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by ocelot
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:17 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Not_Delta 191
Replies: 22
Views: 299

Re: Not_Delta 191

That plot is a lot more readable! Too bad it's missing the normal acceleration trace though, that one matters.
by ocelot
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:15 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Caravan Crash Credentials Connundrum
Replies: 27
Views: 1352

Re: Caravan Crash Credentials Connundrum

By the magic of topic drift.
by ocelot
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:15 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: Oh boy
Replies: 3
Views: 73

Re: Oh boy

The only possible reason a headset would be preferable to a HUD is that it's cheaper to get and install. Given what these things cost, and how much more Officially Certificated IFR Paperworked ones will be, that doesn't seem like a winner. also everyone seems to forget that this technology became av...
by ocelot
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:11 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: A flyover of a different kind
Replies: 11
Views: 133

Re: A flyover of a different kind

Was playing a bit with Chat GPT yesterday. I asked for the sequence of notes for The Star-Spangled Banner.
Sounds about normal
by ocelot
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:11 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: A flyover of a different kind
Replies: 11
Views: 133

Re: A flyover of a different kind

I don't know if you can inhibit the bank angle alarm, because it didn't sound (which if the alarm was functioning it would have done at 35 degrees of bank).
It was chanting "bank angle" though. (And why was that audible in the cabin?)
by ocelot
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:09 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Railroad Thread
Replies: 493
Views: 199591

Re: Railroad Thread

3-way rail crashes aren't that uncommon, unfortunately. Something about how having track reduces the degrees of freedom for maneuvering...
by ocelot
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:07 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Evan Mentality
Replies: 14
Views: 228

Re: Evan Mentality

Maybe the airport has a Checker Board. We wouldn't be able to see it in the video.
by ocelot
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:53 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Caravan Crash Credentials Connundrum
Replies: 27
Views: 1352

Re: Caravan Crash Credentials Connundrum

I don't come here anywhere often enough to participate in this kind of argument. What I originally meant to say was that the crash didn't look like the well-known maneuver we often refer to as "SSCDD", but rather like an ordinary or garden-variety roll that for some reason (I guessed inabi...
by ocelot
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:22 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Not_Delta 191
Replies: 22
Views: 299

Re: Not_Delta 191

I do not believe the captain, based on a somatogravic illusion, ordered the first officer to nose over, and that the first officer blindly complied (or complied, because he also felt the somatogravic illusion). I know it’s total, ass-hat, outsider speculation, but I’m thinking that a nose down inpu...
by ocelot
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:04 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: flat spot on tire, or...?
Replies: 3
Views: 90

Re: flat spot on tire, or...?

The plane came in from elsewhere an hour or so before, so it hadn't even been sitting overnight.

Shimmy? Maybe... no idea what that would feel like but I would think it would be more side-to-side than up-and-down.

anyway, not going to find out...
by ocelot
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:59 am
Forum: Military Aviation Discussion
Topic: To really foul things up takes a computer...
Replies: 4
Views: 133

Re: To really foul things up takes a computer...

I think the question is whether they will be better or worse at manufacturing emergencies than humans? AF011 and AF447 come to mind...
Gabriel and I have gone back and forth on this at length. The only thing that's clear is that they'll manufacture different emergencies.
by ocelot
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:54 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: A220
Replies: 6
Views: 149

Re: A220

I did a while back. The ground air conditioning is abnormally loud, or was on that flight; otherwise not much to report. Did not check the lav, though.
by ocelot
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:49 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Evan Mentality
Replies: 14
Views: 228

Re: Evan Mentality

This is not_me, but could have been. I've done exactly that many times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWjjBScQ4do
Most planes if you try that you'll float right off the end of the runway...

(how is this off-topic?)
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:48 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: JetPhoto Pre-Screening Thread...
Replies: 181
Views: 49266

Re: JetPhoto Pre-Screening Thread...

