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Jealous Cow posted:I really thought there was only a narrow VFR corridor through there. I can’t believe flying a few hundred feet over golden gate park is legal. It isn't. quote:(c)Over other than congested areas. An altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In those cases, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure. And I'm pretty sure thats a congested area.
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Yeah if he caused an accident I doubt the NTSB would consider the bay that close to the bridge “open water”
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You can report him to the FAA here.
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Midjack posted:You can report him to the FAA here. ASI guy on Reddit is on the case. 
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e.pilot posted:ASI guy on Reddit is on the case. Good.
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If an update is ever posted, it'd be pretty great if that found its way here too.  Thanks!
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What I've noticed with our students/renters is that pretty much all of our problems are caused by the same handful of chucklefucks and they just can't be fixed. Some people should not be pilots.
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e.pilot posted:ASI guy on Reddit is on the case. Sorry, what is an/the ASI?
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Jun 12, 2019 03:50
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An FAA Aviation Safety Inspector. They enforce FAA regulations.
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Why. I can't imagine this design is better structurally or aerodynamically than a straight wing with the engine mounted on it. It might increase the airflow to the props a little but that can't be worth the tradeoff.
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Jun 12, 2019 10:54
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The helicopter guy from Road Warrior flies this
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Apparently this monstrosity is a Custer CCW-5. quote:It was claimed that the aircraft could fly under control at 11 mph (18 km/h) and that it could take off with a 1,500 lb (680 kg) load at 70% power in 90 ft (28 m).[4] 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Apparently this monstrosity is a Custer CCW-5. Thats pretty great and amazing if true.
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Cross-posting from the Eastern Europe thread.quote:An-124s 'arrested'! These groundings, I think, are on paper only, as I doubt Volga-Dnepr would be dumb enough to put their planes on Ukrainian soil, and I don’t expect it to be enforced by anyone outside of the country. There’s a lot of An-s in Russia still flying, so it was only a matter of time maintenance and certification became a problem. I wonder if the Russians are going to try to split or clone the type.
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Today I got to land a 787! (in the sim) . It was still neat though. Then my colleague hit the "collapsed lh main gear" button on the control console... Then it was exciting! Normally I'm pretty bad at airplane controlling in the sim, but keeping the little circle inside the big circle ("making donuts") on the HUD made it a lot easier.
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PT6A posted:What I've noticed with our students/renters is that pretty much all of our problems are caused by the same handful of chucklefucks and they just can't be fixed. Some people should not be pilots. This holds true for a lot of things.
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https://i.imgur.com/OCFM9oh.mp4 She goes by the name "Global Girl", AKA Nada Marcinkova, and was bought by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 15 from Eastern Europe. Later she was trained up to fly his Gulfstream and acted as a recruiter and pilot for his pedophile jet trips. Now she operates a website that sells flying vouchers called Aviloop (laundering front no doubt) For those interested the plane she's flying in the gif is a Pitts S2B.
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1139104159372906497 Those are all so boring. If you're gonna change it up at least go hog loving wild with it.
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Fancy_Breakfast posted:https://i.imgur.com/OCFM9oh.mp4 
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fknlo posted:https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1139104159372906497  I agree. So if somebody could post an appropriate line drawing, we can get this party started
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It kind of reminds me of the old bare metal+red/white/blue cheatline American livery.  Yeah no, the American livery is a million times better, just outright steal it if thats what you want to do.
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 For real, I'd rather have that instead of that boring poo poo. I'm legit surprised he's entertaining something that restrained.
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Looks like the old TWA livery, like almost exactly.
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I actually do not hate the proposed livery, except I'd like to see something more interesting done with the tail than "WHITE WITH A FLAG ON!"
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It's pretty much just the Trump shuttle livery because he is nothing else if not lazy and devoid of imagination
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I don't hate the livery on its own merits, I hate it because he likes it. And the current AF1 livery is rather iconic.
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The current livery was designed by Raymond Loewy and replacing it would be heretical 
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Sagebrush posted:The current livery was designed by Raymond Loewy and replacing it would be heretical This is the correct opinion on this. Related: Anyone ever seen a picture of a VC-25A on a tanker? I can't find any.
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Honestly I was expecting more gold. I wonder how many times someone had to explain to him that wrapping the plane in gold leaf just isn't practical.
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MrYenko posted:This is the correct opinion on this. Supposedly that capability has never been used operationally. I would expect that its been tested at least once though?
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hobbesmaster posted:Supposedly that capability has never been used operationally. I would expect that its been tested at least once though? Surely the pilots have at least done some practice runs.
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FuturePastNow posted:Surely the pilots have at least done some practice runs. In an E-4 maybe?
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Can someone please tell me the difference between A and C (and B and D)? I see the engine color but otherwise all 4 look exactly the same. Is this what being in the government is like?
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Adiabatic posted:Can someone please tell me the difference between A and C (and B and D)? I see the engine color but otherwise all 4 look exactly the same. In front of, and under, the wings?
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Adiabatic posted:Can someone please tell me the difference between A and C (and B and D)? I see the engine color but otherwise all 4 look exactly the same. A and B appear to be labeled "Blue engines" and "White engines", I can't make out anything for C and D but they appear to start with "Blue engines" and "White engines" so I'm guessing its just something slightly different about the pods? Looking closer maybe it says "Blue/white engines, grey cheat line"? edit: ^^^ sure enough
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Adiabatic posted:Can someone please tell me the difference between A and C (and B and D)? I see the engine color but otherwise all 4 look exactly the same. A and B have a dark blue underbelly through the wing root fairing and rear fuselage, while C and D are gray. Otherwise, A and C and B and D are identical to one another.
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So the first transatlantic flight is going to reach its centennial on June 14th - 15th. I've been reading a book on the flight as I didn't know a great deal about it. The Vickers Vimy Alcock and Brown flew generated non-engine electricity by a little wind generator. First question: why? Did the Rolls-Royce Eagle engines not have an alternator? I don't get why they'd have two different electrical systems. Second: here is a list of Brown's navigation equipment. I understand what some of these are (like charts and a sextant, obviously) but some of the others are a little obscure to me: Mercantor's chart with two overlays for shooting current sun and stars, Naval sextant with special extra deep grooves for easy reading with vibration, a six inch drift bearing plate (?), an artificial split level horizon (?) [apparently different from a gyro artificial horizon], a baker navigation machine (?), an Appleyard [great brand name] course and distance calculator (?), transverse tables for dead reckoning calculation, and aircraft compass. Third: So I totally forgot the first flight across the Atlantic was a competition started by the Daily Mail with a 10,000 pound reward. I'm reading a book from the 1950s on the flight, and it has a...story about one of the other entrants, the Martinside Raymor. [A single wing version of the Martinsyde (if you believe wikipedia) Buzzard biplane]. So the Raymor is complete, and to test it, they tie it down and fill it with fuel and oil, and let it run at full throttle for 24 hours. But the Pilots also choose to test themselves, and with only the food they would take with them, sat in the goddamn airplane that was testing its engine for 24 hours. quote:During the night the factory watchman looked with astonishment at the Raymor, shining his lantern on the two helmeted and goggled figures in the cockpit. Which I love because in my mind it implies that not only were they doing this really weird, pointless test, they did it and they didn't tell the night watchmen what they were doing. Or maybe the night watchmen questioned the whole "and we're in the airplane the whole time!!" aspect and just couldn't fuckin' believe it
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