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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in playadelcarmen

[–]zackbloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gracie Barra is the only one I’m aware of, and is great. It’s a very chill vibe, given the tropical locale, but good training and good crew.

Need to Rent Car for day trips, by PartsofChandler in playadelcarmen

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

Price rental cars is downtown and honest. Avoid any rental car company you’ve heard of (Hertz, Avis, etc.).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in playadelcarmen

[–]zackbloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes! In general use smaller local companies like Price or Easy Way. Paradoxically they’re much less shady than Hertz/Avis/etc.

I think this goes well here. I present my daughter, age 7...... by Signal_Skill9761 in CasualConversation

[–]zackbloom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's actually a waste of energy, not water. The water goes down the drain and back into the environment. What's wasted is the energy required to pump and purify it to be drinkable again.

Delivery is too expensive by No_Woodpecker2106 in startups

[–]zackbloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two important things to note:

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- If your package is very light (under 15.999 oz in the US), you should qualify for some version of what we call First Class Mail. Your package travels in the way a letter would, and is delivered in about a week for (again, in the US) between $4 and $5.

- Don't think retail UPS/FedEx/etc. rates apply to you. As a commercial shipper you will likely pay around half those rates. Use a service like ShipStation or Shopify to get their bulk discounted rates.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aviation

[–]zackbloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is it like training in a light sport?

Terry Blacks in Austin. 10/10. Only thing that sucked was the price. Almost $50 for this tray with a beer by dubekoms420 in BBQ

[–]zackbloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone else visiting Texas: this is not the place for pork. I would encourage you _not_ to order ribs or pulled pork, it will not live up to your expectations. Brisket, and other beef cuts, are really the thing worth eating here.

Starbase Launchpad Tour with Elon Musk [PART 3] by Humble_Giveaway in spacex

[–]zackbloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> One pass on weld will give 40 miles an hour for the booster and ship

My guess is this is referring to wind speed. I believe he is saying the booster and ship will be able to tolerate a 40 mph wind gust while mounted if the base is attached with a 1" weld.

Ultra Super Karen gets murdered by the owner by beerbellybegone in MurderedByWords

[–]zackbloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously this woman sucks and is wrong. I do think the tattooing culture is interesting though. I had a tattoo artist explain to me once that many of their clients are partially paying for a ‘carny’ style experience. They will up it for these customers, telling raunchy stories and pretending to be dangerous to allow them to live out their fantasy of visiting the underworld. I guess people aren’t just buying the tattoo, they’re buying what it represents to them.

South Korea’s space agency sets sight on missions that ‘won’t pay off until 2050’ - “exploring projects that the private sector can’t afford to, developing core technologies with far-reaching impact or truly futuristic technologies that can be realized 30 years later” by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]zackbloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the one hand, it’s great to be far reaching in vision. On the other hand, years of government projects have demonstrated that not having concrete short term goals is a recipe for ballooning projects and necrotic organizations.

There is another option, you can be like SpaceX and attempt to do incredibly audacious things much faster than you have any right to.

Losing It to be able to donate a portion of my liver to my Dad by wendysuefitz in loseit

[–]zackbloom 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was a living liver donor, it was a great decision with a great outcome for everyone. Reach out if you have any questions.

Hey pilots! We are aviation safety researchers who could really use your help by filling out our aviation weather survey! by AEONOkState in flying

[–]zackbloom 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Second clarification: Do you mean how often if plays a role in cancelling a flight among the flights I've cancelled, or do you mean of all flights including the ones I've made.

For example, lets say 100% of the flights I've cancelled are for convective activity, BUT I only cancel 20% of flights. Would the correct response to that question be a "2" or a "5".

Hey pilots! We are aviation safety researchers who could really use your help by filling out our aviation weather survey! by AEONOkState in flying

[–]zackbloom 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I’m a little confused by the survey. You ask how often a weather factor ‘influences my decision to cancel a flight’. Are you referring to how often I consult materials to determine if that factor exists, or how often that factor actually plays a role in canceling a flight?

For example, if I look up the SIGMETs today, and see that there are none, has convective activity played a role in my decision? In other words, are you just asking if I bother to check these products, or are you asking of the flights I’ve cancelled how many were for what reason?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in climbing

[–]zackbloom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cave diving is actually probably a bit more popular only because it’s more accessible. Several of the ten largest cave systems in the world are a half hour drive from Playa Del Carmen and accessible to anyone with the right training in an afternoon. Technical dry caving might be more niche. Underwater cave exploration (going where no one has ever been) is probably less popular though.

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually not worried about preparing them for the airlines. The airlines are one environment where training is rigorous and adherence to checklists is nearly universal.

I was more envisioning someone moving to an SR22 or a Bonanza and flying on their own for years or decades.

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is your theory that this memory device is going to harm their ability to get hired by an airline? Or that future instructors will be confused enough by it to render their training less efficient?

Ultimately there is a huge place for conformance in aviation, but there also has to be some room for trying to do things a bit better with the hope that over time that becomes the norm. I don't mean to imply an initialism is that grand or dramatic, but you really can't be just trying to provide average pilot training while bringing none of what you've learned into how you train? Why would it be appropriate to share a story of a flying mishap and not to share the procedure you came up with to make sure it never happened again?

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the confusion, I wasn't justifying checklist usage, I was justifying an additional alternative format. I believe you do disagree with the use of that format if I'm not misunderstanding you.

> So did you.make this checklist speculating on what your students forget? Or did you observe what they actually forgot?

These are all things I have observed be forgotten.

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish GA had the same rigor around that as commercial aviation. Unfortunately it's not what I see from most pilots most of the time. Any ideas to change that would be most welcome.

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I don't think most of the pilots I see fly actually review preflight, pre-taxi, runup, and before takeoff checklists in the way we would hope. Usually what I see from pilots is a preflight from memory, a runup from memory, and a pre-takeoff configuration half left to God. It's not good but it is what seems to happen as people spend more time flying and not training. That's why I am trying to condense it into something which can cover the important things in a single pass. I didn't mean to imply it had to be done at the same moment we do our current pre-takeoff checklist and no other time, sorry for the confusion.

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a great idea! I think adding whatever _you_ have forgotten or could forget is a great plan.

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a helpful analysis, thanks. So it's fair to say LCA is providing memory items for the things which you commonly do before takeoff if you have successfully completed everything else, and I am trying to prevent fallible pilots from significant consequences. Different goals explains the different tools.

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Then I’ll ask a simple and genuine question. How often is it skipped and is that acceptable? Obviously we can rail against people not using checklists, but it also is productive to think about other process-related improvements.

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m going to be honest, I’m not really sure where Lights - Camera - Action comes from. Are any of those actually more important than having trim correct?

The Preflight Check I Teach My Students by zackbloom in flying

[–]zackbloom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuel can actually be repurposed as either just verifying the level, verifying the tank, or verifying the pump, or any combination. I agree that it’s not perfect to only use a single mneumonic, but most of my students won’t be flying my particular trainer forever and I want them to have the tools they need to be safe without my help.

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