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When we lost radios, she immediately reached for the handheld where I had told her it would be, plugged in, and took over comms. After she was set up with the radio, I signaled her to take controls and I started the gear down procedure.

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I’m frustrated with myself that I didn’t catch the alternator failure sooner, but I’m happy that I had briefed the rated-pilot passenger what we would do if we lost radios, how emergency gear extension works, and who would do what.

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I always fly with a handheld aviation radio that you can plug your headset into. Never used it in flight h til yesterday! Prevented me from going NORDO and enabled us to coordinate a flyby of an airport that was open to ensure that my hand pumping of the landing gear was successful.

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Yeah, one lesson here is at the ammeter needs to be a more consistent part of my scan. And once I get a new battery, I need to configure the EIS to have sensible warnings. I shouldn’t have assumed it would shout at me.

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Yeah, I didn’t do any load shedding, because I didn’t realize about the alternator failure. Turns out that the EIS I have does not come configured to warn about that by default(?!) And the battery was pretty old Lots for me to learn from this

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Oh, battery didn’t last long… all electrical equipment failed. There’s more diagnosing to do, I think I might need a new alternator and a new battery. I’m hoping that’s the end of the list :)

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Absolutely gorgeous flight up until the alternator failure

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I took off, there was a belt there.

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And that’ll sit in the little stencil follower arm thing?

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I used to use that but it’s missing mobile support (last I checked, at least) and options for cloud DB support. One of the benefits of Signal being a foundation, and not only an Open Source project, is that there’s an entity that has the funds and infra to run that sort of thing.

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Signal : WhatsApp :: ? : 1Password/LastPass/BitWarden Who wants to start a foundation to fill the ? with me?

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Wait, where can I get that?!

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 23/05/2026

Turns out that using these things is a skill

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Reposted by JMCT

start doing computer science <3

START DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE

* VARIABLES WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES
* YEARS OF PROGRAMMING yet STILL MORE TO CREATE
* Don't want to write code anyway? We have a field for you: It's called THEORY
* "Well typed programs don't go wrong." "Boolean satisfiability is NP-complete." "Every effectively calculable function is computable." — Statements dreamed up by the utterly inspired

LOOK at what computer scientists deserve your Respect for all this time, with all the circuits and computers we built for them
(This is REAL computer science, done by REAL computer scientists):

[graph of the ARPANET] the Internet
[photo of an FPGA] FPGAs
[screenshot of RocqIDE] proof assistants

They have given us beautiful tools

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Needless to say, these two differences basically make it kind of the opposite of what we were taught to expect in the US and so I really fucked up everyone’s plan

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That said, they do not like 45° entries into the down wind. Also, they are approaching the fields from the same side as the pattern, they will overfly the field above pattern altitude, then turn around and cross the field at pattern altitude to join the downwind directly

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OK, so I want to be very clear here: Not only are there differences in pattern entry, but I made some assumptions that I should’ve never made even if I were flying in the US. I was just basing what I did off of one of the airports I frequented that _I thought_ was similar. So… mea culpa all around.

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I made a mess of the pattern and pissed off some folks (and apologized on the ground, of course). Pattern entries are not the same in Canada, I knew that, but didn’t know the extent of the differences! But at least my landing was good. It’s like landing a shopping cart.

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