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It’s all about timing. There has been a LOT of hiring. I know Delta is planning on hiring less this year than they have been hiring. It’s gotta stop at some point. Like Oldmanb777 said, career FO isn’t a bad gig either. I remember way back when I used to commute on TWA they had guys who had...

Type IV is designed to shear in the 100-110 kt range. I’ve watched the wing when riding in the back and you can see it suddenly liquify and run off. Kinda cool.

Not an authority on the subject but I wouldn’t be surprised if they said no. That being said, if it’s on Christmas Day they might be slow enough to allow it.

So she’s trying to go from CFI straight to the majors??? Good luck with that.

There are no furloughs at FedEx or UPS

It’s definitely a good time to be a pilot. The 141 schools are expensive but I know some of the regional airlines were helping to pay off some of the debt if you committed to them. Been a long time since I was in that phase of my career and I’m sure some of the younger guys will have better...

Both FedEx and UPS quit hiring this year. Pretty sure that was after the high inflation and slowing economy began. UPS earned $1.3 billion in the 3rd quarter while FedEx was around $800 million. Both are still making profits, just less than before.

Amazon is not the problem. Slowing economy has caused volume to decrease at all 3 carriers. This comes after all 3 we’re hiring like mad during Covid so now FedEx and UPS are fat in pilots. UPS offered an early out to the senior guys. FedEx is encouraging guys to go to PSA and may well...

He was asking hypothetically. Not whether or not you could survive the event that would actually be involved to make it happen. Just wants to know if a 172 will fly with only the right elevator.

When you are bidding for work schedules, vacation, whatever, you are bidding against others that are in the same seat/base/aircraft as you. As a Captain you are bidding against pilots who are going to be more senior than FOs are so if you want to maximize what your seniority can do for you it’s...

How does a seniority based system screw anyone? The person who has been there 5 years gets to pick his schedule ahead of the person who has been there 3 years. Captains as a group are going to have much more seniority than FOs so if you are a senior FO and like your schedules you might want to...

Once you move to the left seat you get to fly with your favorite Captain from then on!

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Don’t have the knowledge to run a website but I’ve been wanting to find some propellers from this area. It seems there’s a lot of reproductions which I’m not interested in. (I admit I haven’t looked very hard yet but now I finally have a place to display them)

Tower of London is very good. Duxford is a great museum and if the weather is nice they may be flying. (Last time there a Hurricane was flying). It’s not far from Cambridge which is a great town. Don’t know if you can make it fit into your plans.

I’ll stick with this.

Don’t know that I want one but pretty cool concept. https://lilium.com/jet <iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/767078051?h=4be28f158a" width="

I’m assuming you don’t fly for a living. The most important passenger is me and I’m far from snowflakey. Old and grouchy maybe. Kidding aside, constant turbulence is also fatiguing. Try it for hours on end doing an ocean crossing and you’ll change your mind.

Hours on end of even light turbulence gets old. Usually you can manage to find smooth air. That’s why you hear people checking in with “smooth” or “continuous light”. Of course, some days there just isn’t a decent ride to be had at a useful altitude.

Short answer is yes. I know IFL has some in service for UPS.