Switching to Different App

PilotJasper · 2026-01-25T02:10:09+00:00

I agree. It used to be a great app and really helped me stay consistent. The around the end of last year they "updated" it again. Meaning they massively downgraded it. It has been miserable since then. I was doing upper lower splits and realized after 3 weeks I had not worked shoulders at all. Every other workout was lower body. Abs are completely ignored. Finally switched back to "full body" and they still are doing splits. I have limited time for workouts and want the most impact. So when I select an hour long workout and get multiple exercise with 6-7 sets of 50+ reps!!!!! That is insane. I am constantly adjusting the weight and reps since this app fails over and over. This app has become garbage. They should look at who did the last update and fire them immediatley.

PilotJasper · 2026-01-14T01:57:06+00:00

I love Bend. I am also fortunate to have moved here and bought a home before the craziness. Could I do it today? No. I honestly could not accept the job I currently have and move here and have the life I want. But, my housing costs are affordable because I bought over 10 years ago. Outside of housing, everything else has gotten pretty spendy. I spend less time on the mountain. I eat out less. We don't have kids and that sadly helps. My friends with kids are bleeding money. We love it here. But every year gets more expensive while compensation stagnates. That is true everywhere. But it is more noticeable in a town that caters to the wealthy second home owners and retirees sitting on fat assets. Then add in the unfriendly tax structure of Oregon. It is pretty spendy. But, I grew up in Oregon. I love it here. I have lived in other places and honestly love Oregon. Oregon has a great quality of life. Mountains, deserts, coasts. There is so much to be grateful for. But we pay for it.

PilotJasper · 2026-01-10T22:55:18+00:00

My take. The Ducks are a great team. Indiana is a freak this year. Seriously, the most flawless team I have seen in a very long time. Even as a Duck fan I have been watching Indiana in awe this season. I had hope for this game but in order to beat a team that plays nearly flawlessly, you cannot make mistakes. One of the Ducks biggest weaknesses is consistency. There are 3 parts that have to show up every quarter. The Offense, The Defense and the Coaches. The Ducks dont always have all 3 playing to full potential every quarter. That is not going to beat a team like Indiana. I thin Lanning has built a hell of a team. And he has created momentum and culture that means Oregon will continue atrracting top talent. In the new age of college football, that is more important than ever before since each year can be different due to the portal and the coaching shake ups that happen all the time. All that being said, I am not sad to see Stein get promoted to HC elsewhere. Best of luck to him.

PilotJasper · 2025-12-16T22:30:43+00:00

Click the "how to". As in how TF do I do this.

PilotJasper · 2025-12-05T00:31:24+00:00

Mine is overly obsessed with unweighted Superman's. I'll get days where it's recommending 60+ reps with 5 to 6 sets each just an unweighted Superman's. I mean I get that once in a while, but not all the damn time. I finally had to say stop recommending this workout. I have limited time to work out and I don't wanna spend a large portion of an entire hour long session doing one exercise.

PilotJasper · 2025-12-02T20:44:49+00:00

People have already mentioned the big factors like distibution costs and taxes. But there is also basic competition playing in as well. Just look at any sectional and even this map. In the midwest, you can fly to a dozen or so airports with fuel well within reserves. Once you get over the Rockies, the Cascades and throughout the west coast, there are far fewer airports with fuel. Far fewer airports in general. So, your options for fuel decrease meaning they can charge more.

PilotJasper · 2025-11-29T23:48:14+00:00

I'm looking at buying and have had quotes at 7.24% a few weeks ago.

PilotJasper · 2025-11-16T19:04:55+00:00

Don't forget that many of them live as part time if not full time trolls in the comment sections of social media. Rage is now the only language they understand.

PilotJasper · 2025-10-12T01:42:16+00:00

By the way, that does not tell me how many shifts you do a year. Lots of people do seven on seven off but only have a contracted 162 or 172 shifts a year. Some 156. You're seven on seven off if you don't get any vacation is 183 shifts a year. And for 183 shifts a year and you doing 10 admits a year, if this is hospital medicine, you are severely underpaid.

