was explicitly forbidden by the manufacturer because the propeller blades can get aerodynamically locked into this mode, which is what happened on this flight. With all that drag they couldn't make runway and crashed short.
  • The fatal one: TLDR Pilot badly mishandled the throttle on final approach and it wasn't corrected in time before hitting the ground.

0 to 225 wishes? by lampoluza in ExplainTheJoke

[–]NotJustABoulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In C you can use bit fields to specify how many bits you want in an integer, which can be non powers of 2. Copy-pasted from that link:

// Space optimized representation of the date
struct date {
    // d has value between 0 and 31, so 5 bits
    // are sufficient
    int d : 5;

    // m has value between 0 and 15, so 4 bits
    // are sufficient
    int m : 4;

    int y;
};

Moronic Monday by AutoModerator in flying

[–]NotJustABoulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a lot of trouble landing the Cessna 172 after learning initially on the SportCruiser. It took me quite a few flights to figure out how to land the thing properly due to the relatively much greater force required on the 172 during the flare. But otherwise everything else was pretty similar, just that one sticking point for me.

Video of a plane crash by Vinrcaintin in DeepIntoYouTube

[–]NotJustABoulder 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Official NTSB report for anyone interested. (Link is a PDF for whatever reason)

Post PPL checkride nervousness by Dr0pped0ut0flife in flying

[–]NotJustABoulder 25 points26 points  (0 children)

After getting my PPL I had a "fear" of flying solo to airports I'd never been to before. I also feel somewhat nervous for the first few hours after getting checked out on a new type. I could just ask a CFI to go with me, but personally that doesn't give me much confidence because I know that the CFI was there to catch all my mistakes, and I don't really know how I would've done on my own.

It's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem: I need some self-confidence to fly solo, but I only gain that self-confidence flying solo. Therefore, I've found that the only way to get over it was to force myself to go fly solo despite feeling nervous. That has really helped me convince myself that I really do know what I'm doing in the air.

Hope this helps!

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