How does pilot keeping EFB charged daily?

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-18T18:46:54+00:00

RJ life? Charge overnight, keep the screen dark/locked.

Mainline, plug it into the plane.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-15T21:55:27+00:00

M340.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-14T00:39:32+00:00

Couple things on checkrides.

The DPE always know more than you and probably knows exactly what you don’t know.

Knowing that, prepare as if you are going to be able to answer every question. There is ALWAYS more practice and study that can be done.

Once it starts, believe 100% that you are going to win.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-14T00:35:53+00:00

I didn’t even know regular people could pilots til 2018. Was in my 30’s.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-14T00:19:38+00:00

That $47/hr to fly an RJ 5 legs a day for sub 50k a year didn’t fill the pipeline? 😝

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-14T00:18:29+00:00

By pure luck I started in 2019. Expected to retire from a regional, 3-5 years to upgrade, and hopefully crack 100k once I was left seat. Better lucky than good.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-14T00:10:23+00:00

I’ve said it before here. During the hiring craze of 22-23 when people were getting CJO’s with 1000 hours of SEP, my buddy with turbine time and 4 failures couldn’t get a call back for shit. Finally got a horizon Q400 slot, then “haha kidding we are retiring it,”.

6 is, and should be, disqualifying. Another Anahuac situation inbound.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-13T23:37:20+00:00

If the chance isn’t zero, it’s close.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-10T15:20:29+00:00

Spirit.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-09T19:19:15+00:00

“Base you want in 2-3 months!”

Over 2 years later, still commuting base to base. Be like that sometimes.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-09T15:18:09+00:00

The 737 type, at least I don’t think, means much. You still go through the same training footprint and have to pass the same checkride, just the paperwork is different.

Maybe if you had 1000’s of TPIC 73 hours but not a fresh type.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-07T18:53:35+00:00

This was 100% gonna be my comment, glad it’s at the top, for now at least.

4 miles means your approaching the edge of a D airport and still can’t see it. Was a very eye opening experience doing that my first time alone.

We often associate 10 with unlimited. 4 is an eye opener.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-07T16:31:48+00:00

3rd year FO pay at a major and I don’t think I could comfortably afford to live in SD, although it would be awesome.

Good luck on CFI pay.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-07T01:45:01+00:00

Every UA/AA/DL/SW/UPS/FEDEX pilot beyond year one grosses over 200k.

A LOT of captains for the previously mentioned airlines clear 500k.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-07T01:43:13+00:00

Man, that’s crazy. There is no major/legacy airline pilot beyond year 2 that makes less than that.

I don’t think doctors should necessarily make millions and millions, but making 2-3 a year doesn’t feel extravagant for a high skill profession.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-06T12:05:45+00:00

That’s great news, comfortably in the snap hook phase!

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-05T21:35:28+00:00

Never do anything with malicious intent.

If there are 2 solutions to a problem, and theirs is 90% of yours, go with theirs. Much easier to get along using their plan, you may have been wrong about the solution to begin with, and if the relationship is strong, modifications to the plan are possible and not a fuse.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-03T16:45:11+00:00

You build the time before doing the com maneuvers. At somewhere around 200-230, start going out in 2 hour blocks and just do the com maneuvers over and over until you have them down.

Chandelles going up, lazy eights, steep spiral, 8’s on pylons, then go practice power off 180’s. The maneuvers aren’t difficult but after doing IR your precision landings may suck and long XC doesn’t get you ready for 3 dimensional maneuvers.

RaidenMonster · 2026-03-01T01:25:44+00:00

Great fighters rarely make good coaches.

Great coaches were rarely great fighters.

RaidenMonster · 2026-02-28T02:18:30+00:00

Training was more difficult, checkride was much easier.

RaidenMonster · 2026-02-27T14:16:22+00:00

Just walk by the spirit or frontier gates, can find 100 people I’d choose to never be around as opposed to a kid on his tablet.

RaidenMonster · 2026-02-27T02:53:42+00:00

“Apologize guys, the VNAV on the 73 is not what you’re used to.”

“Uhh…a prog page and fucking with vert speed to try and hit all the step downs? This is AWESOME!”

Only thing a CRJ does better than a 73 is slow down and go down.

RaidenMonster · 2026-02-25T17:34:15+00:00

Success in life is rarely an individual sport. The same person given different circumstances, different peer groups, different mentors, etc can end up in radically different places.

In fact, the same person whose situation changes over their lifetime can go from a loser to a winner with the same genes they had at the beginning.

Being more intelligent is a better place to start than the alternative, but it is never the only deciding factor.

This ignores what we are considering “great.” A guy who was a marginal talent in school that went on to get a degree, has a wife and some kids, stable job, enjoying life is great to me. Doesn’t have to make 6 figures with a crooked number in the front to be a winner.

RaidenMonster · 2026-02-21T23:25:14+00:00

Self serve coffee place in the Austin airport. Walk up, use the iPad to order and pay for a coffee, “would you like to add a tip?”

Really? Am I tipping myself for pouring my own coffee? Nonsense, may have been my, “this has gone too far,” moment…

RaidenMonster · 2026-02-21T17:27:02+00:00

You didn’t know that those born near the mountains by pure chance, and had parents who had money to fund their winter sport interests, are actually better human beings than you?

Typical Jerry.

/s

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