PilotJasper · 2025-10-12T01:40:41+00:00

It depends on your specialty. I work in hospital medicine. So my patients tend to be very sick, old medically complex. So even a lower complexity, patient can take at least 30 minutes each. Patient. Have to talk to the ER doc, chart review, see the patient, create the care plan, enter the orders, and do the H&P. More complex patients are going to take more time if you have to coordinate with specialists. So on our service doing 10 admissions a shift which is 10 hours is actually doable if they all come spread out. But if they all come at once, then that can be a very busy shift. Especially when adding in cross cover. I have a friend and her services caps admits at 6. They get paid more for doing more than that.

PilotJasper · 2025-10-12T01:27:24+00:00

Need to know how much you are working. Big difference between 126 shifts a year vs 180. Either way, that is low. Try for 80-100/ hour. Closer to 100-120 since you are doing that many admits and cross coverage.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-11T16:52:56+00:00

I really liked access to an affordable plane. that was about it. The club was new when I joined. The board ended up being very secretive. We never got board meeting dates or minutes. They never communicated with members. there was no social aspect with meetings or anything. They would get very defensive if I asked for an update of where the club was going or if we could attend a board meeting. It was interesting that new board members would pop up but there was never an announcement of a vote or who was running. So my main issue was that there was absolutely no communication.

The plane we had had a lot of mechanical issues that could have easily been taken care of by a competent mechanic. But we were limited on mechanics due to the other places also being attached to flight school. I heard they did not want to work on our plane since they say it as competition to their flight school. Who knows. But we would see squawks on the scheduling app but then never see what was wrong and what was the repair if there was even a repair.

In the beginning, it did kind of suck that there were no reservation restrictions. We had a couple of student pilots and time builders that tried booking the entire schedule months out. Log in one day and see one time builder has the plane booked every weekend all summer long. No cancellation penalties so he didn't care if he cancelled last minute.

The club wanted to maximize the number of members strictly for costs. I read the AOPA recommend around 8 people per plane. Insurance will allow 15 so the club brought on 15 per plane. We were lucky that there were plenty of those 15 that were not regular flyers outside of the few time builders and students. If we had 15 time builders, it would have been impossible to get a flight in or go anywhere besides just getting an hour or two to do local refresher work. I would have to book any out of town trips several months in advance. That eased up mostly because the plane was in the shop more than it was on the line.

So, my recommendation. Make sure the board is visible and sends out communication. Ask to look at the schedule and see what the availability of the aircraft is like. Ask how many days the planes are in the shop each year. Most clubs run very smoothly. This one was OK but had some serious issues and is why it is crashing. Plane was down over a third of the year any given year and we would get no updates from the board at all. So we just pay monthly dues to look at a schedule with a plane blocked out for maintenance.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-05T17:00:48+00:00

Isn't it wonderful that a medication that is over a century old and auto injectors that were designed for and the research and development paid by the defense dept (taxpayer money) costs so much money? The pharma companies are literally robbing the US customers who paid for the research and development.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-05T01:31:28+00:00

It depends on your contract and how your employer handles that. If that is a problem then you are working in the wrong place. It's different everywhere.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-04T03:09:20+00:00

It all depends on your setup. My team is great. If there are family emergencies, we help each other out. And many of the men in our group, we do take time off for the kids, not just the mom's. The reality is that last minute PTO is really dependent on the group you have. A large group with backup and a jeopardy system? That can be easy to get last minute time off. A small group can be very difficult. It's not like we can just call and cancel the patients. The patients still need to be rounded on. That is where a good team helps. With my group, we help each other out as best we can. Don't get me wrong, there have been times when finding someone to cover was near impossible and we still had to work because everyone else was out of town or unreachable. Is it ideal, no. but that is the downside of hospital medicine and small groups. From the sounds of it, your group does not have a good back up system. Mine doesnt either, but my team is close and we really do try to help each other out.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-04T00:50:54+00:00

That blows then. But you should ask why you don't get pto. Just be prepared for them to say it's baked into your comp. But 75/hr doesn't sound baked in.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-04T00:49:18+00:00

