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1. 🎄 Rick 🎄 (praxisofevil@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 01:43:27 JST 🎄 Rick 🎄
   "If them youngsters in college would learn how to fix a carburetor instead of how to stick things in their ass, we'd be a lot further along!"
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 01:43:24 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @synapsid @d0c40r0 @PraxisOfEvil General aviation is still living in the past, if there’s ONE industry where you could make it by finding a boomer w/ a shop looking for a self-actualized “hard worker” it’s that one.

   • synapsid (synapsid@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 01:43:25 JST synapsid

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     The only kid I knew was able to dip a toe into that sphere was because his dad was a pilot and knew the people at the local airport. If you think some 22 year old kid can just go up to his local airport and as to 'work on the plane's engines' to 'get some experience', I've got a bridge to sell you.
   • Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 01:43:26 JST Doc

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     most GA piston aircraft are carbureted :face_with_raised_eyebrow_a:
     
     and A&Ps, especially good ones and those with IAs make good money and training costs very little
     
     I don't like the bootstrap argument but there is usually an opportunity somewhere
   • synapsid (synapsid@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 01:43:27 JST synapsid

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     Okay Mr. Boomer, name 5 cars a college kid could afford today that still have carburetors in them. Hell, just name 5 cars a broke college kid could afford to buy. Oh you can't? Wonder why....
   • Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:06:21 JST Doc

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     https://www.aviationschoolsonline.com/g/AP-Aircraft-Mechanic-Schools/
     
     https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Entry-Level-A-P-Mechanic-Salary
     
     entry level gets you 31 an hour, training costs under 30K in most places and they're usually run by flight schools who will then employ you afterward
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:07:19 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @d0c40r0 @synapsid @PraxisOfEvil There’s a new thing coming too, where they’re just selling the curriculum to ops so wrenchers can have a turnkey training syllabus ala 141 schools for their AMT apprentices. I think it might take hold when they realize they can foster their own people from scratch and keep them w/ the company the whole ride through

   • Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:09:37 JST Doc

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     my flight school (part 141) has an A&P program that fixes the planes and they'll employ the ones who want to stay after its done
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:10:36 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @d0c40r0 @synapsid @PraxisOfEvil I’m talking run-of-the-mill 61 schools and even straight shops. Buddy told me about it last week, it was announced at OSH. Can’t remember who was doing it first, either PI or King

   • Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:15:45 JST Doc

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     were you at Oshkosh?
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:15:45 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @d0c40r0 @synapsid @PraxisOfEvil Kinda, shuffled stuff around and staged a few sales, skipped most of the shows and caught up w/ people whenever I had downtime. We aren’t dropping the $4k for a tent or any of that shit, never makes the money back.

     Overall it’s not the best year, people not really in a spending mood but we’re did manage to offload a problem child for a good chunk of coin so we’re content.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:18:11 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @d0c40r0 @synapsid @PraxisOfEvil I wasn’t supposed to be, I generally keep a wide birth from that place. It’s a death trap, every dumbass flying 14 hours a year converging into a kill funnel of nearsighted basicmed boomers w/ bad hearing trying to parse handheld commands

     Did they end up fishing that T6 back out? Never heard anything about that

   • Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:18:12 JST Doc

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     shit man I shoulda thought to ask you, I was there too
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:24:12 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @d0c40r0 @synapsid @PraxisOfEvil Yeah, IDC about that, we got plenty of those, was just wondering if we lost another piece of history. Then again it’s just a T-6, the gayest of the vintage WWII aircraft.

     I’ve had too many convos w/ attendees not taking it seriously enough, majority are dipshits vastly overestimating the quality of pilots willing to head there. Even if YOU are good, you’re willingly heading into a conflux of like, 12,000 dipshits who are almost all flying very low annual times in the GA ecosystem. Unless a guy is logging like 25 good hours heading to new, busy charlie environments he’s not gonna be all that much better than a fresh PPL.

     Super lol @ how WASP just bought two brand new texans, too. Whatever, not my department, not my problem. At least it wasn’t a cool plane.

   • Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:24:13 JST Doc

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     they fished out the people but they were dead obv, idk about the plane itself
     
     gyroplane and ultralight collided too, 2 died from severe burns and I think 2 are hospitalised from severe burns rn
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     yeah
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   • Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 02:29:30 JST Doc

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     yeah, everyone knows someone with a T-6
     
     and I agree, theres a lotta guys who have just enough hours to keep current and then they go fly 14 hours in a day at 12000 feet and think they won't be drowsy and inattentive, then they slam on the brakes in their pissy taildragger and end up nosing into the runway
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 07:51:20 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @PraxisOfEvil What’s funny is that I know a boomer and a millennial who make a bunch of money fleecing genX faggots who don’t understand carbs