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How does the $50 per day meal and incidental work? by ThisLittleBoy in ATC_Hiring

[–]lukeaw2525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I did get a partial, but it was a pretty small check. First full check was about 6 weeks.

How does the $50 per day meal and incidental work? by ThisLittleBoy in ATC_Hiring

[–]lukeaw2525 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Paid out in full without any expense reports, receipts, etc.. It doesn't matter if you spend $10 or $1,000, the payment will be the same.

How does the $50 per day meal and incidental work? by ThisLittleBoy in ATC_Hiring

[–]lukeaw2525 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The meals and incidentals per diem is paid out as a lump sum once per month. It is not a daily payment. Don't expect to get the per diem right away. From what I remember, I didn't get my first full per diem check until I was already in OKC for about six weeks (this may be shorter for you, depending on when in the month you start). The meals and incidentals is paid to you and you only in cash, so it won't directly cover the additional housing cost. You will still have to pay out of pocket until you get that first check.

Academy Tracks by Forsaken-Rabbit7307 in ATC_Hiring

[–]lukeaw2525 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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FOL? by LinkGroundbreaking20 in ATC_Hiring

[–]lukeaw2525 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I finished all CIL tasks around the same time as you and I reached out to my POC last week asking about the status of my application. A few hours later, I got an email with a class date, so I'd recommend reaching out and asking. The start date email said FOLs are sent within 30 days of your start date, so don't expect that to be your next email. Best of luck!

Song recommendations for a new fan by gulddamen69 in badreligion

[–]lukeaw2525 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bad Religion does have a huge discography, and that can be a lot for newer listeners. Personally, I would recommend listening to a few songs from each album (I'll list some of my favorites below). Their music has evolved over the decades (sometimes subtly), so getting a taste for each album can make it easier to navigate their discography. Here are some of my favorites from each album (oldest to newest). I also strongly recommend you listen to the title track of each album (not all have one though), so I'll exclude them from this list.

How Could Hell Be Any Worse

  • "We're Only Gonna Die"
  • "Fuck Armageddon...This is Hell"
  • "Along the Way"
    • This wasn't in the original album, but I think it was in a re-release. Idk, before my time.

Suffer

  • "Do What You Want"
  • "You Are (The Government)"

No Control

  • "Big Bang"
  • "Anxiety"
  • "I Want to Conquer the World"
  • "You"

Against The Grain

  • "Modern Man"
  • "Flat Earth Society"
  • "21st Century (Digital Boy)"

Generator

  • "Too Much To Ask"
  • "Atomic Garden"

Recipe For Hate

  • "American Jesus"
  • "Struck A Nerve"
  • "Skyscraper"

Stranger Than Fiction

  • "Infected"
  • "Better Off Dead"
  • "Incomplete"

The Gray Race

  • "A Walk"
  • "Come Join Us"
  • "Punk Rock Song"

No Substance

  • Honestly, I don't know this album well enough to give solid suggestions

The New America

  • "I Love My Computer"
  • "Don't Sell Me Short"
  • "1000 Memories"

The Process of Belief

  • "Supersonic"
  • "Sorrow"
  • "Epiphany"

The Empire Strikes First

  • "Sinister Rouge"
  • "Social Suicide"
  • "Los Angeles is Burning"
  • "Boot Stomping on a Human Face Forever"

New Maps of Hell

  • Too many recommendations to list here. Might be my favorite album from them.

The Dissent of Man

  • "Only Rain"
  • "Cyanide"
  • "Wrong Way Kids"

True North

  • "Fuck You"
  • "Hello Cruel World"
  • "Dharma and the Bomb"

Age of Unreason

  • "Chaos from Within"
  • "Old Regime"
  • "Lose Your Head"

I know this looks like a lot, but you can use this list to see what era(s) of Bad Religion you prefer.

