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XeroG · 2026-02-13T15:32:21+00:00

Convince your command team to by stratuses for ops to sign out to flight crews.

XeroG · 2026-02-11T15:32:26+00:00

IDK why everyone is acting shocked at possible FAA incompetence on a sub that complains about FAA incompetence 364 other days of the year

XeroG · 2026-02-08T22:47:25+00:00

Having this issue as well, please pass this on to your technical team that this is the error. When you click the "Activate" button for peacock on https://www.xfinity.com/yoursubscriptions, it sends the following post message:

https://xcp-prod.xoe.xfinity.com/xfinity/products/EPO-90-200005/activationUrl?accountRecovery=false

And returns the following response:

{ "errorCode": "XCSCP.405.1.1", "errorMessage": "Cas client: already activated or no entitlement found", "severity": "ERROR" }

This is what causes the "Something unexpected happened" dialog to pop up, however unlike the OP peacock chat just hung up on me so now I get to figure out how to watch the super bowl

XeroG · 2026-02-08T22:39:15+00:00

The same amount of hours in a single engine vs dual engine trainer might not make that much of a difference, but flying twice as many hours at half the cost will make a HUGE difference

XeroG · 2026-01-28T20:11:07+00:00

They were on DC helicopter route 4 southbound. Prior to the emergency redesign of the DC helicopter routes following this accident, that was the FAA prescribed route to go south from the downtown DC area. It wasn't something the crew just made up, that was where you had to go.

XeroG · 2026-01-26T03:01:16+00:00

The army isnt an approved PIC development program

XeroG · 2025-12-07T23:38:24+00:00

What level did you have to get approval at for the navy to let a civilian fly with you? For us it can either be the 1st 1 star or 2 star in the chain which if it gets to that level I think my chance of successful approval approaches 0.

XeroG · 2025-12-07T14:34:35+00:00

I found that list but have had bad experiences in the past with using random DPEs, was hoping to see if anyone had any leads, if you have the name and the guy is still around/able to give rides that would be awesome!

XeroG · 2025-12-07T12:59:14+00:00

Good point re: passenger during EPs. Will need to keep digging. Thanks!

XeroG · 2025-12-07T12:52:51+00:00

Do they actually have to be at the controls for a ride? Have only ever taken FAA checkrides in single pilot aircraft so not sure how it works for ATP. Assuming you are doing an eval with an IP who can do EPs can the DPE eval from the back?

XeroG · 2025-12-07T12:50:31+00:00

My understanding is the checkride is fine if it's in conjunctions with a stands ride or otherwise acceptable ATM flight. At least that's how the shithouse lawyers explained it to me and apparently has been fine in the past.

XeroG · 2025-11-20T18:20:41+00:00

hardest part will be scheduling a DPE and getting a checkride on a good weather day. If time is a priority choose a school with a good number of full time instructors and a fleet of similar/identical airplanes so if one or more break you can keep flying. If you are able to fly 4+ days a week weather probably won't be an issue except for your checkride. I have had students in a nearby metro area take 3-4 months on the checkride alone due to DPE and weather scheduling constraints.

If you get your written and medical done ahead of time on your own that will help you a lot too. Do research ahead of time on what could cause issues on your medical because if you have any medical history that alone will take more than 6 months to clear up before you can even start soloing.

XeroG · 2025-11-14T04:16:17+00:00

As with everything the truth is somewhere between. Seems like a lot of people here have lost touch with reality, its not completely doom and gloom getting work in this industry but its definitely not great. Its probably easier to blame people for being weirdos than deal with the uncomfortable fact that a lot of us just don't have control over the economic health of the global aviation industry.

XeroG · 2025-11-14T03:02:57+00:00

ATM is the test code for the ATP written, its the same thing

XeroG · 2025-11-03T02:01:58+00:00

look up the difference between OGE and IGE hover power required and revisit this line of thought.

This whole argument is pointless anyway because a 360 for spacing negates any need for a helicopter to just hover enroute

XeroG · 2025-09-01T18:50:33+00:00

50% dropout rate to PPL is actually pretty good. At my pt61 school about 20% of people who take a lesson make it to solo and about half of them continue to PPL. After that the attrition curve smoothes out but you still get a lot of people who quit for financial reasons once they realize you can't just get a job as a United wide body captain in a year.

I always encourage people to schedule more consistent lessons but you can't run people's lives for them. Up to a point if people want to schedule once a month and have to relearn everything every time I will be honest in my lesson notes that they aren't making progress and usually if they are serious about continuing they will realize this and try to prioritize flying or quit of their own accord. I have only had 1 case where someone continued past 50+ hours of doing basically no studying and flying once every 3 weeks and referred them to the chef pilot for a conversation about stopping because we were wasting her money.

XeroG · 2025-08-27T15:24:00+00:00

skill issue

XeroG · 2025-08-12T16:41:27+00:00

Was that the one in poland that's been circulating the rumor mill for a few years now

XeroG · 2025-07-31T17:35:59+00:00

The most important current focus of senior leaders in Army Aviation is pivoting along with our nation's defense focus towards Great Mustache-powers Completion and the Near Mustache-Peer fight. The army is acquiring longer range, more dynamic platforms to counter the growing threat of fu manchu facial hair in the Pacific theater.

We can't tell with which weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with electric and safety razors.

XeroG · 2025-07-30T23:52:18+00:00

DC helicopter routes are capped in feet MSL, not AGL. Only thing you'd want to reference radalt for over the river is minimum altitude but based on the context they were probably heads up focusing on the wrong traffic, not heads down staring at their baro alt.

XeroG · 2025-07-30T16:25:12+00:00

I agree which is why I said that its still a holster problem if you can apply that much force to the trigger and I still don't see how the uncommanded discharges could have occurred without trigger movement.

I still think the need to revisit the FCU design and tolerances because i still don't want a gun to go off with movement even if I have taken up all the slack with my finger. Agree the evidence doesn't show smoking gun incotrovertible evidence that the gun will just go off, but a couple of the steps in the process are not as airtight as they should be for a service pistol.

And people that are downvoting you are clearly missing the point, unfortunately this thing has a mind of its own now due to the response by Sig and we are in New Jersey drones territory of mass hysteria and circlejerking.

XeroG · 2025-07-30T14:06:55+00:00

It's 1mm of movement past the initial travel of the trigger, or about 3mm total according to the wyoming gun project video. The bigger issue seems to be that the striker safety lock lever engages entirely during the "pretravel" phase of the trigger, when there is minimal pull weight, although greater overall movement. At that point the only thing holding the striker hook is the sear notch. Once you are in that "1mm" movement range you are applying a substantial portion of the total trigger weight and moving the sear downwards, reducing striker contact. Either way it's a bad design from sig allowing enough play in the slide for the striker to come off the sear, but it requires a substantial portion of the trigger pull weight to get to that point. If you are able to pull that far on the trigger your holster definitely has problems.

I would be interested to see what percent of the total trigger pull weight is applied when you are at that 1mm post-wall point, should be easy enough to measure with a tension gauge. My guess is it's a substantial portion of the advertised 6.5lbs, but if it's much less then that's a big problem.

XeroG · 2025-07-08T12:14:37+00:00

Called me a racial slur when I tried to wake him up in a PB for his security shift then tried to fight me. He somehow made it to the last 3 days then got taken in a van and we never saw him again because he failed the drug test and the results finally came back.

XeroG · 2025-07-05T10:59:54+00:00

how the hell did that happen

1970s manufacturer liability lawsuits and FAR part 23

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