Aeronautical Insanity: switching to secondary tolerances

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tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

That black f-16 is fuckin' sick

# ? Nov 21, 2019 03:21

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# ? May 27, 2024 04:19

FBS: Apr 27, 2015; The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

What the gently caress, man? It's 2019, not cool.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 03:44

drunkill: Sep 25, 2007; me @ ur posting; Fallen Rib

AI:
https://twitter.com/neilwrites/status/1197263734487437312?s=19

# ? Nov 21, 2019 05:19

PT6A: Jan 5, 2006; Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Firefighting aircraft are always 100% cool as gently caress, the bigger the better.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 05:35

ehnus: Apr 16, 2003; Now you're thinking with portals!

Humphreys posted:

I'm actually enjoying Mikes build videos, if anything for carbon fibre working tips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCClc_C_Nfs

Uhhhhh, a Cub with an IO-720? Part of me thinks that's pretty awesome buuut I get the feeling it's going to turn itself into a pretzel in about 35 seconds.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 05:59

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

There is no way the air boat fan is going to work out, but I love it anyway.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 06:17

lilbeefer: Oct 4, 2004

drunkill posted:

AI:
https://twitter.com/neilwrites/status/1197263734487437312?s=19

Dropping a load as fat as this would be amazing :heysexy:

I mean it would be like weird air turbulence where you gain 100 ft without touching the controls

# ? Nov 21, 2019 11:01

dupersaurus: Aug 1, 2012; Futurism was an art movement where dudes were all 'CARS ARE COOL AND THE PAST IS FOR CHUMPS. LET'S DRAW SOME CARS.'

drunkill posted:

AI:
https://twitter.com/neilwrites/status/1197263734487437312?s=19

My favorite is them having to nose-down at the end to keep from ballooning to the moon

# ? Nov 21, 2019 14:45

beep-beep car is go: Apr 11, 2005; I can just eyeball this, right?

drunkill posted:

AI:
https://twitter.com/neilwrites/status/1197263734487437312?s=19

Firefighting tankers like that are old passenger jets right?

A: that thing must moan and creak like a tea clipper in a gale when it�s maneuvering like that and dropping the payload

B: does the pilot just listen to WHOOP WHOOP!TERRAIN! TERRAIN! PULL UP! PULL UP! The whole time?

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:16

PainterofCrap: Oct 17, 2002; hey bebe

Probably more like :megadeath:

on the intercom

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:28

azflyboy: Nov 9, 2005

There's usually some kind of override/disable switch for the GPWS (in case it malfunctions and starts giving false warnings), so I'd assume that the crew uses that to keep the airplane from endlessly yelling at them while making drops.

Transport category airplanes are certified to +2.5G (and there's always some safety margin past that), so the drops can be made without exceeding the limits of the airframe, but operating a heavy airplane in turbulence at low level does beat the airframe up pretty fast, so metal fatigue is always an issue with firefighting airplanes.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:37

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

There�s been in cockpit views of some of these drops and it�s screaming �terrain, terrain� the entire time

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:41

Serjeant Buzfuz: Dec 5, 2009

Where is Firefighting Pilot Simulator 2019???

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:48

Scruff McGruff: Feb 13, 2007; Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.

Lou Takki posted:

Where is Firefighting Pilot Simulator 2019???

# ? Nov 21, 2019 21:59

Full Collapse: Dec 4, 2002

Still the world�s greatest helicopter flight sim game.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 23:09

PT6A: Jan 5, 2006; Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Minto Took posted:

Still the world�s greatest helicopter flight sim game.

Agreed. I would kill for a modern version.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 23:12

The Real Amethyst: Apr 20, 2018; When no one was looking, Serval took forty Japari buns. She took 40 buns. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

PT6A posted:

Agreed. I would kill for a modern version.

I was always mad you couldn't fly the airplane in the hangar.

# ? Nov 21, 2019 23:57

MisterOblivious: Mar 17, 2010; by sebmojo

ehnus posted:

Uhhhhh, a Cub with an IO-720? Part of me thinks that's pretty awesome buuut I get the feeling it's going to turn itself into a pretzel in about 35 seconds.

"780" He bored it out

It's ok he took the supercharger off so it's only making 500hp

# ? Nov 22, 2019 00:13

bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

Whoops, wrong thread.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 00:25

slidebite: Nov 6, 2005; Good egg

Minto Took posted:

Still the world�s greatest helicopter flight sim game.

