If something attached to an airplane can’t handle a pilot giving it a firm tug on preflight than it definitely can’t handle the aerodynamic or G-forces imposed on the object during flight. I haven’t been flying long but I’ve already prevented a few things from falling off the aircraft because I give things a firm tug…

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Pproperly done, a barrel roll is at most a 2G maneuver.  Any commercial aircraft can handle that kind of loading with NO issues.  

Erm, not quite. They’re extremely dangerous on takeoff and landing because as you fly into it, your airspeed dramatically increases and then dramatically decreases as you fly into the portion that has a tailwind. You can go from having plenty of airspeed to having none and then you fall out of the sky like a brick. …

It would be a cool addition to a mancave but I’d never want to sit in one for a long period of time. It would be hard to design a more uncomfortable seat if you tried.

How many autorotations have you done? It happens QUICK, especially if you’re at the typical altitude that most helicopters fly at. I can guarantee that there wasn’t enough time to correct the issue with the fuel shutoff switch and conduct a restart before the helicopter was hitting the water (that’s assuming that he…

Secure that common sense...don’t you know that facts can’t get in the way of lazy journalism and OUTRAGE!?!?!

You’re a gentleman and a scholar.

Guilty as charged. PAR is as good as it gets (all you’ve gotta do is listen to the controller), TACAN approaches are like a VOR except you don’t use timing because the cone of confusion is larger than that of a VOR.

The GPS was a treat that was usually reserved for cross countries. Otherwise it was death by TACAN/VOR/ILS/PAR. Ironically enough, the aircraft I fly now is far less capable in an IFR role than anything I flew prior to winging. We’re not legal to fly using the GPS as our primary source of navigation!

My instructor looked at me like I was high when I said I wanted to shoot the NDB approach into an airport in Mobile. I did it just so I could say I did it.

The level of ignorance in your statement is astounding. I don’t even know where to begin. Suffice to say, any pilot who crashes because they are too lazy to check the NOTAMS and too incompetent to realize their GPS isn’t working properly (and rely on it to that degree) have no business being anywhere near an…

Any “pilot” who can’t fly without GPS has no business flying. This will have minimal impact on commercial aviation because they can use VORs for en route navigation and shoot the ILS at their destination. Yeah, they’ll have to think a little more because it’s not as simple as just following the magenta line, but…

Helicopter pilot here. There’s a few reasons why lasers are so dangerous. First, depending on the strength/wavelength, the laser can cause flash blindness and/or permanent damage to the eyeball (obviously both are undesirable). Second, it almost always makes it nearly impossible to see any of your instruments (when…

Dude, you’re flat out wrong. I drove cars with far less than 200 hp nearly the entire time I lived in San Diego and I never had problems on the freeway. Unless you’re immediately darting all the way into the fast lane while merging, this car is plenty fast.

I was talking about this at work today. Combine a horrifically shittastic computer that’s been “upgraded” with windows 10 (making an already slow computer even slower) and the godawful software that the government is stupid enough to buy (and inflict on its end users) and you have a recipe for this kind of this. The…

That’s not true. We get a significant amount of simulator time but thankfully we get more hours in the actual aircraft. The simulator is a great procedure trainer, as far as flying goes, it’s a poor substitute.

This is anything but a demonstration of skilled piloting. The hamfisted ape at the controls came a hair away from going off-roading and had that happened it would have been entirely his/her fault.

Really? Because every time I’ve received training they’ve said the exact opposite.

Unless you’re in a critical phase of flight it’s not dangerous at all (unless the pilot is a moron and the kid has retard strength). Don’t be such a drama queen.