Jay Likes Planes

Header photo by Alastair T. Gardiner (link)

[aviautism]

so yea i'm gonna be very normal about planes on this blog, follow if you fw those and other things that fly

[longislandairpower]

[trupie]

[prokopetz]

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

[backofthebookshelf]

The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.

[lordgolden]

Happy belated Workers’ Memorial Day, celebrated April 28th

[rotorsexual]

That's not even the worst shit employers try to get pilots to do

[rotorsexual]

I knew a guy who was flying 407s to platforms in the gulf and his employer wanted him to overload the helicopter by 75ish pounds over max gross.

(This is a Bell 407 btw)

This was just so they didn't have to spend the time and money to make a second trip out there for just a bit more cargo. He wasn't comfortable with it but got pressured into doing it. Even at sea level on a hot day, it took pulling into 5 minute power to bring the helicopter into a hover overloaded like that.

Now the thing about these platforms is they can be over 100 feet above the ocean.

And because of an aerodynamic concept called ground effect (which I'm not going into the details of that here) it takes much less power to hover near the ground than it does to hover even 50 feet above it. So when his helicopter tried to takeoff and depart the pad, it lost ground effect as soon as he went over the edge of it.

The helicopter began to sink immediately and the only thing you can do is try to get speed and go through ETL (another aerodynamic concept) to get more lift and stop the descent. Being already at 5 minute power meant that if you try to pull any more collective the engine has nothing left to give and you will decay the rotor rpm. This will have the opposite effect and reduce lift rather than increase it. So the helicopter was stuck giving as much as it could which still wasn't enough. It only stopped descending about 20-30 feet above the water before it could start a shallow climb and fly away.

He quit that job not long after and swore he'd never let himself get talked into doing anything like that ever again. Things like that are overtly dangerous but flying fatigued from being overworked can be just as bad. That tends to be insidious with how they go unnoticed until something happens.

[aviatrix-ash]

Some of the smaller (ish) creatures from the airplane festival that really caught my eye

[aviatrix-ash]

Gonna be a busy af over the next year cause the airplane festival got into my head for real this time.. now I got 4 goals in mind

1) get my inspector add on to my maintenance license in a year or less- in the process of doing so will be tagging along 1 of my former instructors on his annual inspections for more "real world" GA experience the helis can't give me that'll be useful for the tests. + expanding building my maintenance & repair skills to antique wooden aircraft as the PT-19 needs some love.

2) beginning various experiments with aircraft fabric, I'm actually developing something totally new & never done before on an airplane. If I can figure out how to get the UV protection formula just right, I am gonna make one very cool lookin little airplane :3c

3) Finish the sport pilot license

4) get the Ultra Puppy flyable & maybe even teach myself to fly it. c: ( it's quite the feeling to fly in a helicopter I've had disassembled in a few hundred pieces hours prior, but idk what to feel about an airplane I've crafted 100% by hand 70% from scratch. 😅

[aviautism]

sounds really cool, good luck :>

[planeposting]

Me when I am playing toys

[ancientknitter]

Aviatrix Sweaters (American, 1930s), designed by Lucille M. Dingley (1911-2003). ASU FIDM Museum.

These 1930s sweaters bear labels indicating Lucille M. Dingley designed them “exclusively for women flyers.” Dingley knew a thing or two about flying: she was a U.S. Women Army Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II, the manager of the Auburn-Lewiston Airfield in Maine, and a member of the Ninety-Nines, the Sportsman Pilot Association, and the Whirley Girl Helicopter Club. It’s unknown if Dingley designed the patterns or simply lent her name to the fashions, but the flight diagrams rendered on these hand-knit tops were lifted directly from the aeronautic textbooks a whole new generation of adventurous women were studying in flight schools

[pmamtraveller]

"Cats on a Plane" by artist Kelly Pringle.

[crabussy]

I think I'm too autistic dude just almost said "it's gonna be so horses" to my friend about something I'm excited for. NOT an adjective

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @aranov !

[without-ado]

"Return to the Moon" Artemis Ⅱ 2026

l Andrew McCarthy 1,2 l Alex G Perez 3,4 l Alexander Gerst 5

[aviautism]

In Polish, the word for "I am flying" is "latam", so it's quite funny seeing planes from the largest airline in South America have "LATAM" painted all over them. Like yeah buddy i sure hope you are.

[transhuman-priestess]

[airplaner]

Piper is named after the job they want

Admittedly i wasn’t creative with naming her but I found it cute so it stuck

[animatejournal]

Lupin III Part 2 | Creator: Monkey Punch | Studio: TMS | Japan, 1977-1980  

[pastebun]

important addition

[aviatrix-ash]

Showing up to my flight lesson tomorrow with my flight log lookin like this, I am not serious about anything lmao

[aviatrix-ash]

CFI loved my stickered flight log. We nered out over our favorite alien robots in between lessons :3

Told him the stickers are my reminder I'm not doing this to kiss ass of some airline recruiter, not about that life. Entirely doin this flying thing 100% for me and my soul uwu

[aviatrix-ash]

I'm doing the sport license rn cause I just wanna fly & want to be able to fly my birds whenever I get them flyable.

Doing it with a regualr CFI at a part 61 school with 172s vs a sport pilot instructor so in case I change my mind & want to go for private instead or upgrade later down the line, my time & the CFI's will still count towards the private certificate. :)

[aviatrix-ash]

Fueler here. Baby wipes work like a charm for jet A fingers, i always keep a pack in my work bag. Just in case you decide to do it again lol

Hehe thanks, gonna have to keep some in my toolbox as I find myself getting jet A all over myself pretty often (thanks to helis lol)

Normally I wear gloves when I work, and now I'm trying to start using those "invisi glove" barrier creams underneath my gloves too, as they always break from a cotterpin or safetywire 😅