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Jerry comes up way to often in this thread. Aeronautical Insanity is such a big topic, it's sad that this one obscure rear end in a top hat causes boring derails every week. Here's something I drew for the thread a while back. 
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Too bad you couldn't double the...oooohhh 
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Jan 18, 2021 01:59
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eggyolk posted:Here's something I drew for the thread a while back. I love it!
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Jan 18, 2021 02:05
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eggyolk posted:Jerry comes up way to often in this thread. Aeronautical Insanity is such a big topic, it's sad that this one obscure rear end in a top hat causes boring derails every week. Thunderbolt and Lightning, very very frightening ... to me.... to meeeee
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Jan 18, 2021 02:09
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A-10 Thunderbolt IV?
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Jan 18, 2021 03:39
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Nebakenezzer posted:A-20 Thunderbolt IV?
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Jan 18, 2021 03:40
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How in the hell this guy got this Il-76 stopped in time landing that long on an ice runway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSvuyHnIzLc (sound warning, obviously)
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Jan 18, 2021 08:28
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Thrust reversers engaged as the nose wheel touched. He wanted to save every foot of runway.
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Jan 18, 2021 09:36
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:For some reason I was reading old accident reports on the ASN Wikibase recently, and it seems like a frequent cause is the same sort of cavalier bullshit that Jerry seems to live by. Pilot thinks he's hot poo poo, tries to take off into giant thunderstorm/fly into known icing/does his own maintenance illegally/etc. Real talk: there are very few incidents/accidents that occur purely due to bad luck. There's almost always one or more bad decisions leading up to an accident, and part of improving aviation safety both on a personal and industry-wide basis is identifying what those bad decisions are, and why they are made in the first place.
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Jan 18, 2021 17:08
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PT6A posted:Real talk: there are very few incidents/accidents that occur purely due to bad luck. There's almost always one or more bad decisions leading up to an accident, and part of improving aviation safety both on a personal and industry-wide basis is identifying what those bad decisions are, and why they are made in the first place. So that whole risk-pyramid thing. Makes sense.
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Jan 18, 2021 17:27
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eggyolk posted:Jerry comes up way to often in this thread. Aeronautical Insanity is such a big topic, it's sad that this one obscure rear end in a top hat causes boring derails every week. Why wouldn't you do it up full Twin Mustang style? Two fuselages and cockpits mean you have real gun mounts.
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Jan 18, 2021 17:28
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The buck always stops with the pilot, but it's also easy to blame the deceased when they can't argue their case. The NTSB accident database is useful, but they often don't put a ton of effort into general aviation accidents.
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Jan 18, 2021 17:34
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wzm posted:The buck always stops with the pilot No, no it does not.
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Jan 18, 2021 18:03
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ImplicitAssembler posted:No, no it does not. I was at an airport with a glider operation, and a tow plane pulling a glider was hit by a Cirrus that came out of the sun at a 90 degree angle to the Pawnee that was hit. The NTSB blamed both pilots for the incident for failure to see and avoid. I'm unclear on how the tow pilot could have seen or avoided the accident, yet they got blamed alongside the Cirrus pilot. Legally, there's nearly always a way for the FAA/NTSB to pin things on the pilot.
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Jan 18, 2021 18:18
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Canada just approved the Max to fly again. First revenue flights starting this Thursday with Westjet. Air Canada tentatively looking at Feb 1. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/boeing-737-max-fly-again-1.5877356
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Jan 18, 2021 20:45
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I can't help but re-read this headline as "Man Afraid of Snakes Lives in Viper's Den to Avoid Being Bitten": https://onemileatatime.com/man-lives-chicago-ohare-airport/ “So if I understand you correctly, you’re telling me that an unauthorised, non-employee individual was allegedly living within a secure part of the O’Hare airport terminal from 19 October 2020 to 16 January 2021, and was not detected? I want to understand you correctly.” BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Jan 18, 2021 |
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Jan 18, 2021 21:54
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ASN posted:The pilot told people at the departure Airport prior to takeoff that he was going to follow I-40 to his destination. The weather at the accident site was 500 foot overcast, 5 miles visibility and mist. Several motorists observed the airplane flying at an altitude of about 100 feet west bound along I-40 prior to colliding with power lines. There were no mechanical problems reported by the pilot or discovered during the post-accident examination of the airplane. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/44307 It's things like this that are also why I often look at the warbird guys with a very, very jaundiced eye. (That and the extremely gauzy picture of history they tend to present)
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Jan 19, 2021 00:09
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:(That and the extremely gauzy picture of history they tend to present) That it was called the "Confederate Air Force" until ~2000 says an awful lot.
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Jan 19, 2021 01:11
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Speaking of GA accidents, Air Safety Institute has a new Accident Case Study. If you haven't watched them all, I strongly recommend them. They're grim, but very well produced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rryvSQhK7k
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Jan 19, 2021 01:29
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Speaking of GA accidents, Air Safety Institute has a new Accident Case Study. If you haven't watched them all, I strongly recommend them. They're grim, but very well produced. Looks like they are using FS2020 to make the recreations.
