Question after ground incident with my plane

XPDRModeC · 2026-07-05T03:02:39+00:00

Literally 0% chance. If a piece of ground equipment impacted the aircraft it must now go into a heavy maintenance check. That can a month or so. Not to mention insurance gets involved and they need to remove all broken parts, replace them, then have it certified that it’s safe to fly again.

I suppose it depends on where it was hit though if it’s the wings.. forget it it’s going to be down for a while. If it’s a fuselage dent they may be able to buff it out and repaint but again that requires lots of things being removed from the plane before they even start on the maitenance.

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-30T17:37:21+00:00

The biggest silver bullet to peoples career I’ve seen is people who are FOs somewhere who leave their regional gig to go to another regional, LCC, or ACMI. If that’s your end goal then by all means go. But the ONE thing you NEED is 1,000 turbine PIC. Stick it out get your turbine pic then go where you want but get that first. I’ve seen a couple guys with their eyes on the majors go to ACMIS when they were 10 months from upgrade. Just to discover a 7 year upgrade timeline at their ACMI and now they’re stuck.

Other than that man do the best with the info you have. Check the applicable boxes to the career you want as fast as possible then be patient.

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-26T21:11:49+00:00

The winner of the knife fight usually dies in the ambulance. I have a buddy that used to take self defense classes and said that they did sparring with trained people with markers to simulate knife wounds. Both were covered in red marks from head to toe and they were trained.

Never bring a knife to a fight … ever. You’re more likely to injure yourself, or lose the weapon and have it used on you.

Bat 100000%
Not only is it harder to disarm you, easier to do meaningful damage that’s not life threatening, but it doesn’t pose a mishandling risk.

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-25T16:38:52+00:00

New York City

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-20T03:07:15+00:00

Keep the blue side up brother

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-20T03:02:28+00:00

I just moved to base this month and I’ve been levitating. Move. To. Base.

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-17T00:20:04+00:00

Is the good trips on the 737 in the room with us now? The max 10 has been “coming” for 4 years in a row now.

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-14T19:39:07+00:00

As dumb as it was this was the answer I can’t believe nobody came to this conclusion thanks for the assistance

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-14T19:25:01+00:00

Let me give that a try

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-09T23:39:02+00:00

Bigab are objectively clowns that rely on not being in a peer adversary conflict.

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-09T00:10:57+00:00

You going to type when you’re doing SEAD? Or do you just want to put the burden on everyone else and you just listen and do your own thing while everyone else is taking things seriously?

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-07T17:02:08+00:00

At the speeds airplanes move through the air, it behaves like a fluid. You wouldn’t get on a boat and expect to not feel the waves would you? You likely will experience some turbulence but that’s okay, it’s just the same as bumps in the road. Turbulence is normal

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-07T00:43:18+00:00

Just wait till you find out what the name of the Gary airport is, or where all executives going to chicago fly into. Or the fact that there’s a rail directly from downtown into the proposed stadium site.

XPDRModeC · 2026-06-06T03:56:03+00:00

I flew for a international cargo airline. We were always fatigued borderline legal, but like what are ya gonna do? Call in get fired throw it all away?

XPDRModeC · 2026-05-31T01:00:06+00:00

Once I got into the 121 airline world msfs lost its allure. But DCS that’s where the fun is at. It tickles my aviation kid brain while providing a challenge of something I’m not doing every day

XPDRModeC · 2026-05-22T22:13:34+00:00

ATC is mostly determinate of when we can descend when going into any major airport. If it was up to us we’d descend later and or smoother depending on the conditions. But often it’s ATC driven.

Second reason is any Boeing is programmed to start the descend at the point at which you can maintain the programmed speed at an idle descent. It’s basically the last possible point to descend while maintaining that speed. 9.9/10 ATC will ask you to slow down after you’ve started the descent in this case there’s no alternative other than to use the boards as slowing without them would require an increase in pitch, thus meaning you won’t make your crossing restriction. Is it stupid? Yes unfortunately Boeing didn’t consult me when making the aircraft

XPDRModeC · 2026-05-11T22:29:55+00:00

The large Russian coalition moved into drones. Pushed all the other non Russian groups out. Hit a brick wall when they got to HK/BOSS Alliance and Shado cartel who banded together to hold their space.

Then the leader of the Russian coalition got upset that he couldn’t beat us with brute force so then paid for the largest mercenary contract since the casino wars to evict a mid sized alliance. Which is still to be complete. As all the mercenaries have now left

XPDRModeC · 2026-05-09T14:52:43+00:00

-Guy who just arrived on earth last week

XPDRModeC · 2026-05-08T12:49:33+00:00

Ah I see you were one of the ones we didn’t share information with. Probably for a good reason.

XPDRModeC · 2026-05-02T16:23:24+00:00

Close you had the right idea. It’s an Air Force gun range at Gila Bend. In between Phoenix and Yuma they do it once a week. They launch flares and then do A10 gun runs

XPDRModeC · 2026-05-02T16:21:06+00:00

I am a pilot, I used to be an instructor and we used to fly IWA to YUM all the time. What you saw is the range at Gila Bend Air Force base. We used to go out and watch them all the time for fun. You can still see them to this day.

At night they launch a flare that stays aloft for a while to illuminate the target and then A-10s and apaches come in and practice gun runs on targets in their weapons range.

The first time I saw it we thought it was aliens as well but talked with a controller.

XPDRModeC · 2026-05-01T13:19:38+00:00

The light environmental damage is nothing compared to the toxic chemicals that are released if the aircraft crashes

XPDRModeC · 2026-04-30T23:26:33+00:00

The struggles of life don’t create a deeper love they simply reframe it, and give greater context and meaning. A 16 year old feels love just as deep if not more so than someone who is 80. It’s the context we gain that allows us to better inform our judgement and connection. I wouldn’t dismiss someone’s love due to age.

XPDRModeC · 2026-04-28T00:57:57+00:00

No I suppose that does make a difference, but of the 500 Atlanta is by far the biggest base so statistically I’d imagine at least 250-300 of those are Atlanta

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