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MrYenko posted:I’m jealous of people who are short enough to take advantage of airline headrests and armrests. Sleeping in one is completely impossible for me. Ugh. Yes.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:you down with trucks because Volvo Mack is right there My dad used to work there as an IT project manager for warranty systems. Dunno how much engineering is there, it's mostly their local HQ - production is in New River Valley VA and Hagerstown MD. Volvo's US HQ is in GSO since it's halfway between the plants and Oriental, NC because the swedes (specifically, from Gothenburg) fukken love sailing and Oriental is a nice sailing harbor.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:you down with trucks because Volvo Mack is right there I already applied there and haven't heard anything back. Only one of my contacts there works in my field and he's been living up to his reputation of never checking his messages. I've got a more reliable contact at BE in Winston-Salem but their applications require you to put in an amount for salary request and I refuse to low-ball myself. I might have better luck this go around because I went through the Collins (yay mergers) job portal this time, and they don't require that. And if I haven't gotten anything within the next 6 months I'll go back to Honda, because all the managers who would have been there to remember laying me off will have been turned over.
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Midjack posted:The original video is better, though I like GUNSHIP’s music: Wow, I'd only ever seen the GUNSHIP video and had no idea the animation was sourced from somewhere else. Thanks for clearing that up!
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Jun 26, 2019 05:32
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Kesper North posted:Wow, I'd only ever seen the GUNSHIP video and had no idea the animation was sourced from somewhere else. Thanks for clearing that up! Paths of Hate is loving amazing. But so is Gunship! I'll treasure my signed copies of Dark All Day for ever. I still stand firm that "When You Grow Up, Your Heart Dies" is a masterpiece of all the feels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9IefTuNzc Humphreys fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 11:29
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MrYenko posted:I’m jealous of people who are short enough to take advantage of airline headrests and armrests. Sleeping in one is completely impossible for me. I'm 6'8 and am somehow blessed with the gift of being able to fold myself up into an origami form that allows me to always be comfy sleeping on planes. Even the 4 Embraer hops I do a year
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Jun 26, 2019 11:57
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luminalflux posted:My dad used to work there as an IT project manager for warranty systems. Dunno how much engineering is there, it's mostly their local HQ - production is in New River Valley VA and Hagerstown MD. Volvo's US HQ is in GSO since it's halfway between the plants and Oriental, NC because the swedes (specifically, from Gothenburg) fukken love sailing and Oriental is a nice sailing harbor. decent amount of engineering there these days
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Jun 26, 2019 13:31
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What plane is this?
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Jun 26, 2019 14:03
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I can't say for sure due to the image being the size of that upside down plane postage stamp on my monitor, but my guess would be an ATR72
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Jun 26, 2019 14:07
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MrYenko posted:I’m jealous of people who are short enough to take advantage of airline headrests and armrests. Sleeping in one is completely impossible for me. I don't think anybody's short enough to sleep in a head- or armrest.  Inacio posted:What plane is this? Dornier 328.
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Jun 26, 2019 14:13
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Vorkosigan posted:"A 72-year-old man from Alberta" "Ah went solo at 9 haaaurs, ah'm a good pilot all these young whippersnappers don't know what they're doing!" Doing re-currency flights with some of these old-timers as an instructor has been an eye-opening and pants-making GBS threads experience, I'll tell you what!
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PT6A posted:"Ah went solo at 9 haaaurs, ah'm a good pilot all these young whippersnappers don't know what they're doing!" One of my instructors told me a story about doing a rental checkout with a guy who had learned to fly somewhere in the Florida swamps back in the late 60s. We are in the SF Bay area. He said that the guy's airmanship was not bad, but he fumbled the very first call to ground to request taxi permission, and then when he had to make an airspace transition and call a different tower in midair he just completely froze up and wasn't able to handle the radios for the rest of the flight. Forty years of only flying at untowered airports in class E/G doesn't prepare you for this, it turns out  Like yeah, maybe the four fundamentals haven't changed since the Wright brothers, but a hell of a lot of the other stuff involved in aviation sure has. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 16:59
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I’ve taught at towered and non-towered airports and let me tell you, the slight extra cost involved with the marginal time sink of dealing with a towered field during training is 100% worth it. The non-towered guys were absolutely lost trying to transition to a towered field, no matter how much we went over it beforehand.
