r/AskAPilot

Hey there!! I was home for the weekend for thanks giving to see family. I am currently in my second month of commercial helicopter piloting school and I love it I’m living the dream. Last night my brother needed someone to DD him home from the bar so I went to pick him up, hours before picking him up I had a beer with friends. On my way home I was pulled over for a routine check and I blew a 0.021. Now in Alberta that number is below the legal and warning limit but this is where the problem is, I was under the impression that my GDL was already removed but it turns out it was still active and according to the Alberta GDL program you can’t have anything in your system until it’s removed. I was given a IRS which is not a criminal charge. Because of this my car was impounded for 7 days, my drivers license has been suspended for 30 days, and I was fined 240$. I am a student pilot and I’m scared of the impact this will have on my future and future career, can I get some insight on knowledge for this type of situation?

Hey guys, been following all the madness and deep-dives coming out about that FlyDubai flight where the captain got attacked and deadheading crew in the cabin had to step up and land the bird.

Got me thinking about standard line operations. Obviously, having extra pilots positioning in the back turned out to be an absolute miracle in that scenario, but how often are airlines actually doubling up on flight deck crew for routine routes?

If something catastrophic happens up front and there aren't any extra crew members riding as passengers to jump in:

1. Is ATC actually equipped to walk a total layman through a flight deck landing on a modern commercial jet, or is that purely Hollywood fiction?

2. At what point does autopilot/remote intervention play a role if the active crew goes completely incapacitated?

Curious to hear how other captains and FOs view cockpit security and redundancy after everything that's gone down recently. Stay safe out there.

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Hi,
Going to RTAG this next weekend, going to be clean shaved, suit, printed Resumes, ETC. My question is should I bring my physical logbooks that I have from when I was student through CFI? My 121 hours are all in an electronic logbook and I plan to print those off, but do I need to bring the others with me?

Thanks in advanced!!

I can’t even imagine being a pilot for a 12 hour flight and having nothing to do except for chatting… what if you guys don’t like each other

I fly commercial fairly often. I've noticed often that when we taxi onto the runway and get into position then throttle up for takeoff, rather than just going straight up to full right then and there, the pilot usually throttles up to a certain RPM, then some more after a couple seconds, then eventually hits it to full throttle as we are rolling along a few yards ahead. Kind of like in "phases".

Just curious as a non-pilot: is there an official term for this? Is it basically just to check that the engines don't have issues when throttling up and to make it easier to throttle back quickly if something goes wrong and takeoff has to be aborted?

Pilots that flew both aircraft, which one did you enjoy flying more and why?

As the title states, I'm just curious if any pilots on here who have flown both airframes have a particular favorite. If so, why? What do you like about the aircraft that the other deosn't do or have?

Thanks!

I'm not a pilot, but definitely an aviation geek and have always been curious:

For trike-gear planes, it's obvious how to keep it center-lined on the taxiway and runway, but how do you do so with tail draggers? Is there a technique? Or do you just kind of have to shift forward in your seat until you can see over the nose enough to center the plane?

Hey everyone, I’m building a portable cockpit voice recorder tailored for general aviation, to help with flight training and safety. I wanted to ask CFIs, students, and pilots: What is your biggest frustration debriefing flights. With me it was remembering what was said, feedback, and reinforcement of tasks and procedures discussed in flight. Would you use a portable cockpit voice recorder? Do you see it as a valuable tool?

I'm getting ready to launch the product- the SyncFlight Alpha 1 and would love your feedback and any recommendations for product additions.

One addition I have made so far is to integrate a Bluetooth transmitter to send audio directly to an Insta360 camera, whether it is mounted in the cockpit, wingtip, or tail. It works great for aviation Vloggers and provides both audio and visual feedback. You can follow the progress at www.syncflight.com Again, I would love any feedback you can provide.

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