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I want to become a helicopter pilot. I live on the West Coast of burger land and I am not sure exactly what jobs are available to me after 150 hours. Everything I was able to find requires the 2000+ hours of flight time. So, my question is, should I be under the impression I can get a novice level job after flight school, or should I plan to commit a huge amount of my time and financial resources to get that 2000+ hour mark so I can apply for those $114k+ jobs that seem to be all I can find? I am not sure what other certifications I would need, and I'm open to input, however, I want this to be my career for the rest of my life, I want to enjoy it, love my job, and possibly build a personal company around it. Can I get some advice that maybe isn't found in a youtube video on general flight school questions to ask?
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>>2049507 >>2049462 The thing about being a airplane guy is that I can afford a helicopter for fun lel
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>>2049461 How many times have we seen it where SIC’s get passed over by their own companies for outside hires with the requisite PIC time. It’s fool’s gold.
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>>2049199 why not? don't you want to fire missiles at civilians? you were just following orders!
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>>2052816 military helicopter pilots are generally dogshit
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>>2049461 >I know others who quit with II shortly after getting a job cause they realized they have poor stick skills, situational awareness, and radio work. suddenly regretting that one heli ride I took at oshkosh
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I'm looking for that "do it all" bike, but I'm kinda lost in the weeds. You have anything from people saying that you can put wider knobbys on a road bike all the way to saying that you need a FS MTB. I currently have a Trek Crossrip LTD, which is an XC bike with 32c wheels. I'm looking to be able to do road rides, but would also like to hit some trails, like picrel which is only a few miles from me. The problem is with trail ratings is that they are more catered to MTB riding. Do you think that I'd be better with either A: upgrading my current bikes wheels/tires to something like a 38-40mm allroad/gravel setup. B: Just buying a higher spec'd gravel bike that's more on the MTB side than the road side and keeping my current bike as more of a road/city bike. Or C: Getting a hardtail MTB and having a nice diversity of styles? I'm completely ignorant about MTB's, but I don't think a FS is warranted for my area. I'm not against them, but they are way more expensive, and higher maintenance, and legit downhill stuff is more of a weekend excursion.
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>>2055269 Alternatively, if you want to ride off road with your current set up, you could check out the Petersburg National Battlefield trails. There's a lot of singletrack but without a lot of features, so you can get used to it. If you want to go distance, there's also the High Bridge Trail out west near Farmville.
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>>2055271 Ok, you might have sold me then. I think I've just been looking for any excuse to waste a bunch of money on a gravel bike because of all the hype. I test drove a Trek Checkpoint ALR 3 at the bikestore today because it was the best spec'd one they had for testing. I liked it a hair better than my Crossrip, but it felt almost identical other than "feeling" slightly lighter and more nimble even though it's only 1lb less. Probably just less rolling mass. So then that was making me think that I could just blow way more money on the carbon version. I'm probably going to have way more fun keeping the Crossrip in a road/city setup and just getting a hardtail. Any thoughts on a good HT? I'm a tinkerer, so I'd probably be best suited to getting one that has the best frame even if the components aren't as competitive, because I'll probably just fuck with it in the future. I did like the Roscoe 8 that they had there, but it's brand new, so I might wait until they discount it slightly. $2300 is more than I'd like to spend, but the older gen 8 seemed way shittier ever though it was like $1300.
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>>2055273 >Petersburg I might have to check it out. I grew up in Fburg, and then moved to north of the river Richmond/Henrico. I'm in Chesterfield now, and all this south of the river stuff is new to me.
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>>2055274 >Any thoughts on a good HT? Sorry, but I have no idea, since I just ride the one I bought back in 2019. My advice would be to go to a bike shop and just see what they have in stock and see what you like. Mine was around $800 when I bought it and I didn't feel limited by it. If you like to tinker, then yeah, go for whatever frame you like.
>>2055275 I'm from the tri-cities area, though I no longer live there. Petersburg is not the best place to be, but the battlefield is nice. If you want to know some road trails, there's the Virginia Capital Trail that connects Richmond and Jamestown and the Colonial Parkway between Williamsburg and Yorktown.
Regardless of where you ride, enjoy it! I miss home sometimes.
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>>2055276 >Regardless of where you ride, enjoy it! I miss home sometimes Thanks bröther. I don't mind it here, but I'm actually looking at other cities for when my current lease is up. The pandemic brought all the WFH people here looking for a cheap hip city, so housing has skyrocketed, but wages are the same. I know it's the same story most everywhere else, but at least in my field, there's other cities that rent's are similar but pay is 20-30% higher. I'm currently hot on Denver or Ft. Collins, but I still need to shop around more.But hey, great biking out that way as well.
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What could I expect w*rking as a seasonal transit operator for the winter season in park city? Split shift?
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>>2054836 You will have an erratic schedule
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>>2054864 In Park City? Nah, too rich and white for that.
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>>2055208 >>2054836 Yeah, makes it even more dangerous because for them other folk you have a visual cue to be on your guard.
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>>2054836 Boy, if they put you on a split shift, do not take the job. It is not worth it.
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>it's another "anon has nothing to do on a beautiful weekend so he goes on an aimless 20-25 mile bike ride for an hour or two just to be out of the house" episode haha gee it was great biking past all the families, friends, people with children, eating at restaurants, walking the streets together, doing stuff at the park, and living their lives happily while i was complete self-congizant how im the autistic retard biking alone through town
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>>2052160 It's weird how women equate misogyny with inexperience with women. Being around women is how men get misogynistic. Anti-misogynist men were just too weak and gave in to the loneliness.
