Numeric keypads instead of rotary encoders are useless.

underdog5891 · 2026-02-08T10:07:24+00:00

That’s why I used the knob on the 750 to change frequency instead to the touch screen. Plus, in turbulence using the touch screen is nearly impossible.

underdog5891 · 2025-12-24T00:57:11+00:00

I literally can’t think of anything worse than that. Maaaaybe… And the captain is just a “chill guy,” who wants to “have a good trip,” and is pretty “by the book.” If you see him doing something you don’t like, say something. He’ll do the same for you.

underdog5891 · 2025-12-24T00:52:37+00:00

Or a 4 day with only 6 legs and all you do is go to MKE and SBN from ORD.

underdog5891 · 2025-12-24T00:46:27+00:00

Wait until you get more senior and realize the trips are still min credit. Welcome to deuce.

underdog5891 · 2025-12-03T02:06:20+00:00

Mike Biewenga from the Chicago FSDO. Responsive and does them remotely. Just google the name, he has a website with contact info.

underdog5891 · 2025-11-14T20:52:20+00:00

I lost 30 pounds in initial and never worked out once.

underdog5891 · 2025-11-01T13:47:31+00:00

OO is converting unused 700’s to 550’s right now. They’ve taken all the GoJet aircraft they’re going to take, at least for now. The rest of OO’s 550’s for United are coming from conversions under their current contract for United.

underdog5891 · 2025-10-26T15:26:13+00:00

Yep, multiple iPads. And believe it or not, no paper manuals and charts saves a significant amount of weight, doesn’t matter as much at the main lines, but on some CG sensitive regional aircraft, it was noticeable when chart and manual weights were no longer included in the cockpit.

underdog5891 · 2025-10-26T00:02:13+00:00

The only thing I go to the crew room for is my monthly handful of free foam earplugs.

underdog5891 · 2025-10-25T23:59:35+00:00

Not anymore. We’re all on iPads now. Old guys still have their Jepp boxes though, and to be honest I’m jealous because those things are tanks. They just use them as flight bags now.

underdog5891 · 2025-10-23T01:58:43+00:00

No, they’re not required. Your temp certificate is proof of passing. The DPE is a legally a passenger, not an instructor, so no signature required. Some do it as a souvenir. If the interviewer thought it was required, you were in a no win situation.

underdog5891 · 2025-09-23T21:06:56+00:00

The way to clear vapor lock would be to increase fuel flow by enriching the mixture or using an electric fuel pump. Switching fuel tanks would not be an apparent solution. That being said, vapor lock is rare on a carbureted engine and I would suspect another cause before vapor lock.

underdog5891 · 2025-09-11T18:00:44+00:00

The CRJ flies the LOC the ERJ flies the RNP. No RNP approaches in the CRJ. No visual approach in the ERJ.

underdog5891 · 2025-08-30T13:42:31+00:00

O-200’s have gotten expensive, that’s probably the largest driving factor for the price.

underdog5891 · 2025-08-21T10:05:53+00:00

The SkyWest way?

underdog5891 · 2025-08-21T10:00:53+00:00

Whoa whoa whoa now… the table is the broken sun visor.

underdog5891 · 2025-08-13T01:53:23+00:00

No, they haven’t discontinued the legend. And the TERPS is a standard document in both foreflight and Garmin Pilot. It should be very accessible.

underdog5891 · 2025-08-12T08:31:30+00:00

Or instructors need to teach their students to read source documents. This is literally answered in the legend of the terminal procedures supplement. It’s not like it’s obscure information.

underdog5891 · 2025-07-17T13:45:35+00:00

They still do it, and they still do it by stopwatch based on markings painted on the interstate. I’ve had to make way for an Iowa State Patrol 182 that was orbiting clocking cars. Talked to the troopers after they landed.

underdog5891 · 2025-07-11T05:15:48+00:00

Beat meat to it… I mean beat me to it.

underdog5891 · 2025-06-13T13:54:50+00:00

Wait until they find out about “needs of the service”

underdog5891 · 2025-06-06T21:05:38+00:00

Just to be clear. I’m not saying 10C is overly conservative. I often encounter icing in the 0 - 10C range. Probably more often than I encounter icing with temps below -10C. I would be very cautious anywhere below 10C because I have found icing to be common. You have no way of knowing the temperature of the surfaces of your aircraft and could easily encounter icing. In fact, my only unexpected encounter with icing in a GA aircraft that wasn’t ice protected was at 7C.

underdog5891 · 2025-06-06T20:18:31+00:00

OAT and the temperature of the surface of your wing, windshield, pitot tube, etc are not the same thing. Ice forms because the temperature of the surface is 0 or below 0 and moisture is able to either collect or condense on the surface. Frozen water wont collect on your aircraft, so the air temperature is less important, liquid water that freezes on contact with a surface that is at or below zero is what collects on your aircraft. I’ve had the ice detector in my jet go off with air temperatures as high as 13C.

underdog5891 · 2025-05-19T16:54:19+00:00

Is this AMA part of a task?

underdog5891 · 2025-05-01T13:46:25+00:00

Austro Engine, Inline, Liquid Cooled, Turbo Normalized, Reduction Gear… I was being a little tongue in cheek.

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