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I was on the fence, but will probably make it. And I have a bunch of RV questions, so you should too.

I bought my uniforms from a Coastie shop, because it was closer... Are they still the same now?

Hey! Give Tallahassee to Alabama, where it belongs, and Florida would be fine.

Now you'll know exactly which seat you are paying to sit in. That's the point.

This actually also happened to me. It sucks! Also, don't recommend. Good news, I kept an electronic logbook back to the beginning of time. Bad news, is replacing endorsements. I was able to get duplicates signed for most of them. But for some, no luck - CFI isn't alive anymore, as it...

I can just do that from an iPad with a GPS. Not sure what the resolution is though. Garmin puts out MAPMX/RS232/ARINC/CANBUS, all standard stuff.

That's not how I see these being used in the real world. The managers are usually given some dashboard they need to have green check boxes on. Everyone below them games the system for more green checks. That's how I've seen it work, well, everywhere. They could work well, if revenue...

So, 6 for 7 so far, with one still pending? Might be hope for me yet. I vote Silver, since tropical islands are always are better than not tropical islands. You aren't going to get rich at any of them, so you might as well enjoy it. I've never flown for any of them, all I can vouch for...

Time and distance are enough to compute acceleration and speed. But you also need weight to figure out the forces - power and drag numbers I suspect can be deduced from that. Besides, I don't think there is a good way to measure wheel speed on light aircraft.

Thinking about it for a minute, GPS and weight are all that you really need to compute acceleration, which is probably the only number we care about anyway. Time to write another iPhone app prototype on vacation tomorrow.

Not only is it slick, it is something I would love to have in GA aircraft, and expect that we probably will sooner than later. Even without FAA waivers I've had to make up my own numbers, I have had enough takeoffs that didn't perform the way the book said they should. But by the time that...

I channel a lot of what I learned in Creative Writing classes.

Making a pot of tea and opening the Zoom!

I still haven't rule out boat captain. But they do seem to work a lot more.

This has happened exactly everywhere I have ever worked :)

No 6 hour "Fireside chats" on Teams to hear about how you should you should better manage your time? No more looking at an Outlook calendar choosing which of the 6 mandatory meetings you are scheduled for simultaneously to actually attend? No managers passive-aggressively asking why you...

Yeah, the larger ones tend to pay more though. I did freelance software development for about 10 years, the money can be good, but I spent as much time selling projects as I did actually working on them.

That doesn't really exist, that I've seen anyway. The corporate world is more concerned with meeting performance targets monthly, quarterly, annually. The performance isn't just or even how much money you bring in, but also how many calls and meetings you have per week, how many were...

Summer in Florida is great. Builds character. Or something.

Probably does change things - I've already spent 20 years of my life living out of a suitcase in airports. Right now, I call on one shop 15 minutes away from me, but that won't last forever. In two months, I might be flying to Milwaukee and Tokyo every week for all I know. I don't know that...

I've learned a lot from that 1967 bucket of mostly non-corroded AN bolts. So, for the benefit of anyone reading this - you can totally make your own path in flying. You don't have to go work at a flight school, though it is probably faster. Buying an airplane with some friends that want to...

Haven't heard a lot of "worst mistake I've made in my life." And it is a two way door, I can always go back to tech sales if I hate it or the employment market turns. Not sure that I'll end up full time instructing at all, as I've already got a backlog of teaching to do and no many hours...

100% QOL. And less stress. And doing something different. And some degree of schedule flexibility. I mostly don't care about having weekends or holidays off. But at least being able to ask for the days off I care about matters a lot to me. Type of flying? I'm not really in a...

I was thinking the same thing when I read that. You can say no, right?

Well, I would be pretty happy there is a limit. I was on call 24 hours, 365 days a year when I started here. Which sometimes meant being at my desk, on the phone for several days straight without sleep or a break. Happy to not have a pager anymore. The other downside of that life, I...

There is boom and bust in the tech business as well. It goes through massive hiring to massive layoffs, and pay is highly tied to what stock prices are doing. Not planning to do anything tomorrow, as I'm taking as much vacation as I can in July. But after that, the plan is to get to ATP...

Anything that would make it in front of HR.

I can't change the past, only what I can do tomorrow.

If I thought I could get away with that, I would have already. I suspect that asking the question would result in a severance package offer within the hour. That's what has happened to everyone I personally know that has requested any type of leave.

Something I'll worry about when if and when it happens I guess.

I'm very much enjoying teaching. I'm going to miss that more than anything else, if I have to give it up.

Not to steal the thunder from https://jetcareers.com/forums/members/19294/, (not sure how to quote that name), but the thread title seemed appropriate. Long time member, very rare topic poster. Currently working in the tech sales world for a big tech company. If you know me in person, you...

Well, the last approach is always a full stop. But we don't have an ILS, so that's always an RNAV where I am.

I've heard exactly the opposite of this too. That dual given, not towards a certificate or rating doesn't look good for interviews. I'm usually doing it because insurance companies are requiring 10 hours dual, or 25 dual in make & model, etc. The "transition training" requirements, in...

You would never get cleared or stay on the localizer for long here. Last ILS flew, ATC was asking for better forward speed (we were already 135kts) more than once, or they would be vectoring us around. This was just inside the FAF. In training aircraft, the practicalities of actually getting...

Very honest here - I don't know the answer to this one, so looking forward to seeing what is authoritative. The PTS/ACS aren't very clear to me on this (that's probably me)

Per @Fly_Unity, shouldn't you still be on the GP after 500 breaking out anyway? Especially if the PAPI isn't coincident? In my plane, I'm doubt the antique Narco GS receiver was ever tested or certified to be usable below DH though.

In the training world, I think we end up going missed 99% percent of the time on an ILS, so how to actually land doesn't actually happen very often. @DPApilot was kind enough to point this error out to me not too long ago. Which either I forgot or never knew. It definitely wasn't something...

I know you are supposed to stay on the GS until the runway threshold. At the same time, I usually would prefer to be adding flaps then and not be praying that the brakes won't fail once the runway is in sight. So, anyway, instructors might be to blame here too.