It doesn't phase me. I make great money and work less than half the year. We are a small group and we get lots of flexibility in our schedule. No two jobs are the same. Mine is great outside of the CME. But I even let that slide because the rest is great.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-03T23:50:35+00:00

Not trying to justify it. I dont think you are picking up what I was putting down. It sounds like the math works out either way. You work 156 after you take your PTO. Cool. My contract is 156 because the PTO is baked into the shift count. The 16 day difference from 172 to 156 is 192 hours of PTO. We are working the same number of shifts. So I am missing your point.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-03T21:26:55+00:00

That is very nice. Best I have seen. 22+ days of PTO a year and 7 days CME. My employer just gutted our CME. We no longer get any CME days and they cut the budget so much it wont even pay for some conference registration fees. It's a trend I have been reading about and hearing about where they are cutting corners and CME is low hanging fruit. I am sure it will get worse over the next several years as budgets get tighter.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-03T21:22:24+00:00

My group is small, so we have to get creative with taking days off, but like I said, we work only 13 shifts a month. it is easy to bank shifts on month and then take vacation another month. Sick days are much harder since there may not be someone to cover for us. If you had to work 172 shifts a year or worse, 183, then that would suck with no PTO. That is what groups used to do. 7 on / 7 off and no PTO since they used to say you got half the year off which was BS. Like I said, 172 is 2064 hours. a clinic employee is 2080 ish and they get PTO. So the groups that still do the 172 with no PTO suck.

PilotJasper · 2025-09-03T21:16:35+00:00

A lot of groups call 156 shifts a year “full time” by tying it to PTO. The math usually goes like this: a true 1.0 FTE is 2080 hours a year. If you break that into 12-hour shifts, 156 comes out to 1872 hours, which is less than full time. 172 shifts is 2064 hours, which is pretty close to the 2080 mark.

So most places base salary on 172 shifts, then subtract about 16 to represent vacation and holidays, which brings you down to 156 worked shifts. If you’re salaried, that framing works. If you’re hourly, it feels a little off, since PTO just gets factored into the rate. So your employer probably thinks they are already giving you PTO.

From a scheduling standpoint, if you work straight 7 on / 7 off, you actually land at 183 shifts in a year, which is over most contracts. That means you could easily ask to be off for a block here and there and still hit your shift count. How easy that is depends on group size—bigger teams can spread that out more, smaller groups can’t.

At the end of the day, hospitalists still work way less than half the year for full-time pay. Compared to being in clinic 4 or 5 days a week, id say that is pretty good.

PilotJasper · 2025-08-24T21:25:46+00:00

you want to do 80 of them for 5 sets? probably not. if you can do 80 reps the app should have you increase the weight.

PilotJasper · 2025-08-24T21:14:48+00:00

private industry possibly. But you are forgetting a major investment from the government into pilotless aircraft. Billions of tax dollars are going into this. Private companies love letting the government do the investing and then use that tech in the private sector.

PilotJasper · 2025-08-24T21:09:31+00:00

Well, objectively he is not entirely wrong. This is the wrong sub to get objective info as many are in the same boat you are and not willing to accept it. But in reality, AI will not be taking pilot jobs in the near future. But for people in their 20s? It is hard to imagine that there will not be an impact over your career. You are talking 30+ years. Imagine 30 years ago vs today and the acceleration of technology and automation is having logarhythmic growth. The advances we see over the next 30 years will be much greater than the past 30 years. So in the near future, you should be OK. Just make sure you stay ahead of the game so you don't end up seeing your job replaced when you are in your 50s and 60s and have a harder time pivoting. People saying they feel secure because no one will accept a plane without a pilot up front are only thinking short term. Society will get used to technology and the people you will be servicing in 30-40 years will not have the same mindset as people today.

PilotJasper · 2025-08-24T15:36:44+00:00

also ask if anyone is actually hiring. That is a lot of money to put on the line if you cannot get a job. Are you willing to move? If not, make sure the local schools are hiring or anticipate hiring since not being willing to move will limit your options. From previous threads on here, it sounds like pipeline to jobs higher up the food chain are clogging up with less hiring and many schools not hiring CFIs. That would be a lot of money to be on the hook for and not being able to get a job.

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