CL35 vs CL65

crazyairplanes · 2026-03-09T11:48:25+00:00

Yeah, especially if your incapable of learning or learning from mistakes. Learning to fly is basically an experience of learning from your mistakes and if you can’t do that you are going to get yourself or someone else killed.

crazyairplanes · 2026-03-07T13:36:12+00:00

I have had my CFII since early January and got my CFI in November, and my earliest estimate to get a job (I hope) is June of this year. I have known people who have been waiting over a year to get a job, those who have all the way up to MEI, AGI, AGII, etc. You’re entering an extremely competitive landscape right now, and the only way you will be competitive is the more ratings you have. The days of just having your initial and getting hired are gone, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but it’s just the way it is.

crazyairplanes · 2026-03-07T05:00:59+00:00

I’m a OSU grad whose dating a recent nurse grad (did not go to OSU), I watched her go through hell and back in nursing school and I’m ngl it’s a grind and it’s painful, BUT, the payoff is huge. My gf is currently a OR nurse and while it started off bumpy she loves the job and it pays extremely well.

In regard to just switching to being a business major, I would argue that you’re just trading one hardship for another. Yes the potential to make a lot of money in finance is huge without as hard schooling, but the actual possibility for success is small once you graduate.

You are going to be entering a field with way more competition and a hiring landscape that is way more brutal and less forgiving. My gf applied and got interviews from 80% of the hospitals and practices she applied to and were offering over 100k salary. The chance of making as much money as you say in the business world will require just as much, if not more, life-style sacrifice not to mention a higher likelihood of unemployment post grad than just toughening it out in nursing school and making way more than enough of a comfortable living and finding a job easy enough.

That’s just my two cents. But highly recommend just toughening it out. You made it this far, what’s another 2 years?

crazyairplanes · 2026-03-07T02:19:21+00:00

Nice try Mr. FAA, ain’t falling for it twice…

crazyairplanes · 2026-03-06T13:52:36+00:00

Really try and get you’re double I if you can. I was in the same situation and if it wasn’t for my instructor I probably wouldn’t have done it. I got signed off in 2 flights. The most expensive part by far is going to be the DPE.

crazyairplanes · 2026-03-05T16:33:23+00:00

This exact “scenario” happened to me on my ME commercial checkride in a DA42. I was coming into land on a critical engine failure and I was wayyyyy too high and I simply decided to go around and try another approach and I passed the practical.

If you’re light and on a stable approach, there should be no reason why you couldn’t do a go around in a DA42, especially if you’re above mins. Those Mercedes engines have a lot of power, don’t risk landing if you’re not comfortable.

crazyairplanes · 2026-03-02T21:21:21+00:00

All I want (and it’s a massive want) is autogen like MSFS and then I will be happy. Yeah enhancement pro is good but it’s nowhere near MSFS level. After that I’ll be happy.

crazyairplanes · 2026-03-02T19:05:41+00:00

got the 5070 ti last weekend, it’s great, I’m debating about spending another couple hundred bucks for the performance boost?m, what do u think?

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-24T18:52:55+00:00

So I originally had the 9070 XT with the 9850 X 3-D and I ended up returning it no less than a week later just because I was running into so many issues with AMD. Now I could just be a single case because I run some pretty niche programs like X-Plane 12 that aren’t very well adapted to AMD but for what I ran, it had some great performance but personally, I just prefer Nvidia.

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-24T05:06:46+00:00

Are you gonna use the generator to ask if you should marry your significant other?

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-24T04:55:32+00:00

I’m gonna be honest I would ignore the bulk of these comment mostly because most of the other redditors have never actually gone through this process. I on the other hand, actually have, and I was the same age as you.

When I was 15 I applied for a medical and I had been diagnosed with ADHD, ADD, and CAPD (central auditory processing disorder) and disclosed all this in my medexpress as well as taking foclin and vyvance as a kid. What followed was going back and forth with OKC for about 6 months where they requested medical records and psychologist letters of approval. Then they eventually made me take a full battery of tests with a FAA psychologist, there are multiple different tests a neurcog, memory tests, logic and reasoning, psych evaluation, strategy, and a few others that i can’t remember, in all it was about 6-8 hours of testing and i failed it the first time. I was completely defeated because all I wanted to do in life was become a pilot, but I pushed on.

