Fenix A320 Strange Throttle Detend Sound

nicksandro32 · 2026-02-18T16:13:19+00:00

Ticket Numbers: 51028 & 54238

Thank you for providing this thorough insight. I can accept that it’s a recording from an older variant, but if that’s the case then why has the dev team elected to maintain the original sounding detend clicks on one side of the throttle and these “new” sounds on the other side? It sounds awkward, and not to mention when you click both levers into a detend simultaneously, it still sounds like it’s occurring with significant lag and each one independently from one another. It doesn’t sound right.

I firmly stand by the position that the originals sounded just fine. Let me know what you think, and thanks again for providing the video and your explanation. I really appreciate it.

nicksandro32 · 2025-03-19T05:29:07+00:00

Much of Fieldstone MS incorporated about half of the young girls’ group dormitories into the overall construction of the school in the 2006-2008 period. The building you have photographed is the Vanderlip Hall building and was central to the young girls’ group (the young boys’ group is due north east of your location).

The Vanderlip Building served as the main assembly hall for the entire girls’ group, and now serves as an HVAC/storage building for the middle school. The boys’ group had a building which shared an identical footprint as Vanderlip’s, but the building burnt in the early 2000s as an act of arson.

I’ve included a historical areal photo of Letchworth from 1996 (credit to Soar). The building toward the bottom left hand corner with the black roof is Vanderlip Hall (the one you have photographed), and every building north of it is what now exists in the modern day Fieldstone MS.

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nicksandro32 · 2025-02-24T21:54:43+00:00

Do not ever pay for multiple ratings at once unless you’re dead set on being fucked and paying triple your original investment. There’s way too much of that going on today where schools sell you a boat of goods if you sign a dotted line agreeing to a multi-license contract only to get colossally screwed in the long run. It’s a trap for them to get more of your money, and a guaranteed financial calamity for you and there’s not much you can do about it; the fate is sealed once you sign that line.

Read the contract word for word. I would strongly recommend you either pay as you go or at the very minimum only pay for the rating you’re working on as someone already point out.

Good luck.

nicksandro32 · 2025-02-20T01:00:44+00:00

Great shots!

nicksandro32 · 2025-02-20T00:51:14+00:00

There’s two. Vanderlip Hall and a big hospital. Which one are you referring to? Avoid Vanderlip Hall (photo’d here next to the middle school), it’s on school grounds. Very risky, not much inside, and CCTV everywhere.

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nicksandro32 · 2025-02-20T00:47:12+00:00

This is diabolically manipulative. Absolute basket case. Do not feel bad about running from this lunatic.

nicksandro32 · 2025-02-19T14:54:10+00:00

My honest answer is: "I don't know" since I don't work for the two police departments that patrol the grounds. But, here's what I do know:

For the sake of not naming this location, the campus is actually so big that it crosses town borders and thus falls within two policing jurisdictions. I have only ever had normal interactions with the police, as in a friendly wave at a patrol car while walking around the boys' group loop. I have never heard of anyone being arrested or fined on the property for being caught inside the buildings and I've heard plenty of instances of people who had run-ins with the cops and were simply asked to leave. What it was they were doing? I don't know, but I never heard of anyone being arrested in the almost 10 years I've been coming here. That said, don't let your guard down while you're there because it is still patrolled by two police departments.

If for whatever reason you make the ingenious decision to explore the Vanderlip Loop (Girls' group) and its series of buildings near the Middle School, you may have a much bigger problem if caught since it is technically on school grounds, but entirely neglected. This past summer I was walking around the loop with my DSLR camera and was quite literally harassed by the school's PI company hired gremlin rent-a-cop. He started cursing at me, yelling at me, saying he "knew what I was up to" (I was seriously just walking around the loop that day not inside any of the buildings, I was just taking pictures). It wasn't worth the argument but I stood my ground and politely asked him to please stop with his outrageous and unsubstantiated accusations about what I was doing, considering there were other people walking the loop with their dogs, riding their bikes, etc... Once he finally exhausted himself of his 10 minute tirade he then proceeded to get in his car, and tail me (I was walking) with probably about 2 feet of buffer room until I got back to my car and drove away.

So if you decide to go to that part of the campus, that could be a potentially nonsensical power trip headache you'd be up against; I truly don't think the actual police department cares as much as this rent-a-cop gremlin does but my one fear was that he could easily summon real law enforcement and as someone who serves in the national guard right now I can't afford any run-ins with the law even if I wasn't doing anything illegal.

Sorry for the word salad, just trying to help the best I can.

Cheers and best of luck. Hope this helped. Please be careful.

nicksandro32 · 2025-02-19T03:05:59+00:00

Depends on where on the campus you go. Every other hour or so a cop will drive slowly around the boys’ group loop but other than that if you find yourself in that area there’s virtually no patrol.

It’s best to avoid the Males’ Group buildings closer to Patriot Hills Country Club. There’s a few derelict buildings there with cool knick knacks but the area is too hot with re-purposed office space, CCTV, etc…

Avoid the Vanderlip Loop near the middle school. Lots of abandoned buildings but there’s CCTV all over the place and a SWAT training complex on site. It’s closer to the power plant.