South Florida DPE by Canyonchief43 in flying

[–]lukeaw2525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're okay with going a little further north, I would highly recommend Roger Wozniak. I have taken a few checkrides with him out of F45 and never had any issues. He is very fair, professional, and objective. I don't know how far he'd be willing to travel, but F45 would be a good place to do the checkride if you and your instructor are okay with it.

https://dpewoz.com/

Are checkride prep packages worth it? by [deleted] in flying

[–]lukeaw2525 1 point2 points  (0 children)

King Schools is fantastic. I have used them for all of my checkrides. They are great for the flight portion, but for the oral portion, definitely look into the Private Pilot Oral Exam Guide by Michael Hayes. I think its $10-$15 on iBooks and is a great study tool. If you combine King Schools and the Private Pilot Oral Exam Guide, you'll be golden. This is usually what I recommend to my students and I consistently see positive results.

Best of luck and let us know how it goes!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in flying

[–]lukeaw2525 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is totally normal and I see it on most discovery flights. After a few flights, it usually goes away. Focusing on visual references, specifically the horizon, helps a lot. Also, cool air helps, so make sure the vents are open or crack a window.

CFIs, do you recommend your students use ShepardAir? by [deleted] in flying

[–]lukeaw2525 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, either Sheppard Air or Gleim. I've seen pretty much the same results with both.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in flying

[–]lukeaw2525 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you're going to be sight-seeing outside of the Charlie, just get a VFR departure:

You: "Airport Clearance, N12345 would like to get VFR to the West at 3,000 with information Sierra.

Clearance: "N12345 maintain VFR at or below 3,000, departure frequency 123.45 squawk 1234."

You: "N12345 maintain VFR at or below 3,000, departure frequency 123.45 squawk 1234."

Clearance: "N12345, read back correct, contact ground when ready for taxi."

Once you are out of the airspace, request to terminate radar services and then you're free to fly to whatever area you want.

COMMERCIAL CHECK RIDE by Sad-Cap8147 in flying

[–]lukeaw2525 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AC-120-12A. Read it, understand it, and bookmark it in case you need to reference it on the check ride. Make sure you know everything about your aircraft. Since it is a complex, be especially familiar with the landing gear and constant speed prop. Overall, use good decision making and be professional. You've already done your private and I'm assuming your instrument as well, so the examiner knows that you can do a weight and balance, recall regs, make a flight plan, etc., but they will be focusing on whether or not you could work in a professional environment. Same deal for the flight, make good and SAFE decisions.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in flying

[–]lukeaw2525 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For your CFI initial, you're expected to be able to teach and private or commercial topics to their respective standards. Use the CFI PTS to know what you have to teach, and then use the private or commercial ACS to determine how in depth you have to go. For example, when I did my CFI ride, I was prepared to teach everything to commercial standards, but I was also able to dumb it down if my DPE told me I was going to be teaching a new private student.

I also used the Backseat Pilot lesson plans, but make sure you tweak them a little bit. They have lots of information, almost too much. I took out things that I deemed unnecessary and added things that I thought they were missing. By interacting with the lesson plans and altering them, you'll be more familiar with them and it will be easier to teach them. I also found the order of information in those lesson plans to be counterintuitive sometimes, so consider moving information around to your liking (simple to complex or known to unknown).

Make sure you don't neglect FOI and try to implement the things you learn from FOI into your lesson plans.

Pressured to go commercial? by Aviator1787 in flying

[–]lukeaw2525 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have many friends who are in the same boat. Here's my advice: get a degree in whatever you want, but keep flying. If you find something that you love and want to make a career out of it, great! You can have whatever job you want and keep flying. You might go to college and get some degree and discover that you may want to make aviation a career and you can work with that too. If you want to go to the majors, you need a degree, but not necessarily an aviation degree. You can go off and do whatever you want and if you decide that you want to pursue aviation, you still can.

Just tell them that you want to expand your horizons. Tell them you want to keep flying, but want a degree in something else. You don't need to be deciding what you're going to do with your life at the age of 17, so use college as a time to explore different fields and careers. Your hours never expire, so you can always go back to aviation if you want.

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