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>been NEET-mode for a few weeks now >go ride my bike on some weekdays for a few hours through town just to do something >feel weird biking at random weekday hours because I should be working >see people around town, wonder what their story is shopping or walking around in the middle of the afternoon like me >bike past my old schools (still live where I grew up because I'm a loser), sometimes when school is getting out of session like 3 pm or so >see all the kids and see the classrooms and structures I remember, and get memories of back when I was a somewhat happy kid and wasn't a miserable loser
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Last week a grill asked me if I wanted to ride together some time. Totally random, I couldn't believe it was happening. So we exchanged numbers and I texted her later. No response. So it's another weekend riding alone, as was my destiny. If someone doesn't interact with me, they can get a false impression, but inevitably after a brief interaction, they realize I'm not normal and should be avoided. She's probably out having fun with normal people. Smiling and being happy. It comes easy to them.
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>do an outdoor hobby on weekday nights in the fall and regularly on weekends year-long >im the only person who doesnt have a car to go with, so i just use my bike and subway to get around >draw attention to myself being "the bike guy" from all the people who see me and recognize me >takes me multiple times longer to get to/from the hobby because of biking and/or subway rather than just driving, but hey, at least its more time being out of the house, even on weekday nights it means getting back home after 9, 915pm instead of 8-815pm what a sad existence
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Although I set out some preferences for the last one I ended up settling for literally anything to do with Britain. Those preferences about foreign exports and rare diversions remain in place but otherwise post what you like as long as it fits the broader requirement
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>>2054935 Nah the yellow front with DB red might be neato but I'd be interested to see more stuff like this
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I am a railway fan from Moscow. In my free time, I make videos of trains, subways, and transportation. Ask questions about my activities, and the transport of my country, stereotypes, in general, everything that is interesting, I will try to answer.
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>>2054782 Moscow has a modest collection of trams, buses and subway trains, some restored others awaiting restoration. They're also building a new transport museum.
St. Petersburg has a really impressive tram and trolleybus collection which can be seen in their tram museum, including two trolleynuses from the mid-1930s, one of which is the oldest operational trolleybus in the world.
Sure there's room for improvement but saying that preservation is "nonexistent" is just your average russian 'woe is me' bitching and moaning.
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>>2055063 >Moscow has a modest collection of trams, buses and subway trains, some restored others awaiting restoration. They're also building a new transport museum. Brat, Moscow just got a handful restored and that's it, the other 90% is rusting and rotting out under some highway estacada. The new museum can't even compete with SpB, absolute GOATs.
Then you've also got the occasional ZiU-5 in a regional trolleybus network, that's about it.
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>>2054782 well, they managed to suspiciously crash both of the surviving yauza trains in quick succession once. that might be worth something.
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>>2055063 Is the Omsk metro ever going to be built?
What should be done in the railways of Western Siberia? I imagine there is potencial for high speed rail service along a Omsk-Novosibirsk-Tomsk corridor.
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>>2055187 Last year they announced they're selling the only built station of Omsk metro with a starting bid of 2.5 million dollars, but it doesn't look like it went anywhere.
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SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats.
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>>2040519 >Parts of the design were considered classified military secrets for years what, like the fact that the whole "no flammable materials used in construction" was bullshit?
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Has there been any word on when she'll be sunk?
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>>2054047 nta but propeller shapes are (were?) commonly considered military secrets because knowing the acoustic signature of the enemy's ships can be advantageous for an attack sub, for instance. pretty sure the other anon was referring to the props because imagine letting the enemy know how to passively identify a prime target like a huge troop transport
there's obviously other ways to acquire this information but might as well make them work for it, right?
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>>2055120 back in August, the county said the ship would be sunk in late 2025.
But, they also said the ship would need about a year of prep work after leaving Philly which would mean March 2026.
At any rate no earlier than December so that hurricane season is over
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Americans are so violently carbrained and oppose any form of infrastructure not just because they dislike bikers, but because for the average fat american, it's, for all practical purposes, IMPOSSIBLE to use bikes as transit>too fat to reliably fit on a bike >would pedal too slow to get anywhere >even just walking exhausts them, let alone cycling The idea of "cycling" being anything other than an exercise done on a stationary bike in a gym is unthinkable to them because anything else is physically impossible for them
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>>2054697 at least post the cycling table
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>>2054680 this bicycle i feel like was made specifically for people with huge balls and i think would be perfect for any amerifat (if the suspension can handle it), aspecially since its an e-bike so you can do long distances. i always wanted one because my bicycle is beating the fuck out of my balls on longer travels but i'm too poor to just buy a fancy e-bike like that
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>>2054726 You are legally prohibited from operating one of these if you are white. These are brown people exclusives.
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>>2054680 its more that bikes are slow and have nearly no cargo capacity.
also gg if you encounter any adverse weather or terrain
>>2054686 >hit bump on one of the rear wheels >nearly flip those three wheelers are spooky
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How do you respond without issuing rape correction?
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I wasn't pleased with the urbanist invasion that started a few years ago but if this board becomes incel HQ like it seems to be turning into I'm out of here
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>>2054670 She's talking about motorcycles not bicycles. Still disagree tho
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>>2054670 I agree and board the rape train