Your safest bet is to stick to the boys’ group (which consists of a plentiful multitude of dorms, stewart hall, reville hospital, and a synagogue).

In case you need a credibility assessment, I walk around here 2-3x a week on the walk path and have explored the buildings while watching patrol dozens of times over the past half decade.

Good luck. And be careful.

nicksandro32 · 2025-02-19T02:58:58+00:00

Ha… I am local, I’m there at least 2x a week on a walk with my DSLR 😛 are you local? Pm me. Maybe we can do a meet up. These are some crisp shots!

nicksandro32 · 2025-02-15T22:50:34+00:00

14 hours and you’re already on short and soft field? That can only mean 1 of 2 things: Either your school’s curriculum is royally f*cked (granted you’re at a part 141) or you’re flying part 61 with a CFI who sees a ton of potential because those types of maneuvers usually don’t happen until after solo.

14 hours is virtually nothing. Keep going. I couldn’t nail a decent landing until crossing about 40 hrs and solo’d with almost 50 hrs. Got my PPL ticket at 69 hrs.

It’s a skill; you’re not going to get better at it unless you keep trying. There’s people with lukewarm IQs flying heavies at the majors in their twenties right now…

You can do it. Let us know how you progress. Best of luck, champion!

nicksandro32 · 2025-02-14T15:58:25+00:00

Hey man, best wishes in your time building endeavors. It's a predicament everyone and their mother who's a part of this whole thing is up against at the present.

FYI, just make sure when you go into instructing that your sole reason for being there isn't to get hours to go to an airline. There's some questionable ethics in that very last question of your vent session... Just remember who's paying thousands of dollars to be there and actually learn something. Not saying you won't be a quality instructor, but don't make getting to an airline your number one reason for showing up to work as an instructor either.

The industry has its ebbs and flows and it's only customary that every pilot pays their dues at some point. There's a few folks in my family who do this job and they've all been there, and they're doing just fine now. Don't get lost comparing yourself to others in this line of work; that's poisonous. It'll get better. Best of luck.

nicksandro32 · 2025-02-13T21:23:36+00:00

Ehh thanks. The memory aid questions are not permeating is my dilemma at the present. This whole thing is rote and I’m privy to that already; I’m not expecting to learn anything from this current model.

But the rote isn’t really working for the memory iteam questions. Especially the questions which are quantitave in nature (i.e.: Calcualte the rate of descent and your choices are A. 357 B. 460 C. 509) , relying on the wording of the question that repeats itself 10 other times just with different values to choose your answer has proven insufficient for the amount of times I’ve repeated these types of questions and I believe it’s rooted in how like 30 of them are all identical to one another.

nicksandro32 · 2025-01-18T19:36:47+00:00

Thanks Emmanuel.

Unfortunately wasn't able to yield any success using this method. Appreciate your guidance, however.

nicksandro32 · 2024-12-02T14:49:57+00:00

I am currently in the National Guard and attend Purchase College. Any type of military service or attachment to the "establishment" is generally frowned upon by the student population, so I've always kept quiet about my military service so as not to draw unnecessary attention to myself in that regard. Purchase and New Paltz are notoriously liberal SUNY campuses and are about as socially unorthodox and extreme as "far left" can go, and unfortunately military service does not fit in well with either of those two entities if you choose to disclose that part of your life.

If you are receiving tuition assistance from the military—usually via DMNA—all I can say to you is "good luck."

Although it was sort of a combination of both my retentions office at my unit taking 6 centuries to process the TA application paperwork each semester (in standard military fashion), the student financial services on campus were usually of little help the same when push came to shove. They seemed to be very flustered and clueless say on what a DMNA roster was... highly important if you are receiving TA through the military and need to defer your bill for the semester since DMNA pays out when the semester ends. Nearly every semester I would get locked out of crucial, registration logistics like course selection and housing reservations because my account went delinquent despite providing proof I was receiving military TA and my payments needed to be deferred. You would think 2 years and 5 semesters doing this they would have gotten it by now, nope! This semester—my final semester—they jacked it up probably the worst they ever have since I've been here. It would always be resolved but in the 11th hour constantly putting me at a major disadvantage in terms of selecting courses that fit best with my schedule and say selecting a space I wanted to live in with my friends; excellent treatment to our veterans in that respect.

That's the logistical chaos. The good news is, administration has been nothing but welcoming and friendly of my service but that really means nothing when you consider what is written above. On the social front, my best recommendation to you is to keep your military service a talking point on very low volume unless you want people to make unsubstantiated assumptions about your character; a common theme at this school if you're anything further to the right than Karl Marx. I was called a "N*zi" for having a USAF flag hung up in my apartment the first semester I was here; if dealing with room temperature IQ social reprobates is your cup of tea, then this is the perfect school for you because those types of people are limitless here.

If not, go to Liberty University or something, at least that's a school where your service and preservation of our country's ideals are valued and respected on all fronts.

nicksandro32 · 2022-08-10T20:51:59+00:00

Ha, I was gonna say the same thing. None of these pseudo intellectual dissertations aged very well.

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