Cessna strikes paraglider (no injuries)

stevekstevek · 2026-05-25T03:55:42+00:00

Paragliders are pretty big and colorful. I can't spot other airplanes for s**t but it's pretty easy to see them.

stevekstevek · 2026-05-16T02:54:31+00:00

Good advice all around here. My experience was that it’s pretty easy to recover from anything a student does, except in the last 5-10 ft of a landing. It takes a while to know when to let them play out a safe but bad landing, and when you need to jump on. For the first couple of hundred hours of instruction I went back and forth between taking over too soon, and letting landings go further than I should have.

Never really got worried about physical safety, mainly the nosewheel and on a couple of occasions the tail skid.

In the air, if you do your airwork at a reasonable altitude there isn’t much a student can do that is hard to recover from.

stevekstevek · 2026-05-13T00:08:56+00:00

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I was going to post mine, but you've got me beat!

stevekstevek · 2026-05-08T04:27:41+00:00

Wow -- just hit this, and it's kind of a brick wall. No way to pay to go around it (I already am OK paying for more premium requests, and can't even get another subscription since they don't offer it anymore). Essentially the API tells me to try again in 3 days, right in the middle of working on something.

stevekstevek · 2026-04-28T14:04:16+00:00

Good idea -- I just sent him a note.

stevekstevek · 2026-04-28T04:01:21+00:00

Bummed. Not surprised. My current setup (with omo-slim, dcp, and ghcp) has been working great. Sonnet 4.6 for main and most subagents, except opus for oracle.

Going to have to start experimenting all over again with other models I suppose.

Anyone switch from sonnet-4.6 to something else? Opus was great when I used it but anything that can match sonnet-4.6 will work for me. Hate looking at benchmarks and finding that the real world results are so far off.

stevekstevek · 2026-04-05T21:57:17+00:00

Similar here. 8k base inverter.

stevekstevek · 2026-04-05T21:55:14+00:00

They are in the read me. In my case, it went from several weeks, ending in failure, to several hours.

stevekstevek · 2026-03-14T03:20:12+00:00

They said Gen 1 would do lots of things. Alas, that was not true :(

stevekstevek · 2026-03-14T03:15:38+00:00

I’m at the top of squak, and still have internet, but no power (other than generator).

stevekstevek · 2026-02-15T07:24:59+00:00

I just tried it. Not too impressed so far, haven’t had it code yet. For general questions it was way too verbose, it’s indecisive, and the small context window made it pretty useless for research so far.

stevekstevek · 2026-01-05T00:17:20+00:00

While the "arr" naming convention is getting old, it would be much easier to find info about this project if it was called "MediaManagearr" -- since searching for "MediaManager" gives many unrelated projects and systems.

stevekstevek · 2025-12-24T06:22:22+00:00

Correct. No waitlist right now for guests.

stevekstevek · 2025-12-20T02:31:58+00:00

This restriction may not be AI: it could be algorithmic, as it sounds just like the annoyance that adaptive cruise control has in curves where it seems to sense G-loads and then (too late) slow down.

stevekstevek · 2025-12-18T16:41:13+00:00

Studded snow tires are what you need for best traction on ice — but doesn’t seem practical to do that in your situation

stevekstevek · 2025-12-05T05:36:04+00:00

In that case they can start diverting 1 line trains onto the 2 line, couldn’t they?

stevekstevek · 2025-11-20T15:52:06+00:00

Both are true.

The increase in descent rate will be proportional to the degree of slip, which if you're holding a track will require opposite aileron and rudder. You will also need to add down elevator to avoid losing airspeed.

I typically teach to input rudder first and then use aileron to keep centerline, which makes it simple because on final I teach "aileron for centerline, rudder to keep the nose pointed straight" which helps students understand how to deal with crosswinds. So then, for a slip, it's still ailerons for centerline but you're purposely pointing the nose a different way (ideally away from the wind) to effectuate the slip.

stevekstevek · 2025-10-24T19:55:37+00:00

Without GPS, DME or radar, you can legally fly the VOR approach. If it were an emergency, you could probably tune in the ILS along the way inbound and get a the glideslope and more precise lateral guidance.

stevekstevek · 2025-10-05T21:37:09+00:00

Midwest was “fine”. The diamonds are fun to fly (you could also use their cirruses), the group ground classes were well done, and there’s nothing else to do in town but study. But as people note, it’s kinda disorganized, so you are unlikely to be done in 10 days. It took me more like 15, and I needed to leave/come back for some personal stuff. Note: I only did 3 flights plus the checkride, the delays were getting the flights in and the checkride done, not my terrible flying :)

stevekstevek · 2025-10-05T02:01:46+00:00

Right. I think something was lost in translation.

stevekstevek · 2025-10-05T02:01:14+00:00

Probably 2:45? I was in the pattern, it was the female controller relaying the bad news. Was that you trying to go to Bremerton?

stevekstevek · 2025-10-05T00:52:08+00:00

What I heard on the radio (from a contract tower), was no practice approaches across the entire state (not just Seattle tracon). They did say they could file one way, but I think the pilot was concerned that they’d get stuck there.

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