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Once saw a car for sale with an "aesthetic roll-cage" made of PVC covered in foam.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:So "Special VFR" is basically the "I pinky-promise I can still see poo poo", and ATC doens't really have any way of saying "you're full of poo poo"? Special VFR is essentially for helicopters to be able to operate how they normally do despite the weather being less than VFR. I have about 800 hours flying helos and I’d say a good 80%+ is at 500 ft or less. It allows ATC to sequence you into an airfield that is IFR without the increased requirements/decreased flexibility of an IFR clearance. But yes, it basically relies on the pilot telling the truth/not lying and it can quickly go sideways if you aren’t prepared or the weather drops suddenly. Helicopters have the advantage of being able to hover or fly controllably at a walking pace.
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I've flown SVFR numerous times in Iraq and Afghanistan. Launching on a casevac at <400 meters vis was just a thing we did. They didn't like SVFR much at Kandahar but Balad didn't give a gently caress
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Jan 27, 2020 19:10
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to be fair to the pilot he wasn't flying so high that he couldn't land safely with autorotation
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Jan 27, 2020 19:14
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bloops posted:I mean as a general rule, planes will fly given enough airspeed. Helicopters will drop. Oh yeah, I get that. It's just equal parts funny and frustrating watching the pedant crew in D&D go to work with flight physics. I mean, same crew that said it was racist to say the Iranians couldn't fly F-14s on a regular basis due to a lack of spare parts.
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Jan 27, 2020 19:16
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Alaan posted:Boy do I have something to tell you about every other mode of transportation tbh I want to see numbers minus single car accidents, covering only timid driving at 40mph max on residential streets in early daylight hours Probably still works out worse than air travel but I bet there’s a magnitude of difference
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Jan 27, 2020 19:28
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1221862439026921474?s=20 Infinity growing ironicat
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Handsome Ralph posted:Oh yeah, I get that. It's just equal parts funny and frustrating watching the pedant crew in D&D go to work with flight physics. They’re morons.
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:to be fair to the pilot he wasn't flying so high that he couldn't land safely with autorotation No such thing? The altitude record for helicopters is about 40k feet. That’s also the autorotation record due to a flameout. (FAI also gave him the autogryo altitude record )
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:https://youtu.be/-hIsWx5qbQs You just pulling buttnumbers? 65k buys you a bare rolling tube chassis. 6-10 k depending on spec is pretty reasonable. As far as competition goes, most sanctioning bodies have the run spec in the run tech inspection and certification process so I guess this is a really long way of saying maybe just don't put roll cages in cars that don't need one? bird cooch fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Jan 27, 2020 19:48
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Duzzy Funlop posted:The roll-cages on proper Rallye cars are absolutely le-git If they had shown the track cam instead of the internal cam first I would have assumed dead. That was a really bad crash.
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Jan 27, 2020 19:49
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Jan 27, 2020 19:52
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Give me your tired,
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Jan 27, 2020 19:54
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The.....gently caress.....???
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Give me your Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send these, the I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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How do they decide that? There is no possible objective litmus test that can determine wether a person immigrating here is going to be financially soluble or not. Hell, half the post-docs I know can’t get a job after their post-doc and are certainly already “public charges.”
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Flikken posted:The.....gently caress.....??? Donnie wanted to change the public charge exclusion to As per usual, the Roberts Court is cloaking racism in dumb legal bullshit. The five conservative justices decided to get mad about national injunctions - a district court put a full stop to the policy going ahead, when the court ruled against Donnie. Donnie then petitioned the Supreme Court for a stay while the thing was on appeal and got it. Basically, the Roberts Court is pissy about district courts blocking poo poo nationwide and chose only now to do anything about it. All white, all right.
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Blind Rasputin posted:How do they decide that? There is no possible objective litmus test that can determine wether a person immigrating here is going to be financially soluble or not. Hell, half the post-docs I know can’t get a job after their post-doc and are certainly already “public charges.” The darker your skin the more money you need.
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Jan 27, 2020 20:03
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Oh boy. We can sell citizenship to lovely rich oligarchs all day long.
