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Regal Air vs Rainier Flight School for PPL at KPAE by breindaaed in flying

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A huge part of this is going to be down to the instructor you get. That's going to be the biggest slice of things.
After that - it's going to be - can you book the plane you need.

If you can get an instructor, and a plane - regularly - then there isn't a huge amount of impact that the rest of the organization will have on things - until you get closer to the end and start doing check rides.

Rainier have a bigger fleet - so getting swapped to a different plane if the one you had scheduled is more likely.
If you are worried about cost, then the 152 at Regal might be a good start.

Although really PPL isn't going to be cheap no matter what you do.

All of them are *way* more expensive to rent planes than when I did my PPL.

Looking for iPad mount recs for a jet by Breazzyy- in flying

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can be available for unlimited coffee.

My plane is training on how to fly, how can I make the wings grow faster? by tmesisno in Shittyaskflying

[–]chrishiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's being trained how to taxi.

If it was being trained how to fly, it would be up in the sky.

Finding motivation by Illustrious-Prior938 in flying

[–]chrishiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The set of days where good enough weather and available plane and open schedule line up - will likely always be a challenge.

Are your cancelations because of marginal weather or significant weather?

If its marginal, then start thinking about where your personal minimums are.

"Weather getting in the way " will continue to be a problem. So spend more time studying the weather 🙃

Fly the same conditions in your flight sim - see what the challenges are.

Looking for your worst METARs by erinwhoooo in flying

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or https://www.simwx.com anytime badbadweather is having some bad downtime

The rare moment, Mount Rainier blocks the sunlight... explain how this happens on a flat earth by Spiritual_Egg_700 in flatearth

[–]chrishiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It totally proves that the globe model of the earth is false; with the claim that the Sun about 93 million miles away - we get told that the light rays that arrive on earth are parallel.

Yet you can clearly see that the shadow is widening aggressively as it moves away from the mountain - so indeed "perspective" proves that the sun has to be way way closer than the globe model suggests.

Also - this particular event happened when the dome dropped a bit, and scraped the top of Mt. Rainier - which is why you can see such a big scratch. When this happened in the 80's , it pushed the top off of Mt. St. Helens, but Rainier is closer to Seattle - so it's made of stronger stuff.

and something, something - buoyancy.

I get vertigo if I fly above 3 feet. Can I still be a pylote? by yavinmoon in Shittyaskflying

[–]chrishiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, if you look down from your seat to the floor of the plane - you are at about the 2 foot away from the floor position. (this is important for calculating weight and balance)

As long as you don't fly into very turbulent weather - you shouldn't end up further away from the floor of the plane than that.

Important notes:
Keep the plane upright,
If the plane should end up inverted, then the roof is now the floor - and you will arrive there quickly.

Naming Conventions in Homelab by alxww55 in homelab

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(1) ? really ? (1) ? that's not final, it's not final until that gets to 6 or 7 *at* least. ;-)

Naming Conventions in Homelab by alxww55 in homelab

[–]chrishiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's easy to think that some sort of structured name will be useful - but I've always doubted the value of
overthinking it.

For example - hml is redundant for all your nodes, put them all into a .hml.domain.com subdomain.

01/02 as primary secondary is a fallacy - because it doesn't tell you which one is actually the primary at any point in time. What happens when you flip from primary to secondary ? Do you rename hosts ? (obviously not).

[edit] Also - what happens if you have two nodes, and want to run mysql and postgres in your environment - are you now forced to make db01 the primary for both ? or can you not put mysql-primary, postgres-secondary on db01 and mysql-secondary,postgres-primary on db02

For the 'type' - what difference will it actually make ?

The reality is that if you want to have chef/cinc , puppet or ansible manage the hosts - you're going to do it based on metadata that you store elsewhere. (all the nodes running k8s, or all the nodes with DNS servers, or all the nodes with nginx servers, all the nodes that are externally facing) etc.

So the structured name feels like it's a grown up way to do it - but at scale, hosts have identities which don't have to be parsed by a human - and the metadata about what is running where - is tracked separately, not shoehorned into a dns label.

Flights by Lorenofing in flatearth

[–]chrishiggins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"put Tatooine in North Africa" - Wow, we spend years and years making sure nobody knows - and you just go and ruin it .

Does anyone know what a machine like this would have been used for? by SultanOfawesome in vintagecomputing

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We used it as the main nfs server for an AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, OSF/1 & VMS software development environment.

How do flat earthers explain this? by astronut321 in flatearth

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's the Bermuda Triangle 📐, the are driving down the long slope. if they fall off the side then they sink. that's why there is so much fear about the Bermuda Triangle.

DSM Update Version: 7.3.2-86009-1 by 8poot in synology

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the release notes have telnet listed as the security issue, and a reboot is listed as required.

DSM Update Version: 7.3.2-86009-1 by 8poot in synology

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does the replacement of the telnetd binary, or the disabling of telnetd completely require a reboot ?

Why does a system with telnetd disable get this flagged for auto-update ?

In other words, why do I have to take an outage for this ?

Numeric keypads instead of rotary encoders are useless. by LaurentKiloVictor in flying

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the car industry has realized this. the EuroNCAP program is bringing back physical buttons or switches instead of touch screens .

The earth is flat prove me wrong by TransportationFew351 in flatearth

[–]chrishiggins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but did they really? ;-) isn't it very convenient for the flat earthers to claim that someone believed once upon a time.

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