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david_a posted:Is the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta worth a visit? I've heard good things, and it's definitely on my 'list' of places to eventually get to. They've got a full-motion 737 simulator there you can book time in, just be ready to at the pricing. You're also not *too* far from the Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB. It'd definitely be a day's trip. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Apr 7, 2019 |
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That's pretty cool. Interesting that its still grounding through the big tire.
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slidebite posted:That's pretty cool. Interesting that its still grounding through the big tire. It's a myth that rubber tires help vehicles from being struck by lightning. It might help the current choose a better path through a tree or a rod nearby, but the current can travel tens to hundreds of miles. A few more feet around a wet tire isn't that much.
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Entone posted:It's a myth that rubber tires help vehicles from being struck by lightning. It might help the current choose a better path through a tree or a rod nearby, but the current can travel tens to hundreds of miles. A few more feet around a wet tire isn't that much. That and its steel belted rubber tires. The steel helps current find a path.
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CommieGIR posted:That and its steel belted rubber tires. The steel helps current find a path. That and it's millions of volts, which will happily arc across a couple feet of rubber
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I know some aircraft have grounding wires between the tires. Literally just dangles there and bounces off the ground.
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# ? Apr 7, 2019 21:17 |
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Bet it woke the passengers right up. I've had lightning strike near me a couple times. You feel this weird tingle for juuuust long enough to go "uhhhhhhh " and then *pow.*
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Sagebrush posted:That and it's millions of volts, which will happily arc across a couple feet of rubber I might be super-wrong about this, but I think all that other stuff (steel belts, grounding wires) is the important bits. I've learned a tiny bit about electricity and the bit where a conductor, something neutral, and an insulator's conductivity is like to the power of 9, zero, and the power of -9 stuck with me.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I've heard good things, and it's definitely on my 'list' of places to eventually get to. They've got a full-motion 737 simulator there you can book time in, just be ready to at the pricing.
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There are no insulators, only very bad conductors
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 03:46 |
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Vacuum isn’t a conductor. It’s true that electricity can arc through a hard vacuum, but the vacuum isn’t conducting them. Of course, it’s also not an insulator, for it does nothing to halt the flow of charge.
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Sagebrush posted:That and it's millions of volts, which will happily arc across a couple feet of rubber Yep. It's juuuust insulated enough that some charge can build up and you better ground that fucker before you fuel it, not enough to stop lightning.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I might be super-wrong about this, but I think all that other stuff (steel belts, grounding wires) is the important bits. I've learned a tiny bit about electricity and the bit where a conductor, something neutral, and an insulator's conductivity is like to the power of 9, zero, and the power of -9 stuck with me. it's true that rubber is a better insulator than air but also the lightning just jumped through like a couple miles of air at least. i don't think that one chunk of rubber the size of a dishwasher at the last second is what's gonna stop it
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 04:53 |
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The idea isn’t to stop lightning dead in its tracks. The idea is that the plane doesn’t become charged via contact with the ground so it doesn’t act like a high point on a big flat field. It still doesn’t work.
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Well, fortunately Aluminum is a really good conductor, so it'll conduct all them 'trons safely around the delicate meatbags in the plane, same reason/misconception for why you're safe in a car, you're not really in the flowpath, not that rubber does poo poo all to protect you. I heard the new composite super-planes have a conductive mesh embedded in the composite to provide this effect, us that true?
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In the mid 2000s a ramp agent at Seatac Airport got lit up pushing back a Horizon Airlines plane that got struck. It traveled down the headset line. I was on my way to work there when it happened and saw the lightning bolt. I can't find any articles on it now, but there was a different one: https://www.wral.com/weather/video/16854894/
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Elviscat posted:Well, fortunately Aluminum is a really good conductor, so it'll conduct all them 'trons safely around the delicate meatbags in the plane, same reason/misconception for why you're safe in a car, you're not really in the flowpath, not that rubber does poo poo all to protect you. Can confirm. Even the composite panels on metal planes have it. AzureSkys posted:In the mid 2000s a ramp agent at Seatac Airport got lit up pushing back a Horizon Airlines plane that got struck. It traveled down the headset line. I was on my way to work there when it happened and saw the lightning bolt. Yeah there's a reason why airports go full ground stop when lightning is in the area. You don't want to be the shortcut to ground that the lightning takes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7w_v9J7iOc Now this is some Aeronautical Insanity.
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Larry Walters' story is pretty good, and as an aside so is the rest of John Bois' Pretty Good video series. Even if you're not a sports fan, he tells entertaining tales. In unrelated news, a while back a bunch of you guys were asking which airline would be most like to collapse after the WOW Air debacle. The answer to that question is, Jet Airways in India. Lessors are moving to repo their aircraft and have been doing so all weekend; it's possibly only a matter of time before it all comes to an end there.
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 11:46 |
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Earned my 767 type rating late night, they’ll give those things to anybody.
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e.pilot posted:Earned my 767 type rating late night, they’ll give those things to anybody. Congrats man!
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Congrats!
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e.pilot posted:Earned my 767 type rating late night, they’ll give those things to anybody. No sudden desires to fly into tall buildings, right?
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Congrats e.pilot. Does The FAA allow pilots to hold multiple current type certificate?
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I was in a plane struck by lightning in flight once, it was downright foreign how sharp and non-reverberating the sound was. It was one of those moments where your brain fails to match the experience with how it understands reality should be. The other time I felt that way was when a friend took me sailing, and a full size cargo ship probably a mile away blew its horn (wrt. the loudness)
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 16:58 |
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A small one hit our wingtip one time when landing in Brussels or Amsterdam (can't remember) and nobody seemed to notice or care.
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Jonny Nox posted:Congrats e.pilot. Type ratings in the US don’t have currency requirements per se; The aircraft owner(s insurance agency) is most likely going to require a certain level of currency before they’ll insure the aircraft, or the operating certificate of the airline/air taxi will require certain currency as part of their issuance, so there is a de facto currency requirement. You can absolutely hold multiple type ratings.
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Do flying boats still have their own, separate certification
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 18:35 |
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Yes, a seaplane rating is something you can do for fun in a few days in Florida.
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sanchez posted:Yes, a seaplane rating is something you can do for fun in a few days in Florida. Mmmm seaplane 767.
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 18:43 |
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Something just hit the Sea World Trade Center!
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Jonny Nox posted:Congrats e.pilot. Yep types don’t expire. You won’t really see being current on multiple types outside of corporate though.
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Ola posted:Something just hit the Sea World Trade Center! Pilots didn't even have to get a new type rating.
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Congrats man!
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e.pilot posted:Earned my 767 type rating late night, they’ll give those things to anybody. Holy poo poo! congratz mate! I felt awesome poodling around in a microlight, I cant imagine how you feel
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https://twitter.com/ethanklapper/status/1115439325175525376 https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1115436023729647616
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# ? Apr 9, 2019 03:28 |
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What does the cloud cover look like. Was NJ in the sun, and everything east of the hudson still had clouds?
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# ? Apr 9, 2019 03:33 |
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That’s a pretty wild spread for how relatively flat it is there. Was a front passing?
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e.pilot posted:That’s a pretty wild spread for how relatively flat it is there. You would expect the pressure on the METARs to track with temperature then, wouldn't you? edit: a front did go through... seriously odd that the pressures weren't significantly different too? hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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MrChips posted:Larry Walters' story is pretty good, and as an aside so is the rest of John Bois' Pretty Good video series. Even if you're not a sports fan, he tells entertaining tales. I went looking through news and haven't turned up any stories of actual repossession but if the deadline on the 10th passes without an investor I imagine it'd be basically instant at that point?
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