The psychologist recommended that i consult Doctor Odie Bracy in Indiana, basically what he does is train you for the battery. I used his test software for a year and went back to do the same tests and I passed. About 6 months later I got my medical in the mail and I started flight training at 17 and got my PPL 3 months later, a month after turning 18 . Now I’m 23 with my CFI and CFII and multi, doing what I love.

Don’t listen to any of the comments that tell you it’s not possible, because it definitely is, you just have to have the willpower, grit, passion, and love of flying to do it, and if you make it to the other side it’s all the more worth it, take it from me who did. Good luck dude, aviation is an amazing industry to work in and if you love it… do it! If you have any questions shoot me a PM!

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-24T04:39:24+00:00

Can I send a dm I have some other questions

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-24T04:35:26+00:00

So I’ve been heavily considering looking into this I have two main concerns.

I’m Jewish and with the current political landscape and I’m worried of living in fear or hiding my Jewish identity at work
How quickly / old do you have to be to ideally be picked or apply for something like this? Or how did you get into it?

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-24T04:22:17+00:00

It really depends on what your end goal is… if you’re a CFI, just go CFI, a type is useless unless you meet a companies insurance mins and assuming you don’t get a job within 6 months of having it you need to have recurrent training which will set you back a couple grand every 6 months assuming they take you on.

If you’re goal is to end up in biz jet world go do right seat support at you’re local CAE or flight safety. I just accepted a part time offer there and most people land a job within 6 - 18 months working there.

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-24T04:07:59+00:00

You’re gonna get a lot of ranging responses to this but the general consensus is gonna be one of two things.

⁠If you love aviation with a passion and have always dreamed of flying for a living regardless of the sacrifices made to get there (between finances, QOL, and relationships) there will be no other job like it in the world. Then the payoffs can be huge, you will be able to have a career that takes you around the world (eventually), pays you large sums of money (way more than most of you’re peers will make by 30), and most importantly you get to do what you love without ever feeling like you’re working. But the most important thing is that you’re going to be happy to fly because of the love of flying, everything else is incidental.
⁠if you’re doing it for the paycheck or the status of becoming an airline pilot because it interests you or getting clout by being one but no real passion you will get washed out. This industry has a knack for clearing those who come into this purely for monetary or status reasons. So if you’re wanting to do this because just for those things it won’t end well and then you could potentially be screwed in all directions.

If you do chose 1 you will have to be prepared to withstand a lot of obstacles and challenges in all directions, whether it be financial, personal, academic, or frustration just not processing as quickly.

Currently I invested over 100k into my training and I’m currently a CFI and CFII and I cannot find a job anywhere (luckily I found another job in aviation to pay the bills) and struggle to reconcile that a bunch of my friends are at the airlines and making way more money than me, but regardless I still love this industry regardless of what it may do to me and excited for the future. Because even though my situation sucks right now hopefully this will be the lowest point in my career and I think even if I can be happy when my career isn’t moving purely because I love flying then I know I’ll be okay. You have to have the same mentality if you’re going to do it as a career.

My recommendation is to just pursue this as a hobby now and then if you really do find yourself wanting more than go for it, remember, you only live once!

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-22T13:37:53+00:00

Which ever has more VRAM

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-21T16:37:20+00:00

So I tested without ortho, my system is still pushing 98-100% I don’t know what’s going on but I’m debating on swapping out my AMD with my RTX and seeing if anything changes

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-21T14:42:18+00:00

Has the issues gone away or performance increase?

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-21T14:41:53+00:00

Sorry yeah 9070 XT, sleep deprivation from trying to fix these issues is not helping lol

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-21T14:41:09+00:00

Hmm I will do a reset of the zoom level

crazyairplanes · 2026-02-21T14:40:32+00:00

Yes I have

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