@rbp I'm at Fulton and John.

@BretCopeland maybe we can grab lunch one day, talk flying and SE

@rbp just come over to Stack for lunch sometime. Let me know when. Most days are fine.

I keep trying to get @voretaq7 to come for lunch, but he never does.

Hello all, can't stop, just throwing this out there:

youtube.com/channel/UCJESUXalwV2mvfr5GQ2L-1w

someone's put a few of the new Mayday/Air Crash Investigation's on YT

@DannyBeckett Nice

@BretCopeland This statement is geographically incorrect.

@Farhan oh, haha, Broadway and John is what I meant. I'm at the Fulton stop.

Hi, everyone.

hey there

hey

I wonder if the BBC could be convinced to make a show like Top Gear but with aircraft instead of cars.

@DanHulme well, top gear does feature the occasional aircraft :) i believe may has an airplane license and hammond has a helicopter license

it's just that aircraft porn appeals to me a lot more now

Yeah. Market is pretty small though I guess.

The only aviation related that sells is crap like airplane repo and stuff like that i guess ;)

nah, there are a lot more wannabe flyers than pilots

that's how Top Gear got so popular

they never really reviewed the high-end sports cars: they gave the audience an idea of what it feels like to drive one

the market for dreaming of owning a Ferrari is orders of magnitude larger than the market for Ferraris, and aircraft are no different

Good point

Heh. Just watching the mayday episode with the resolute bay crash, and they have an animation explaining ILS, only they use the antennas at the wrong end of the runway (effectively the back course localizer) :)

speaking of animations, there were narrated animations in MSFS 98 (yes! that's the first sim i played!) which explains VOR, ILS, PAPI etc. Short videos but crystal clear, better than reading 2 pages of text.

@Farhan @BretCopeland although fulton & john don't intersect, they are short enough that its still descriptive enough. Bret, pm me bob@pasker.net

@rbp are we calling emails pms now?

@DanHulme only on chat

maybe?

you're right its kinda lame

pm me gives phone number

:-)

next we'll be calling controllers mods

@DanHulme Your flight plan was closed as Not Constructive. Go land at the nearest airport.

heh

yey; got my new SSD in the mail today.

SSD?

disk? for your black box?

solid state drive

for my computer

or laptop really

am i missing the aviation connection?

no aviation connection whatsoever

ha

well, congrats then!

:)

i am going to fly glider sightseeing rides this summer in the Teton mountains

@rbp I heard, sounds like a sweet gig

@falstro thanks, i'm pretty excited about it

i am going to work on the CFI-G

@rbp will those be aerobatic rides as well or just sightseeing?

@falstro sightseeing

@falstro evidenty most people want an adventure, not a roller coaster ride

afternoons can be pretty bumpy as it is

ok

the occasional roll can be quite the adventure too though ;)

i think the superblaniks can no longer do aerobatics

"no longer"?

@falstro yes, some airframes developed cracks

ouch

nice landing

@DannyBeckett very lucky

not sure I'd picked the street

@falstro indeed, no traffic.. god was on his side that day ;)

glad it worked out ok

if you look closely, you'll see the power/telephone lines running along the street as well

yeah, his instructor's only scared at the very end when he turns and might clip a telegraph pole lol

@falstro SSDs are really nice. I got for my home machine and now it boots up on 20 seconds.

@DannyBeckett Landing was really fast. Great skills btw.