-Ban ALL runway shortenings.
-Ban ALL shortenings in general.

You should ban either runway shortenings or fuselage shortenings, but not both.

Has anyone here tried DCS?

Thought about it, but ultimately I'm no good as a fighter pilot.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... stigating/

Curiously, that hasn't appeared on avh.

also i dislike the way the article thinks the go-around is the scary part

That you got it backwards is just further evidence that it's a bad scheme. It's not like you've never seen an approach plate before...

The thing it's doing that's new/interesting is tracking where it is (relative to pieces of the course) optically, in real time. That is not_so easy.

Also, a bullet, or at least one that isn't specifically incendiary, is not much of an ignition source.

The healthcare system has been showing some cracks, sure, but it's at least not "oh, you're not rich? Have fun dying" which is the best way to sum up the US system...

It seems WestJet allows politicians to use the PA. Or politicians they like. Or something. They deny everything, of course. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/westjet-poilievre-union-1.6965374 (For those who don't follow Canadian politics, which is probably everyone, he's the opposition leader, and pr...

So the thing I notice is that the report says the plane turned into the wind, and the speakist said it turned away. This discrepancy should clearly be investigated further! (and yes, I did notice the speakist blathering about turning downwind, and I agree that's a bad thing in a speakist, but as I s...

Also, the video had much discussion of a cryptic little gray wedge on the glide slope depiction that gave some approach-specific details about the ability to be low. Evan should probably explain it to us after he solves the tail rotor issue that can’t happen. The wedge was there, but no verbiage ab...

Perhaps when not_corroded, that joint could hold up to the plane's +4.5G rating, but with some corrosion, it could only withstand 2G. If the plane were flown gently, that 2G might never be reached and many happy hours of flying could take place. But if someone were to put a 3G load on it, badness w...

The flaps also sag when some hydraulic system is off and “suck up” when it comes on. Never heard of that. Why would that be? Hydraulic pressure holds them up; when it's off, gravity takes charge. This comes up from time to time with post-accident photos, when people try to reason about the flap pos...

Quote=Ocelot I don't like Star Trek. Is this a fair simplification? Pretty much. Though it varies. Some of it is a lot better than others. The acid test is: if stuck in a hotel room with nothing much to do besides turn on the TV, and you find it, do you watch it or keep surfing looking for somethin...

I've never been particularly susceptible to that

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

80s technology. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149

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...