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^^^^ Also, very much this.Sagebrush posted:One of my instructors told me a story about doing a rental checkout with a guy who had learned to fly somewhere in the Florida swamps back in the late 60s. We are in the SF Bay area. He said that the guy's airmanship was not bad, but he fumbled the very first call to ground to request taxi permission, and then when he had to make an airspace transition and call a different tower in midair he just completely froze up and wasn't able to handle the radios for the rest of the flight. Forty years of only flying at untowered airports in class E/G doesn't prepare you for this, it turns out Yeah, there's a few issues here: 1) Someone with a lot of "drilling holes in the sky" experience in simple airspace in great weather might have a lot of hours in the logbook, but not all hours are the same. A multi-IFR rated instructor or aerial inspection pilot with 500 hours might well be able to handle a lot of situations better than someone with 1000 hours who's spent most of that time in a single type, flying the same flights over and over again. 2) (Assuming this guy might not have flown recently elsewhere) different skills degrade at different rates. I have a student right now whose previous flight was literally 4 decades ago. Some things came back really quickly. Some things decidedly did not. It wasn't exactly the same as training a brand new student, but I definitely have to watch out for situations where one skill is beyond where I'd expect a new student to be, but another skill could be way, way behind. Same thing when I came back to flying after 10 years. Basic stuff came back very quickly. The small details often did not, and I really had to watch that I didn't put myself in a situation where my overall airmanship was solid but another aspect of my flying was weak. 3) I don't give a gently caress what the standards were in the 70s, now we expect you to know poo poo like "what the mixture control does and why we use it" and we expect you to be able to handle slow flight, stalls, steep turns, slips, and all that other poo poo, before we go out and "do a few circuits" and send you on your merry loving way, and no amount of telling me how few hours you went solo with is going to change that! I mean, I'm impressed that you didn't die, but times change and we have higher standards now. 4) For guys that have flown actively all that time, but without any kind of external input on their skills, that's a shitton of time to build up some seriously bad habits. Instead of looking at annual checkouts or recurrency flights as some kind of awful imposition on your god-given right to gently caress around in the sky, please look at them as an opportunity to assess your skills and become a better, safer pilot. No pilot is so great they can't benefit from having another pilot evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, whether you have 70 hours, 700 hours or 7,000 hours.
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e.pilot posted:I’ve taught at towered and non-towered airports and let me tell you, the slight extra cost involved with the marginal time sink of dealing with a towered field during training is 100% worth it. The non-towered guys were absolutely lost trying to transition to a towered field, no matter how much we went over it beforehand. Sometimes Boeing Field is affected by a stadium TFR so we go do pattern work at Renton. If everything's south flow, you takeoff, turn crosswind, count to 20, and then reduce power to enter on a right base to 16 at Renton, normally switching to Renton Tower once you get to 1,000'. You're also supposed to find time in there to pick up Renton's ATIS, but you normally don't. It doesn't matter who you are, you screw it up the first time. And getting a student pilot to handle any of it is absolutely a fool's errand. Approximate flight path: 
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So the super complex Bay Area flight map reminded me of a question I had. So what is everyone's take on all the air taxi startups that have popped up? Real potential or something that'll never get past the technical and regulatory hurdles?
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Jun 26, 2019 17:38
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Babies Getting Rabies posted:Dornier 328. Awesome, thanks! Managed to find the real plane: [-image doesnt seem to work, just believe me i guess-] And what I believe is the one pictured in that tiny image: https://www.virtualcol.com/shop/consola/vstore.php?modulo=detailp&id_producto=78 marumaru fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 17:38
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Sorry for the lack of pictures, just had a Gulfstream V take off over my head and into the setting sun. That’s a goddamn nice looking plane from directly behind
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Jun 26, 2019 17:41
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Tale from the Museum: I was helping out an old gent with our simulator, turns out he's ex-RCAF. He flew C-47s and T-33s. I asked him if the DC-3 was as neutral and forgiving to fly as I've read, and he confirmed this, though he said it was slow to respond to pretty much all control inputs - something that the DC-8 shared, for some reason.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:So the super complex Bay Area flight map reminded me of a question I had. So what is everyone's take on all the air taxi startups that have popped up? Real potential or something that'll never get past the technical and regulatory hurdles? You mean like the Uber autonomous electric drone thing they're always bullshitting about? Zero potential in the form they've proposed. https://d1a3f4spazzrp4.cloudfront.net/elevate/web/elevate/vision/Uber_Air_desk.mp4 "It's much quicker to get from San Francisco to San Jose if you just bust straight through the center of SFO's class bravo airspace" e: and averaging 160 knots from an electric VTOL too lmao
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Jun 26, 2019 17:47
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Sagebrush posted:You mean like the Uber autonomous electric drone thing they're always bullshitting about? Zero potential in the form they've proposed. “Not caring” really opens up a lot of options, I find.
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Jun 26, 2019 17:48
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They should have a commuter service that launches tech executives on a ballistic trajectory (out to sea)
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GlassEye-Boy posted:So the super complex Bay Area flight map reminded me of a question I had. So what is everyone's take on all the air taxi startups that have popped up? Real potential or something that'll never get past the technical and regulatory hurdles? The videos shown are technically impossible. From a regulatory standpoint they're just helicopters doing on demand charters. Thats kind of complicated in congested areas but it can be made to work in places like NYC. It will not be cheap.
