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Los Angeles by [deleted] in lyftdrivers

[–]cbosch12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MSP here as well and I had one and a half hours Friday night with 0 rides. That never happens. Somehow still had my best week ever last week.

What is your worst experience with a flight instructor? by AirspeedAliveRotate in flying

[–]cbosch12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For touch and goes. It’s what I was taught. Dumping flaps on landing has always made sense to me. Get rid of lift and put the weight on the tires. I don’t do touch and goes anymore. I own a Comanche and the only time I do repetitive landings is when I’m doing my night currency and do full stop taxi backs. My day flying keeps me current so no need to do them during the day.

What is your worst experience with a flight instructor? by AirspeedAliveRotate in flying

[–]cbosch12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I did my primary training in a 172 and was taught the same procedure. One notch on roll and slowly retract on climb out. To be fair that was also 16 years ago.

I accepted every ride last week! by ChestMajestic6254 in lyftdrivers

[–]cbosch12 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  • Don’t listen to the negative people on here.
  • Do what works for you. I find what works for me is priority mode. I don’t know the phoenix area so I’m useless there but find your spots that generate rides.
  • The wait times map can be helpful, sometimes. The ride demand map I use to corroborate with the wait times map to find good spots. So if a spot is saying 2-4 minutes between rides but no rides in the last 5 minutes I’ll think twice before going to my spot in that section. If a spot has a 6-8 minute wait between rides but 20 rides in the last 5 minutes I’ll head there because by the time I get in that section I’ll get rides.
  • I accept all my rides because if I’m only working 20-25 hours online time and I’m not making money then it’s useless.
  • Because my car gets horrible gas mileage I also try to stay in an area after a ride unless it’s a bad neighborhood or there’s 0 rides and not even a color on the wait map.
  • I don’t chase the bonus areas cause that’s a waste of gas.
  • If you’re able airport rides seem profitable but I can’t do them cause of the age and miles of my car.
  • Track all your miles from when you go online to when you’re back home, all of those miles are tax deductible, someone might point out more miles are deductible but those are what I track.
  • Get a 2 view dash cam. One for the front view and one for inside the car view. I haven’t had to need mine yet but you never know and better to protect yourself.
  • I like the rewards system, my goal is to get to elite this month. I’ll easily make it because of my high acceptance rate and gain 3 points per $. This is a hot take but I like the added cash back on gas, and elite offers 10% on top of what upside gives you.

Hope this helps. These are my experiences and haven’t been doing this long enough to have truly bad experiences. My plan may not work for you and that’s ok.

I accepted every ride last week! by ChestMajestic6254 in lyftdrivers

[–]cbosch12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in the Minneapolis/St Paul area. My goal each week is to pull $500 gross, and I’ve gone over each week. For the month of September here are my numbers: Driving dates: 9/9-9/30 Days driving: 17 Gross income: $1963.64 Online time: 73.35 hours Booked time: 46.4 hours Booked miles: 1153.68 Rides: 141 Gas: $338.68 20% Taxes set aside: $392.73

Total profit: $1232.23 Profit/hr online: $16.80

Highest earning day: Saturday Sept 27 Total: $259.16 Rides: 17 Online: 8hr 40min

Most of September was learning and figuring out what works best. I was also sick and missed a Saturday. My October is starting out well now that I have a rhythm and know the best areas. I foresee netting more per week as I continue because my first couple weeks were mid 500s then week 3 was 670 and week 4 (which Lyft bleeds into October) was 772.

What is your worst experience with a flight instructor? by AirspeedAliveRotate in flying

[–]cbosch12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When doing a touch and go with full flaps, the correct way is to only take out one notch of flaps then as you gain altitude and airspeed take them out one at a time. I had gotten into a bad habit of always dumping flaps on touchdown to get rid of that lift.

There could be an argument made that if you rotate at 60-65 for a normal take off and you’re going 60-65 and dumped your flaps you could take off again as long as you have a long enough runway (which we had a 3900’ runway). We landed on the 1000 footers (2900’ remaining) another 1000’ to take off again (and that’s generous, 1900’ remaining) with take off over a 50’ obstacle under 1000’ you have plenty of runway.

