Sam Guichelaar

Doesn’t that generally indicate high levels of nitrogen in the environment?

I installed new Zulu 3 braided cables on my Lightspeed Zulu 1st generation today, as the original were frayed.

€16 per cable on AliExpress (original!)

Lightspeed no longer offers support for Zulu 1, but it’s still amongst the best GA headsets available. Didn’t want to spend €1200 for a new one.

to make a normal landing.

I had to get used to these wind conditions (and honestly, still am getting used to them) because despite having flown in many different geographic areas, the wind conditions here are completely different and outside of normal limits for most pilots.

And high wind velocity layers. Today this line was on the threshold of the runway in use, so we could not fly a normal final.

Instead we have to approach at a 45 degree angle, staying within one layer of air the entire time.

Then over the threshold we have to correct bank, pitch and airspeed

During this time of year, this occurs almost every single day, with the amount of windshear being directly related to temperature rise & wind direction.

To avoid getting into the heavy windshear, sometimes we have to perform a circuit that avoids the separation line of the calm

Some of my students use Rayban glasses that have two camera’s.

They captured our ‘oblique (45 degrees offset) final’ yesterday.

Oblique final is relatively unique to Island & Mountain flying.

When two steams of wind come together, there is a high potential for turbulence, windshear & updrafts.

It’s been 4 months since I started working as a Flight Instructor again, and I’m extremely happy that I decided to accept this job after much consideration.

I genuinely love general aviation, and could see myself staying in it for years to come.

I successfully passed my ME-CRI AoC today, and I can now (or when my CAA gets to the printing my new license, which for some reason can take up to two months!) instruct on Multi Engine aircraft.

Very happy about this upgrade.

RPM gauge decided to quit on me during flight.

Luckily I know O-320’s quite well and could set RPM based on engine sound ± 70 RPM. (And I don’t really fly on RPM’s anyway).

Nazi remnants on Guernsey. The entire island is filled with well-preserved nazi buildings.

2nd leg of our trip to Morocco done, arrived at Guernsey. First time visit for me so amazing to see it all.

Though I certainly wished the roads were big enough to fit two cars.

I’m flying a Socata TB9 from The Netherlands to Morocco early next month, & I’m still looking for a co-pilot for the trip.

If you can read an AIP, understand a METAR & want to log 20-odd hours for €1000 (plus costs for your hotel & food) let me know.

Very rare opportunity.

Reposting appreciated!

Hair Ice, always very special to find, since most of the time there isn’t anything else that appears frozen in the area.

It only appears on dead wood with a specific type of fungi which acts as a catalyst.

Whats even more interesting is that the exact mechanism is not known to scientists.

The aircraft I’m flying needs *constant* right rudder and right bank to a degree I’ve never seen before.

All manual trim tabs are already deflected. No idea what’s going on.

Here you can see me releasing aileron and rudder pressure. AC immediately starts entering a left dive.

We have sold our aircraft (Socata TB9) and I’ll be flying it from the Netherlands to Morocco in februari.

This is a basic route a decided based on AVGAS availability and reasonable landing fees.

Does anyone have some suggestions for places of interest, nature reserves or special airports to visit?

#OTD in 1994: United Express Flight 6291, a Jetstream 41, crashes on Ohio (US), 5 of 8 aboard die. On approach to Columbus airport, aircraft stalled out of control, went down 1.2 mi from runway. Factors: crew actions/inexperience, airline and FAA oversight, pilot training.

#OTD in 1953: an Associated Air Transport C-46 [N1648M] crashes in Idaho (US), all 40 aboard die. Plane disappeared after routine radio check, wreck found 5 days later. Cause: inadvertent descent into area of turbulence and icing, resulting in inability to regain safe altitude.

I haven't flown as a flight instructor for a while, and have to get current.

I'm happy the New Zealand CAA has made an absolutely superb illustrated flight instructor guide, available for free!

Recommend for anyone who wants to get current, instructor or not.

www.aviation.govt.nz/licensing-an...

Yeah I agree. I’m in the same position, I definitely don’t have that much extra to give, but it was the right thing to do.

Update: I sent her some extra money. My financial situation isn’t fantastic but I felt like it was the right thing to do.

Does anyone know of any Aerial Survey companies in Africa (not South Africa), Asia, South/Central America who are looking for operators & operations managers?

Still haven’t received my contract, so may as well see what else is out there, but can’t find a lot.

Any word on the crew yet? Looks like at may have been survivable.

I am considering sending her some additional money, because I feel like I unintentionally made use of her terrible situation.

Would you send some extra money in this situation?

I bought a second hand Macbook Air (15’, M3, 16GB ram) yesterday for €900. New price is €1600.

I had assumed the device was used with marks, but it was brand new. The person selling it is going though a divorce and badly needed the money.

Now I feel bad, the device is worth more than I paid.

This was the peak of web software — functional, non-bloated, evoking the feeling of raw power

A significant part of why reboots work when they do IS nostalgia. But people misinterpret nostalgia as ‘lets do the exact same thing with the same characters and ignore that they’re 20 years older’. That doesn’t work. When it does work, you get Trainspotting & Trainspotting 2. 20 years apart.

It would obviously require Sam’s face to be CGI’d onto someone else, and I’m not sure of the legal implications. It would feel like like an amazing inclusion in the new Scrubs Sam deserved. The Blanks would also be featured.

People say ‘it shouldn’t just be nostalgia’, and while I do agree,

That sets up how everyone gets back together and eventually starts working at the same hospital again.

Whether this idea is good; respectful to Sam Lloyd, I don’t know. It’s just an idea I’d had for a few years.

Responding their facades slowly fade, and most of the cast admit that they lives aren’t perfect, and that they’re sitting idle, waiting for change to come.

As ted is pronounced in episode one or two, everyone of the original cast is together again and realises their love for each other.

Tears, which then impacts him.

Ted being in the hospital causes a lot of the cast to come back and visit him (and by extension Dr. Cox), and they all their their recent life experiences, where the people who haven’t seen each other first pretent their life is picture perfect, but as Ted isn’t