the "not worthy of it's own thread" thread

Zeldman said:
I just learned something...shocking, I know.

When in conversation, or speaking to a group of folks and you can't remember a word you are wanting to use, don't say, ''What's the word I am looking for.??''

Instead say...''How do you say it in English.??''

That way the folks will think you are smart or bilingual instead of thinking you are just not very bright...
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This is not quite a daily occurrence, but living in a multilingual household, it is a common issue. I usually end up saying, “Just say it in French.” Then I play the guessing game to see if I can decipher it (most of the time I do, but that’s a combination of my weak but growing knowledge of French and a fair amount of luck!)
 
Friend of mine who collects and restores vintage planes has 2 Nieuport WWI replicas. Extremely unstable, so they have been relegated to static display. One got hit with a microburst last week and blown over a fence into a cow pasture. The cows are oddly fascinated.
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Ed Haywood said:
Friend of mine who collects and restores vintage planes has 2 Nieuport WWI replicas. Extremely unstable, so they have been relegated to static display. One got hit with a microburst last week and blown over a fence into a cow pasture. The cows are oddly fascinated.
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It is simultaneously really cool that he has them and really sad that that happened. I'm not sure how to react... Great picture.
 
2-Bit Speed said:
It is simultaneously really cool that he has them and really sad that that happened. I'm not sure how to react... Great picture.
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Those planes are death traps, so it's probably for the best. Neither will ever fly again, regardless of condition.
 
I saw a guy with one hand. He was wearing a wrist watch on the, uh, non-hand arm. Seems like an unnecessary risk, if you ask me. Then again maybe he was in his ‘situation’ by being a risk taker.
 
flyingpreacher said:
This is not quite a daily occurrence, but living in a multilingual household, it is a common issue. I usually end up saying, “Just say it in French.” Then I play the guessing game to see if I can decipher it (most of the time I do, but that’s a combination of my weak but growing knowledge of French and a fair amount of luck!)
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My wife's English is heavily accented so sometimes I tell her to spell it so I can figure out what she is saying. When she is excited she will mix English and Tagalog. After 13 years I am starting to understand her...

It doesn't help that my hearing damage is in the area of the level of her voice.... she claims I do it on purpose... :lol:
 
NealRomeoGolf said:
One of my squawk codes today was 6665. Would that bother any of you??
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yes. one time I was charged $6.6youknowwhat for food and I asked them to charge me $.01 more please. the one girl didn't get it (probably the spawn of satan) but the other girl did.
 
Ed Haywood said:
Friend of mine who collects and restores vintage planes has 2 Nieuport WWI replicas. Extremely unstable, so they have been relegated to static display. One got hit with a microburst last week and blown over a fence into a cow pasture. The cows are oddly fascinated.
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Seems like this should be a Far Side cartoon.

Different topic:
So I'm still a student - I find that after 5 or 6 laps in the pattern, I'm typically mentally fatigued and request a full stop. Can you more seasoned pilots perform pattern work for much longer without getting tired? I think that pattern work requires 100% of my cognitive bandwidth, and even though half a dozen landings only takes about half an hour, that's all I feel I like to do on any given day.
Edit: and maybe even fewer if it's a gusty day.
 
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When you’re learning something new, especially something involving hand - eye coordination combined with thinking and decision making, you’re literally burning calories making new neuron connections in your brain. That’s tiring.

Yes, you’ll get tired quicker vs if you already have all of that learned. You’ll also reach the point of diminishing returns quicker. 25 laps on one day isn’t the same as 5 laps at a time spread over multiple sessions.
 
Baked Potato said:
Seems like this should be a Far Side cartoon.

Different topic:
So I'm still a student - I find that after 5 or 6 laps in the pattern, I'm typically mentally fatigued and request a full stop. Can you more seasoned pilots perform pattern work for much longer without getting tired? I think that pattern work requires 100% of my cognitive bandwidth, and even though half a dozen landings only takes about half an hour, that's all I feel I like to do on any given day.
Edit: and maybe even fewer if it's a gusty day.
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I used to do 10 in an hour as a student and be completely wiped out. Half a dozen is easily enough to fatigue anyone.

Almost no one does pattern work like that after their checkride. I'll go up and do 3 or 4 if I haven't flown in a couple weeks or I'm getting ready to do young eagles and have been flying a bunch of ifr xc, but that's the extent of my pattern work these days. I suspect I'm pretty typical.
 
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Jim K said:
I used to do 10 in an hour as a student and be completely wiped out. Half a dozen is easily enough to fatigue anyone.

Almost no one does pattern work like that after their checkride. I'll go up and do 3 or 4 if I haven't flown in a couple weeks or I'm getting ready to do young eagles and have been flying a bunch of ifr xc, but that's the extent of my pattern work these days. I suspect I'm pretty typical.
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Hmmm, I had an incident a couple of weeks ago after only 2 in the pattern and was spooked and had to full-stop and document the events. It's a whole longer story... But I had to get on the horse so next day and did 8 landings. After the first it was fun again and I enjoyed every minute of the next ones. Flying was fun again and as much as going somewhere makes it great, just getting in the pattern is fun too.
 
Baked Potato said:
Seems like this should be a Far Side cartoon.

