Random Griz Aviation Musings

[nittany03]

Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish, something something spend all day drinking beer.

 

[HokiePilot]

One of my flights from a few years ago.

 

[Gatordev]

You can see some of the mission equipment on the right side of the panel including (ELT/PLB locator, SAT phone - still figuring THAT out)

Is that radio system on the far left also a VHF/UHF/800 system for first responders? It's hard to tell but the display looks similar (but not the same) as our radio at work.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Is that radio system on the far left also a VHF/UHF/800 system for first responders? It's hard to tell but the display looks similar (but not the same) as our radio at work.

affirm!!!

 

[wink]

Is that radio system on the far left also a VHF/UHF/800 system for first responders? It's hard to tell but the display looks similar (but not the same) as our radio at work.

Oh yeah. Didn't notice until you mentioned it. Good eyes. Vary similar to what I have used.

 

[Gatordev]

Oh yeah. Didn't notice until you mentioned it. Good eyes. Vary similar to what I have used.

If only I could tell my right from my left. Technosonix, or something like that, I think is the name.

 

[AllAmerican75]

4 hours of IMC today - a simple repositioning flight to break in the new guy. 3 RNAV approaches and 1 ILS - the aircraft I flew today does not have WAAS, so manual RAIM checks and LNAV mins (snif, snif, no LPV, oh the humanity)

You can see some of the mission equipment on the right side of the panel including (ELT/PLB locator, SAT phone - still figuring THAT out) but everything else is Gen 1 G1000 with some specialized functionality like built in SAR patterns. First time using a call sign that has nothing to do with the side # or N number. We were PARD 33. Program your call sign/flight # into the transponder before taxi. Fun times!

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Oooooooo, you're squadron has one of the fancy G1000 cockpits. Very nice. I recommend ground flying the ELT/EPIRB/PLT equipment or going through the Basic Observer course. It really helped me.

 

[AllAmerican75]

Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish, something something spend all day drinking beer.

This is the way.

 

[ChuckMK23]

Nice looking Diamond DA-40NG on the ramp - Austro diesel engine running on JET-A. Apparently a rugged and near maintenance free aircraft. The CFI had high praise for the type. ~6 GPH in high cruise. Comfortable interior with a lots of room.

 

[Pags]

Nice looking Diamond DA-40NG on the ramp - Austro diesel engine running on JET-A. Apparently a rugged and near maintenance free aircraft. The CFI had high praise for the type. ~6 GPH in high cruise. Comfortable interior with a lots of room.

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Are those the falsified german manufacturer fuel burn numbers or actual?

 

[Griz882]

Are those the falsified german manufacturer fuel burn numbers or actual?

Fahrevgnugen!

 

[nittany03]

Fahrevgnugen!

What's funny, aside from watching @Griz882 completely butcher the spelling, is that Fahrvergnügen was not really a word until a bunch of marketing people in Volkswagen came up with it. I mean it basically means "joy (or pleasure) from driving," and it makes grammatical sense, but it's about as much of an actual word as "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was before Mary Poppins.

 

[taxi1]

What's funny, aside from watching @Griz882 completely butcher the spelling, is that Fahrvergnügen was not really a word until a bunch of marketing people in Volkswagen came up with it. I mean it basically means "joy (or pleasure) from driving," and it makes grammatical sense, but it's about as much of an actual word as "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was before Mary Poppins.

Buhzzenkillün

 

[Pags]

What's funny, aside from watching @Griz882 completely butcher the spelling, is that Fahrvergnügen was not really a word until a bunch of marketing people in Volkswagen came up with it. I mean it basically means "joy (or pleasure) from driving," and it makes grammatical sense, but it's about as much of an actual word as "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was before Mary Poppins.

That's kind of how german works. Smashing together a bunch of smaller words to make a.bigger word... zeitgeist, flak, volkswagen, etc.

 

[nittany03]

That's kind of how german works. Smashing together a bunch of smaller words to make a.bigger word... zeitgeist, flak, volkswagen, etc.

Such as the meat inspection law that used to be on the books . . . das Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.

As opposed to over here, where our marketing people seem to like it better if you make up words that aren't even words but just sound nice. Avaya . . . Verizon . . . Accenture . . .