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voretaq7

Feb 11, 2015 16:36

@falstro I think the real question is "WHERE WILL AMERICA GET ITS NEWS NOW?!?!?!"

rbp

Feb 7, 2015 00:12

FUcking taiwan air dudes shut down the working engine

falstro

Feb 6, 2015 19:18

voretaq7

Feb 5, 2015 19:28

falstro

Feb 3, 2015 21:07

and for people wondering, a yoke and pedals does indeed make a huge difference for flight sims. I can actually to a proper slip now :)

falstro

Feb 3, 2015 21:07

except of course for the fact that I haven't secured the pedals, so they're actually getting in on some of that slipping action too :p

Bret Copeland

Feb 3, 2015 20:30

Well, the Concorde was super efficient at Mach 2... just not any other speed.

voretaq7

Jan 30, 2015 16:30

(My first instructor did the "tennis ball somewhere in the engine compartment" thing to me. When I found it I put it on his seat & tried not to giggle when he spent 5 minutes looking for it.)

Federico

Jan 29, 2015 12:37

falstro

Jan 27, 2015 06:48

flyingmag.com/technique/accidents/…

rbp

Jan 22, 2015 22:14

i downvote for lots of reasons, including personal spite, answers that make gag, any other answer on a question that I also have an answer

Bret Copeland

Jan 22, 2015 18:39

I only downvote out of personal spite. That seems to work for me.

Shalvenay

Jan 22, 2015 02:39

@voretaq7 -- worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/9046/3097

voretaq7

Jan 21, 2015 23:43

and "You know there's an '800 number you can call to prevent you from blundering into these sorts of things, right? We pay Lockheed-Martin a lot of money to run it! We'd REALLY LIKE IT if people called!"

Bret Copeland

Jan 20, 2015 21:20

livestream.com/stackexchange

casey

Jan 19, 2015 15:35

though not always. I heard colgan one day "Colgan 1234, follow the expressjet ahead of you to 22R/W, you are 48 for departure, monitor tower passing K"

ratchet freak

Jan 16, 2015 15:59

> OMG I got hijacked #FML

falstro

Jan 15, 2015 23:10

Heh. Woops.

voretaq7

Jan 15, 2015 19:32

we already have enough people doing stupid things, we don't want to add a financial incentive to be stupid. "1500 foot ceilings, barely 3 miles viz, and steadily deteriorating -- but I'm not going to file IFR and shoot an approach because it's gonna cost me $50 to talk to ATC!"

Farhan

Jan 12, 2015 20:56

@CGCampbell It's just very gruesome to watch that stupidity isn't that uncommon.

rbp

Jan 10, 2015 19:09

airasia tail found, no black boxes

rbp

Jan 9, 2015 17:03

rbp

Jan 7, 2015 15:38

very awesome javascript ATC simulator. the issue with these ATC simulators is that most long-distance traffic is already spaced coming into TRACON and headed for arrival gates, not random headings. zlsa.github.io/atc

falstro

Dec 25, 2014 21:40

voretaq7

Dec 25, 2014 18:15

falstro

Dec 23, 2014 21:50

@Farhan wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:Build_a_yoke_in_5_minutes

falstro

Dec 22, 2014 20:48

I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you want to do this right, go and listen to LiveATC. ;)

rbp

Dec 20, 2014 00:05

cameras.reviewed.com/news/…

voretaq7

Dec 19, 2014 19:39

@rbp "Go around! I've got a trout on the line!"

rbp

Dec 19, 2014 19:32

falstro

Dec 5, 2014 21:12

@voretaq7 The problem is, just as you think you've got a good enough answer, Peter Kaempf comes along... :)

voretaq7

Dec 4, 2014 19:37

@DanHulme You'd think Brits would understand the beauty of an endless queue! You people INVENTED queueing!

voretaq7

Nov 26, 2014 17:49

Q: How did it get the name "Tiger Moth"?
A: First bug the test pilot swallowed.

Dan Hulme

Nov 20, 2014 20:52

Another gem from my new flying book: "Ventilation generally improves the cockpit environment significantly." I'll be sure to bear that in mind when I'm freezing my arse off in an open Tiger Moth.

voretaq7

Aug 28, 2014 17:57

@ratchetfreak "Wait for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee <flips upside down from wake turbulence> aw crap."

Bret Copeland

Aug 27, 2014 05:19

I have false hope that if I go to bed now, I'll wake up earlier than usual tomorrow, and get even more done.

voretaq7

Aug 27, 2014 04:25

I still need to cram the knowledge test stuff into the empty orb atop my shoulders

Bret Copeland

Aug 27, 2014 03:41

I've only had the opposite experience, luckily. I took my gf flying a couple nights ago and she barely wanted to touch the controls, and when I suggested she hold on to the yoke to feel what landing was like, she said, "no, that's a good way to die."

Stack Exchange

Aug 23, 2014 19:27

Aviation Mentor: ForeFlight adds Weight & Balance

posted on August 23, 2014 by John Ewing

A few weeks ago, I had a discussion about flying an aircraft over gross weight and the person I was talking to seemed to be saying "It ain't no thang ..." I begged to differ since there are serious hazards associated with flying an aircraft over maximum takeoff weight or out of the CG envelope. And so I was pleased to see the addition of Weight and Balance calculations to ForeFlight, though …

falstro

Aug 22, 2014 16:17

I didn't know that, and when the air coming out of the vents smells like fuel, I turn around. :)

voretaq7

Aug 20, 2014 20:27

@Farhan Clearly the pilot was on their way to a much-needed flight lesson. "I had to fly that low - how else could I read the signs?!"

Farhan

Aug 20, 2014 16:27

P.S.: Jersey people, if you got offended, ... I don't care.

Farhan

Aug 20, 2014 16:16

@voretaq7 And you've to pay ransom (aka toll) when you leave NJ, regardless of whichever way.

voretaq7

Aug 13, 2014 17:56

@falstro "No evidence of post-crash fire" --[NTSB-to-English]--> "A-yup, fuel exhaustion again..."

Bret Copeland

Aug 7, 2014 21:28

SE Summer Party. aka "Mandatory Fun Day"

falstro

Aug 7, 2014 15:40

Preliminary report on the July 31 crash of a Zimmerman Breezy airplane in Oshkosh, WI, is now available at http://go.usa.gov/NvHw

Tweeted by NTSB on August 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM

voretaq7

Aug 7, 2014 15:14

@casey "No wonder you guys kept killing everyone" -- Things you only want to hear in sim training?

casey

Aug 7, 2014 15:06

The wind shear scenario (modeled after the fatal at DFW) was the only sim scenario I crashed. And my sim partner crash. Then we crashed it again. Finally the sim instructor stops giving us shit and looks at his console. "oops, i set it at 200% rather than 20% of the DFW shear profile, no wonder you guys kept killing everyone"

falstro

Aug 5, 2014 17:29

arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/…

falstro

Jul 30, 2014 22:02

> By MJR on Wednesday, Jul 30th 2014 21:59Z
>
> Is forward Ebay fan german for co pilot???

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