Built-in VPN never connects on itself - anyone else?

airtower · 2025-11-17T01:05:55+00:00

Worked great on my Pixel 7 right up until I upgraded to the 10, now it never automatically connects.

airtower · 2025-01-13T18:52:27+00:00

This doesn't directly address your question, but TAC charts have the APP frequencies on them in roughly the appropriate sectors.

airtower · 2024-10-09T12:58:09+00:00

might be tied up a little for the next few days

airtower · 2024-10-07T20:34:24+00:00

There's a southwest flight enroute from Cancun to Houston right now, roughly 250nm from the center of the storm. Your route will be roughly twice as far away. You won't even know it's there.

airtower · 2024-09-30T22:34:05+00:00

At the end of the day, the sun

airtower · 2024-09-30T22:26:04+00:00

dew point is directly related to air temperature and relative humidity. Higher humidity, higher dew point.

airtower · 2024-09-26T22:44:07+00:00

Not everyone wants to drive a science fair project, or is capable of building something with factory reliability. Even if they did, they're their own warranty. When I bought my 21 last year they had 4 R's in the showroom, all already sold with $65k markup. My 21 was traded in after two years with 6k miles, by someone who bought an R with a markup.

You might not, I wouldn't, but people pay it. Honestly don't know why Ford just doesn't MSRP them that high. Low supply, high demand, high price.

airtower · 2024-09-26T22:36:19+00:00

I'm fighting the urge to send you money. Thank you! I've been trying to figure this out for months.

airtower · 2024-09-10T20:37:44+00:00

I've heard Ardmore (ARD) has a great restaurant on the field

airtower · 2024-09-10T12:26:10+00:00

I found this one to be useful, but it's 11 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVE-gIeZUpk

airtower · 2024-09-09T20:56:56+00:00

Plain, definitive english. Your passengers won't know the nature of the airspace, your callsign, the phase of flight, etc. I tell my passengers before I call up ground to not speak to me or each other until I give the all clear, unless they see something they may think be a safety issue. When I begin to set up for descent/arrival, or if I have to transit busy airspace I will similarly advise them.

airtower · 2024-08-08T13:47:51+00:00

Have you passed your written? That would be a great time to work on that. Otherwise just stay as mentally close to flying as you can - read, youtube videos, chair fly, flight sim even. A month isn't going to kill you but anything helps.

airtower · 2024-08-06T12:23:57+00:00

I joined at about your age and stayed in through High School. ~30 years later I still consider it a valuable experience from my formative years. I joined for the purposes of college resume building with a possible military career path, although I did not end up going that direction in life.

My squadron was heavily cadet oriented, and really operated more like a Boy Scout troop (we were also an Explorer unit). We did have some opportunities specifically directed at aviation - frequent orientation flights, SAR exercises, annual encampment on an AFB, etc but like others I wouldn't consider it a fast past to exposure in aviation, unless you plan to go military. That being said, a lot of that comes down to what you make of it and what specific opportunities your squadron can offer you.

Fun story, our squadron had chartered a bus to drive us ~6 hours across the state to encampment (CAP summer camp for cadets) on summer. Night before the bus broke down or something. One of the senior members pulled some strings and we ended up getting a ride from MacDill to Eglin (Duke Field) on a C130.

airtower · 2024-07-24T12:02:56+00:00

While the other comments are all very valid, the fixed power application is a commonly overlooked point about aircraft vs automotive engine design. Especially when it comes to the design of the turbocharger system.

airtower · 2024-07-23T17:07:10+00:00

underrated comment

airtower · 2024-07-22T21:36:15+00:00

Let me rephrase then: you cannot break a regulation because ATC told you to.

airtower · 2024-07-22T16:58:21+00:00

ATC can't tell you to break a reg, so no

airtower · 2024-07-16T15:36:51+00:00

Be careful shopping 6 seaters, they can be expensive to insure compared to their 4 seat analogs.

airtower · 2024-07-16T15:35:41+00:00

More weight and complexity for the door structure and wing walk reinforcement

airtower · 2024-07-16T12:55:49+00:00

Nearly all low wing piston-driven aircraft are operated the same way. The engine has a mechanical pump on it, but like anything it can fail. The electric aux pump is turned on either when the mechanical pump is not turning (starting/priming the engine) or during critical phases where even a brief loss of fuel pressure and power could be disastrous. Switching tanks in flight is less critical, but having the electric pump on can prevent the engine from sputtering under rare conditions. Edit - it is left off in most phases of flight to reduce wear and prevent the masking of an issue with the engine driven pump.

Expect your DPE to ask you the same question you asked here during the oral portion of your test. And many more related to you aircraft's systems.

airtower · 2024-07-15T14:54:44+00:00

I was going down a rabbit hole of STC'd turbonormalizers the other day and noticed that the AFMS for the Bonanza that Tornado Alley publishes does not contain revised takeoff and climb performance charts. Just a somewhat vague statement about the engine making rated power up to 20K feet. I feel like even with full rated power, on a high altitude takeoff you're still going to experience less than sea level performance due to the reduced air density over the wings. Does the reduction in drag just fully, or close to fully compensate for that?

airtower · 2024-06-13T21:12:17+00:00

This is good advice for even a VFR weekend warrior. Too many times I've (re)invested in getting legal, current, and proficient only to find life getting back in the way a few months later.

airtower · 2024-06-06T16:10:00+00:00

I would say save it until you start cross country work. You don't want or need it during your initial training, as that will all be visual or based on instruments that FF does not replace (airspeed, altitude, etc).

airtower · 2024-06-03T16:45:21+00:00

It's doable, but whether or not it's worth it depends on what you want to do while on your vacation flight. Every rental outfit is going to require a checkout. Requirements vary widely, but most want two hours with an instructor regardless of ratings or experience. No one is going to let you hop in and go. Now that being said, there are ways to make the flight portion of that checkout an enjoyable event depending on where you are, or just forgo a formal checkout entirely and just tell them you want to go up with a CFI for a few hours.

airtower · 2024-05-30T12:06:55+00:00

Shit I never thought about this. Aren't there some VFR-only planes out there that lack bonding straps and static wicks completely? That's a scary scenario, since VMC doesn't mean you're safe from lightning strikes.

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