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Spaced God posted:Yeah, like choppy water Actually the water shown is probably the worst to land on; glassy calm water destroys your ability to determine how high above it you are when landing and will require more work/power to break the floats free of the water on takeoff. Although this pic shows some wind and I expect there's more "texture" to the water out where you'd actually land. In related news, getting a seaplane rating added to your airplane rating is only like 6 hours of training and a lot of fun. 
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You're right. Both of those pictures don't accurately represent the landing area in Male. They're taken from behind breakers / reefs and thus super calm. The water is still really calm out there for a sea but it's not glass. I do think you could land basically anywhere.
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The image on Wikipedia for 1248 gets me every single time. The sign that reads MIDWAY and is pointing to the aircraft? just so absurd.
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Mar 6, 2015 18:30
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By the way, can someone ID this plane for me? Swerington or something?
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Mar 6, 2015 18:49
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Do-228
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Mar 6, 2015 19:09
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Seriously? That's sweet!
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simplefish posted:Lift squares, but so does drag You also run into cube square law, and reynolds numbers trouble. Air starts behaving very badly at small chord lengths.
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Apologies for the terrible picture, but is this a cyclone I've spotted? I didn't know any had been delivered yet. HMCS Halifax in St. John's if it matters. Edit: got closer and answered my own question 
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Mar 6, 2015 21:36
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Niven posted:Edit: got closer and answered my own question so uh, you gonna share your answer with the rest of us?
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Presumably either a cyclone or a very broken s92, testing I guess?
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Years ago I spotted this little LA-4 seaplane down by the Mississippi River here in Memphis. The current isn't too rough but apparently the pilot landed it and was able to drag it up on the cobblestones.
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Best Airbus aircraft so far, I don't care if it doesn't fly:
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Lately I've been playing around with a cheap software-defined radio dongle and using it as an ADS-B/Mode S receiver. I live less than 5 miles from (and right in the approach path of) Bangor International Airport in Maine, so I can frequently just click the mouse a couple of times and find out exactly what plane is flying over my house at any given time. If an aircraft is equipped with ADS-B, the Virtual Radar Server software will lovingly place it on a Google Maps overlay and display as much pertinent information as it can. If the aircraft is just sporting Mode S, you'll still get a lot of cool information, but no physical location, since a Mode S transponder doesn't transmit GPS data like ADS-B does. In either case, it's pretty drat cool, and I highly recommend making the meager investment in the dongle and then making one of the antennae shown on the RTL-SDR.com tutorial page. I've made both the collinear coax and the quarter-wave ground plane, and the performance of both seems about equal - but I have them inside at the moment, because it's loving cold and snowy outside and there's no way I'm going to try mounting one outside until at least July at this rate. Even with the antenna inside, though, I'm picking up signals from up to 100 miles away. Light traffic at the moment, but here's a picture of what's nearby right this minute:  Funny that N406XJ is in the area right now...I have spent many, many hours of my life doing avionics installations in that particular airframe. Does my heart good to see it happily buzzing around. 
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I've had an SDR for a while, they're freaking awesome. I'm looking forward to our local airshow where we'll tune into the action. Blue Angels last year were trippy. 1080p projector + SDR + Blue Angels flying over the backyard = way more fun than being there in person. ADSB I get about 200 miles on a good day. I've got a homemade quarter wave antenna made from coat hangers that runs into an FM trap and then an rg6 adapter into the dongle. It sits in the ceiling of my garage and picks up everything. Police channels all over town, both local airport towers, etc etc. I've picked up aircraft from several states away occasionally.
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Mar 7, 2015 01:01
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They moved the plane that ran off the runway at LGA to storage for the NTSB: Dang!
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Stepped out to the plane today, listened to ATIS and heard that the main parallel taxiway was "covered in ice," walked back inside. Good day.
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Party Plane Jones posted:They moved the plane that ran off the runway at LGA to storage for the NTSB: Speed tape. Lots and lots of speed tape.
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Party Plane Jones posted:They moved the plane that ran off the runway at LGA to storage for the NTSB: How many pig mats do airports stock?