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Jan 27, 2020 20:04
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Casimir Radon posted:Oh boy. We can sell citizenship to lovely rich oligarchs all day long. That’s what the investor visas are for. It’s always been the easiest way to get into the US.
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Jan 27, 2020 20:11
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When can I expect to be repatriated for losing my job?
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They aren't killing off Mr. Peanut anymore. Apparently they think people might mistake him for a basketball playing rapist.
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Apologies if this was already posted:quote:L.A. weather was extremely foggy Sunday morning, and law enforcement sources tell us even LAPD air support was grounded because of it. Flight tracker data shows Kobe’s chopper appeared to first encounter weather issues as it was above the L.A. Zoo. It circled that area at least 6 times at a very low altitude—around 875 feet—perhaps waiting for the fog to clear. We know the pilot contacted the control tower at Burbank Airport around 9:30 AM PT, and the tower was aware the pilot had been circling for about 15 minutes. The pilot eventually headed north along the 118 freeway before turning to the west, and started following above the 101 freeway around Woodland Hills, CA. At around 9:40 AM they encounter more weather—as in seriously heavy fog—and the chopper turned south. This was critical, because they turned toward a mountainous area. The pilot suddenly and rapidly climbed from about 1200 feet up to 2000 feet. However, moments later—around 9:45 AM—they flew into a mountain at 1700 feet. Flight tracker data shows they were flying at about 161 knots. from https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/sikorsky-s76-helicopter-kobe-bryant.html
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That Works posted:Give me your tired, MA-Horus posted:Give me your NPR: Would you also agree that Emma Lazarus' words etched on the Statue of Liberty - give me your tired, your poor - are also part of the American ethos? CUCCINELLI: They certainly are - give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge. (Acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) (Aug. 2019)
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lemme tell you what i'm gonna do with my two feet, ken
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This law is retroactive. All of the you with Irish and Italian heritage have to leave.
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A Bad Poster posted:This law is retroactive. All of the you with Irish and Italian heritage have to leave. Hmm, I'm part Irish, but I've also got family that's been here since before the revolution. Any way I can apply for joint custody?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Hmm, I'm part Irish, but I've also got family that's been here since before the revolution. Any way I can apply for joint custody? We send part of you back home, or all of you.
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But...what... they do understand that there's only one kind of
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Blind Rasputin posted:How do they decide that? There is no possible objective litmus test that can determine wether a person immigrating here is going to be financially soluble or not. Hell, half the post-docs I know can’t get a job after their post-doc and are certainly already “public charges.” Wouldn't this bar a ton of academics since academics don't always have a ton of money as these very forums have shown us
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joat mon posted:NPR: Would you also agree that Emma Lazarus' words etched on the Statue of Liberty - give me your tired, your poor - are also part of the American ethos? There's no way that's real
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Milo and POTUS posted:There's no way that's real You forget we live in hell dimension, my friend: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750726795/immigration-chief-give-me-your-tired-your-poor-who-can-stand-on-their-own-2-feet
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Milo and POTUS posted:There's no way that's real Have you been living under a rock since 2016?
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A Bad Poster posted:This law is retroactive. All of the you with Irish and Italian heritage have to leave. What about us Germans?
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wouldn't this bar a ton of academics since academics don't always have a ton of money as these very forums have shown us yes which is why it will be selectively applied only to people coming from the southern border
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BigDave posted:What about us Germans? Especially the Germans.
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FrozenVent posted:Have you been living under a rock since 2016? Don't say things about my rock you aren't prepared to defend
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SimonCat posted:1Announce that you are inadvertent IMC Disclaimer that I have absolutely no idea what happened onboard the helo and I haven't seen any reports but we were batting this around at the office and I imagine it's difficult to tell a person of Kobe's stature that "no you can't go where you wanted to go today." I can totally imagine a scenario where the person up front is thinking "oh poo poo this isn't good, I really want to turn around but I don't think I have that option" and the dude in the back is thinking "what the gently caress is this guy doing, I'm uncomfortable in this weather and I want him to turn around" but nobody voices anything so nothing happens. Perceived mission pressure is a hell of a thing, if that's what happened here.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Especially the Germans. Oh. No. Please don't deport me to the land of free college education and rapid mass transit.
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