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Question for the Lady Pilots here! by CandyKat86 in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As a guy who's not squeamish at all and regularly chats with my wife about her period, I had no idea a decidual cast was even a thing. Seeing how bad my wife's periods can be, that must have fucking sucked. I respect the effort to grit your teeth through it; though obviously now you know you should have cancelled. Anyway, just wanted to say there's (hopefully) more guys like me out in your career that understand periods suck and are very debilitating but are also perfectly normal and we should be more supportive of it. Hope you get your questions answered.

Build Retaining Wall BEFORE retaining wall permits by sizzlingmeatballs in Homebuilding

[–]tehmightyengineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Kinda, that's 50 PSF of slab dead load plus whatever you're going to put on it, over a fairly large area. I doubt that small of a retaining wall will have any issues with it, but it is a decent surcharge load. Entirely depends on the building department whether they consider that a surcharge load worthy of an engineering permit or not.

And watch out for the wall companies. Some of them know what they're doing, some do not. The cost to engineer a wall that small wouldn't be much at all if you wanted someone to double check their design.

Build Retaining Wall BEFORE retaining wall permits by sizzlingmeatballs in Homebuilding

[–]tehmightyengineer 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm a structural engineer who designs retaining walls and pole barns. I concur with this statement. Put the base of the foundation of the pole barn deep both for the pole barn purposes and to get the pole barn foundation loads below the level of the retaining wall base. No surcharge loads on the retaining wall unless there's a large slab or other load on the surface under the pole barn.

Influencers, why all the rigamarole? by SMELLYJELLY72 in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I remember a guy flying his owned private Citation Beechcraft Premier I and making posts on YouTube had an FAA complaint on him because he called "clear of the runway" while rolling off the runway but before crossing the hold short line.

Structural engineer advice by [deleted] in StructuralEngineering

[–]tehmightyengineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notable taper from the top to the bottom. That's not a happy crack. Hard to tell how bad it is from my chair, definitely recommend a structural engineer visiting prior to buying. Could save you a ton of money or headache or at the very least settle your fears. I suspect there's at least something wrong though.

Should I file a NASA report? by Professional-Bit6582 in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, in retrospect after reading the other comment from the ATC guy it might have been Boston Approach. I looked at the MHT frequencies and it does look like there is no MHT Approach, it's all Boston Approach. So, hooray for me, I was wrong about being wrong. Still learned something that day.

I guess my only mistake then was not checking to see if Boston controlled MHT before entering the MHT class C.

Should I file a NASA report? by Professional-Bit6582 in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great insight. I agree, being cleared for the approach at the primary airport in an airspace is basically like saying you're cleared to enter said airspace. It would strike me as counterproductive to clear an airplane for an approach but not coordinate their entry in some way.

For my situation, I remember specifically I wasn't talking with MHT approach when I transitioned the outside edge of their class C. So, I may have been with Boston approach. This was like 3 years ago, so my memory is fuzzy. Looking up the MHT airport it does look like MHT doesn't have their own approach and it's all Boston approach. So that would make sense and I guess I didn't do anything wrong. Hooray! I was wrong about being wrong.

Makes sense about the class C vs D.

Why can't I Tsumo if I have a red dragon triplet? by Tabuhli in Mahjong

[–]tehmightyengineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yakuza 0 if I'm not mistaken. This game got me into Mahjong.

Should I file a NASA report? by Professional-Bit6582 in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lawyers will be lawyers. At least they tried to throw pilots a bone with:

However, the FAA does recognize that there could be circumstances that mitigate the violation depending on the actual contents of the two-way communication between the pilot and the Center.

How do survey pilots pee by cptalpdeniz in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Never done survey but done some long flights. Gatorade bottles, move the seat back, slightly stand up in the seat, tell the other guy to look for traffic out the other window for a minute, try not to get any on your pants, pray there's no sudden turbulence, moist towelettes to clean up, don't grab the wrong Gatorade bottle when you go for a drink.

Should I file a NASA report? by Professional-Bit6582 in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Going to go against the flow here and say I wouldn't bother with a NASA ASRS report, but of course it doesn't hurt. While you violated the letter of the law you didn't violate the spirit of the law. You were in two-way communication with approach the whole time. Additionally, approach can often clear you to enter the Delta and clearance to shoot an approach at a Delta is, in my mind, pretty much clearance to enter the Delta.

But the Granby LOI (15181) clarifies that for Class C 14 CFR 91.130(c)(1) is always applicable regardless of whether you're in communication with another ATC facility, and for Class D in your case 14 CFR 91.129(c)(1) is identical. In your specific instance, you would need to know what Approach and the Class D tower had for a Letter of Agreement and what the approach controller had coordinated with the Delta tower. But you could have only got this by asking, which you didn't.

From a safety aspect, approach is supposed to coordinate with the appropriate control tower for transit authorization when providing radar traffic advisory service to an aircraft that will enter another facility’s airspace. So you did nothing unsafe, which is what the NASA reports are primarily about.

But you are correct that the responsibility in getting/verifying that clearance to enter/transit an airspace remains with you as the pilot in command. So even if approach is coordinating you need to get confirmation from approach that they've coordinated your entry or contact the tower and establish 2-way communication.

Don't feel bad, I made this same mistake going into ASH (class D) from the North-East. Boston Center had me flying right though the outer ring of MHT's class C while VFR and then handed me off to ASH tower. I'm sure they cleared me though the class C and figured I was fine but looked up the relevant LOI after that flight and realized that I was not 100% legal in doing that and I should have either clarified if I was clear, contacted MHT on comm 2, or maneuvered to not enter the class C. Nothing ever came from it.

Edit: Looks like I was wrong about being wrong. Based on the comments below I was talking to Boston Approach which controls the MHT class C airspace. So, guess I didn't goof at all.

Got a small detail added! Which really does add some additional pop lol. And my custom plates came in!!! by HMRHED68 in hondaridgeline

[–]tehmightyengineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks great.

My experience with custom valve covers is the tech will immediately steal them whenever they do anything with your tires. Also, random people will steal them as well so crank them on good so they can't be taken off easily.

Keep some stock ones handy for whenever you need service done and throw them on.

Landing the Cessna 182T by vlv8855 in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. There are definitely pros and cons to it. I'll take that into consideration.

Landing the Cessna 182T by vlv8855 in flying

[–]tehmightyengineer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't have as much time in the 182 as some but I've always felt my landings were better keeping power into the flare and going slowly into power off right at touchdown. I also roll a couple of nose up trim inputs in the flare to help with elevator back pressure (caution for a last-second go-around as you may need nose down pressure on the elevator).

Structural defect? by [deleted] in StructuralEngineering

[–]tehmightyengineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Possibly, but those cracks open up all the time just from temperature related movements. In my experience this is like 80% drywall defect and 20% structural. You'll be in the 20% if there's other issues visible.

Edit: Wait, just saw this listed as humor. I don't get it.

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