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Definitely NP-Complete, the actual fun problems in Computer Science. Thanks for giving me nightmares about the Traveling Sales Person tonight. :)

I paid a few hundred bucks, and got new parts. They went bankrupt, and raised prices about 35%. Which probably would have happened anyway. At the end of the day, the kit is the cheapest part of building the airplane.

The skins are pre-punched, but still plenty of other holes you are drilling. Until you realize that you didn't have the edge clearance to put it where you did, and you order or make another part...

The RV-6 / RV-7 empennage is almost a rite of passage in aircraft building. If you can do that, you can do most things. Because doing that requires having the correct tools, knowing how to use them, and knowing what quality looks like.

I mean, yeah? Why not just buy every airline? You can pick them up for nothing when you make oil unavailable by blockading it?

No!!! I love the 340s :( Doubling the cost of fuel overnight, along with demand to the US drying up at the same time... There were going to be consequences. There have also been Tram and U-Bahn strikes at the same time here in Munich, so it wasn't like you were going to get to the airport...

Don't be silly. They will pay a licensing fee to call it Trump Airlines.

I've been wearing contacts for 30 years, no infections. Unless the AME is also an eye doctor, I would take that with a huge grain of salt. For what it is worth, I went through the FAA hoops with an AME and an ophthalmologist to be allowed to use multi-focal contacts. They are amazing - you...

I'll be honest, 99.9% of my flying from turf has been in taildraggers. But either way, the mains aren't exactly indestructible -- slow and smooth is always good. Keeping the nosewheel off should be normal technique anyway, on any surface.

Looks pretty good to me! The only thing I would maybe change, at the start saying the goal is to "keep the nose wheel off." The goal is to touch down as slowly as possible, too. The not stopping part is also important, probably better to mention it at the beginning, rather than the end...

Nah, I think they all are inherently fairly evil. The business isn't "use capital to build value in the form of a productive enterprise." The business is to use capital to buy existing businesses, combining enough of them together to either form a near monopoly that flies just under the...

Only accept cash, no personal checks.

I can only attest personally to Germany and The Netherlands, though I have used UK-based private insurers before (back when they were in the EU). I would not describe either as being a train wreck. Compared to the US, quite the opposite. The US is considerably worse than a trainwreck...

Do you mean government in general, or the US Government specifically? Because every other western country's government has been able to figure it out. Removing the profit motive from several levels of health care is what needs to happen. Medicare is reasonably efficient. We pay more (as...

A very long day of my life. "Why do you want this test?" -- "The FAA said so." -- "But your insurance won't cover it." -- "Fine, I will." --- "BUT BUT BUT, no one ever asks for this, we have no idea how much to bill you?" "$15 later." 5 hours of my life wasted.

That's going to list what they paid for. So, what test was ordered, and whether it was paid or not. The codes to justify that? Maybe, maybe not.

I'm still trying to get a job. So, as much as I can relate and would like to share? Keeping my mouth shut on a public forum. The system is thoroughly broken though.

A is the only direction that is a tailwind, and from the groundspeed, you have a tailwind...

I grew up in New England. Trust me, it gets colder. Except in VT, where it gets really colder.

Try building one, if you want to see AMU's go up in flames. ;)

Welcome!

I also paid $31/hour for the Cessna I learned to fly in back then. I was making $18/hour part-time at my college job. A Cessna is $206/hour now. I don't know many college students making $120/hour at their side jobs that would be comparable now. What I have seen change is that pilots are...

I'm not sure that is necessarily a stupid question, as lots of (non aviation) places I've worked and applied to had policies not to consider referrals or recommendations for applications already submitted. Which you would have had no way of knowing without asking first.

Paying back student loans on a Bachelor's, $100k+ in flight training, and having a place to live? Yeah - $100k doesn't go too far. The average apartment rent is now over $20k/yr in the average US city. I sold my 7 year old car for what I paid for it NEW. They are more now.

Coming from the sales world, it has seemed a lot like cold calling to me. As in, I usually don't know who they are or what they are looking for. So I try to ask questions about them first. And people usually like to talk about themselves. Seems low risk, as the events I've been to in the last...

Yeah, I just did an algorithms class, first one in 20+ years. Libraries have gotten a lot better in that time, and they definitely make things easier. This was a comparison of two implementations, with evidence of the difference and why. My poorly optimized C++ code ran 100x faster than the...

Anything interesting? A CS Master's mostly is not, if you already did the undergrad version. I'm torn between an MBA, or Electrical Engineering Master's next.

Eh, the topic of the thread, to paraphrase, is "be happy you have a job..." Trust me, it ain't easy to get much of anything right now. I think it is on-topic, in this limited case.

This is a really fair point - we do have agency to do a whole lot on our own. Outside of work, deciding what to learn, where to spend time, and what things we want to be better at. It's perfectly fine to change your mind, too. In the last year or so, I could have waited for the phone to ring...

You can make $30k or $300k doing almost exactly the same job in big tech. Went to the school with the right name, used to work at the right competitor, have the right friends? It isn't fair, but most industries aren't.

I don't think of these programs as a terrible idea, in theory. They want a supply of labor, and the labor wants some certainty that the investment they make will result in a job. The disconnect was probably in setting up a multi-year pipeline to solve a next-quarter or next-fiscal-year problem.

That, and it's not like there is a surplus of these "pay your dues" flying jobs until then, in the current market. At least for my peers and me, it isn't that they are thumbing their noses at other options. There just aren't other options, and a CFI's services seem to be less in demand above...

I don't think a college degree matters all that much, as no one I have spoken with has seemed to care that I had one. They have all cared about TPIC time, which you seem to need a lot of to be competitive for SIC positions right now.

So, many years ago, when I started flying the Pawnee, I got some advice from an old cropduster guy. He always kept the trim ever so slightly nose up. The reasoning being, when you get distracted someday, it is better to realize that you are too high, than to realize that you just hit the...

Don't give up! The good news is - you haven't missed anything in the last year or so, and 400 more hours can go by fast. The other middle-aged, 1500+ hour CFIs I know seem to be starting to see some traction. The multi time and ATP/CTP are expensive, so I would say making a plan for that...

Zenni is cheap enough that I buy a dozen of them, and pick the ones I like most. The others are fine as backups. I jumped through the hoops of clearing multifocal contacts with my AME. Not needing reading glasses is pretty awesome. It took fitting a bunch of them to find what worked best...

229 hours, 80 landings. Almost the same as 2024.

Can't wait to get back to building that thing (someday).

My club has a Pawnee, and a Callair :)

My longest ever, I never went more than 3 miles from the airport. Only landed when I needed the bathroom.