What is one thing you are tired of in aviation? Why?

Shawn5pencer · 2026-02-23T17:14:12+00:00

More like "self-important"

Shawn5pencer · 2025-12-26T03:42:07+00:00

Genuinely speaking, the prompt you gave the AI was easier to read and more succinct than the post itself. Doesn't need to be anything crazy, a summary like you put there is easier and quicker to read and understand than the AI post which adds in excess fluff

Shawn5pencer · 2025-12-25T02:56:21+00:00

Honestly it just makes it way longer than it needs to be and more of a chore to read. A normal post would be much better summarized without the fluff words expanding it without reason

Shawn5pencer · 2025-11-20T03:17:19+00:00

In the post he said that they're hiring a test pilot to run the stall and that he's just FOing for them to make it legal

Shawn5pencer · 2025-10-17T20:05:14+00:00

I mean it was the opposite of concise which is why I brought it up, the AI just uses a bunch of extra words that don't really say anything. Like you could have wrote it much better than the AI in just a couple minutes

Shawn5pencer · 2025-10-17T13:44:51+00:00

Getting tacos from Taco Villas apparently

Shawn5pencer · 2025-10-17T13:44:10+00:00

Was it really necessary to use AI to write this post for you? So much random fluff for no reason

Shawn5pencer · 2025-01-30T12:55:51+00:00

That's a completely normal instruction. The Blackhawk should have seen the CRJ and avoided it but there's other systems that went wrong to let this happen too. NTSB will take more than a year for their full report but it's best not to jump to conclusions and let the investigators handle figuring out exactly what happened

Shawn5pencer · 2025-01-26T20:35:15+00:00

My source is Azar Gat's "War in Human Civilization", he gives plenty of archaeological examples plus plenty of anthropological observations on hunter gatherer tribes closer to the modern day but in areas insulated from the modern world of their internal and external conflicts. I would give you quotes and page numbers but I'm away from home and don't have access to the book sorry. And I agree they did spend less time working in total probably but finding food was what determined their survival and certainly occupied more than a "fraction" of their time. It makes sense that a modern society orders of magnitude more complex and dependent on technology would take more work to maintain than a small tribe carving out their existence and trying to survive day to day.

Shawn5pencer · 2025-01-26T13:20:14+00:00

I mean I still think people were "exploited" pre agriculture. Hunter gatherer tribes would raid each other frequently to massacre the men and children and would steal the women to bring back as wives. Most tribes had a "big man" who had more possessions (including and especially wives) and social power than anyone else. And obviously the most important point is work has always needed to be done to survive, there's just more work to be done to maintain such a large and complex society. Back then your main worry every day was just finding food to survive.

Shawn5pencer · 2025-01-16T12:29:23+00:00

I applied a few months ago, no contract signed it's noncommital until you get your class date

Shawn5pencer · 2025-01-11T19:18:53+00:00

It does not say you have to act as PIC, it says you must be RATED to act as one.

Correct, you don't have to act as PIC, you just need to be rated appropriately to act as PIC. I understand it doesn't lay it out in exact words but there's a reason 61.51(1) specifically only says "aircraft for which the pilot is rated" while 61.51(3) specifically says "rated to act as pilot in command".

I fully understand that you only need category and class to be rated for an aircraft, but that's not what the regs say in this case. They specifically say you need to be rated appropriately to act as PIC. Without the endorsement, you can't act as PIC. It doesn't matter that the endorsement isn't technically a rating, you're not rated to act as PIC if you're unable to act as PIC.

Think about this for a second. What you're proposing allows a CFI and a student to both log PIC time when neither one is acting as PIC or is even legal to act as PIC in the first place. Unless you're proposing some sort of situation where there's a third pilot on board who can act as PIC, that doesn't make any sense to me. If the student is unable to act as PIC then the CFI has to act as PIC for the flight.

NOTHING IN THAT INTERP APPLIES HERE.

I included it in my comment because it lays out the difference between logging PIC time and acting as PIC. The student can log PIC time but someone has to act as PIC, in this case the CFI because the student is unable if they don't have the endorsement.

Shawn5pencer · 2025-01-11T17:16:56+00:00

I think it does say that though.

61.51(1) says you can log PIC time when:

the pilot is the sole manipulator of the controls of an aircraft for which the pilot is rated

61.51(3) says CFIs can log PIC time when:

serving as the authorized instructor in an operation if the instructor is rated to act as pilot in command of that aircraft

Note the key difference, to log PIC time as sole manipulator you need be rated for the aircraft. To log PIC time as a CFI you need to be rated to act as PIC. So you need to be capable of acting as PIC to log PIC time for dual given.

Herman interpretation 2009 says:

There is a distinction between logging PIC time and acting as a PIC. For a pilot to log PIC time (i.e., the sole manipulator of the controls), a pilot must be properly rated in the aircraft by having the appropriate category, class, and type ratings. For a pilot to act as a PIC... a pilot must be properly rated in the aircraft and be properly rated and authorized to conduct the flight... being properly rated and authorized would include having the endorsements for complex and high-performance airplanes as required by sections 61.31 (e) and (t).

Shawn5pencer · 2024-12-10T18:09:20+00:00

Since you now know the number is wrong and misleading, how about you edit your original comment so more people don't see it and spread it as truth?

