Search found 689 matches
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 1:18 am
- Forum: The Waldo Pepper Lounge
- Topic: Not_airplanes with not_pilots...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1030
Re: Not_airplanes with not_pilots...
I've never been particularly susceptible to that
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:21 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Star Trek Picard, Season 3, Episode 4
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1384
Re: Star Trek Picard, Season 3, Episode 4
The usual Star Trek reasons: terrible writing, bad acting, hokey plots, technobabble... you can have all the setup you want but you also have to deliver on production, and Voyager mostly didn't. Not that I've seen very much of it, because if you try something and it's bad repeatedly there's really n...
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:14 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Here we go again
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1220
Re: Here we go again
If you have a sideways AoA, because e.g. you're taking off into a crosswind, you'll be getting a yaw moment into the wind. Yes, while you are rolloing on the grund or water. You need to use rudder to keep the plane from weathervaning. Once in the air, if you are in coordinated flight, the wind come...
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Gender Reveal Parties
- Replies: 10
- Views: 485
Re: Gender Reveal Parties
There's a good chance the pilot may never have done a full all-at-once drop before and wasn't expecting the plane to pull_up on its own. (If you suddenly let go half your gross weight like that, suddenly lift becomes twice weight and you're pulling up at 2G. But one doesn't normally do that in ag op...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 11:11 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Here we go again
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1220
Re: Here we go again
If you have a sideways AoA, because e.g. you're taking off into a crosswind, you'll be getting a yaw moment into the wind. The accident aircraft was turning downwind, and, supposedly, this was uncommanded/forced by the wind, and that seems like rubbish. Unless I guess we think a gust flipped the rig...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 11:14 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Radar Attenuation
- Replies: 15
- Views: 660
Re: Radar Attenuation
Right now at KBOX the images are seven minutes apart and the latest one was no more than a minute old when I checked it. But it varies a lot. Right now there's nothing going on; when there is I think they sample more so each one takes longer, but also possibly more often? Anyway my perception lately...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 7:31 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Here we go again
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1220
Re: Here we go again
I am also not real impressed with the discussion of floatplane takeoff technique. Not that I'm an expert in it or anything, but he seems to have missed the point that if you pull_up and dig the floats in, you just aren't going to be getting off the water. Which is exactly what happened in the second...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 7:22 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Interesting (recent) total air disasters
- Replies: 62
- Views: 19127
Re: Interesting (recent) total air disasters
I suspect the only reason this one is different from any other excursion is that the airport is small enough that when you run off the runway you end up on the ramp.
Also, they got off easy in that collision...
Also, they got off easy in that collision...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 7:19 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Radar Attenuation
- Replies: 15
- Views: 660
Re: Radar Attenuation
If you go to radar.weather.gov the data there is normally a few minutes old. If you get it from an aviation_approved, not_cowboy source, it won't really be any faster, because the primary limiting factor is how long it takes to sample the atmosphere. (And the not_cowboy source might be slower, becau...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 7:00 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Brain fart: this time with video
- Replies: 10
- Views: 683
Re: Brain fart: this time with video
It's definitely possible to read back clearances without the meaning registering, much like stock jokes about "yes dear, very nice". Especially if also fatigued, though I think probably it's mostly a sign of poor training - you should read back what you're going to do, not just parrot what...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:36 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: What's the airspeed velocity of your Internet connection?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 616
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: The Waldo Pepper Lounge
- Topic: Not_airplanes with not_pilots...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1030
Re: Not_airplanes with not_pilots...
Note though that it has the course trained into it, so it wouldn't be able to cope if things moved and humans probably can.
That said, I do want to see more of the video from the onboard cam...
That said, I do want to see more of the video from the onboard cam...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 6:26 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Star Trek Picard, Season 3, Episode 4
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1384
Re: Star Trek SNW
I am not. I mean, I was offended as much as anyone else by all the fan hate for daring to have a woman in charge, but the show itself is terrible.I am; however, a big fan of Janeway and her crew and adventures.
