slidebite posted:

A guy in the Flightsim thread in games flew over Orlando.

Looks really good... letting it download as I go back to work this afternoon. Seems to be a bit of fuckery to get it going.

Zero One posted:

I flew over Lake Superior to Isle Royale. The crossing was fine, I was cruising just under the clouds.


Then it got a little scary.



Luckily the clouds cleared and I was able to land at the visitor center.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Microsoft Float Simulator 2020

Anybody flown over Area 51? I would definitely be dicking around in all the restricted airspace I can find.

Charles posted:

Humphreys posted:

Gonna get that prop-strike on landing that way! Sure is thinking outside the box.

fknlo posted:

They don’t shut down the airport, just the tower. The airport can still run without it.

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John Cornelio, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), said in a statement to CNN that an F-16 aircraft was sent Wednesday afternoon to investigate a small airplane that had entered the air space above the President's rally.

"The violating aircraft was non-responsive to initial intercept procedures, but established radio communications after NORAD aircraft deployed signal flares," Cornelio said. "The violating aircraft was escorted out of the restricted area by the NORAD aircraft without further incident."

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Trump, apparently caught off-guard by jet above, said that the plane was "about four days old" and touted his funding for the military.

azflyboy posted:

My experience instructing was that students pretty much always brain-dump to some degree on solos, so my job was to make sure they were at a point where they'd seen enough "non standard" stuff that they could either figure out what they were being asked to do, or were competent enough to ask for help if they didn't quite understand it.

CBJamo posted:

While that seems quite likely, I'm not sure how that would do anything to his yt channel.

ManifunkDestiny posted:

Speaking of GA accidents, Air Safety Institute has a new Accident Case Study. If you haven't watched them all, I strongly recommend them. They're grim, but very well produced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rryvSQhK7k

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BERLIN (AP) — A man has been arrested in Berlin on allegations he made radio contact with air traffic, including police helicopters, and gave fake flight orders while impersonating an aviation official, German police said Friday.

The 32-year-old, whose identity wasn’t released in line with German privacy laws, was arrested Thursday night in the capital’s eastern Koepenick district, police said.

Police were able to swoop in on his apartment after he made contact with a police helicopter that was dispatched to the neighborhood in the hope of flushing him out.

During a search of his home, police found two radios that transmitted on the frequencies needed to make contact with aircraft.

“For everyone who has been asking about our police helicopter operations in Koepenick, an unusual arrest,” Berlin police tweeted, with a link to more details.

The man is alleged to have made contact with pilots of passenger and transport aircraft, as well as state and federal police helicopters, over the past six months, giving “potentially dangerous” instructions and becoming increasingly professional with his communications.

No accidents or other incidents are known to have been caused by his actions, police said.

BobHoward posted:

According to reports on a couple other message boards, Raptor guy flew again today, requested an early landing, shortly after declared emergency due to low oil pressure, then a couple minutes later reported engine out. He seems to have landed safely.

Hopefully this will be a wakeup call to him that he is not good at engineering.

slidebite posted:

Since they were relatively low and over an urban area I presume they couldn't dump fuel? If so would that 777 been pretty overweight considering they were flying to HNL?
e:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL328

CommieGIR posted:

The future we really wanted:

MrYenko posted:

Retail Jet-A and 100LL is frequently nearly double what large consumers are paying. When you buy it in multiples of ten thousand pounds at a time, you get a hefty discount on the unit price.

KodiakRS posted:

Question: What's the difference between a part that costs $5 at home depot and one that costs $1,000 from an aviation parts supplier?

Answer: $995

shame on an IGA posted:

I work for a tier 1 auto industry supplier and we have to book chartered air courier service 2-5x a year on average. All the car companies have absolutely brutal downtime penalties for missed deliveries in their vendor contracts, usually ~300k/hr

Until 2008 they had a full time pilot in-house.

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According to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation report issued 7 May 2019 a “near controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) incident occurred near Mt. Wilson, California, when a Boeing 777-300 departing Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) was instructed to turn left toward rising terrain after departure from runway 07R”.
The serious incident occurred on 16 December 2016, at about 01:25 local time when Eva Air flight 015, a B777-300, registration B-16726, was departing LAX for Taipei with 353 people on board.

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After recognizing the aircraft was in a left turn, the SCT controller issued the crew a right turn to a heading of 180 degrees. As the aircraft began to turn right, the air traffic controller instructed the crew to expedite the turn due to recognizing a developing proximity issue with another aircraft that had departed from LAX.
The air traffic controller stopped the climb of the B777-300 and issued a left turn to a heading of 270 degrees. These turns in quick succession, combined with the speed of the aircraft, resulted in the flight tracking northbound toward rising terrain.

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The closest lateral and vertical proximity between the airplane and terrain/obstructions was about 0.3 miles and 0 ft, respectively, which is less than the minimum separation requirements.

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The FAA did not initially consider this worthy of internal safety investigation.

Sagebrush posted:

According to the log hobbesmaster posted, they were flying around 290 kt when in the 5000 fpm climb. 5000 feet (1 mile) per minute vertically while travelling forwards at 290 kt is a climb angle of 1 in 5.86, or 9.7 degrees. Not exactly a fighter jet zoom climb.

I suspect that the point I've marked here is where they were at 0ft/0.3 miles (presumably from the peak of the mountain). The angle of the screenshot makes it hard to tell for sure, but that segment looks like it could be around 10 degrees.



e: the radar altimeter value dips to about 975 feet at its lowest point, which happens 22 seconds after the first PULL UP call and 12 seconds after they hit maximum climb rate.

BalloonFish posted:

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1387421233285898244

The Fly Navy Heritage Trust's Sea Fury T.20 has made what appears to be a rather dramatic wheels-up landing after 'engine trouble'. Both pilots said to be safe and well, so I feel OK in making a 'the front fell off' reference.

I think this is the same Sea Fury which was rebuilt in the 90s after being damaged in another forced landing due to engine failure.

Plastic_Gargoyle posted:

Witness the Champaign Aviation Museum's B-17, being built up from bits of no less than 5 other B-17s.

Nebakenezzer posted:

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DISPLAY ROCKETS NEVER FLEW?!?

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Two at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville:
SA-500D is on horizontal display made up of its S-IC-D, S-II-F/D and S-IVB-D. These were all test stages not meant for flight. This vehicle was displayed outdoors from 1969 to 2007, was restored, and is now displayed in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration.
Vertical display (replica) built in 1999 located in an adjacent area.[124]

One at the Johnson Space Center made up of the first stage from SA-514, the second stage from SA-515, and the third stage from SA-513 (replaced for flight by the Skylab workshop). With stages arriving between 1977 and 1979, this was displayed in the open until its 2005 restoration when a structure was built around it for protection. This is the only display Saturn consisting entirely of stages intended to be launched.[125]

One at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, made up of S-IC-T (test stage) and the second and third stages from SA-514.[126] It was displayed outdoors for decades, then in 1996 was enclosed for protection from the elements in the Apollo/Saturn V Center.[127]

The S-IC stage from SA-515 is on display at the Infinity Science Center in Mississippi.[128]
The S-IVB stage from SA-515 was converted for use as a backup for Skylab, and is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[129]

PT6A posted:

He does have a very special distinction though: of the photo taken of the lunar lander, with earth in the background, he is the one singular human, living or dead, since the beginning of time itself, who is not included somewhere in that photo.