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Have a Stabilator? I do.? The trim assembly is super critical in it's proper function.? It is what "flys"? the tail. Check those fasteners, pins, nuts...
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Re: FAA Statement about Newark
¡as have all FAA administrators since Halaby. To be fair, they¡¯ve all had to deal with a ponderous bureaucracy, made more so by the requirements for unassailable perfection on the part of designers, engineers, fabricators and operators. It¡¯s a razor¡¯s edge - the better you are, the better you have to be. It doesn¡¯t leave much room for the human factor.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, Duffy doth protest too much, methinks.
Brian
I've been hearing that hiring is a top priority my entire career, but it sure doesn't seem like it.
-Ricky
? Tuesday, May 13, 2025 The FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) collaborate to establish staffing goals for every facility, for every area in the facility, and for each shift. They update the goals yearly and the goals are based on full staffing in the facility or area. There is a nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers, and the FAA for years has not met the staffing goal for the area that works Newark airspace. The persistent low staffing levels and low training success rate at New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), or N90, were contributing factors to moving control of the Newark airspace to the Philadelphia TRACON in 2024. Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which directs aircraft in and out of Newark, has 22 fully certified controllers, 5 fully certified supervisors, and 21 controllers and supervisors in training. Ten of those 21 controllers and supervisors are receiving on-the-job training. All 10 are certified on at least one position in Area C and three are certified on multiple positions. This means they can work those positions without supervision from an instructor. We have a healthy pipeline of controllers, with training classes filled through July 2026. If daily or per-shift staffing levels are low, the FAA ensures safety by implementing traffic management initiatives, such as slowing the flow of aircraft into an airport. You can find additional information in the statements we have issued on Newark. The public can get the latest information on staffing and operations in general at all airports at?. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has made air traffic controller hiring a top priority. Learn more about the?.
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Re: FAA Statement about Newark
To paraphrase Shakespeare, Duffy doth protest too much, methinks.
Brian
I've been hearing that hiring is a top priority my entire career, but it sure doesn't seem like it.
-Ricky
? Tuesday, May 13, 2025 The FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) collaborate to establish staffing goals for every facility, for every area in the facility, and for each shift. They update the goals yearly and the goals are based on full staffing in the facility or area. There is a nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers, and the FAA for years has not met the staffing goal for the area that works Newark airspace. The persistent low staffing levels and low training success rate at New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), or N90, were contributing factors to moving control of the Newark airspace to the Philadelphia TRACON in 2024. Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which directs aircraft in and out of Newark, has 22 fully certified controllers, 5 fully certified supervisors, and 21 controllers and supervisors in training. Ten of those 21 controllers and supervisors are receiving on-the-job training. All 10 are certified on at least one position in Area C and three are certified on multiple positions. This means they can work those positions without supervision from an instructor. We have a healthy pipeline of controllers, with training classes filled through July 2026. If daily or per-shift staffing levels are low, the FAA ensures safety by implementing traffic management initiatives, such as slowing the flow of aircraft into an airport. You can find additional information in the statements we have issued on Newark. The public can get the latest information on staffing and operations in general at all airports at?. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has made air traffic controller hiring a top priority. Learn more about the?.
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Re: FAA Statement about Newark
I've been hearing that hiring is a top priority my entire career, but it sure doesn't seem like it.
-Ricky
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On May 17, 2025, at 12:40?PM, Alex Nelon via groups.io <Alex.nelon@...> wrote: ? Tuesday, May 13, 2025 The FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) collaborate to establish staffing goals for every facility, for every area in the facility, and for each shift. They update the goals yearly and the goals are based on full staffing in the facility or area. There is a nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers, and the FAA for years has not met the staffing goal for the area that works Newark airspace. The persistent low staffing levels and low training success rate at New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), or N90, were contributing factors to moving control of the Newark airspace to the Philadelphia TRACON in 2024. Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which directs aircraft in and out of Newark, has 22 fully certified controllers, 5 fully certified supervisors, and 21 controllers and supervisors in training. Ten of those 21 controllers and supervisors are receiving on-the-job training. All 10 are certified on at least one position in Area C and three are certified on multiple positions. This means they can work those positions without supervision from an instructor. We have a healthy pipeline of controllers, with training classes filled through July 2026. If daily or per-shift staffing levels are low, the FAA ensures safety by implementing traffic management initiatives, such as slowing the flow of aircraft into an airport. You can find additional information in the statements we have issued on Newark. The public can get the latest information on staffing and operations in general at all airports at?. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has made air traffic controller hiring a top priority. Learn more about the?.
