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Cirrus Launches Five-Seat SR22
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wrote 1 year 19 weeks ago
This SR22 ism't for everybody, but if you're the guy with a wife and three kids it's perfect. You may have to leave off a little fuel but that's the tradeoff.
The Airplane that Ended a War
from DigDug
wrote 1 year 18 weeks ago
Saw a discussion about nose ar over on the Army Air Force forum. Somebody there surmised probably 65% of the WWII bombers in Europe had nose art. Someone with the 303rdBG, 360BS even said the Squadron Commander would allow temporary art only for photo shoots requested by crews. The art had to be removed following the session. Consequently, he said they had a lot of "no name" aircraft in their squadron.
White House Ratchets Up Heat on User Fees
from DigDug
wrote 1 year 18 weeks ago
I just ran a quick calculation comparing a Boeing 737 with a Learjet 45, which seem like good choices for the leg we're talking about.
I used average fuel consumption of 800 gal/hr for the 737 and 200 gal/hr for the Learjet, which is ballpark.
Based on these assumptions, the 737 would pay $35.20/hr in fuel taxes and the Learjet $43.80/hr.
Here's an extreme example: a Cessna CJ1 vs. an Airbus A380. Assuming fuel burns of 135 gal/hr vs 4,000 gal/hr, the A380 would still pay only about six times the fuel taxes of the CJ.
The White House is saying, at a minimum, the "large commerical aircraft" would pay 21 times as much. Maybe they're running their calculations using Concorde's fuel burn. or maybe their math is wrong.
Mastering the Metar
from DigDug
wrote 1 year 17 weeks ago
Yeah but we're in the age of 140 character tweets, hashtags, LOL, OMG and BFF. Metars seem to fit the times perfectly.
Seriously though, reading a whole list of weather reports is much quicker and easier scanning raw Metars as opposed to reading plain English. That's my opinion anyway.
FAA ‘Safety Culture’ or Snitching Program?
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wrote 1 year 9 weeks ago
I think this is more an issue with tower controllers, not enroute controllers. I've heard similar stories about pilots being threatened with ceritifcate action for screwing up in the pattern at towered airports in the last few weeks. I'd be interested in hearing from tower controllers reading this what their take is.
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