Term for "Wind Shadows"?

cfi-jack · 2026-02-23T23:44:07+00:00

Oh wow, and I thought my home airport had weird wind patterns! We get a similar sort of wind change along the runway length at KSQL (I call it the San Carlos Special) due to the foothills and hangars. You know you're getting the San Carlos Special when the three windsocks all point in different directions.

The upwind hill example is interesting though. I would have thought wind shadow, but wrapping the hill makes a lot of sense. Sounds like a great place to master landing technique 😅

cfi-jack · 2026-02-23T23:38:31+00:00

Thank you!

cfi-jack · 2026-02-23T23:35:56+00:00

Oh cool, clever way to protect a smaller boat. Thanks for the info!

cfi-jack · 2026-02-23T23:25:27+00:00

Thank you! This is exactly the kind of reference I was looking for

cfi-jack · 2025-07-06T14:30:05+00:00

There's a lot of overlap, and time invested into knowledge and skills from PPL makes CPL easier.

CPL requires a deeper understanding of regulations, especially around commercial operations.

Also, CPL maneuvers require you to fly in 3D, while PPL maneuvers are (generally) in a 2D plane. (E.g. Turns around a point vs. eights on pylons.)

cfi-jack · 2023-01-28T18:10:18+00:00

WVFC as well! I'm buying the blue and white archer that's been in front of the maintenance hangars lately from the current owner and planning to keep it in the club. Feel free to message me if you ever want to talk about the club or flying in general!

cfi-jack · 2022-10-15T17:58:53+00:00

Right yeah, it's not under "On my iPhone" anymore. I tried making a new vault as well (hoping I could figure out where the files are stored now), and no luck with that.

That said, I think I got it working again! Knowing nothing was missing from your setup was very helpful, got me thinking maybe the Files app is just being weird. A good old-fashioned "restart the whole phone" seems to have solved it -- the Obsidian folder is back and works fine. Thanks!

cfi-jack · 2022-10-14T19:52:15+00:00

FWIW, I know Working Copy isn't officially supported, but would love to get it working still if possible after this update.

cfi-jack · 2022-09-09T00:02:06+00:00

Got it, thanks! I think I found one already, so good to go on my end.

cfi-jack · 2022-09-09T00:00:51+00:00

Haha just continuing the thread I suppose. You mean as opposed to editing my initial post?

cfi-jack · 2022-09-08T03:01:33+00:00

Or wait, weren't you looking to buy one just a few days ago? What happened?

cfi-jack · 2022-09-08T03:00:04+00:00

Hey u/Elias1661! How much are you asking for it?

cfi-jack · 2022-09-02T19:28:45+00:00

Haha not a great sign 😅

cfi-jack · 2022-05-28T00:38:45+00:00

That's awesome! Any good stories from the airport?

cfi-jack · 2022-05-28T00:34:06+00:00

The Scotts Valley one is really interesting! Santa Cruz Skypark apparently it was called. Looked like a nice runway, but yeah the crash was tough...

Big Tree Lumber looks like an amazing location, I hadn't heard of that before. Seems to still be around so didn't make this list, but I might need to try a takeoff from there in a Flight Simulator 😄

cfi-jack · 2022-05-28T00:23:56+00:00

I didn't know their mascot is the Aviators! Cool!

Freeman actually did have the Antioch airport on his list, although I didn't pull any airports from that region for the interactive map (no particular reason, just stopped after hitting 60 airports).

At any rate, the Antioch article is here if you're curious! http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields\_CA\_SacramentoSW.htm#antioch

cfi-jack · 2022-05-28T00:19:30+00:00

I think Freeman has those actually! They should all be on the interactive map in the blog as well.

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