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ewe2 posted:In the video I quoted, the guy flies 747s for a living, yet he still regularly gets up in a GA and practices spins and failures because he wants to reinforce the good habits and react better when there's trouble. I would feel a lot safer with that guy than most. The plane crash I was in was in a GA aircraft with an experienced 747 pilot and a trainer pilot at the controls. Engine got quiet, experienced pilot puts us down gear-up in the grass next to a runway kind of before I realized what was going on.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:The plane crash I was in was in a GA aircraft with an experienced 747 pilot and a trainer pilot at the controls. Engine got quiet, experienced pilot puts us down gear-up in the grass next to a runway kind of before I realized what was going on. QED 
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this looks like a brave shortcut
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BadOptics posted:
From a couple pages ago, but that's the AT Black Knight Transformer. It also supposedly going to fold the engine spars in, and drive on electric motors. It's supposed to be remote operated, and primarily used for battlefield resupply/medevac. It's also been in development hell since at least 2014.
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meltie posted:this looks like a brave shortcut I'm sure they were completely sober before dispatching on that route. Keep flying the crazy fight comrades 
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meltie posted:this looks like a brave shortcut Pretty sure I talked to that guy. Shine on, crazy Russian diamond. 
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gently caress it how often are you gonna get to fly over a massive hurricane plus I don't think that winds are very strong up at 35,000 feet above a hurricane
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:gently caress it how often are you gonna get to fly over a massive hurricane “FREQ CB 500/XXX” Yeah, checks out...
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https://youtu.be/OBTZVY9ge9k Commentator says some meaningful things about Pugachev'sc Cobra, beyond "holy poo poo look how amazing this is"
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No...that's pretty much all he's saying. The Flanker was a FBW design. If it were anything but nice and stable, it would be something to talk about.
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Maggie, the 17 year old pilot from last week, just went up again, and landed safely https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/17-year-old-flies-again-after-crash-landing-during-first-solo-flight/vi-BBNmysB
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PT6A posted:“FREQ CB 500/XXX” I've flown over dozens of East Coast hurricanes with barely a bump. They really don't have that much vertical development in their thunderstorms and the tops generally don't get above 32-35,000 ft. It's usually fairly easy to pick your way around the taller cells. That Allegiant flight that went straight across Florence the other day might have got the Twitterverse excited, but I bet the ride wasn't that bad. Though landing between bands in SJU like Delta did during Maria last year - hoo boy.
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Syrian Lannister posted:Maggie, the 17 year old pilot from last week, just went up again, and landed safely One week later hot drat God: "Okay, for this next encounter you have the same approach, same right fixed wheel missing but a left crosswind, and roll initiative for the two CR 3 giant scorpions on the airfoil..." Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Sep 16, 2018 |
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Good on her! But seriously, how much worse is it going to get? You already handled an unlikely and reasonably severe emergency situation safely, that's better than I expect a lot of licensed pilots would do.
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My brother’s plane crash is still being processed by the NTSB, but I don’t know if the FAA gave him the ok to fly again afterwards in less than a week (he walked away, no story until after the NTSB does their thing, but he’s flying now).
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Preoptopus posted:Ahhhhh thats the stuff. ty And yea I need that book. That article is lifted directly from the book. https://www.amazon.com/747-Creating...L70_&dpSrc=srch
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A photographer I know got some good shots of an AN-124 in Queensland: https://www.facebook.com/pg/photographybyjasonm/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1774860505925802
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https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/1041886155120279552 Il-20 down in the Med; Russia all but says it was shot down by a French Navy ship supporting Israeli F-16 strikes in Syria. This could be... interesting.
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Meanwhile, a US official is saying hat while Israel was shooting missiles into Syria, Syria’s response inadvertently also targeted the downed IL-20. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/17/politics/syrian-regime-shoots-down-russian-plane/index.html
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HookedOnChthonics posted:https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/1041886155120279552 Death toll is probably less than 283. gently caress 'em they deserved it. ....is probably not going to be France's response.
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Why the gently caress would an anti-submarine frigate of the French navy support an Israeli raid?
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It wouldn’t. The plane was almost definitely shot down by Syrian IADS by mistake
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Yeah, confirmed by the Russians, even though they are quite pissy about it. From behind leaky paywall: https://www.ft.com/content/dd868228-bb1e-11e8-94b2-17176fbf93f5 quote:
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HookedOnChthonics posted:https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/1041886155120279552 Was it trying to land on the Admiral Kuznetsov? 
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Cat Mattress posted:Why the gently caress would an anti-submarine frigate of the French navy support an Israeli raid? The french FREMMs have cruise missiles. But still.
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BadOptics posted:Was it trying to land on the Admiral Kuznetsov? Don’t be ridiculous. The Kuznetsov’s world‐class optical countermeasures would have concealed it from enemy fire.
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InAndOutBrennan posted:The french FREMMs have cruise missiles. But still. I think you mean SAMs
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How is that Israel's fault???  "The perfidious Jews made our incompetent allies shoot our plane down with their own missiles, clearly this is primarily their fault!"
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It sounds like they are blaming Israel like they used the Russian aircraft as a shield from SAM fire, but the answer there is don’t shoot if you’ll hit a friendly aircraft, not shoot anyway and then get mad they used a friendly that way. Mazz fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Sep 18, 2018 |
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Always know what's behind/near the thing you're shooting at. It's a basic rule of firearm safety and I certainly don't see why it should be any different for missiles.
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Maybe the Russians shouldn't be flying old propeller planes through a war zone
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Mazz posted:It sounds like they are blaming Israel like they used the Russian aircraft as a shield from SAM fire, but the answer there is don’t shoot if you’ll hit a friendly aircraft, not shoot anyway and then get mad they used a friendly that way. Russia's patented "measure once, cut twice" method
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I think you mean SAMs They have both. It's not likely they would, but they could assist Israel with a land strike if they wanted to. Not only hunt subs like the other post alluded to.
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Mazz posted:It sounds like they are blaming Israel like they used the Russian aircraft as a shield from SAM fire, but the answer there is don’t shoot if you’ll hit a friendly aircraft, not shoot anyway and then get mad they used a friendly that way. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Syria probably doesn't have ideal personnel manning their S-200 sites.
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InAndOutBrennan posted:They have both. It's not likely they would, but they could assist Israel with a land strike if they wanted to. Not only hunt subs like the other post alluded to. It's more that it's not their job. Sure they do have a small amount of MDCN (ship-launched derivative of the SCALP-EG/StormShadow) because the AVT ("action towards land") variant of the frigates was scrapped, but they have exceedingly few anti-air missiles and so they're supposed to keep them for defense rather than offense, such as intercepting an anti-ship missile. So they would only shoot down a Russian plane if it seemed a threat. There are dedicated anti-air frigates for offensive roles.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I'm going to go out on a limb and say Syria probably doesn't have ideal personnel manning their S-200 sites. I had a part in my post about it very likely being lovely Syrian crews over Israel deliberately using the Il-20, and realized both of those were probably true
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Mazz posted:I had a part in my post Well I should hope so, account sharing is against the rules 
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For sale: one airfield, located near resort destinations
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Another open source report said the IL-20 was on landing approach to Latakia as missiles came in low near or around Latakia, so, if accurate, possibly not a fun crew for a decent air defense crew/system, much less one facing attrition and generally desperate. Sucks for the IL-20 crew.
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