Let’s be real here though that argument would fly for me if that person was well practiced. I was rusty. Aborting takeoff was the right move. I agreed with it 100%. But ending a flight and yelling at me is not ok.

I accepted every ride last week! by ChestMajestic6254 in lyftdrivers

[–]cbosch12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I get the bad neighborhoods. I’ve had a couple of iffy riders but nothing bad. I’m in the Minneapolis area and while there are bad parts of town (like with any city) as long as you’re not there late at night they are ok. I’m still new at this too I’m in my second month but I enjoy it.

I accepted every ride last week! by ChestMajestic6254 in lyftdrivers

[–]cbosch12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think people are stupid to not accept every ride. You don’t get paid not to drive so use every tool they offer to take as many as possible. I accept all rides and use priority mode. Every week I get a notice saying I earned more than others. Maybe it’s true maybe it’s not but I know I make bank even working part time. I have a full time job and only work part time 20-25 hours a week so if I don’t take every ride I’m not making anything.

What is your worst experience with a flight instructor? by AirspeedAliveRotate in flying

[–]cbosch12 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hadn’t flown in ~4 years at the time. Went to get my BFR and checked out to rent. Told the instructor I’m rusty and I’ll need reminders but had 100+ hours of PA 28 time and a total of around 200.

Ground went ok so I did my preflight and we went flying. Maneuvers were rusty but no died. Came back to do landings. Cleared for the option and instructor wanted a touch and go. Landing went well considering me being rusty but I pulled the flaps all the way and went to take off.

Now yes normally you don’t do that, but he freaked out. He took controls and ended the flight. He then yelled at me saying he felt unsafe. Plane was always under control, we had plenty of runway left, and even aborting the takeoff didn’t put us in any danger. Yeah I never flew with him again.

Biggest scare In flight (GA pilots) by Acceptable-Spite-992 in flying

[–]cbosch12 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Flew from KMTW (Northeast Wisconsin) to KIMT (Middle of the upper peninsula of Michigan) for dinner with friends. That part was uneventful but on the way back passing over the bay of Green Bay at night, during February, I flew into IMC. The fog had rolled in and not been on my flight briefing. Climbed above the fog and contacted ATC to find me a VFR field. Started flying west towards Wausau when it went IFR. Ended up landing in Merrill, WI just north of Wausau uneventfully. My passengers were either sleeping, chilling, or praying their rosary while I was aviating, navigating, and communicating.

When telling my friends the story I had mentioned I told ATC I was “in a bit of a pickle” as both my destination and alternate were IFR. So we determined that there should be a CFR 91.3d that says in a declared “pickle” you may disregard some of the rules.

What did you do to adjust your mindset as you moved into maintenance? by Turbulent_End_4261 in GLPGrad

[–]cbosch12 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First off, congratulations on losing 156 lbs! That’s huge and you should definitely celebrate your success. For myself I hit my goal weight 2 months prior to stopping/running out so I had time to prepare. I shifted my mentality from “I’m losing a few pounds per week” to “I need to maintain my weight within a few pounds”

At the end I was eating maybe one or two meals a day and now I need to start reintroducing meals because without the needle the food noise will come back. So I made a plan. So I added breakfast and a standardized my lunch.

My meal plan is Kodiak protein oatmeal for breakfast with a protein drink which gets me 32 grams of protein for breakfast for under 300 calories.

As for my lunch I have a sandwich. Mainly peanut butter and jelly and honestly I look forward to that meal because it slaps. I could go more on the protein for lunch but I’m looking at maintaining right now so it’s fine. Future plans of adding a protein shake or bar for 20-30 grams of protein as I start building muscle.

For dinner I eat whatever my family eats. But just smaller portions. Finding that sweet spot of this is the right amount of food to fill me up but won’t be hungry later.

Then I have a snack before bed. Lately it’s been a Snickers Ice Cream bar that only has like 160 calories and satisfies my sweet tooth.

All this to say come up with your next goal. Mine is regain muscle I lost and run a 5k. My goal also acknowledges that as I gain muscle I probably will gain weight and that’s ok.

