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    What’s going on at United

    The charted minimums are 4000 RVR for that approach. You can set company minimums higher than charted but never Lower.
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    Military Helo Rotorwash

    Oceana is not going anywhere. There is simply no place they could move the number of squadrons they host.
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    Military Helo Rotorwash

    I think some are way overestimating how long downwash remains a factor. I worked around large helo’s many times. 30 seconds is not enough but 10 minutes is way to much. I personally use 3 minutes.
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    Under insured and sweating a little bit..

    Be aware that winning a lawsuit is not the same as collecting the money. A high percentage of lawsuits won never get paid. There are numerous dodges to legally avoid payment. The simplest is a divorce giving the wife 100% of the assets. Done by shoddy builders all the time. Simply moving assets...
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    Boeing cargo plane makes emergency 'belly' landing

    If foam is ingested by a running engine it generally requires a overhual. If not running a wash would be required.
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    Enough jobs for the student pilot population?

    Delta had one furlough in the nineties of around 400 pilots if I recall correctly. They had zero furloughs in the eighties and if your uncle was employed by Delta in the Eighties he was never furloughed in the nineties. If you want to be home every night and work for a major airline it’s...
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    Top Gun 3

    Standard trained defense against a visually acquired missile is out of burner, chaff and flares. If you are planning countermeasures for known threats in advance and will use a program you still would pop a mix to account for handheld IR threats that are everywhere. Conversely if you know there...
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    Engine knock/low altitude commercial flight

    Hard to tell what happened from what you wrote. Only thing I can think of is they secured the bleed air on one engine for some type of failure. That would put them in a single pack operation. Single pack flight can have altitude restrictions. Often as low as 25,000 feet depending on the aircraft...
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    Enough jobs for the student pilot population?

    Flying can and will be a great career. There are many good jobs outside the major airlines and hiring is going to be substantial. Yes there has been a lot of hiring the last 10 years but many were older pilots who will retire in the next 20 years. The part I see overlooked again and again is...
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    Colorado Rockies Hitting Coach In Pilot Seat

    The pilots wont be fired. They will get counseled and returned to the line.
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    Why are Rotax engines limited to 150/160hp?

    It would need to be a clean sheet engine to get into higher HP. The reduction unit might be the biggest issue. I suspect they have something under development but it’s probably 10 years away.
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    Airline hiring

    They love military training and time. Get on with a regional and knock out another 1000 and you should be in good shape. Be aware however that at the majors they fully understand mil time. They might question 1000 hours without becoming a AC for example.
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    Rotax vs. traditional (engine shutdown)

    Mine does, I do however have a 3 blade composite prop. A big heavy metal prop will of course rotate longer. Most Rotax aircraft have very light props.
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    Rotax vs. traditional (engine shutdown)

    Rotax engines are shut down by killing the ignition systems like a car. Lycomings and Continentals are shutdown by cutting fuel flow. Ignition cutoff is instant. Fuel flow cutoff not so fast and many systems don’t kill the fuel flow completely with the mixture in idle cutoff as they age.
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    Breeze Airlines?

    American runs a major operation out of Miami. It’s heavily ATC impacted. It’s good American blocks rooms. If you fly Breeze they might offer to let you sleep on the terminal floor.
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    Breeze Airlines?

    Breeze hired so many FO’s with extremely limited experience that currently they are trying to hire direct entry Captains to staff aircraft deliveries. They have yet to have a profitable quarter and after proclaiming they were so well financed they would need zero future funding just borrowed a...
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    Boeing’s on a streak...

    I would spend a bit of time reading up on the engine. It has lots of problems beyond the contaminated turbine section. Here are a few and on 22 Mar the FAA indicated it may require additional rotor replacement on many engines. Combustion chamber failures, 25% degradation in coastal...
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    What’s going on at United

    . Yes, in 2027.
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    Low Temps on One Cylinder

    The problem will be back.
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