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 1:36 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Biz jet overflies DC, Crashes in VA mountains
- Replies: 61
- Views: 1418
Re: Biz jet overflies DC, Crashes in VA mountains
.. three laws of robotics... Right, because they always worked right and there was never a problem with them in Asimov's books! :D There were lots of stories where they created problems, but as far as I can recall there weren't any in which the laws themselves broke down. But maybe I just don't rec...
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 1:25 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Airships
- Replies: 0
- Views: 513
Airships
Canadian North embraces airships: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ca ... -1.6899363
Could get interesting, if it goes anywhere.
Could get interesting, if it goes anywhere.
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 1:13 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Star Trek Picard, Season 3, Episode 4
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1384
Re: Star Trek SNW
Star Trek's always been "woke". For its time, anyway.if they can lay off the wokeness
- Sun Jul 09, 2023 1:11 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: JetPhoto Pre-Screening Thread...
- Replies: 183
- Views: 49341
Re: JetPhoto Pre-Screening Thread...
Right, they'd applied the hushkit (before everyone else? idk, maybe)
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:09 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Biz jet overflies DC, Crashes in VA mountains
- Replies: 61
- Views: 1418
Re: Biz jet overflies DC, Crashes in VA mountains
The UAS memory items are so easy to automate: WHILE GORUND_AIR_MODE=AIR AND ALT>10000 IF ABS(VA-VB)>10 AND ABS(VB-VC)>10 and ABS(VC-VA)>10 THEN ECAM PRINT "UNRELIABLE AIRSPEED" ECAM PRINT "EXECUTING UAS MEMORY ITEMS" THURST=CLB PITCH=5 ENDIF WHEND That will kill you if it trigge...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 4:01 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Biz jet overflies DC, Crashes in VA mountains
- Replies: 61
- Views: 1418
Re: Biz jet overflies DC, Crashes in VA mountains
Right now, people are justifiably afraid of AI because it's very hard to characterize, and without being able to do that, AI is very hard to trust. And I am on board with that distrust... I think anything done with AI must be done very slowly and cautiously, until we have a better handle on how it ...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 3:41 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Biz jet overflies DC, Crashes in VA mountains
- Replies: 61
- Views: 1418
Re: Biz jet overflies DC, Crashes in VA mountains
With that in mind, please have mercy of my insolence for talking as if I knew more than I do. Insolence? Piffle. :-p Note that because I wasn't really following the chain of reasoning, if there was one, I posted some statements that I believe to be true and connected to the topic, in the hopes of c...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 2:09 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Maintain healthy attitudes…
- Replies: 8
- Views: 296
Re: Maintain healthy attitudes…
ah, so long before avh. The report is not very impressive. It spends a lot of time on irrelevancies (like overshooting the localizer) and concentrates on busted SOPs and CRM, while ignoring the fact that a competent pilot should be able to fly an unstable approach down to 500' AGL and go around with...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 1:56 am
- Forum: The Waldo Pepper Lounge
- Topic: This changes everything...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 909
Re: This changes everything...
Am I right to be suspicious that the view outside is from considerably higher altitude than the plane whose cockpit we're seeing can probably reach?
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 1:55 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: JetPhoto Pre-Screening Thread...
- Replies: 183
- Views: 49341
Re: Livery FB Group
There was in fact some reason they called them that. Can't remember what it was though, and I'm feeling too lazy to go dig around.But, maybe not_a Whisperjet
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 11:01 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Tourist Sub Goes MH-17
- Replies: 17
- Views: 531
Re: Tourist Sub Goes MH-17
One of the questions that's been raised was whether the hull was adequately inspected between dives. Last I remember the fatigue properties of carbon fiber aren't that well understood, and despite how rigid you can make a carbon fiber hull, in that pressure regime it's bound to flex a fair amount ea...
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 10:51 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Maintain healthy attitudes…
- Replies: 8
- Views: 296
Re: Maintain healthy attitudes…
When did this happen? I can't find any coverage on avh.
Anyway, after the initial pitch-up upset it seems like classic PIO, and the interesting part will be why the PF allowed that pitch-up to happen. Maybe the stickshaker went off
Anyway, after the initial pitch-up upset it seems like classic PIO, and the interesting part will be why the PF allowed that pitch-up to happen. Maybe the stickshaker went off