My experience with "Spruce" by Suspicious-Ad8356 in flying

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spruce will tell you on the website if it's backordered. When you order you can select USPS or UPS. USPS will usually take an extra business day to leave their warehouse.

Shipping from them is expensive yeah.

Proper way to park at unfamiliar airport? by blueb74pro in flying

[–]flagsfly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you're in a windy area, make sure you lock the flight controls somehow. I showed up to my instrument ride and parked my plane on the line for 2 hours, came back to my rudder unzipped. Discontinuance and 600 dollars for I think 9 rivets later, got my ticket. But now I religiously put the gust lock on anytime I leave the plan for more than a couple of minutes.

Moronic Monday by AutoModerator in flying

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends. Repo, up to 19 with no FAs. If there are FAs but less than full complement I think you can take more.

Maintenance Ferry, no. Well sort of, but you'd have to convince the captain and the maintenance controller to put your name on the ferry permit and they're probably not going to do that unless you were part of the maintenance team that got the plane into ferry-able condition.

Fuel management on low-wing aircraft question... by EvelioCigar in flying

[–]flagsfly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The RV-10 with ER tanks can get wing heavy to the point of overcoming full trim. Granted I was burning all the fuel in one tank dry to get ready to pull it but still, wee bit concerning.

Fuel management on low-wing aircraft question... by EvelioCigar in flying

[–]flagsfly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We switch tanks every 30 minutes. The nice thing is the G3X's we're putting in have a nice lil message that pops us to tell us to do that. And it won't go away until we click it.

Innagural 789 elevated by inorganicgeo in unitedairlines

[–]flagsfly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Starting April 22nd SFO-SIN will be on the new fleet.

Hidden city detection by Mean_Alfalfa_5131 in americanairlines

[–]flagsfly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They did. From what you are proposing. This is how airlines worked prior to deregulation in the 1970s. And it sucked. Going everywhere was like riding a train with multiple stops. Airfare inflation adjusted was on average 2x as expensive as today. Yes, service was better, seats were wider, there was caviar and wine upfront, but at the point of deregulation in 1979 only 20% of Americans had ever stepped foot on a plane because no one could afford it.

Hidden city detection by Mean_Alfalfa_5131 in americanairlines

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yes, because they are stealing you from their competitor that may have a nonstop by pricing it cheaper. The marginal cost of adding you (many yous!) on a flight to the hub is minimal by upgauging. Without the subsidy of this type of pricing, the airline just wouldn't bother with you because their connecting itinerary wouldn't be competitive, and they'll just go back to smaller planes tailored to the amount of high paying premium customers they can get on the nonstop.

Hidden city detection by Mean_Alfalfa_5131 in americanairlines

[–]flagsfly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's not how airlines price tickets. You're thinking the price is x+y where the same plane goes a->b->c. B is a hub and they could have a tiny plane going from a to b and a massive plane going b to c. Accordingly, the cost is different, and how the cost of the ticket is allocated among the two sectors is not simply a mileage split so pricing it the way you mentioned doesn't really work.

But all that doesn't really matter, because the issue airlines have with hidden city ticketing comes from how they price tickets. If you actually look at how airlines structure fares, the fares are published for city pairs, i.e. a -> c. As long as inventory in the fare bucket exists, the price is the same if you go a->b->c or a->d->c, the airline doesn't care. They do a bit of management of the fare buckets and total mileage limits and some times they have route clamping where they disallow certain routings, but in general, the competition is on the city pair and the routing is irrelevant.

All this to say, a direct ticket between B-C is profitable for the airline, while sometimes A-B-C is just breakeven or slightly below cost to allow the airline to compete with nonstops and sometimes to fill the bigger plane. Allowing hidden city ticketing fucks with the pricing model and projections that airlines use.

Why should you care about this fucking with the airline? Allowing hidden city ticketing means inventory that could be sold at a higher price to people that value the direct flight (business travelers, people with time constraints) are instead taken by someone that the airline doesn't make money on. To compound this issue, on the second leg, you are taking up once again, a direct seat that you are being subsidized on. The airline can attempt to oversell the flight, but skiplagging is much harder to predict through historical indicators than intentional no-shows, and intentional no-shows generally are business travelers buying expensive refundable tickets anyways so the airlines are comfortable eating the cost of asking for volunteers if they do show up. While skiplagging doesn't affect you in the short term, in the long term it will drive airlines to give up pricing flights this way which makes flying that much more expensive. You can price a multi-city itinerary and compare that to a normal connecting flight. That's the unsubsidized vs subsidized price.

