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After years of hard work, speed bumps, and life getting in the way, finally completed my commercial checkride yesterday! Still have lots to improve on, but super stoked to finally have it finished and open up many more professional pathways for myself.

"Murillo said he and his family were preparing to reach their final destination around 2 a.m. Saturday." That had to be intentional......

Interesting, I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to do more research and enlighten myself. Thanks! Still new to NiCd batteries, but here's a few things I've learned thus far: -They are shipped and stored stone-dead. This is contrary to lead-acid batteries which are basically destroyed by...

Haha thats what it looks like! Yeah, I’ve dealt with plenty of leaked electrolyte (potassium hydroxide) and it usually leaves a powdery white or yellowish residue, corroding the surrounding metal to blues and greens. But neither I nor my supervisor with many years of battery experience have...

Hi all, looking for some input regarding corrosion on NiCd for main ship batteries. I have experience with lead-acid batteries but am new to NiCd chemistry. I’ve already torn down a few and am used to the familiar whitish-yellowish-greenish-bluish powdery corrosion/electrolyte remnants on the...

Yep, wake turbulence from small planes is definitely a thing. In primary training I was in a 172 following a 206 on downwind and caught a couple "nasty" vortices. In hindsight it wasn't that bad at all, but at the time it startled the pants off my 20-odd-hour self. Not as scary as airliner...

I agree and appreciate the above sentiments regarding the need to focus on mental health system overhaul. Let me be clear, I do not condone, justify, excuse, or at all minimize the inexcusability/atrocity of his actions. But the thing that continues to disappoint me is that this could have...

Thanks all. Eventually made it outta there around 8pm. It’s was certainly a SNAFU day for me, since I was only there because my flight from JAX was a couple hours late to begin with. Got in at noon thirty, waited for a standby seat at 5:45, and at 5pm the ground stop was issued. The gate...

So I’d been sitting here at Dulles for hours thanks to a late aircraft causing a missed connection, and just before I was due to board another flight, a ground stop was issued. From what I gathered from LiveATC, there is/was an equipment/comms outage at the Potomac tracon. Out of curiosity...

Ah, thank you for the reference. Much appreciated!

So I have a question I can’t seem to find an official answer to in writing: I took and passed my commercial written exam a couple of years ago. Unfortunately stuff came up and I wasn’t able to finish my training in time, and that exam has since expired. Now that I’m able, I want to (finally)...

Fully agree. You gotta fly the situation in front of you, in a manner that keeps everyone out of harm's way. Midairs aren't fender-benders where both drivers can argue over right-of-way after one gets sideswiped in traffic. Do what ya gotta do to avoid the conflict entirely, and save the legal...

Nothing noteworthy, maybe a box of firestarters worth a pound or two. That's what I was thinking. But the delayed reaction and discoloration still confuses me. Come to think of it, I do remember accidentally placing the hot pan down on a plastic tabletop at one point and melting it a bit...

Nothing that I know of! I haven’t even done my annual shock treatment this year yet. No other issues with all my stainless cookware. a little above my knowledge level but it sounds believable lol. Especially with the perfectly vertical cracking and dishing, definitely smacks of stresses from...

No chlorine/chemical exposure that I know of. I just boiled water then put it away on a shelf, in the mesh bag it came in. I’m sure it was a cheap manufacturing process but I’m still puzzled by the extent of degradation from one use. Makes my not want to even use the rest of the set on a real...

Metallurgists and engineers among us, I have a question/puzzle for you. So I have this cheap stainless pot in a camping cook set. It’s a cheap set from Wallyworld so that probably has something to do with it. I used it for a few boil tests when test driving a new (white gas) backpacking...

I've been lucky enough so far, a few years into my flying life, that I haven't really had any negative interactions with ATC. Even the times I've pulled some new-pilot dumbassery, the worst I've gotten is a stern repeat of instructions. Even in NY airspace, inside the bravo, they were...

I agree and disagree. The amount of useful camber is usually barely perceptible, usually between 1 and 5 degrees. And it all depends on how the suspension is set up, and how it responds to different steering angles. I also don't care what others do with their cars/money, as long as they're...

As a car guy, I get the "stanced" look. But only when it's properly done. A few degrees of negative camber can have huge performance benefits depending on what kind of driving you're doing. And because of that, it tends to look really good to those who know what they're looking at. But the...

I feel the same about most cars and trucks in general. I love my Tacoma, the 2nd gen, right before Yota copypasted the same ugly gaping-mouth front end onto every vehicle they make. Now seeing the newer Tundra/Taco lines look like every other ForChevRamGMC F2500 out there, it just makes me...