Non-Military Aviation

[dodint]

Neat. I don't have the time, money, or testicular fortitude to fly anything I've built myself.

[count2infinity]

Neat. I don't have the time, money, or testicular fortitude to fly anything I've built myself.

That was my first thought... imagine that first flight of something that you built. Terrifying.

[NTP66]

Neat. I don't have the time, money, or testicular fortitude to fly anything I've built myself.

That was my first thought... imagine that first flight of something that you built. Terrifying.

I wouldn’t go more than 10’ off the ground.

[dodint]

Just get a balloon with a short tether.

Speaking of, I've been invited on a balloon trip in July out near Philly. I'm not sure I can deal with being suspended in a wicker basket below a sack full of hot air.

[Shyster]

I wouldn't have a problem buying a kit aircraft that I'd built, like something from Vans, which has sold thousands of kits. But of course that's very different from flying an aircraft that you also designed yourself.

[dodint]

Vans, as in, the bankrupt Vans?

[Shyster]

Well yeah, but a lot of GA manufacturers have gone bankrupt at some point. Beechcraft went BK, Piper went BK multiple times, Mooney went BK and is no longer manufacturing, Columbia went BK and was bought by Textron and made part of Cessna, etc. Even Cessna and Cirrus might have gone BK in the past if they hadn't been bought by General Dynamics and then Textron (for Cessna) and by Bahrain and then the Chinese government (for Cirrus).

[shafnutz05]

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 024-05-21/

Keep your seat belts buckled kids. Never ceases to amaze me how many idiots unbuckle the second the light comes off and just sit there.

Buckle up. That is the message from flight attendants and pilots following the severe turbulence encountered by a Singapore Airlines (SIAL.SI), opens new tab flight on Tuesday that resulted in the death of one passenger and injured dozens of others.
The London-to-Singapore flight hit heavy turbulence over the Indian Ocean and descended 6,000 feet (around 1,800 meters) in about three minutes, before an emergency landing in Bangkok

[tifosi77]

Pilots for all flights should just be authorized once every flight hour to randomly push the yoke forward unannounced. Maybe work out like a secret handshake type deal with cabin crew so they aren't the ones caught unawares. Bang a few people off the overhead bulkheads once in a while.

[LITT]

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 024-05-21/

Keep your seat belts buckled kids. Never ceases to amaze me how many idiots unbuckle the second the light comes off and just sit there.

Buckle up. That is the message from flight attendants and pilots following the severe turbulence encountered by a Singapore Airlines (SIAL.SI), opens new tab flight on Tuesday that resulted in the death of one passenger and injured dozens of others.
The London-to-Singapore flight hit heavy turbulence over the Indian Ocean and descended 6,000 feet (around 1,800 meters) in about three minutes, before an emergency landing in Bangkok

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9xx5pj095jo

[tifosi77]

So, important to note

- The passenger died of heart attack (e.g. scurred to death);

- For most/nearly all of us the worst turbulence we've ever experienced would still be classed as 'moderate' and the aircraft altitude changed by less than 10' with any given bump.

[LITT]

Singapore’s Transport Safety Investigation Bureau has released its preliminary report on flight #SQ321, which encountered extreme turbulence. The “recorded vertical acceleration decreased from +ve 1.35G to negative (-ve) 1.5G, within 0.6 sec” https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/1-de ... urbulence/