This was with the Red Cross in Australia. I'm original from the UK and was not allowed to donate before due to CJD worries. The first time I was able to donate, they ran a full test (not sure if they do that for all donations or not) and I got a call back saying they had found markers for blood cancer. As mentioned, follow up tests haven't shown any other markers, and the levels of protein hasn't changed over that time, so have a 6 month wait now for the next follow ups.
I donate platelets with the Red Cross every month and I've got an app where they give me the blood pressure and hemoglobin level, and which used to tell me if I had Covid-19 antibodies before everybody did via vaccine or infection.
Before I donate I have to sign something that says, among other things "We're going to test your blood for AIDS and tell you if you have it, so if you don't want to know don't donate". I hadn't thought about the other things they test for but of course they don't want blood with Leukemia in it either.
Why wouldn't someone not want to know they have AIDS? Given the disease is not a death sentence anymore and the earlier you know better your chances of survival. The warning probably deters a lot of people who could have otherwise been saved by timely treatment.
Yes, but FAA is not willing to pro-actively inspect the entire plane, at least 3-5 random ones should be inspected, maye also offer something so Boeing employees have the guts to speak up
Nitpick: as a non-SI unit recognized for use in astronomy[0] "jansky" is always lowercase, not capitalized.
This is true for all SI units. Newton, watt, and joule are all lowercase, unless they appear at the beginning of a sentence or when you're referring to the original scientists.
People often get confused because the abbreviations for those units are capitalized.
Fwiw, I spent a good amount of time with the flight sim and pilot's edge for IRA and I think it saved me a ton of money. The flying was the easiest part
It's hard to find NDB approaches at all anymore. Did you do IR in the US? The FAA from what I've read doesn't even encourage an instrument checkride in IMC. That's crazy you did it twice.
I went to colllege to become an airline pilot, and I was shocked that I ended up having to fly an NDB approach in actual conditions to minimums. You just don't see that anymore.
And the tolerances on the checkride is that you can only deviate from the course by a certain number of degrees.
I vividly remember staring at the ADF with the needle swinging wildly left to right as we were tossed around thinking "surely I can't get failed for turbulence"?
I also did my IFR in the 90ies on steam gauges. Our ADFs didn't even have the rotating dial, so you had to keep them synchronized with the direction indicator manually. What a pain. Moving maps in the cockpit must be the greatest safety feature ever invented.
Thanks so much for sharing. I wrapped up instrument earlier this year entirely in a TAA. Went out with my CFII a few times in steam gauge because I felt like I was missing out
It can vary greatly across the country. My instructor loved to use LORAN which one of the planes was equipped with (and was shut down shortly afterwards).
To be fair, all the wires he uses are pre-cut / pre-shaped for the video. The videos are meticulously planned and marvelously executed. Normally hobby projects do not have nearly as much thought put into them.
I've been taking the time to perfectly measure out all the wires on my 8-bit because I don't mind the monotony, its kind of peaceful. But holy hell it takes a long time.
Its like 95% measuring and cutting, 5% thinking, testing and debugging.
Its a bit of a welcome relief from software, which is 95% thinking and 5% typing. A bit of monotony might be good for the brain.
