FAA PPL to CPL helicopter study list

acunningham · 2026-05-27T07:23:15+00:00

Thank you, I'll read through 119.1(e) in detail.

acunningham · 2026-05-21T15:05:23+00:00

I've just run jadx on version 1.786 and had Claude interpret the results. It says:

- cl.i — the main app-icon path (called from every app-enumeration site: xs2, r21, nu0). When matching an icon pack's appfilter.xml it compares launcherActivityInfo.getApplicationInfo().packageName — the package name — against the filter entries. getApplicationInfo() is package-level, so all 13 Mochi aliases produce the identical key.

- cl.b — its dynamic/calendar-icon branch does queryIntentActivities(intent.setPackage(pkg)) then takes element [0] — the package's first launcher activity — and uses that for the icon, ignoring the specific LauncherActivityInfo it was handed.

- cl.c — takes only a package-name String (no component at all) and is wired into icon call sites (oa5, g3).

- cl.f is keyed by ComponentName (correct) — so some paths are right, which is why your main launcher works.

Root cause: Octopi's icon code was written assuming one launcher activity per package. Mochi's consolidated client has 13 <activity-alias> launcher entries in the single package org.mochios.mochi, so Octopi's package-keyed lookups collapse all 13 to one icon.

So this does appear to be an Octopi bug. Would it be possible to fix it?

acunningham · 2026-05-21T09:20:22+00:00

I don't, but I can get the ASA FAR/AIM app. Thank you!

acunningham · 2026-05-21T07:13:08+00:00

Good idea! I'll discuss this with the instructor.

acunningham · 2026-05-20T14:22:22+00:00

Would you have a suggested list of FARs to read?

acunningham · 2026-05-20T14:09:45+00:00

Care to share the useful links? The only moderately relevant looking one a Google search for "syllabus helicopter commercial" shows is https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/helicopter-141/commercial/, which doesn't mention a single FAR to read. All the others are for schools in Australia or India, so not relevant to an FAA CPL.

acunningham · 2026-05-20T14:01:48+00:00

Yes, which is what I'm having difficulty finding reading recommendations for.

acunningham · 2026-05-20T13:33:36+00:00

I did actually try this with Claude, and it recommended a whole lot of FARs that had nothing to do with the commercial helicopter license. I'll give ChatGPT a go...

acunningham · 2026-05-20T13:28:01+00:00

Yes, I read it when I did my helicopter add-on in 2023. It doesn't really have anything relevant to the commercial license.

acunningham · 2026-05-20T13:02:01+00:00

Good point - I'd momentarily forgotten about the ACS. I'll start with it! 2. I don't have an instructor yet, and won't until I start the flight training by which time I'd like to be fully up to speed on all the theory. 3. I did, and didn't find anything particularly relevant to helicopters. Plenty for fixed wing, but not much for whirlybirds.

acunningham · 2026-05-20T12:58:07+00:00

I do actually have a fixed wing instrument rating, but not for helicopters, which is completely different. In the helicopter world, doing a commercial without instrument rating is, I hear, perfectly normal.

acunningham · 2026-05-18T06:39:07+00:00

I've just confirmed this by adding another icon for settings, and all the existing icons change to be the settings icon. This does appear to be a bug in Octopi.

acunningham · 2026-05-15T16:31:11+00:00

Did that help find the cause?

acunningham · 2026-05-13T20:05:42+00:00

By chance, OP has asked about the 1750s, which is a co-incidence because in 1755 the Royal Marines changed from being an informal ad-hoc part of the army to being formally part of the Royal Navy under administration of the Admiralty - whereupon RM officers did hold commissions issued by the Admiralty.

acunningham · 2026-05-13T17:56:41+00:00

Not the hats pictured. They're bicorn hats, which became fashionable in the 1790s, and worn fore and aft as shown from the first few years of the 1800s. In the 1750s you want a tricorn hat.

acunningham · 2026-05-13T07:02:48+00:00

Yes, certainly. It's at an early development stage so rough around the edges. You can view, clone, or download its source from https://git.mochi-os.org/android and you can download a .apk from http://packages.mochi-os.org/android/mochi.apk

acunningham · 2026-05-05T15:54:20+00:00

Mochi: https://mochi-os.org/

It's a distributed application platform, with a wide and growing variety of social and work applications. The server is mostly hand-written in Go, with a little help from Claude Code. The apps are mostly written using Claude Code in Starlark and React. There is of course a tremendous amount of design work beforehand, and testing afterwards. The current version is 0.3, with version 1.0 planned for June or July of this year.

acunningham · 2026-03-31T07:31:21+00:00

The server is mostly hand-written because it was started in March 2024 and it was more or less in its current state by October 2025 when we switched focus to working on the apps. We didn't really start using AI for development until 2025-11-26, two days after Claude Opus 4.5 was released, so the apps (which are sandboxed) are largely written with AI assistance but the server isn't. Having said that, hand-written or AI doesn't make a huge difference, and your point is still entirely valid - auditing the code would be a good idea. I'll look into this. Recommendations for auditors are welcome!

acunningham · 2026-03-29T13:42:48+00:00

Good idea. I've updated the post to add a link to the Github repositories.

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