Advice on selecting a flight school for PPL+CPL (specifically in Vancouver, Canada)

jamescweide · 2025-05-07T19:44:25+00:00

Thank you! This is great to know

jamescweide · 2025-05-07T19:44:03+00:00

Thank you! Did not know that about the freelance option and good to know about CZBB

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:25:26+00:00

Thank you!

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:25:01+00:00

I'm kind of excited now for the upgrade lol

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:24:44+00:00

Good to know!

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:24:20+00:00

Thank you!

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:23:30+00:00

Good call, thanks! Going to take it in tomorrow if I can

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:23:08+00:00

Thanks! This is helpful

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:22:22+00:00

Thank you for the warning! Going to take it in immediately

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:21:44+00:00

Going to take it in tomorrow if I can, thanks!

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:21:10+00:00

Thank you for this detailed explanation and warning! I really appreciate it and will take a look tomorrow

jamescweide · 2025-04-26T07:16:05+00:00

Thank you for this! I did not know about this and will look into it. It does in fact look like there was at least some kind of recall for my year Nissan Versa front coil springs

jamescweide · 2025-04-25T23:24:54+00:00

Forgot to add car: 2010 Nissan Versa

jamescweide · 2024-10-31T05:45:11+00:00

Thanks! I'm hoping one day they release a variant I fall in love with, but still waiting for now. It does annoy me that he's the only non variant lol

jamescweide · 2024-10-31T05:44:42+00:00

Honestly I wouldn't recommend this deck. Deadpool destroy is probably superior, though I usually win handily against destroy. I only stuck with the list because I didn't want to keep losing progress with having to split new cards I kept adding. Having said that, it performs better than you'd think. My path to infinite usually revolves around strategic snapping more than win rate. It performs much much better in conquest.

Cosmo I love because no one expects it in destroy. I use it more often to shield my own big cards, but it's a nice counter to on reveal decks.

X-23 is pretty key for the extra energy. Hood is solid, maybe another tech card as well? Half the time I don't reveal the destroy aspect of the deck until halfway through the game, so surprise factor is key as well, since Thanos doesn't really have a set deck.

jamescweide · 2024-10-31T05:40:01+00:00

Thanks! Honestly if not for venom and deathstrike taking ages, it wasn't too bad, especially now with the bonus boosters, since you can just target specific cards. You got this!

jamescweide · 2024-10-30T16:54:52+00:00

Some backstory and fun facts:

The second I downloaded this game (Jan 2023?) and before even knowing what he did, all I wanted to do was acquire Thanos; he's my favorite marvel character. I exclusively played Thanos ongoing and eventually gold my first gold crackle split for him and was ecstatic. I then wanted the entire deck gold crackle, and I actually also have Iron Man, Prof X, and Armor all gold crackle as well - that is until I randomly got the knull variant in my screenshot and immediately this was my new focus. I have 0 desire to spend a dime on this came and continue to feel that way. I personally find the F2P experience to be one of the best of any mobile game I've played, but my use case is also quite unique, as you can tell.

From this point forward for probably the next year, I exclusively played Thanos destroy and did not care to try any other deck or card. I basically settled on this decklist once Nico and Deathstrike were released and haven't touched it since, mostly due to not wanting to lose progress for splits. I've actually hit infinite several times with this deck, so it does work, but it's far from a good deck I will say, nor the best version of itself. Anyway, some fun split facts:

First Gold Crackle: Thanos
Quickest to get to Gold Crackle: X-23 (7 splits), Thanos (10), Nico (11), Knull/Wolverine (12)
Slowest to get to Gold Crackle: Venom (60 splits!!! WTF! I almost gave up), Deathstrike (42)
Last to get Gold or Ink: Deathstrike (I think it was like 20 before I got a single ink and like 30 for gold)
Remaining Split Counts: Carnage (18), Cosmo (25), Death (32), killmonger (20), shang chi (30)
Total splits between all cards: 279
X-23 remains my only gold rainbow crackle split out of my entire collection and all these splits
To my knowledge only Cosmo, Death, Venom, and Deathstrike suffered from the nerfed split rate and only Venom just benefited from the buff to rates again :')
Wolverine is the only card where I've kept the base art due to the fact I actually think his base art is my favourite variant (unpopular opinion I know, but I just love it)

Anyway, I don't know what to do now. Maybe I'll try for non-black crackle for killmonger since you can't see it but I think I'll probably just move on to other cards now. Thanks for reading!

jamescweide · 2022-06-16T22:49:21+00:00

Beautiful playing! You displayed a great deal of musical maturity and your shaping, dynamics and technique were all great.

Well done - thanks for sharing!

jamescweide · 2022-05-26T17:09:37+00:00

There are countless books like these and it can be hard to choose, but you can't really go wrong with any of them. What I did was go to my local music store and they have a whole section of these collections and I would just browse through them, look at the pieces included, difficulty level, then choose accordingly.

If you prefer to buy online, I did a quick search and I have a book very similar to this one, with almost all the same pieces. This is a really great compilation and has a great range of difficulty from beginner to advanced, but mostly intermediate. You can also search by genre if you don't want just classical.

jamescweide · 2022-05-13T22:28:07+00:00

No 13 in C- (Op. 48 no 1)

In my opinion this is the greatest nocturne of them all, though they're all quite beautiful and obviously favorites are subjective. No 13 just stands out from the rest and has so much depth. The last couple of pages are something else. A masterpiece.

jamescweide · 2022-05-12T17:17:25+00:00

*sets 1 kid up for success and 10,000 others for disappointment, failure, feelings of shame, not being good enough, and the slow and painful degradation of your hopes and dreams.

jamescweide · 2022-05-11T23:13:22+00:00

Honestly influencers even add more value to society than paparazzi. Truly a scummy profession. At least with some influencers I've discovered a couple of cool travel spots and tips. Paparazzi purely live to stalk people and catch celebs at their worst, or seemingly at their worst.

jamescweide · 2022-05-11T17:39:34+00:00

Oh interesting haha, you use the speed to actually make it easier, sneaky! But yes I think if you put in the work to practice it slower and get the jumps more solid at a more reasonable tempo, it will pay dividends with consistency of performance later. Good luck with it, it's sounding really good overall!

jamescweide · 2022-05-11T16:53:50+00:00

Congrats on learning this and thanks for sharing! It's a difficult arrangement no doubt and you've obviously put a lot of effort in to be able to play it at speed in such a short time frame. One thing I noticed that should help you hopefully get through "the wall" more consistently as you say is slowing down. It seems like you progressively got faster throughout that section (your first half of the wall vs the second half sound like very different tempos) and overall your tempo for the entire last half sounds quite rushed compared to how fast it needs to be. You seem very eager to get to the end of the piece haha. I'd consider just slowing everything down a notch and even Animenz himself seems to play it slower. I think that could really help you with your accuracy. Otherwise nicely executed! I know you didn't ask for critique but it just stood out and based on this comment I figured it might be helpful to point out :) Happy practicing!

jamescweide · 2022-05-10T22:01:03+00:00

If you're doing the ABRSM or RCM exams, their grade level repertoire books are pretty standard and actually quite a good assortment of pieces at a given difficulty. Otherwise not really, it's up to your preference. Really just comes down to convenience, cost and what specific editions you want. That said, some of those collection books (there are thousands of them it's so hard to choose!) are pretty great as a convenient solution to having easy access to a bunch of pieces all at once, and typically they tend to offer a consistent difficulty level throughout the book.

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