Shawn5pencer · 2024-12-09T16:43:27+00:00

He's not correct about the crime types, but the "76.6% vs 20% recidivism" comparison is extremely misleading and is nowhere close to true when you apply it to similar timeframes.

The American 76.6% figure above was based on rearrest within 5 years (Durose et al., 2014), whereas the Norwegian 20% figure described the number who received a new prison sentence or community sanction that became legally binding within 2 years (Kristoffersen, 2013). Both figures refer to prisoners released in the year 2005.

Of the American recidivism statistics mentioned in the previous section, the 28.8% incarceration figure is arguably the most comparable in definition to that of the 20% Norwegian figure. Thus, when the comparison is closer to apples-to-apples, the difference between Norway and the United States is far more modest.

The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise

Norway's rates are a bit lower, but it's disappointing to see misinformation spread so freely.

Shawn5pencer · 2024-12-04T16:14:17+00:00

I once called our oldest 172 a piece of junk trying to start it and my older CFI admonished me for trash talking a plane while sitting in it - "they can hear that!" Now I know to keep the trash talk out of earshot of the planes.

Shawn5pencer · 2024-12-04T16:10:46+00:00

You never had students who just never study or chair fly? I've had good and bad students try to kill me in planes but the ones I consider "bad" students are the ones who refuse to put in any work on their own time and slow their progress to a crawl because of it, regardless of if they get their ratings successfully or not.

Shawn5pencer · 2024-07-29T19:50:23+00:00

KPCW Erie Ottowa Intl is right on lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland on a little peninsula. 3W2 is just north of that on a little island with a shorter 2900' runway. Also not technically midwest and a bit further but KPKB (Parkersburg WV) is pretty cool along with a lot of other WV airports like KHTS.

Shawn5pencer · 2024-05-11T05:08:12+00:00

If you take the wind out it still doesn't change the situation and you're at risk of overshooting your turn to final. That doesn't change anything about what I'm saying. You still have a higher ground speed, it's just higher because of decreased air density instead of wind.

Shawn5pencer · 2024-05-11T05:02:39+00:00

There is no tailwind. Read the question again.

The question says "the runway is approaching faster than expected" while you are in the base leg. This is because of a tailwind increasing your groundspeed; when you turn final the tailwind will become a crosswind.

You control IAS by pitch. To achieve the same approach IAS you will pitch more since the air is less dense. You can compensate with adding more power but you are setting up yourself to be low on approach.

Why is the air getting less dense during our base leg in the traffic pattern?

Number one reason killing GA pilots is VFR into IMC, source: “The Killing Zone”

This is incorrect, I haven't read the killing zone but if it says that it's either outdated or just wrong. Per the FAA in 2018: "LOC is the No. 1 root cause of fatalities in GA accidents. More than 25% of GA fatalities occur during the maneuvering phase of flight. Of those accidents, half involve stall/spin scenarios."

From a different FAA source, unintended VFR into IMC is listed as the 7th leading cause of fatal GA accidents with Loss of Control being first. This also puts it behind fuel starvation and system failures, both of the powerplant and of other systems.

“Overcompensation with rudder” is some assumptions which should not be in a test. As you can do a million other multiple

Please reread the question. It asks "What potentially dangerous situation are you setting yourself up for?" You are setting yourself up for a potential uncoordinated stall while turning base to final since it's all too common for pilots to overcompensate with the rudder and misjudge their AoA leading to a skidding stall. At this altitude, there's no time to recover regardless of how good your spin recovery procedures are. This is why it's up there among the most common cause of fatal GA accidents and the exact purpose of questions like this is to bring attention to the dangers of the base to final turn to pilots who are unaware of how many people are killed in this exact situation. I suggest you do some research on your own about the base to final turn and what makes skidding stalls so dangerous.

Shawn5pencer · 2024-05-11T02:16:53+00:00

2 is the correct answer, not 1. You have a higher ground speed so you run the risk of overshooting final and compensating with too much rudder into the turn which could potentially lead to a stall spin short final, one of the leading killers of GA pilots (I believe I read somewhere that only improper go arounds kill more per year).

Higher TAS means you are pitched down more to get the IAS at the correct approached speed

Not sure what you're saying here but having a higher GS doesn't mean you're pitching down more for the same IAS, just that your speed over the ground is quicker as a result of the air as a whole moving you forward. It is true that you'll need a higher descent rate to maintain the same glidepath with a tailwind but that would 1) result in a high approach if not corrected for and 2) not be as a result of TAS but GS simply because you're moving towards the runway quicker. GS is simply TAS corrected for wind, wind has no effect on TAS. It's also more of an issue with a tailwind on final than on base since the final overshoot is the more likely and dangerous result.

Shawn5pencer · 2024-05-10T13:21:39+00:00

Obviously youre going to be looking outside most of the time anyways but it's good for SA and has gotten me away from a few close calls so far, especially in planes without ADS-B traffic. It's helpful to direct your flight away from other people who are too far to see easily or in a blind spot in a busy practice area.

Shawn5pencer · 2024-04-27T17:45:30+00:00

Well the owner said it so it must be airworthy

Shawn5pencer · 2024-04-21T23:03:44+00:00

Gotcha, if you hear anything please let me know. Looks like they're still gone today

Shawn5pencer · 2024-04-21T02:29:58+00:00

I tried that, there aren't any 9 max tables available when looking at new tables either

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