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I'm based at SPG. It's a nice little airport with a great tower (except for one prickly controller). Coming from VLD, if the weather supports it, I'd cancel when you get close and come in VFR with FF. Just plan on coming down the coast until you're almost due west of the field at St. Pete Beach...

Hey now…

I mean, they do have those letters, but no (or nearly no) native words use them. They are really just there for foreign words and scientific abbreviations.

Got it. Thanks.

Yeah, my plane rode Helene out on the ramp. I was gone from home for a while between work and visiting kids that when I left, there wasn't even a low pressure system, and while I was still gone it turned into a hurricane. I wasn't too worried about that one since it looked like a glancing blow...

Greetings from Downtown St. Petersburg. Rode out Milton at home (non-evacuation zone, post-Andrew construction). Albert Whitted/KSPG has major damage. Many hangars destroyed (along with their contents, whether it was a plane or sofas). Not a great feeling.

What app is that?

Also, he said this: When he should be correctly looking for “United Five Fifty-five.” At least in the US.

Here’s what our OM says just so you can see that different airlines do have different requirements.

I'm feeling a little attacked...

It was a bit like that. The one saving grace is that once you started getting a little bored with it, the students would move to a new phase. Contact turned into instrument into navigation and low level then formation. Then repeat over and over again. I'd go back in a heartbeat now, but I was...

I did 25 years and was lucky enough to be in the cockpit the entire time (no big schools in residence or staff tours). This thread made me curious how my hours shook out per year during my time in. Electronic logbook makes that easy. Total.......5,387.1 Average/year..215.5 Now, I understand...

I fly a Seneca III. I use 25-28 gph for my fuel burn up high. I really can't tell you what it is with the gear hanging. But when they initially said they had 40 gallons/2 hours I was thinking to myself... that's not 2 hours. Maybe they had it leaned back, and that's definitely a possibility...

Sounds like they ran out of fuel waiting for the fire trucks. How ironic.

That’s interesting the systems differences between the different model types. It’s a pretty neat plane. Especially when light. We do a lot of light weight repositioning legs and it’s pretty eye opening what it can do. Almost scary.

Yeah, I’m not quite sure about the other models. I fly the freighter version which is basically -200 body with a -300 wings/engines. It sounds like all other protection systems in the 777, it’ll fight you doing something it doesn’t think you should do, but in the end, it’ll let you do it.

Not to throw these guys under the bus, but, man… that’s quite the feat since the 777 has a tail strike mitigation system that automatically reduces elevator deflection if it senses an impending tail strike.

That's even worse. If the runway was open, that meant that tower was open, and they took off without takeoff clearance from a controlled airport.

…and again… https://viewfromthewing.com/dangerous-error-southwest-airlines-flight-departs-from-closed-runway-with-vehicle-in-its-path/ Between LaGuardia, Lihue, Oklahoma City, and now this, my buds at SWA are legitimately concerned that something really bad is going to happen. If this was...

I’ve been doing the NYT crossword (mostly) every day for at least a decade. I had a 360-ish day streak going (my longest), and broke it because I forgot to finish a Saturday puzzle after work. Ugh. It’s become a part of my daily routine.