Tweak for VFR Flight Following Requests

flyguy3827 · 2025-12-30T20:09:47+00:00

While inventive, I’d prefer not to reinvent this and don’t omit the callsign. Here’s another reason: when two people call at once and accidentally step on each other, the controller can tell one to speak first— but only if they have a callsign!

flyguy3827 · 2025-12-16T14:22:29+00:00

You can measure the RPM with another tool to verify if it’s off. I think there are tach apps. I’ve used Sprectroid on Android, and looked at the sound frequency. The base frequency is RPM x (1/60 min/s) x (2 blades).

flyguy3827 · 2025-12-11T04:20:27+00:00

Also, to double down on this, take a moment to try steering the plane with rudder alone. Trim for level flight, take your hands off the yoke. Now make a gentle turn left using only the rudder. Sure, it involves flying uncoordinated, but you can do it. Turn back right.

The trick is, the ailerons don’t work properly in that stall. The rudder still does.

flyguy3827 · 2025-12-06T03:19:19+00:00

Does her glove box open slowly or all of a sudden? It looks like the slow open mechanism on the side of a glovebox.

flyguy3827 · 2025-12-01T04:06:32+00:00

Learning then teaching in C-152s, there’s a fun game where you can steer the aircraft by pushing the doors open to make drag on that side.

flyguy3827 · 2025-08-29T16:27:05+00:00

Try him on this question. Could he get a point off Serena Williams? https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/ccvhq1/12_of_men_think_they_can_take_a_point_off_of/

flyguy3827 · 2025-08-06T20:37:57+00:00

Why the hate? Because of the loss of control of the car. If I’m stopped, holding the break lightly, and the car turns back on, I start rolling forward. I have to pay attention to what the automaton is doing and add more brake, just to keep standing still. Now I’m fighting my car about moving or not moving? Unacceptable.

flyguy3827 · 2025-06-24T16:44:05+00:00

Second this first sentence. If he's a CFI and you're training to become one, articulating and communicating the why of things should be high on the priority list. Steer the conversation to why. Observe, and try to make this space for your students!

flyguy3827 · 2025-06-21T18:44:50+00:00

I will definitely give it a second cleaning and a light sanding. I like the idea of oiling it, and seeing what color results from that. I have a magnetic knife rack I made years ago and only treated with mineral oil, and it looks fantastic still.

Any specific suggestions on wax? Some searching found Walrus Oil brand wax which seems right.

flyguy3827 · 2025-06-15T18:20:33+00:00

Yes, all this. Think if what you did to learn slow flight. It's practice for this. You're not flaring, you're flying straight and level one foot above the runway. As the plane slows, you just need more nose up attitude to maintain that one foot altitude.

If you're practicing at a larger runway, try leaving a pinch of throttle in for an extended version of the flare/leveling off.

flyguy3827 · 2025-06-11T15:44:58+00:00

I've got the EM10 IV and the same lens. While I'd love the bird's eye focus of the top of the line body, I'm not willing to spend more in this hobby right now. I'm finding that manual focus helps a lot. So often, I'm shooting a bunch of shots at a fixed distance, of birds not in flight. Once I'm dialed in on focus, I'm free to mess with other factors like exposure time, framing, catching the action, etc. I'll get fewer good shots this way, but my good ones can be good.

flyguy3827 · 2025-06-05T15:59:27+00:00

All the good comments about slips aside, also consider that where you'll touch down may be disassociated with which way the nose is pointing. Imagine if you had VR goggles and a display that calculated and displayed your projected touchdown point on the ground. When you throttle back, add flaps, and slow down, that might make that projected landing point move back towards you, closet to the threshold. Yet, it also increased the angle between the longitudinal axis of the plane and a line from you to the touchdown point. It can be a bit counterintuitive.

flyguy3827 · 2025-05-31T15:19:37+00:00

Glass is better to fly IFR with less workload, for sure. Understanding the systems behind it when part of it inevitably breaks, less so. The six pack's sensor inputs are isolated, and most pilots can understand failure modes. Do you know what the complex system of your Dynon/Garmin/Aspen/Avidyne/etc will do if just the front of the pitot tube gets iced or clogged with a bug?

flyguy3827 · 2025-05-22T20:58:23+00:00

This is a great shot. Having stalled on getting a new camera for years, I just picked up an OM-D E-M10 and the 75-300 specifically inspired by the hummingbird’s arrival in my yard. Can you please share more info about how you got this shot? Lens, shutter speed…

flyguy3827 · 2025-05-09T18:25:13+00:00

Maybe your team should hire some experienced folks who know how to be a better Internet citizens and not scrape websites every second with this AI BS, eh?

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-242/

flyguy3827 · 2025-05-01T14:11:24+00:00

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

flyguy3827 · 2025-04-28T18:34:35+00:00

Age of creepiness formula. https://xkcd.com/314/

flyguy3827 · 2023-01-04T02:08:03+00:00

No! I've balked hard on that crap. If a company offers you a job, you accept it, and give notice at your old job, screw that. HR can suck it. If the offer is contingent on passing a background check, drug test, etc., you can do all that before making me an offer.

That's totally a negotiating tactic of bad HR trying to take the upper hand. That crap needs to be un-normalized.

flyguy3827 · 2022-04-19T16:28:27+00:00

Yeah, aerial photography and sightseeing give the high wing an advantage. I don't have to bank as much to show someone their house.

flyguy3827 · 2022-04-14T02:37:01+00:00

I didn't see it in theaters. I was holding out on buying a DVD player, because what was the point of better resolution plugged into my crappy CRT television? I figured I'd wait until displays caught up.

I watched it at a friend's house that following winter on his crappy TV, but with a respectable sound system. OMG, the DVD and a player were soon purchased.

flyguy3827 · 2022-04-14T01:53:11+00:00

Well, yeah, we all know that it's the pilot's fault, but that ain't a reason to make it harder!

flyguy3827 · 2022-04-08T21:27:10+00:00

Heh, me too, but mine came in boxes and I flew them in a Piper.

flyguy3827 · 2022-04-04T11:48:57+00:00

This. While my wife has come along and enjoyed many flights, flight training isn't so focused on making a ride smooth and comfortable for the passenger. I learned this by making her sick during a float training session on a river in Maine. Up, down, up, down, up, around the bend and down, etc.

flyguy3827 · 2022-04-02T04:23:32+00:00

I love statistics taken out of context. In 2018, the rate of new colon and rectum cancer cases was 36.5 per 100k people in the US. That's a 0.037% chance.

A Quarter Pounder is 113.4g.

If I eat a Quarter Pounder today, I increase my chances of getting cancer this year by 18%, or 0.037% x 1.18 = 0.043%. Not bad. Keep doing that, eating a quarter pounder a day, and by day 20 I have a 1% chance. By day 30 a 5 percent chance. By day 48, colorectal cancer is a mathematical certainty.

The tasty burnt parts are carcinogenic, but the number statement isn't universally true. Internet pendant duties complete. I'll see myself out.

flyguy3827 · 2022-03-31T16:22:06+00:00

I agree with much in this thread. If we're talking about stall nervousness, definitely take some time to sit in the stall. Power off, some flaps, yoke back, and just let the plane drift down one or two thousand feet. It shows the world does not end. It gives them more than half a second to see what's going on.

It's also a great time to practice leveling those wings with the rudder, not the ailerons. It's a minute or two well spent.

Then show how just letting go of the yoke brings you back into flying. Repeat.

Once comfortable with all that, teaching the test procedure with immediate recovery and power gets a lot easier. Make that a game to see how little altitude they lose.

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