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hobbesmaster posted:The videos shown are technically impossible. From a regulatory standpoint they're just helicopters doing on demand charters. Thats kind of complicated in congested areas but it can be made to work in places like NYC. It will not be cheap. But what if we get the pilots to pay for everything  e: skip all those burdensome safety regulations/pilot certification
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Well, I mean, it depends what you mean by air taxi services. Autonomous bullshit based on technology that doesn't actually exist and a complete ignorance of applicable regulations? Dead in the water, and if it ever gets off the ground, the costs will be immense in money and lives. "Uber, but for planes" where low-time pilots offer charters ad-hoc in lovely piston singles? An incredibly bad idea with limited appeal, and probably in violation of a huge number of regulations on commercial air services. Again, an invitation for an FAA rear end-pounding and likely to be an economic failure that costs lives in the process. On the other hand, I think the use of appropriate technology and new aircraft types, combined with an increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of moderately rich people, opens up some interesting possibilities in terms of legitimate air taxi services. VLJs and high-performance turbine singles have expanded the possible market for "unconventional" commercial air services, and technology has opened new avenues for marketing and connection people with charter operators. I think you could make a fairly solid business plan around something like that, although as with everything in aviation, it would probably lose money. Assuming it operated within current regulations, it would be both possible and likely quite safe.
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Nebakenezzer posted:But what if we get the pilots to pay for everything AMRAAMs are well proved vs helicopters so
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Man flies drone over Raptors celebration of thousands of people, posts video, transport canada declines to look into it stating “not enough evidence” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/raptors-celebration-drone-footage-1.5189772 Do whatever I guess!
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I've seen anti-drone proposals involving trained falcons, EMP rifles, and net launchers but I have yet to see ANY of those in action and I'm frankly really disappointed.
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Jun 26, 2019 18:31
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I’d worry about the safety of the falcons as they have difficulty with the modern world at the best of times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgVz6EEjJtc Nsfw language (ozzy swearing)
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PT6A posted:Well, I mean, it depends what you mean by air taxi services. Autonomous bullshit based on technology that doesn't actually exist and a complete ignorance of applicable regulations? Dead in the water, and if it ever gets off the ground, the costs will be immense in money and lives. "Uber, but for planes" where low-time pilots offer charters ad-hoc in lovely piston singles? An incredibly bad idea with limited appeal, and probably in violation of a huge number of regulations on commercial air services. Again, an invitation for an FAA rear end-pounding and likely to be an economic failure that costs lives in the process. One of the previous airlines I flew for seemed to be doing pretty well with the PC12. I could see that expanding to more niche markets beyond EAS. It only costs about $500/hr to operate, including fuel. That works out to roughly $0.25 a mile per person if it’s a full flight.
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Midjack posted:“Not caring” really opens up a lot of options, I find. its called "disruption" friend
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Sagebrush posted:I've seen anti-drone proposals involving trained falcons, EMP rifles, and net launchers but I have yet to see ANY of those in action and I'm frankly really disappointed. WIRED did a whole video comparing several options. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGdPrhRvBA Turns out the cheapest option, a shotgun shells filled with nets, is the msot effective against basically all types of multirotor drones, whether shielded with cages or not. Runs about $10/shot, hilariously cheap compared to falcons and EMP rifles of dubious FCC clearance. EDIT: My bad they only showed tests of a few options there. I cant recall where I saw the EMP guns but they didnt work great. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jun 26, 2019 |
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Jun 26, 2019 21:43
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Hell yeah sign me up for shotgunning drones out of the air with net rounds Sitting in a drone blind, with a drone call ~2400baud modem connection noises~
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priznat posted:Hell yeah sign me up for shotgunning drones out of the air with net rounds Your robot son will complain about having to pick bits of net out of his drone capacitor stew.
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Oops https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/statu...r%3D2022%23pti1
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What are the redundancies in these systems? Do other planes have issues where a failed microprocessor would cause the same issue?
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CarForumPoster posted:WIRED did a whole video comparing several options. Can't watch the video right now, but what about shotgun shells filled with shot? Maybe it takes a few more rounds but I bet it would be less than  .
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You can trim a 767 nose down by transmitting on the HF if the coax is shot!
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Can't watch the video right now, but what about shotgun shells filled with shot? Maybe it takes a few more rounds but I bet it would be less than Shot travels pretty far and would be especially risky someplace you’d wanna shoot down a drone like an airport or outdoor concert or whatever.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Can't watch the video right now, but what about shotgun shells filled with shot? Maybe it takes a few more rounds but I bet it would be less than Bola net potato cannon!
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