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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • Well yeah I know.

    We get the same kind of treatment at ATC and it makes me kinda laugh. How can we crash an aircraft? There are 2 pilots on board that want to get home after a long day at work and will simply say “unable, sir I can see the Mont-Blanc right in front of us, go fuck yourself and here is my report” (and I’m not even talking about the ton of electronic safety that are on the ground and on board airliners).

    I said some reasons because OP is not thinking badly about life anymore, or maybe not I don’t know and there are plenty of other reasons to not receive a class 1 medical.

    I just think that it’s not because you did something at 16 that it should ruin your life at 30.


  • Hey kuddos to you brother.

    I’m a private pilot and professionally an air traffic controller.

    If, for reasons, the corporate world of aviation doesn’t want you that doesn’t mean you can’t fly.

    A VFR PPL is a legit simple way of flying, but out of your own pockets and not a career (ultra light is even cheaper and those ULM are getting crazy good).

    I know plenty of small executives charter companies that will recruit anyone to fly their citation or pilatus. Granted that those are shit employers that abuse the young licenced pilots but that a job in aviation 🤷🏻‍♂️

    I also know a “self made entrepreneur pilot” that is hella happy. He created his own ferry flight company, so he delivers a new or 2nd hand bought plane from the seller to the buyer. This can be dangerous tho as you might be asked to deliver an old piper archer II from rural America to Europe. It’s your job to figure it out and do it as safely as possible (as you are the PIC so if anything happens well, you are the one in a bright orange survival outfit in the Atlantic).

    Or another one that flew helicopters for oil platforms companies and ended up flying the fire fighters helicopter during the fire season.

    Anyway, just to say, there are plenty of jobs in aviation, not only being a ATPL Airbus pilot for whatever company so do not lose hope o7




  • Strange, we have 4 peoples for whom it’s happening way too often, meanwhile I barely even see the communities sidebar and I really have to look for it.

    I’m also unable to open this sidebar when I’m on a post.

    I’m on iPhone, if that helps. Are you all 4 on android and this could be some sort of different gesture between the two OS?

    Or, kinda dumb hypothesis, are you all left handed? The communities button is on the top left so maybe scrolling with your left hand makes it more prone to touch that button?


  • Yeah but milk is lait, the guy is not dumb enough to think she was ordering some chaud milk by using both languages.

    It’s either lait chaud or hot milk, or “hawt” milk in that case.

    We struggle with the oa sound and some “arrr” sound (that’s what ended our pirate career). The worst English word for a French is probably “horror”, it sounds like the name “Aurore” with a hot potato in the mouth, something like “Howwowr”







  • Just to be specific as you received tons of answers already.

    Yes a modern bi-jet aircraft can takeoff with only one engine (think A320, B7** etc). Provided that there isn’t any other huge issue affecting the performance or the airframe (like a wing on fire).

    This MD11 was a tri-jet from another era and it seems that it lost 2 engines out of 3.

    And no there are no backup engines, that would be dead weight and engines are very heavy.

    That backup is the other engine, their reliability and the fact that an aircraft can still fly without engines (if at altitude of course) and glide to an airport for an emergency landing.