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Arson Daily posted:Did the 707 not have a yaw damper? Maybe it was broken, who knows. The Lear 35 I used to fly got really bad Dutch roll with a broken yaw damper. Bad enough that both yaw damps had to be operative to be dispatchable and that a yaw damper failure was a recurrent check box in the sim. Really easy to fix though, just jam the rudder to one side and add enough aileron to level the wings. IIRC, the 707 has a yaw damper, but in this situation it was malfunctioning somehow and causing the Dutch roll.
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Wouldn't be surprised if this hasn't been posted before but these "this was me and I lived" videos are always pro-click: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43kzjFne_XQ
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vessbot posted:Thanks! Though I didn't mean it to be sneaky, the whole beginning was building foundation for the two actual examples at the end, which (to my mind, so I guess not the viewer's) were the intended endpoint all along. Watching that video makes me appreciate the fact that I no longer live in Action. (You can probably see my old house as a single pixel when he launches.)
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Saw this article last night about the ground crew guy who stole a Q400 off the ramp at SeaTac and barrel rolled it. Interesting to get background on the guy, definitely a sad story. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/beebo-russell-seattle-plane-theft-true-story-1187023/
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Those are some awfully clear photos from 400 feet down. I’m sure a bunch of people are going to say “THE WINGS FELL OFF CAPTAIN SULLY DIDN’T DO THAT” and completely not realize the sea state around Hawaii is always rough.
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Advent Horizon posted:I’m sure a bunch of people are going to say “THE WINGS FELL OFF CAPTAIN SULLY DIDN’T DO THAT” and completely not realize the sea state around Hawaii is always rough.
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"they will return and recover the plane"? Is Glomar Explorer coming off the breaker beach for this?
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Advent Horizon posted:Those are some awfully clear photos from 400 feet down. I’ve been diving like, ten or fifteen miles east of there, just south of the east end of the airport. At the ~100ft line, the water is wonderfully clear. And ya, the current and impact with the bottom probably did bad things to it.
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Uhm, so that's one way to get your new plane home. Feel like this guy and Raptor guy might be related... http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/...ihp0wcSGX3vogpU
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Say what you will, but I'm digging the circa 2000 pre-Web 2.0 website without infinite scroll, mouseover everything, and embedded elements from other platforms that are liable to change or disappear (or already disappeared.) What there is is what there is, and that's all what there is. And did they rip off the title banner from Blue's News from that era? And a hit counter, how quaint!
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That pilot picture is amazing right above the airplane picture.
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Geezquote:I am the airport mgr at KONL..I spent 3 days with this fellow..He landed gear up the day he bought it for 100 plus grand..in CA...Then ran off the runway in NM..wiping out landing lights and left flap..He repaired it..the we were his next stop..5 attempts to land..last one lost it on landing..creamed two runway lights..His story was..Airplane sat for 2 years..when he got to us he had already damaged the hull...I fed him..housed him..and gave him tools and parts..We got his CG corected for his pilot weight..He replaced the trim motor..ad the first was inop..hence the 4 attempts to land..He was way aft..outside the envelope..Luccky to be alive..lucky...His trip to test everything was not much better..his trim was reversed..wiped out right main and brake assembly..Feds talked to him..We advised him to truck the plane..he refused all efforts..Snuck out Saturday..did not pay his bill..made it all the way home..over the lake..his engine quit..He deadsticked it back to a nearby airport..broke the nosewheel.Fixed it again..added fuel..Now ran all the tanks dry..sucked all the fiberglass trash into the fuel system..Took off halfway across the lake..it quit again..Nosegear was locked down..hull was scraped and damaged..lanned dead stick in the lake..nose gear down..Fliped over..lucky to have gotten out..Airplane is at the bottom of Lake MI..Nice guy..bit of a temper..hellbent on gethomeitis...No insurance..lost it all because of god knows why...It was like watching 2 trains heading towards one another..nothing you could do..Even the FAA..after verifying his credentials and barely current currency.They.said to let..him go..Sad day indeed.. Internet comment so questionable veracity but 💩
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WHY THE gently caress WOULD THE FSDO LET HIM GO?!
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Is it just the bias of more stories getting out or does general aviation loving suck at the moment?
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Same mindset as Inhofe and the guy that had a temper tantrum at the lake and tried to take off while still tied up
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MrYenko posted:WHY THE gently caress WOULD THE FSDO LET HIM GO?!
