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by heelix 7y ago
I loved the concept. My home FBO supported it, so was thinking I'd be styling since I traveled very frequently for work. I was never once able to just say 'here is my medical, insurance, and OpenAirplane signoff - and use a C152
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by heelix 7y ago
An instrument rating is likely to cost as much as the original private pilot rating - and things are already stupid expensive. Over most congested areas, planes are suppose to maintain 1000' vertical separation. Over water (not boats
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by heelix 7y ago
The 'fix' the article suggests are common 'lockers' folks would go to pick up their stuff. Amazon has these - though they are not shared with other vendors. Super convenient when flying back and forth to a location. I
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by heelix 7y ago
Transponders also use a lot of power.. assuming you are looking for 'real' aircraft to see them. Most of the hobby class drones don't have the payload capacity for extra battery. Even a Cessna can't pull of a transpond
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by heelix 7y ago
I've learned a bit of morse code from flying. The older VOR navigation systems identify themselves with a three letter code, so to confirm you have the right frequency dialed in, you listen to the dot/dashes getting beeped at you
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by heelix 7y ago
I was Delta diamond for about a decade, so same deal...domestically, they really treated you nicely. I flew Frontier the first time this Spring - was helping ferry an open cockpit biplane from Colorado to Illinois - and it was a stupid chea
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by heelix 7y ago
The routes and dates really matter. I can fly from MSP to TPA (about 2.1k, about the same) for $28 USD. Now I wont argue Frontier airline is the same quality as Delta or some of the other majors... but airfare prices are really fungible.
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by heelix 7y ago
I'd be happy to have a cubicle again. The 'cattle feeder' style 3' (if that) hoteling desks are hot trash. The previous layer of hell is looking pretty good right now.
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by heelix 7y ago
Man, I disagree. For large enterprises, six months is a ridiculous pace to package/distribute a new major version. The fact that it is just enhancements does not matter. It may seem simple, but most implementations have that integer
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by heelix 7y ago
The Codeweaver folks are really great. I worked with one of their engineer's brother, which is how I can to discover this local (for me) company. The Linux version of WINE really shines too. They track, fix, and give back to the ope
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by heelix 7y ago
I have very different expectations on how Marriott reacts to me smuggling in a bit of booze vs the TSAs reaction.
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by heelix 7y ago
I helped ferry an open cockpit biplane from Colorado to the Chicago area with more or less basic VFR equipment - compass and maps. (We did have a handheld GPS... which did not seem to stay connected) Eight hours of hand flying was a wild c
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by heelix 7y ago
One of my buddies transitioned from a turboprop to a lear. He would burn more fuel on the ground than we would would in a piston powered 182 for the entire trip. I think his burn rate was near 75gal/hour in the Cheyenne compared to o
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by heelix 7y ago
My old gaming box is still running Windows 7. Honestly, I view the OS as nothing more than a platform to run my apps - and for most of my (ridiculous) steam collection, it runs the games, vmware workstation, my dev tools, and browsers just
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by heelix 7y ago
Deer hunter as well, who eats the meat. I really don't think the large game rounds are a factor. I think I've shot 5 round in the last 8 years, and there are no edible bits in the chest cavity. The lead bullets mushroom out, bu
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by heelix 7y ago
They must. We all just handed over our passorts and paperwork. It was really, really unexpected when one of the guys was told they could not enter. Root cause was the DUI in the US. Very much threw a wet blanket on what is a great trip.
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by heelix 7y ago
Yup. We have a group of people who regularly camp the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) on the Minnesota side of the boarder. We started doing trips where we would paddle to the Canadian side into Quetico - and found out one of the guys h
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by heelix 7y ago
First time I saw a room full of non-crt computer monitors, found out Merrill Lynch moved to a new building to save money. What they discovered is the CRTs would weird out every time the subway train went by. All the cash saved by moving w
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by heelix 7y ago
The launch this year was a bit rough for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) permits here in Minnesota. They limit permits to lakes, and the holiday weekends go fast, so I'm one of those who makes the Labor day plans (etc) in Januar
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by heelix 7y ago
I ended up ripping my DVDs as the resulting MP4s were so much nicer than the original media. I'd rip it, put it on a tablet to watch on the airplane, then flush them out for the next set waiting at home for me. Zero interest in blu r
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by heelix 7y ago
University required one year of Latin, or two years of French, German, or Spanish. I opted to go for the 'easy' route... and took Latin. Fast forward when our company was expanding into EMEA, and had a coding gig in France. I s
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by heelix 7y ago
I swear - our 'single sign on' that requires a new login on every single system just trains people to put in their username/password without thought....
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by heelix 7y ago
Anyone use the cross data center clustering in the real world? Got a bunch of people considering this - a cluster spanning two data centers as the way to do transactional updates.
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by heelix 7y ago
I just shake my head at the idea Rodman likely deserves a Nobel peace prize for the work done with North Korea. (and he likely does) Of all the people in the world to guess... he would not be the one I expected to do something significant
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by heelix 7y ago
It was attainable on lawn mowing money. I was 12 when I picked up one. A few games on cartridge, which was reasonable compared to the Atari/Intellivision game consoles at the time. As a bonus, you could create/type in games. I
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by heelix 7y ago
I stayed on Windows XP-64 for a very long time. It shared code with the Server 2003 if I remember right. Drivers were solid... if you had them. God help you if you did not. (most of the quality parts did, however) I miss the days of nlit
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by heelix 7y ago
While some hiding is required to get past the virus scanners... Once it trashed the centrifuges, there is huge value in letting the target know they were pwned. There had to be a huge internal "who's the internal spy/saboteu
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by heelix 7y ago
ah god damn it. I was just coming back to make an edit as enough coffee registered the mistake.
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by heelix 7y ago
Very cool option. The rocket propelled parashoot ^h^h parachute essentially totals the aircraft when used. Even a crash at post touchdown landing speeds is likely easier on those on board. The autopilot features available to GA and experi
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by heelix 7y ago
My Bride use to work for one of the big 'third bucket' credit card companies. Someone had discovered the northwinds tutorial database, changed the labels, and reworked the business processes to fit the queries - all tables were l

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