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Mar 7, 2015 03:11
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That's a full on barrier kit kinda spill.
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Dannywilson posted:That's a full on barrier kit kinda spill. Melted snow.
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Party Plane Jones posted:They moved the plane that ran off the runway at LGA to storage for the NTSB: The NYT article has some more detail. quote:On Thursday, at the height of a snowstorm, Delta Air Lines Flight 1086 touched down on Runway 13 shortly after 11 a.m., veering out of control almost instantly. Theres also a graphic that shows where the plane ended up well off to the side of the runway. This accident has happened before at LGA during snowstorms, I suspect the NTSB is going to have some serious words about when we should be closing airports during winter storms.
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hobbesmaster posted:This accident has happened before at LGA during snowstorms, I suspect the NTSB is going to have some serious words about when we should be closing airports during winter storms. ...which will probably be screamed about by the airlines and ignored by the FAA.
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Prop Wash posted:Stepped out to the plane today, listened to ATIS and heard that the main parallel taxiway was "covered in ice," walked back inside. Good day. Pfft I landed on an ice runway last Saturday, no big deal. 
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Prop Wash posted:Stepped out to the plane today, listened to ATIS and heard that the main parallel taxiway was "covered in ice," walked back inside. Good day. RCR of.....not going flying. holocaust bloopers posted:Speed tape. Lots and lots of speed tape. I still crack up every time I think about the fact that I'm associated with a military airplane where there are official depot-authorized repair procedures that consist of "cover the entire front of the plane in speed tape."
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I can recall at least one instance where maintenance patched up a literal hole in the wing with speed tape. We took the jet. She flew great that day.
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simplefish posted:which plane? MQ-1/-9 (the particular instance I'm thinking of is on the -9 but it's totally a thing on the -1 as well since that's just a glorified R/C plane). But like holly bloopers said it's not unheard of on other platforms....the relative area covered with speed tape is a little bit different in my world though, compared to planes that are powered by something without a prop.
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Jazzahn posted:Pfft I landed on an ice runway last Saturday, no big deal. Taking off and landing doesn't scare me so much as taxiing, since our nose gear steering wheel was on the side with the initial qualification student Steering with power only is pretty fun when you've got 4 turboprops, but in Arkansas, planes and cars follow the same rule about driving on ice: you're not the danger, the idiots around you are.
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From old Life: A pilot while on approach has a stroke and dies, the man in the copilot's seat having never piloted anything then must land the plane. It was a Cessna 180 and it was landed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, but still.
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Nebakenezzer posted:From old Life: A pilot while on approach has a stroke and dies, the man in the copilot's seat having never piloted anything then must land the plane. It was a Cessna 180 and it was landed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, but still.
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If you have not done at least one speed tape job as A/C mechanic your missing out.
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Nebakenezzer posted:From old Life: A pilot while on approach has a stroke and dies, the man in the copilot's seat having never piloted anything then must land the plane. It was a Cessna 180 and it was landed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, but still. So... Airport 1975 then.
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slidebite posted:flightsimmerswetdream.txt Speaking of a flight-simmer's wet dream: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=140017
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Speaking of a flight-simmer's wet dream: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=140017       Hopefully there's also an avionics-lite version for beginners. 
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Here's to hoping the F-14A comes with the original TF30s so you can get the real life or death experience of flying a F-14.
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Sanguine posted:Hopefully there's also an avionics-lite version for beginners. I'm hoping more for a "working engines" version for beginners.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPonvcsrm0M http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-08/qantas-jumbo-arrives-at-wollongong/6288748 quote:A Qantas jumbo jet has made history, landing at a regional airport in New South Wales to become the first 747-400 in the world to go on public display. A different story on how it was planned: http://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/how-qantas-plans-to-land-a-boeing-747-near-wollongong-20150305-13vuyq.html drunkill fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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110 return trips to the moon sounds like an awful lot. What plane has the highest record for mileage?
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Inacio posted:110 return trips to the moon sounds like an awful lot. What plane has the highest record for mileage? Probably a B-52 or E-3. (Russia wasn't as big on 24/7 flying alerts)
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