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FAA Statement about Newark
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 The FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) collaborate to establish staffing goals for every facility, for every area in the facility, and for each shift. They update the goals yearly and the goals are based on full staffing in the facility or area. There is a nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers, and the FAA for years has not met the staffing goal for the area that works Newark airspace. The persistent low staffing levels and low training success rate at New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), or N90, were contributing factors to moving control of the Newark airspace to the Philadelphia TRACON in 2024. Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which directs aircraft in and out of Newark, has 22 fully certified controllers, 5 fully certified supervisors, and 21 controllers and supervisors in training. Ten of those 21 controllers and supervisors are receiving on-the-job training. All 10 are certified on at least one position in Area C and three are certified on multiple positions. This means they can work those positions without supervision from an instructor. We have a healthy pipeline of controllers, with training classes filled through July 2026. If daily or per-shift staffing levels are low, the FAA ensures safety by implementing traffic management initiatives, such as slowing the flow of aircraft into an airport. You can find additional information in the statements we have issued on Newark. The public can get the latest information on staffing and operations in general at all airports at?. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has made air traffic controller hiring a top priority. Learn more about the?.
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Re: Jon Smith¡¯s Pipistrel Virus
Congrats Jon.? Sounds like a fun plane.? It will be great to have you back on the field with a new bird.
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Re: Saturday Breakfast at the Hangar!
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There¡¯s a big car show that will be going on at the other airfield . . . We should have no difficulty with our parking/ingress/egress via our back alley street...
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Saturday Breakfast at the Hangar!
There¡¯s a big car show that will be going on at the other airfield . . . We should have no difficulty with our parking/ingress/egress via our back alley street...
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Funny guy .
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Take care,
Tim H.
On Fri, May 16, 2025, 12:47?PM Gene Letourneau via <e_letourneau= [email protected]> wrote:
On Friday, May 16, 2025 at 12:40:59 PM EDT, Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote:
I mean the actual stickers!
I'm already registered as N912TH
Tim
12H is available at Short-n-numbers.com?
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On Friday, May 16, 2025 at 12:40:59 PM EDT, Timothy Higgins via groups.io <timothyahiggins@...> wrote:
I mean the actual stickers!
I'm already registered as N912TH
Tim
12H is available at Short-n-numbers.com?
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12H is available at Short-n-numbers.com?
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Re: Jon Smith¡¯s Pipistrel Virus
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On Friday, May 16, 2025, 12:14 AM, jms via groups.io <jon@...> wrote:
I don't know what happened.? I caught the Pipistrel bug.? It's
such a neat aircraft.? She is a Virus sw100 taildragger, 100hp
Rotax 912uls, constant speed MT prop.
Some of these are registered as gliders, some are airplanes.?
Some big advantages with the glider reg, but mine is an airplane.
It doesn't quite feel like a glider to me, based on my <5 hrs
glider time (Mike Cola can make that call).? But the 35' wing does
really, really love to fly.? Like a glider, it would be
problematic without the spoilers.? With them, it's magical.? Dead
stick landings would be very comfortable.
Normal takeoff begins with full flaps, 18 degrees.? You are to
transition from 18 degrees straight to -5 degrees at 400' agl. ?
The book says 147kts TAS with the wheelpants and small tires, with
a loss of 13kts w/o wheel pants.? I saw low 130s with pant-less
bush tires, so the claimed numbers seem attainable.? It will be
interesting how much more glider-like it feels with the pants.?
For now, I want the drag!
Another fun tidbit - it's useful load (650 lbs) is greater than
it's empty weight (640 lbs), i.e. it can lift itself.
I am smitten :)
Getting insured was a expensive nightmare but that's another
story, just thrilled with the plane now.? It's good to be back at
the airport.
-jon
On 5/15/25 7:32 PM, Alex Nelon via
groups.io wrote:
Nifty looking airplane - he¡¯s enroute now and should arrive
Johnson Field at about 8 or shortly after . . ?.
-Alex
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Take care,
Tim H. On Fri, May 16, 2025, 10:51?AM Dennis Carlson via <dennis.carlson.atgs= [email protected]> wrote:
You know the process with the FAA?
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 10:46?AM Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote: I did it.? ?