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MrYenko posted:WHY THE gently caress WOULD THE FSDO LET HIM GO?! FSDO guys ain't cops. As big and scary as they like to act there really isn't much they can do right away unless they can convince an actual LEO to take away your keys or whatever. They do have the force of the federal government behind them but that force is usually slow as poo poo.
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Arson Daily posted:FSDO guys ain't cops. As big and scary as they like to act there really isn't much they can do right away unless they can convince an actual LEO to take away your keys or whatever. They do have the force of the federal government behind them but that force is usually slow as poo poo. There should be some sort of warning button they could push, metaphorically speaking. Some authorized set of button pushers gets to send a message to the offending asshat's insurance company and the insurance company lets him know via text message he has violated one of their terms. That doesn't violate the tenets of freedom, but it does incentivize the stopping of lovely actions.
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Ola posted:There should be some sort of warning button they could push, metaphorically speaking. Some authorized set of button pushers gets to send a message to the offending asshat's insurance company and the insurance company lets him know via text message he has violated one of their terms. That doesn't violate the tenets of freedom, but it does incentivize the stopping of lovely actions. If the random guy in the comments is to be believed, he didn't have insurance to take away.
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Ola posted:Is it just the bias of more stories getting out or does general aviation loving suck at the moment? It’s always been like this if not worse
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GA accident rate has been pretty stubbornly high for a long time, so no I'm not really inclined to believe it's getting better.
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There was a fatal ga accident at my airport the other week, curious to see if they find out anything more about it. 172 took off, and drove into a mountain a few miles away, in very clear daytime wx. I assume it was an engine out, but the adsb track doesn't show much besides a normal looking climb straight into the mountains. They didn't radio anybody as far as I've heard.
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I was in the pattern with some old gently caress who died in his seat on downwind in some kitplane. Just stroked out and died and crashed into a pot field or something. Camarillo, CA
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The distilled water bit was something I didn't know about, yet I'm not surprised. 
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Is that the “tap water in the summer has more chlorine to control algae and that fucks up the welds” thing or something else?
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Virgin Galactic is up with Richard Branson onboard. https://www.flightradar24.com/VGX01/285e221f https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI2_cpR9Ek
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LibCrusher posted:I was in the pattern with some old gently caress who died in his seat on downwind in some kitplane. Just stroked out and died and crashed into a pot field or something. Camarillo, CA I hope I go out this cool
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e.pilot posted:I hope I go out this cool That would be chill. Aim for the ocean, set trim for altitude slightly increasing, just go up up up and away.
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I want to keep going higher until I reach space, like that 777 🙃
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Platystemon posted:Is that the “tap water in the summer has more chlorine to control algae and that fucks up the welds” thing or something else? I vaguely recall something to that effect from the Skunkworks book read through I did the other month. Thing was meant to do one thing damned well and concessions had to be made. Them having to make the fuel onsite was wild as was sourcing the materials from the Russians via shell companies and the like.
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Aside from Snakes on a Plane, can anyone think of examples of a non-pilot landing a plane in an emergency (when the pilot had a heart attack or something).
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Aside from Snakes on a Plane, can anyone think of examples of a non-pilot landing a plane in an emergency (when the pilot had a heart attack or something). Executive Decision with Halle Berry and Kurt Russell Also starring John Leguizamo and with Stevan Segal appearing
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Aside from Snakes on a Plane, can anyone think of examples of a non-pilot landing a plane in an emergency (when the pilot had a heart attack or something). Here's IRL. https://www.today.com/news/student-pilot-max-sylvester-lands-plane-after-teacher-passes-out-t161692
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edit: ^^* I thought they meant commercial, I’ve seen stories of that happening a few times I would blow Dane Cook posted:Aside from Snakes on a Plane, can anyone think of examples of a non-pilot landing a plane in an emergency (when the pilot had a heart attack or something). There’s usually at least one pilot of some sort deadheading in the back of a commercial plane. There was a story a few years ago of a captain having a heart attack on a commercial flight and the FO asking for a pilot to identify themselves. She (iirc) got a B-1 squadron commander which probably was not what was expected! Still, any commercial pilot (referring to the license) could brief an IFR approach given the plate and talk to ATC.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Aside from Snakes on a Plane, can anyone think of examples of a non-pilot landing a plane in an emergency (when the pilot had a heart attack or something). https://abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin-wife-80-lands-plane-dying-pilot-husband/story?id=16062534
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Aside from Snakes on a Plane, can anyone think of examples of a non-pilot landing a plane in an emergency (when the pilot had a heart attack or something). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqPvVxxIDr0 Guy technically was briefly a pilot, though.
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