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Cool Places to Fly / Air Classic 2022 Route
« on: November 08, 2021, 07:10:05 PM »
The route is chosen. @Rush - will you be competing?

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2021/november/04/air-race-classic-announces-2022-route

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Pilot Zone / Jet pack man?
« on: November 08, 2021, 07:07:22 PM »
Possible explanation of the jet pack man - https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/11/02/jet-pack-man-sighting-jack-skellington-balloon-flying-high-los-angeles/

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Spin Zone / The degree of reduction in the effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccines
« on: November 08, 2021, 04:24:35 PM »
Substantial drop-off in the ability of the Covid-19 vaccines to prevent infection. Fair protection against adverse outcomes in those under 65 (though the chances of adverse outcome for this age group are rather low to begin with). For those over 65, about a 4X reduction in the chances of death after breakthrough infection for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abm0620

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Pilot Zone / Proposed medical rule for commercial balloon pilots
« on: November 03, 2021, 07:09:26 PM »
And in the ever-expanding bureaucracy category, we have the FAA’s proposed rule requiring commercial balloon pilots to have a medical. As many may recall, this legislation was reactive to an accident in Texas.

Since issuing medicals has not been shown to improve the safety of flight in private airplane pilots, this seems to just be more waste of time and money for everyone.

Suggest commenting on it in the Federal Register in a negative way.

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2021-11/2120-AL51_Issuance_NPRM_Balloon_Medical.pdf

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Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) / PA-28 down in Cape Cod 11/1/21
« on: November 03, 2021, 05:39:38 PM »
Sounds like Coast Guard just suspended the search as it went down a few days ago. Long cross country, at night, over water, no flight following. Looks like the plane was a Dakota. If the tail number is correct, relatively new ownership. Person that was supposed to meet him called after he no showed.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/11...ch-cape-cod-coast-guard-nauset-beach-orleans/

Being discussed on PoA with the usual calls for more regulations.

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Pilot Zone / My new to me 1-26E glider
« on: October 31, 2021, 06:58:02 PM »
New to me 1-26E glider. N126RM at her new base E68 - Estrella Sailport.


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Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) / V-Tail Bonanza Hits Truck Near Pumpkin Center Lousiana
« on: October 30, 2021, 07:51:24 PM »
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_7b5c2548-3835-11ec-882d-0f2db473f2d4.html

http://www1.wbrz.com/news/incredible-video-shows-plane-striking-truck-as-it-crash-lands-on-i-12

https://youtu.be/Y6IBZ3McbuU

From BeechTalk:

We put the K35 down after losing all oil pressure. Smoke in the cockpit was first indication.

We were at 2,000 descending to pattern altitude from 7,500 after passing Baton Rouge.

Looking for a field on the south side of 12 but didn’t see anything worth while, told my dad to put her on the interstate. We lined up behind a semi, neither of us saw the black truck under our right wing.

Touched down and the wing hit their driver side and they, reacting, slammed on the brakes and spun us a bit.

Nose gear collapsed when we hit the median grass….

Median was first idea but they had those wire barriers on each side.

My dads pretty upset as his plane is totaled but we are all okay.

I give full credit to having spent a lot of time riding with guys on here doing formation flying and reading crash talk.

As we saw the fields on the ground, opting for a field with gear up probably would have killed us all. Tree stumps and mud are not so forgiving.

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Pilot Zone / Shifting from magnetic to true headings
« on: October 29, 2021, 08:37:46 AM »
Possibly by 2030?

https://www.flightglobal.com/flight-international/why-aviations-compass-is-shifting-towards-true-navigation/145663.article

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Pilot Zone / Longest flight of 64 days in a C172
« on: October 29, 2021, 07:35:57 AM »
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/25/the-longest-ever-flight-was-over-64-days-in-a-cessna-172/

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Pilot Zone / “Progress in flying machines” by Octave Chanute, 1894
« on: October 27, 2021, 08:24:28 PM »
A volume of articles originally published in The American Engineer and Railroad Journal by Chanute to review the state of the art in flying machines.

It has been really interesting to see how there were some rather early successes. For example, in 1846 Stringfellow was able to fly a small tethered flapping wing aircraft using a small steam engine.

A lot of patents on various designs during the 19th century.

Early on people were understandably concerned with how much power it would take for a man to be able to fly since on average people can only develop about 1/10 hp over prolonged periods.

Chanute did note the primary problem of control and wrote:

“We shall hereafter see that even if the aeroplanes experimented with had been provided with adequate motors, as they were not, this difficulty in maintaining a proper equilibrium with fixed surfaces is probably sufficient to account for most of the failures of experiments upon a practical scale with that form of apparatus, and for their abandonment by their designers, a brief trial having probably satisfied them that aside from the question of a motive power, which they were confessedly unable to solve, they were not yet masters of such reasonable stability and command over their apparatus, as to warrant them in proceeding further”

This of course was the problem Wilbur Wright solved with wing warping and that Curtiss evolved into ailerons.

Available on Google Play Books.

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Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) / Former Boeing chief technical pilot indicted for fraud
« on: October 27, 2021, 11:23:17 AM »
So the former chief technical pilot is being indicted for intentionally withholding critical information as a form of fraud in the 737 Max fiasco.

(placed here as related to two accidents)

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-boeing-737-max-chief-technical-pilot-indicted-fraud

Case documents on RECAP https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60650264/united-states-v-forkner/

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Accident Review/Never Again (I hope..) / UND Plane down in ND - 1 fatality - Oct 19, 2021
« on: October 24, 2021, 07:48:43 AM »
Not a lot of details as yet. I was flying in the area earlier that day and it was windy. About 20 knots at the surface and 40 knots by the time you got to 1500 AGL or so. I don't recall if the winds died down in the evening or not.

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2021/10/19/und-student-pilot-dies-plane-crash-near-buxton/

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/NDU20/history/20211019/0001Z/KGFK/L%2047.56535%20-97.02033


Some reports saying it was suicide. :(



https://planecrashmap.com/plane/sd/N294ND/

http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/10/piper-pa-28-181-archer-tx-n820nd-fatal.html

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Pilot Zone / Different airplane design back in 1903
« on: October 23, 2021, 04:32:36 PM »
Ohio plates have the banner attached at the wrong end of the Wright Flyer.

https://apnews.com/article/7529e8a5796c88b6b9a0dca290c4aa2b

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Spin Zone / Stripping Italian flight attendants?
« on: October 22, 2021, 05:44:42 PM »
Might have been interesting to see.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/alitalia-flight-attendants-strip-off-uniforms-protest-80684348

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Spin Zone / Support In and Out Burger who refused to become the vaccine police
« on: October 21, 2021, 03:06:25 PM »
The San Francisco In-N-Out Burger was recently forced to close because they refused to become the vaccine police. Here is cause it is tasty to support.

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