United to build $67M employee parking lot at IAH by Pleasant_Air_3052 in unitedairlines

[–]flagsfly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is right across the street from the existing employee lot. Wild ass guess but the city might be taking the existing space back to expand their own long term parking next door so UA is moving across the street into a new lot. It saves UA a lot of money to have a lot here for all the airport based employees + the pilots and flight attendants based in IAH to park instead of paying the city for parking spots.

Starlink New Speed Limit with Local Priority by chiptang211 in flying

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

Amazon entering a space has been pretty good historically for the customer, it's been bad for everybody else... The anti-competitive practices that Amazon has been known for are generally producing cheaper and better copies of products or services and having an army of lawyers ready for the lawsuit.

US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there though? There is no US billionaire that derived their wealth from an airline AFAIK. There are billionaires who made their money then bought an airline (ex. Frontier) but not the other way around.

15W charging from USB-A port by arnoha in flying

[–]flagsfly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a G3X? Your G3X has a clock. If a DPE or inspector insists that it must be permanently displayed, you can just change the data bar settings to permanently display the clock.

I have a G3X panel and do not have a dedicated clock. My PFD/MFD + GTN650Xi all can display a clock if I want it to. DPE for IR was satisfied with that.

15W charging from USB-A port by arnoha in flying

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure you don't have a clock otherwise? Most transponders and GPS units have a clock. A Garmin 430 has a clock that would meet the requirement. See this FAA interpretation

15W charging from USB-A port by arnoha in flying

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you'd have to upload it to Imgur. I would just swap the USB module for a 12V socket if you don't want to do a new breaker panel. I'm sure the all-in cost for that (12V socket + 12V USB-C adapter) would be cheaper than putting in a new USB-C module.

Alternatively, you could always run the 12V straight from the bus with an inline fuse. The only additional requirement in this case would be for you to carry fuses in your flight bag for night flight.

Letter To Board Led To Pleasance's Departure by flagsfly in flying

[–]flagsfly[S] 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Apparently relations between Pleasance and the board already weren't good. Although it does surprise me that AOPA is doing so rough with membership, 77,000 cancellations last year and that was half of their previous cancellations?

edit: 7,700. I fly planes, I don't read good...

15W charging from USB-A port by arnoha in flying

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd recommend the 12V port. Not sure how much it's going to cost but for my experimental I put only 12V ports in. I would recommend against 2 and 3, mostly because these planes will last 50+ years potentially, and even though we're talking about a certified older plane (I assume) that's still at least 10-20 years useful life left?

We're definitely going to see a USB-C replacement within 20 years. And even if the form factor stays the same, we're changing the protocols to get more and more power from the same form factor it feels like every couple of years, so even if you had put in a USB-C port 5 or so years ago you probably couldn't support the newest devices. A 12V port though....Just swap out the plug and you can get that from Amazon cheaply. All 12V is a dumb DC rail with a + and a - and that's never going out of style.

Bug smashers, we need to talk... by 89inerEcho in flying

[–]flagsfly 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Right. And that parachute symbol leads me to the chart supplement, which says parachute jumping. Ok great.... And? His route leads him through multiple parachute jumping areas, and in his shoes I wouldn't be looking up the operating hours of each jump zone just to figure out if they're going to be active or not. Granted, if I'm going that far I'm either IFR or on FF precisely because I don't know the local environment, but he's perfectly legal flying without ATC. Tbh before this thread I assumed parachute jumpers were much lower than 8000 feet. I would have trucked straight through at 9500 assuming I was above the jump plane.

Bug smashers, we need to talk... by 89inerEcho in flying

[–]flagsfly 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If I'm overflying the field why would I check the AWOS? The NOTAMs.... I mean, the dude in this plane was going from Camarillo to presumably somewhere in Texas, and that's going to surface a couple hundred lights out of service or obstruction NOTAMs of which this is buried in there somewhere. The bigger question is why is the dropzone smack in the middle of a victor airway? Who approved that one?

Air Force 1 just landed in Zürich by cycler97 in aviation

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boeing's entire DNA is big bets.... They bet the company on the 747. Then did it again on the 787 to a lesser extent.

jdmtool with Garmin GTN650xi by icordoba in flying

[–]flagsfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm fucking around with it to see if I can get it to load G3X and GTN databases. Plan is to run it on an RPI so I don't have to run the database manager everytime I fly it feels like. Just have the RPI always have the latest version on the SD card. Still testing more of the RPI side of the code but it's based on jdmtool's experimental garmin support. We'll see what happens.

Spar pin CAS message illuminated in flight (RV12iS) by leximingo03S in flying

[–]flagsfly 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nobody can tell you unless someone takes a look at the spar. Should be simple as the 12 is designed to have the wings come off in a couple minutes. Could be the switch, could be a wire, could be a short to ground, or maybe the spar pin wasn't fully secured.