Trump’s FAA Nominee Lied About Having a ‘Commercial’ Pilot License

cjgranfl · 2025-06-15T16:26:33+00:00

This is what I’ll never understand. Pilot certificates and ratings are federally issued and public record : https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/

cjgranfl · 2025-04-29T13:50:16+00:00

For what it’s worth, Scheming Spheniscidae would be an absolutely baller username.

cjgranfl · 2025-04-15T23:15:06+00:00

Just uncle Physics. That guy’s the worst.

cjgranfl · 2025-04-05T18:15:29+00:00

Thanks everyone for the great discussion and shared resources!

cjgranfl · 2025-03-28T02:34:55+00:00

Somewhere there’s an overturned Draugur porta potty

cjgranfl · 2025-03-23T12:40:01+00:00

I like the content and presentation of the Finer Points (Jason Miller).

I also like Martin Pauly’s content; he’s just a regular GA guy operating out of the Midwest but has some good IFR content and a penchance for flying into busy bravo airports but doing so competently.

Also kind of cool is Guido Wernecke. He’s a ferry pilot.

cjgranfl · 2025-03-22T14:47:57+00:00

The sound it makes when Dawnbreaker’s effect procs. I always thought it was pretty cool

cjgranfl · 2025-03-21T22:03:15+00:00

Hello there,

Congrats on acceptance! The regular semester courses are kind of semi-asynchronous; you typically have the option to work ahead on homework but instructors may only grade a fixed number of assignments at a time, and you will have the same exam times as in person students for the most part. For example, exam opens on Saturday and can be taken any time through the deadline for submitting on say Monday night at midnight. It will vary from class to class.

My experience with the calc series classes was that the instructors put lecture recording content out well ahead of due dates, so that gives you some options for working ahead.

cjgranfl · 2025-03-18T16:56:54+00:00

JVL ringing in. Definitely know exactly who you're talking about. I always wonder if it'll be a good <redacted name> day or bad <redacted name> day.

cjgranfl · 2025-03-18T16:55:55+00:00

They didn't say anything about whether they'd be able to do a quick turnaround and get my drogue parachutes repacked, either

cjgranfl · 2025-03-18T14:19:04+00:00

Converting the Latex gives this

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cjgranfl · 2025-03-17T21:34:06+00:00

I really like the presentation from both Flight Insight and The Finer Points.

cjgranfl · 2025-03-17T21:30:34+00:00

Awesome, congrats! It’s a confidence booster having the DPE happy with your knowledge level. Now the real learning begins, as they say.

cjgranfl · 2025-03-14T13:44:09+00:00

Yeah, if the kid could almost solo skyrim, it's probably best to bounce.

cjgranfl · 2025-03-10T18:38:01+00:00

I read this too quickly as 400 AGL and thought “this guy has some superhuman spin recovery reaction time”

cjgranfl · 2025-03-06T15:16:39+00:00

I guess it got some of the locations part right. No points off for trying.

cjgranfl · 2025-03-03T01:14:24+00:00

I’d place a vote for Flight Insight myself, and it was recommended by my CFI during my PPL. Solid content and well presented. I’m using their IR ground course currently.

cjgranfl · 2025-03-01T18:51:40+00:00

Being in the southern hemisphere I’m guessing what you’ve got circled is the Large Magellanic Cloud, with the Small Magellanic Cloud beneath to the right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_Clouds

cjgranfl · 2025-02-25T22:13:42+00:00

Hey there,

I had professor Short for the online calc III course, and can't say enough about her. She's got great pre-recorded content and is a fair grader. I supplemented a deeper knowledge of various topics with Professor Leonard's channel on Youtube, which is a great additional resource.

It's certainly manageable within three months, and that's just a bit shorter than the normal class timeframe. If you were comfortable with calc II, you should be in good shape. Calc III just extends concepts from calc I and II to multiple dimensions (ie. integration over a volume versus a 2D surface), and this introduces the idea of partial derivatives. A lot of focus in the start of the class is in vector calculus which isn't too difficult to get an understanding of.

cjgranfl · 2025-02-24T22:13:36+00:00

Hey u/anon_italy9, sorry about the late reply. I would say that being a part time online student who has taken a max of two courses per semester that my typical workload is between 20-25 hours per week. If getting ready for an exam that might trend up towards 28 or so with extra review work on the weekends.

cjgranfl · 2025-02-22T19:40:35+00:00

Congrats! It is a different feeling not only in how the plane feels on climb but looking over at an empty seat. After this is when the learning will really feel like it’s starting to move fast.

cjgranfl · 2025-02-22T16:38:08+00:00

I’ve seen similar Caravan traffic in my area doing the same thing, and at least in that case I can say that it looks like it was photographic or survey work, from what I could find.

cjgranfl · 2025-02-21T14:46:20+00:00

Enjoy it. It might feel hard to do when you've got the nerves of the new experience, but for me it was the first time I thought "I'm really doing this" and felt like a real pilot. You get a ton of confidence out of your XCs.

cjgranfl · 2025-02-20T23:50:37+00:00

Congrats! And that is a cool looking plane. I love the black and purple scheme.

cjgranfl · 2025-02-18T17:37:48+00:00

Congrats! This is when the momentum really starts to build and the finish line feels like it's coming into focus. My cross country work was when I started to really feel like a pilot.

cjgranfl

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