Once again a vid not a photo, but it contains a lot of great photos (some "never before seen" I think) of one of our favorite aeroplanies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ste6vsxnx6U The photos showing it spinning after the crash are definitely not easily found, but I'm pretty sure I've s...
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:44 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: flat spot on tire, or...?
Replies: 3
Views: 90

flat spot on tire, or...?

The other day on a flight out of DEN, towards the end of the takeoff roll significant vibrations developed, at a rate plausibly consistent with wheel speed. I figured we'd blown a tire and half expected to return, but apparently not. A flat spot is sufficient to produce such behavior, I know, but......
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:33 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Ban all beaches?
Replies: 5
Views: 117

Re: Ban all beaches?

If I find myself in a 737MAX, I jump out IMMEDIATELY.
You should wait for the exit door plug to fall out before trying to jump through it. Otherwise you might injure yourself.
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:32 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: When the magenta line goes blank...
Replies: 3
Views: 127

Re: When the magenta line goes blank...

Just so I’m not super stupid- the guy was NAVIGATING with the iPad…not just using it as a lightweight Jeppsen binder…Correct? Apparently. But there seem to be a lot more issues as well, e.g. he was also apparently unable to fly the approach according to the plates, or even to follow vectors. Nor is...
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:23 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Caravan Crash Credentials Connundrum
Replies: 27
Views: 1352

Re: Caravan Crash Credentials Connundrum

It is much more complicated than that. For now I will just say that "stalling one wing" almost never happens, and severe degradation of lateral-directional handling qualities (which is more than just "inadequate roll authority" as it also involves adverse yaw, adverse roll, and ...
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:19 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Crashing via autopilot?
Replies: 33
Views: 2289

Re: Crashing via autopilot?

Oh, and you fly an instrument approach without a chart by not caring what the exact procedure is (because it's FSII on a C64) and finding the localizer frequency by twiddling the radio knobs (since in FSII on a C64 there are only a handful of stations to tune in and you can tell from the DME which i...
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:08 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Crashing via autopilot?
Replies: 33
Views: 2289

Re: Crashing via autopilot?

(I think [not_italics]we all started on FS for Commodore 64, and you could learn basic navigation. I even think I had an ADF option...maybe. As already mentioned (and as the screenshot above shows)... it did. Anyway, all I was trying to say originally is that I can't imagine making that particular ...
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:59 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: ATR, Nepal, Jan 2023
Replies: 103
Views: 6297

Re: ATR, Nepal, Jan 2023

Neat :-) Unfortunately it doesn't work that well, it seems to crash anytime it would do anything that requires accessing the disk in the original game, like move to a different airport, or even go on to the next board...
by ocelot
Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:33 am
Forum: Military Aviation Discussion
Topic: To really foul things up takes a computer...
Replies: 4
Views: 133

To really foul things up takes a computer...

https://timesofsandiego.com/military/2024/02/14/air-force-oks-autonomous-cargo-flights-across-california-after-successful-test/ I guess we'll be finding out how good computers are at manufacturing emergencies out of situations any human could resolve... (Not much information in the article. I wouldn...
by ocelot
Sun Jan 28, 2024 2:40 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Caravan Crash Credentials Connundrum
Replies: 27
Views: 1352

Re: Caravan Crash Credentials Connundrum

I would assume in the absence of other information that any handover was just part of the intended training schedule. Meanwhile as for the accident itself, I'd tend to assume either something broke or it's another instance of inadequate roll authority at low speed. Doesn't seem entirely consistent w...
by ocelot
Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:23 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Crashing via autopilot?
Replies: 33
Views: 2289

Re: Crashing via autopilot?

PS: HSIs are fancy things that Gabriel and I didn’t have in our cheap ass training planes…right up there with dual VOR thingies. I think you both misunderstood :-) I first learned not even on MSFS but on the C-64 version of Flight Simulator II. Which did have two VOR receivers but that was it. Out ...
by ocelot
Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:57 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: This is why we need circular runways
Replies: 22
Views: 1846

Re: F.A. O.: Gabriel and Ocelot

Is there an Oscar for photos? That one deserves it!
Being carried on APOD can be considered an award...

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