Anyone have spare N numbers lying around?
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Tim
Do it.? You¡¯re so close to flying that thing.?
On Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7:48 PM, Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins=[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, I might ask for an inspection date .
Well, durn........ yer flat runnin out of excuses to not fly !!!
Mark
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 4:08?PM Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote: Well, the tail is ready...balanced, cables tensioned and safetied, all fasteners torqued and painted, fiberglass done ...
Tim
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On Fri, May 16, 2025, 10:51?AM Dennis Carlson via <dennis.carlson.atgs= [email protected]> wrote:
You know the process with the FAA?
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 10:46?AM Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote: I did it.? ?
Anyone have spare N numbers lying around?
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Tim
Do it.? You¡¯re so close to flying that thing.?
On Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7:48 PM, Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins=[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, I might ask for an inspection date .
Well, durn........ yer flat runnin out of excuses to not fly !!!
Mark
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 4:08?PM Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote: Well, the tail is ready...balanced, cables tensioned and safetied, all fasteners torqued and painted, fiberglass done ...
Tim
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You know the process with the FAA?
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 10:46?AM Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote:
I did it.? ?
Anyone have spare N numbers lying around?
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Tim
Do it.? You¡¯re so close to flying that thing.?
On Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7:48 PM, Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins=[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, I might ask for an inspection date .
Well, durn........ yer flat runnin out of excuses to not fly !!!
Mark
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 4:08?PM Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote: Well, the tail is ready...balanced, cables tensioned and safetied, all fasteners torqued and painted, fiberglass done ...
Tim
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I did it.? ?
Anyone have spare N numbers lying around?
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Tim
Do it.? You¡¯re so close to flying that thing.?
On Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7:48 PM, Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins=[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, I might ask for an inspection date .
Well, durn........ yer flat runnin out of excuses to not fly !!!
Mark
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 4:08?PM Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote: Well, the tail is ready...balanced, cables tensioned and safetied, all fasteners torqued and painted, fiberglass done ...
Tim
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Yes Jon Smith! It is easy to catch the Pipistrel Bug! A beautiful airplane! This one was certified as a glider! It is quick. This was for a Light Sport Glider Add On! Glide ratio is about 17 to 1. A joy to fly! If I remember this one also had a ballistic chute!
Mike
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Re: Jon Smith¡¯s Pipistrel Virus
I don't know what happened.? I caught the Pipistrel bug.? It's
such a neat aircraft.? She is a Virus sw100 taildragger, 100hp
Rotax 912uls, constant speed MT prop.
Some of these are registered as gliders, some are airplanes.?
Some big advantages with the glider reg, but mine is an airplane.
It doesn't quite feel like a glider to me, based on my <5 hrs
glider time (Mike Cola can make that call).? But the 35' wing does
really, really love to fly.? Like a glider, it would be
problematic without the spoilers.? With them, it's magical.? Dead
stick landings would be very comfortable.
Normal takeoff begins with full flaps, 18 degrees.? You are to
transition from 18 degrees straight to -5 degrees at 400' agl. ?
The book says 147kts TAS with the wheelpants and small tires, with
a loss of 13kts w/o wheel pants.? I saw low 130s with pant-less
bush tires, so the claimed numbers seem attainable.? It will be
interesting how much more glider-like it feels with the pants.?
For now, I want the drag!
Another fun tidbit - it's useful load (650 lbs) is greater than
it's empty weight (640 lbs), i.e. it can lift itself.
I am smitten :)
Getting insured was a expensive nightmare but that's another
story, just thrilled with the plane now.? It's good to be back at
the airport.
-jon
On 5/15/25 7:32 PM, Alex Nelon via
groups.io wrote:
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
Nifty looking airplane - he¡¯s enroute now and should arrive
Johnson Field at about 8 or shortly after . . ?.
-Alex
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Do it. ?You¡¯re so close to flying that thing.?
On Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7:48 PM, Timothy Higgins via groups.io <timothyahiggins@...> wrote: Yeah, I might ask for an inspection date .
Well, durn........ yer flat runnin out of excuses to not fly !!!
Mark
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 4:08?PM Timothy Higgins via <timothyahiggins= [email protected]> wrote: Well, the tail is ready...balanced, cables tensioned and safetied, all fasteners torqued and painted, fiberglass done ...
Tim
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Timothy Higgins
Alex Nelon
Brian Leverson
jms