Longbow 2 and Enemy Engaged: Comanche Hokum would both like to have a word with you.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 01:49

Mortabis: Jul 8, 2010; I am stupid

I'm The CEO Of McDonnell Douglas

# ? Nov 22, 2019 02:12

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

slidebite posted:

Longbow 2 and Enemy Engaged: Comanche Hokum would both like to have a word with you.

Longbow 2 rules but gunship 2000 will forever hold a place in my heart for flyable OH-6s ~hums magnum PI theme extra loud~

# ? Nov 22, 2019 02:24

Kia Soul Enthusias: May 9, 2004; zoom-zoom; Toilet Rascal

I tried to get Gunship 2000 working with my joystick a while back but couldn't figure out how to get the correct axes for the collective and anti torque pedals.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 02:58

Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Not the one I was looking for, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QJTZXl_5BE

# ? Nov 22, 2019 03:17

StandardVC10: Feb 6, 2007; This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

Mortabis posted:

I'm The CEO Of McDonnell Douglas

Build the swing-wing F-4 Phantom, coward

# ? Nov 22, 2019 03:23

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

StandardVC10 posted:

Build the swing-wing F-4 Phantom, coward

That�s the cheat code in simcopter to get any helicopter you want.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 03:46

Kilonum: Sep 30, 2002; You know where you are? You're in the suburbs, baby. You're gonna drive.

Nice look at why so many airlines have collapsed in the last few years, including why the response to the post-Thomas Cook collapse repatriation flights were so quickly arranged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnfoTAxhpzQ

PT6A posted:

Firefighting aircraft are always 100% cool as gently caress, the bigger the better.

Now I want to see the following as firefighting aircraft

A380
An-225
B-52
B-1

Comedy Tu-95 option. It'll just LOUD the fire into submission

# ? Nov 22, 2019 03:55

madeintaipei: Jul 13, 2012

PT6A posted:

Agreed. I would kill for a modern version.

If Rockstar cared about fun at all they'd build Simcopter in GTAV. The flight model is surprisingly good, lots of fine control once you get used to it. Most of it is already there: slung cargo, working fire-fighting apparatus, etc.

Doing the UFO parts scavenger hunt in first-person had some neat moments for me. Flying sideways, looking out the open door trying to spot something between rows of grapevines at night made me feel like a badass.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 04:37

FuturePastNow: May 19, 2014

Godholio posted:

Not the one I was looking for, but

https://i.imgur.com/QMdqC5c.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/mM8dTLW.mp4

# ? Nov 22, 2019 09:24

Brovine: Dec 24, 2011; Mooooo?

Tanker pilots are the best kind of Aeronautically Insane, and watching them never gets old.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 11:09

KYOON GRIFFEY JR: Apr 12, 2010; Runner-up, TRP Sack Race 2021/22

i used to hang out at hemet-ryan when i was a kid and the CDF guys let me climb in a S2

# ? Nov 22, 2019 14:16

Mr. Funny Pants: Apr 9, 2001

FuturePastNow posted:

https://i.imgur.com/mM8dTLW.mp4

Is he even 50' off the top of that ridge right at the end of the drop?

# ? Nov 22, 2019 15:45

dupersaurus: Aug 1, 2012; Futurism was an art movement where dudes were all 'CARS ARE COOL AND THE PAST IS FOR CHUMPS. LET'S DRAW SOME CARS.'

FuturePastNow posted:

https://i.imgur.com/mM8dTLW.mp4

Jerry gets his next video ready...

# ? Nov 22, 2019 16:00

MrYenko: Jun 18, 2012; #2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Mr. Funny Pants posted:

Is he even 50' off the top of that ridge right at the end of the drop?

The tip of the vertical stab on a DC-10 is ~58ft off the ground when sitting on the ground. They were probably 10-20ft off the top of the hill, there.

# ? Nov 22, 2019 16:38

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

slidebite posted:

Longbow 2 and Enemy Engaged: Comanche Hokum would both like to have a word with you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL3LtSsYd8

# ? Nov 22, 2019 16:42

Nerobro: Nov 4, 2005; Rider now with 100% more titanium!

Platystemon posted:

There is no way the air boat fan is going to work out, but I love it anyway.

Why not? His logic seems solid. He's looking to operate the plane in airboat speeds and conditions. He's got horsepower to burn, if he can get a prop that won't stall at that disk loading, he's getting somewhere.

ehnus posted:

Uhhhhh, a Cub with an IO-720? Part of me thinks that's pretty awesome buuut I get the feeling it's going to turn itself into a pretzel in about 35 seconds.

That airframe is so far from stock.