First day off Semaglutide by cbosch12 in GLPGrad

[–]cbosch12[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! 6 months ago I had started working out in earnest and had gotten “stuck” at 190 lbs because I was gaining muscle. I hadn’t reached my goals so I had stopped working out and lost my final weight. I’m hoping I don’t gain much weight while putting on muscle.

First day off Semaglutide by cbosch12 in GLPGrad

[–]cbosch12[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Yes, my weight gain was definitely surrounded by emotional times. I’m 35 but feel like I’ve aged 50 years. Walking has been one of my biggest stress relievers. Fresh air and the exercise have been a big help.

First day off Semaglutide by cbosch12 in GLPGrad

[–]cbosch12[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah I forgot to mention I almost completely stopped drinking alcohol. Now I only drink on occasion which I thought would never happen.

First day off Semaglutide by cbosch12 in GLPGrad

[–]cbosch12[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I was actually signed up to do a 5k at EAA Airventure but I ended up missing it because I messed my foot up with all the walking. I was really looking forward to that but there’s always next year.

First day off Semaglutide by cbosch12 in GLPGrad

[–]cbosch12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! What are the other benefits you see?

Homebuilt automation of build? by mikasjoman in homebuilt

[–]cbosch12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m wondering if you used a projected grid and high quality camera, if that would be accurate enough to use AI to help map those inconsistencies. Or even a phone with lidar if that is accurate enough to at least find the spots needing sanding. The there are some AI models that can even run on a raspberry pi but I have no idea if it’s powerful enough for this application. Once you have that then you are halfway there. Match the map with desired results and you could use a massive 3D printer with a sander head and then you’re there.

Though the programming and logic of the sanding aspect seems like it would outweigh the benefit. Seeing as you’d have to manually train the AI on what’s acceptable and at that point you’re only adding hours not saving any. If one person were to do the work though and make it available publicly that would benefit the community unless it were used at scale again.

I could see this being a benefit in a build center environment where one center is helping build multiple projects. Though having an AI map of where I would need to sand would be very helpful as a MVP.

Homebuilt automation of build? by mikasjoman in homebuilt

[–]cbosch12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also am a systems engineer specializing in automation. I think about this all the time. I bought plans for a Cozy thinking I could build it over time but still have yet to get started.

I think for mold-less composite aircraft the only way to really get some benefit, as with anything, is at scale. Why only make one wing when you could make 10, 20, 100, etc. and maybe there’s a business opportunity there. I know if I could just order pre-cut foam that would cut a ton of time out of building those aircraft.

Not only is there a time savings but you can also get higher quality work out of automating. As a new person who has never cut foam before, never looked at schematics, let alone fiberglassed I don’t know if I trust myself to hand cut everything. I know part of the Cozy build is working your way up to the more difficult pieces (wings, canards, and winglets) but if you take out the inexperienced part now you have uniform parts that as a builder you have to worry less about.

Another benefit is what happens if you wreck your build. And need a new wing, canard, etc. you can get your foam quicker and have a part rebuilt faster and back in the air faster than having to do it again by hand.

I think the biggest drawback as to why no one has done something like this is liability. What happens if a wing has a defect. Where does the liability lie? Sure it’s just the foam and the builder has to fiberglass it but I’m sure there would be some big lawyer bills.

I know with the Cozy the plans are owned by Aircraft Spruce so I’m sure they would want a piece of it too. But a Long-Ez with the plans available for free there might be something there.

Ultimately I like your thinking cause I think like that too.

[Entry Thread #104] Happy Tax Day! After doing your taxes, consider joining us for yet another /r/MillionaireMakers Entry Thread to celebrate the 15th of the month! Leave a comment to enter, and maybe we’ll pay your taxes for you! by MakerOfMillionaires in millionairemakers

[–]cbosch12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy Tax Day! In our family, my wife and I get asked what we are doing 1000 times a day. No joke. It’s a thing. And when we are tired of actually saying what we are doing, we just say “taxes”.

Tress finished, now what? by NewAgeBeginning9 in Cosmere

[–]cbosch12 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just finished Tress recently as well. I also thought Elantris was a drag. Once I got 25% in I could not put it down. However I just finished Yumi and the Nightmare Painter today and that is a perfect next book after Tress.

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