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Jan 19, 2021 02:03
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wzm posted:That it was called the "Confederate Air Force" until ~2000 says an awful lot. Considering they changed the name voluntarily with next to zero internal controversy when someone brought it up more than twenty years ago, this is a case of them batting way above national average.
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Jan 19, 2021 02:34
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Why wouldn't you do it up full Twin Mustang style? Two fuselages and cockpits mean you have real gun mounts. Single fuselage seemed to match the P-38 Lightning inspiration better, though if I did one like the Twin Mustang it'd definitely look like you described.
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Jan 19, 2021 04:12
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I can't help but re-read this headline as "Man Afraid of Snakes Lives in Viper's Den to Avoid Being Bitten": https://onemileatatime.com/man-lives-chicago-ohare-airport/ "No, your Honor, he was not in a secure part of the facility, its insecurity evidenced by his being there"
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Jan 19, 2021 05:34
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Was the guy just hanging out in departure lounges or is he alleged to have entered employee-only areas?
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Jan 19, 2021 05:39
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Platystemon posted:Was the guy just hanging out in departure lounges or is he alleged to have entered employee-only areas? The latter, with an employee badge he found on the floor (so I am told)
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Jan 19, 2021 05:40
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simplefish posted:The latter, with an employee badge he found on the floor (so I am told) That explanation seems odd to me, since the airports I'm familiar with deactivate badges that are reported as lost/stolen, but it's very possible that the airport somehow didn't do that, or the guy just piggybacked through doors or there were doors that didn't need a badge scan to get through.
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Jan 19, 2021 05:51
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The badge was reported as stolen and that’s why he got caught.
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Jan 19, 2021 05:53
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The badge was reported stolen two and a half months before he got busted.
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Jan 19, 2021 06:21
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Since it was logged as lost/stolen for 2+ months, I'm curious how he was getting access to restricted areas, since that would indicate that either O’Hare didn't deactivate the badge, or they did, and he just found unlocked doors that were "employees only" but not part of the SIDA or that well secured.
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Jan 19, 2021 08:57
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Considering they changed the name voluntarily with next to zero internal controversy when someone brought it up more than twenty years ago, this is a case of them batting way above national average. That's good to know, I guess I always assumed the worst. That F6F accident report seems odd to me: the witness report of 100' and 100 knots at the time of accident are close enough to car speeds that I feel it is likely accurate, but 100 knots seems way too slow for someone scud running in a plane that cruised at 200 mph, and the 11,000 hours that the pilot had are an awful lot.
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Jan 19, 2021 16:01
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azflyboy posted:That explanation seems odd to me, since the airports I'm familiar with deactivate badges that are reported as lost/stolen, but it's very possible that the airport somehow didn't do that, or the guy just piggybacked through doors or there were doors that didn't need a badge scan to get through. There’s plenty of places in an airport that aren’t necessarily “secure” areas that if you have a badge no one will give you a second look, especially somewhere like ORD. Unless he piggybacked someone through a badged door (which SIDA rules don’t allow) he shouldn’t have been able to get to the actual ramp.
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Jan 19, 2021 16:54
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Considering they changed the name voluntarily with next to zero internal controversy when someone brought it up more than twenty years ago, this is a case of them batting way above national average. Yeah, given when they gave themselves the name, it seems innocent to me. ManifunkDestiny posted:Speaking of GA accidents, Air Safety Institute has a new Accident Case Study. If you haven't watched them all, I strongly recommend them. They're grim, but very well produced. Is this the same narrator as those OSHA videos? Also, what's the significance of the dew point when flying?
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Jan 19, 2021 17:42
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Nebakenezzer posted:Also, what's the significance of the dew point when flying? If an air mass cools to the dew point, water starts coming out of it in liquid or solid form.
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Jan 19, 2021 17:48
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Nebakenezzer posted:
The temp/dewpoint split can be used to figure out where there may be fog or precipitation, since those may occur when the two are equal. Having the temp and dewpoint the same doesn't guarantee fog, but if you have a situation with calm winds (especially at night) and a temperature dropping towards the dewpoint, there's a very good chance you're getting some kind of fog or clouds forming. You can also use that split to guestimate how likely carb icing is, since a situation where it's 90 degrees and the dewpoint is 10 is way less likely to produce carb icing than a say when it's 80 and the dewpoint is 50. azflyboy fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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Jan 19, 2021 17:58
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And it gives you the ability to estimate base of any clouds, although that will depend on the lapse rate.
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Jan 19, 2021 17:59
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Winds are weird today at KSFO so they’re landing 01R. Here’s a video from last year of what that looks like. https://twitter.com/rob_tjader/status/1226674327690436608
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Jan 19, 2021 18:44
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Airborne opulence is one form of aeronautical insanity. But any chump is flying private jets these days. If you want to be a real baller, you don't just own a plane. You put up a permanent flight restriction so the hoi polloi can't fly over your crib and sully it with the shadows of their rickety Citations. This is what Putin has done. https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1351560583657697283 Beginning of long thread about his James Bond villain lair here: https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1351540061444202499 Ola fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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Jan 19, 2021 21:00
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eggyolk posted:Here's something I drew for the thread a while back.
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It's still there, every time you land and take off it winds up the springs for the cannons, like those pull-back toy cars.
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