Different topic:
So I'm still a student - I find that after 5 or 6 laps in the pattern, I'm typically mentally fatigued and request a full stop. Can you more seasoned pilots perform pattern work for much longer without getting tired? I think that pattern work requires 100% of my cognitive bandwidth, and even though half a dozen landings only takes about half an hour, that's all I feel I like to do on any given day.
Edit: and maybe even fewer if it's a gusty day.
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It took me so long to learn landings, that by then the rest of the pattern was completely routine. Sounds like I'm kidding, but I'm not. That said, I didn't do too many touch and go's, because the field I flew out of was too short for them. I'm still not really a fan of them. ANG around here flies them a lot w/ C-130's, though, and those are probably more than a bit trickier than in a PA-28, so I'm an admitted lightweight.
 
Baked Potato said:
Can you more seasoned pilots perform pattern work for much longer without getting tired?
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Nothing is more taxing than being a instructor and doing T&Gs all day with students hell bent on killing me...

After I left instructing landings became so routine that there were times after parking I could not recall what I did while landing, even in strong crosswinds or ice covered runways.

I never did multiple T&Gs after PP training. Not including riding right seat with students.
 
Baked Potato said:
So I'm still a student - I find that after 5 or 6 laps in the pattern, I'm typically mentally fatigued and request a full stop. Can you more seasoned pilots perform pattern work for much longer without getting tired? I think that pattern work requires 100% of my cognitive bandwidth, and even though half a dozen landings only takes about half an hour, that's all I feel I like to do on any given day.
Edit: and maybe even fewer if it's a gusty day.
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After PPL I don't think remaining in the pattern is a question of stamina, it's a question of boredom.
Not many people are excited about renting a plane ($$$) and/or paying for gas so they can go land on the same runway over and over. There's exceptions, of course. Like when you need to get your night currency back or something.
Frankly, I like a good xwind or some nice bumps on final when I'm doing landings these days. Just because it keeps you sharp and focused. I'd have a lot more fun doing those than calm-wind landings if I was going to hang out in the pattern.
 
The only time you find me doing multiple circuits in the pattern is either night currency or post maintenance. The PA32 is not a pattern machine.
 
So I go and hang out with a Twin Comanche last night. One of the planes it‘s hangared with is a decent looking FIKI Seneca 2. Apparently it hasn’t flown in a year. Quite disappointing.

As such I am thinking of launching a service. If you have a plane that you don’t want turned into an expensive hangar queen, I will help you out! Throw me the keys and I’ll make sure the plane gets time where it belongs - in the sky!
 
kaiser said:
So I go and hang out with a Twin Comanche last night. One of the planes it‘s hangared with is a decent looking FIKI Seneca 2. Apparently it hasn’t flown in a year. Quite disappointing.

As such I am thinking of launching a service. If you have a plane that you don’t want turned into an expensive hangar queen, I will help you out! Throw me the keys and I’ll make sure the plane gets time where it belongs - in the sky!
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Have fun with the insurance.
 
kaiser said:
So I go and hang out with a Twin Comanche last night. One of the planes it‘s hangared with is a decent looking FIKI Seneca 2. Apparently it hasn’t flown in a year. Quite disappointing.

As such I am thinking of launching a service. If you have a plane that you don’t want turned into an expensive hangar queen, I will help you out! Throw me the keys and I’ll make sure the plane gets time where it belongs - in the sky!
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kaiser said:
The owner paying for insurance is cheaper than their plane rotting away.


I think I found my motto!
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man, if only every single other pilot hasn't thought of this exact scenario before, you might be on to something! also, you're name aint @RyanB !
 
I like throwing a bag of Nestle semi sweet morsels in the freezer and then eating a handful from time to time.
 
Bill said:
I like throwing a bag of Nestle semi sweet morsels in the freezer and then eating a handful from time to time.
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As a chocoholic I fully approve of this message.

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Back before I quit sugar frozen M&Ms were the best.

If I did not have a freezer handy then M&Ms mixed in a bag of popcorn.!!
 
Bill said:
I like throwing a bag of Nestle semi sweet morsels in the freezer and then eating a handful from time to time.
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My wife likes hiding a bag in the freezer so I don’t get into it before she uses them in cookies or something. She eventually figured out that having two bags thusly hidden works better.
 
The more I study the FAR AIM for the commercial oral test, the less I know. And I think it's eroding what little intelligence I have.
 
I don't know if it will make you feel better, but both commercial orals was the easiest of all for me.

I gotta start CFI renewal on Aug 03.
 
WDD said:
The more I study the FAR AIM for the commercial oral test, the less I know. And I think it's eroding what little intelligence I have.
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consider it prep for a career at the FAA

(no, I don't really think that... but the straight line was just begging for it...)
 
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well, I finally looked at why my walk-behind mower wouldn't start (I do have a riding mower) - it wasn't so much not starting, rather I couldn't even pull it through... I feared the engine had seized, but it was just a massive amount of grass clippings that dried over the winter and jammed the blade.

Gotta love easy fixes.
 
Where do you live where you didn’t need to fire that up u til now?
 
WDD said:
Where do you live where you didn’t need to fire that up u til now?
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I simply used my riding mower instead. I mowed the front and back a dozen times with just the riding mower.

edit: a few years ago I started using the walk-behind just for the extra exercise
 
Flew my first approach from the right seat in a new to me airplane (PA30). It was quite bad. I have no clue how CFII’s do it.
 
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