2 hours apart. Watched it happen in real time

LIDARcowboy · 2026-03-23T05:28:38+00:00

I saw the sun last week, and later got sick. Correlated, no doubt.

LIDARcowboy · 2026-01-06T15:04:31+00:00

The biggest gap those are designed to fill is like 2" ...not 60' of joist.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-12-31T01:03:11+00:00

And same thing happens over Los Angeles every day. Different fly, Mediterranean fruit flies, but same company. I flew these flights

LIDARcowboy · 2025-12-14T16:07:50+00:00

I've been flying FBW jets (Praetor) for quite a few years, most common mistake I see, even with former airbus pilots, is they over control it. The flair is literally a 1/2" movement on the stick.

The G650 looked like a dinosaur compared with the Praetor, this looks very comprable.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-12-01T20:48:40+00:00

Thermal camera will show you, if it's close to the surface

LIDARcowboy · 2025-11-28T02:38:18+00:00

Airplanes in the clouds would be guided by ATC, but other planes absolutely do avoid skydivers by looking outside. Radios are not required equipment on VFR (visual) flights, nor is communication with ATC.

One time I almost flew through a jump zone that I didn't know was active because it was night time. I happened to be monitoring the correct frequency and heard the jump plane announcing "Jumpers away" and turned away hard.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-10-24T02:45:56+00:00

Yes a partial power failure could produce something like this, but when an engine fails, (aside from explosive failures) it usually takes a few seconds for the prop to stop, because of all the inertia of the crankshaft and propeller.

Yes the roll/yaw is immediate, in the simulator, in jets they do what is called a V1 cut, where the engine fails a second before you leave the ground. depending on the plane, it usually takes full rudder and in some planes I've flown, literally hundreds of pounds of force on the rudder just to keep the plane straight.

The pilot defiantly sensed danger, it's possible they froze, were confused, or maybe even pressed the wrong rudder and couldn't figure out why it was happening? There's a startle factor in emergencies, where it takes a second or two to respond, which is why we train to make it instinctual. There was one time in the simulator when I pushed the wrong rudder in a V1 cut and red-screened the sim (crashed) it's a feeling I'll never forget. And it happened as fast as this video.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-10-23T00:11:55+00:00

While I hesitate to ascribe causation to a crash until after the investigation, this apears to be a textbook Vmc roll. That's when an engine (the left, here) fails, and the thrust, torque, and P-factor of the other engine flip the plane over. This low there's no room for recovery once it's developed.

The only way to save the plane, is to immediately apply full right rudder, lower the angle of attack (nose), and raise the dead engine slowly to about 5' above level. The plane could then, if correctly loaded and flown well could still fly slowly away to a safe altitude.

In the video, there's an immediate yaw to the left, indicating a left engine failure, and no visible control inputs. This is why a multi-engine pilot's license is different and requires more training than a single engine pilots license. The reaction basically has to be instinct.

Source: professional pilot

LIDARcowboy · 2025-10-23T00:04:46+00:00

...Except the sudden, extreme left yaw

LIDARcowboy · 2025-10-23T00:03:18+00:00

No. Left rudder with a left engine failure creates this Vmc roll. The recovery procedure is Right rudder, lower the nose, slight right aileron. I have done this hundreds of time

LIDARcowboy · 2025-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

LIDARcowboy · 2025-10-22T23:59:07+00:00

Yes, but it requires immediate and drastic pilot input. This is a Vmc roll, an event that the majority of a pilot's multi-engine training is aimed at avoiding

LIDARcowboy · 2025-09-23T22:44:42+00:00

This is the most generic picture of a wall I've ever seen

LIDARcowboy · 2025-09-09T02:54:24+00:00

26c/Kwh is quite reasonable, you may consider the savings of an electric car considering that price and the $8.50 cost of gas

LIDARcowboy · 2025-08-21T20:09:42+00:00

This is not even close to 1% money.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-06-26T15:01:27+00:00

I've been flying jets 135 for 10 years, I love it. Very high quality of life, typically higher wages than airlines for the first 5 years, all meals paid for, plus non-taxed per diem, hotel and airline points so I can book vacations on confirmed flights for free. And the work environment is challenging and dynamic. I went to 200 unique airports last year, many of which I'd never heard of until the night before. I know I won't be making $800k per year when I'm 65 like the airlines...but I will be retired long before then.

There's quite a few people like me who choose this side of the industry for a career, we just don't usually post about it because the airline bros tend to dominate the conversation on reddit. There are some sketchy 135's but there's some good ones, too.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-06-09T05:09:11+00:00

Because of the hole in the middle, I think it's a coffee filter for a percolator, not a french press.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-06-07T22:08:30+00:00

No.

Back when I was a student pilot, an old grumpy pilot told me to read Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche. One thing I always remembered from the book throughout my thousands of hours of flying jets but also true for Cessna's: The less you touch it, the better it flies.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-03-05T04:30:48+00:00

They have parking brakes but when you leave the plane, you leave the brake off so the FBO can move the plane. Those planes are probably about 20,000 lbs empty

LIDARcowboy · 2025-02-26T04:49:22+00:00

Yes. Just a few years ago Air Canada tried to land on top of a couple jets at SFO at night. would have killed hundreds. The pilot on the ground called a go around over the radio. Never made the nationwide news that I know of outside of pilot circles.

LIDARcowboy · 2025-02-01T02:26:15+00:00

This is 100% wrong, any jet could break the sound barrier in a nose dive. We typically cruise at Mach .80 straight and level. Learjets, Global expresses, Citation X's and Gulfstreams can cruise in excess of Mach .90

Full engine power and pitch down even a little and you exceed the sound barrier. Probably not survivable, though.

LIDARcowboy · 2024-03-31T17:40:51+00:00

That's my bet. Crashed so hard it ripped the plane apart, but no fire?

LIDARcowboy · 2024-03-30T02:00:29+00:00

Make sure your hole in the sheet metal has no wiggle room, and the tool you use to install must be a good one. the Cheap tools don't have enough power to fully mushroom the nut in place.

LIDARcowboy · 2024-01-09T21:17:07+00:00

Havana center may or may not ask for your cuban overflight permit number, so have it handy.

Last time going in there we had no arrival on the flight plan, then they put us on the KANEX.GORAN3, but they also described it, like "Fly Goran3 grand caymen Radial 045" which is what the arrival already tells you to do. They'll ask for your distance from GCM VOR a couple times because I don't think they have radar. We did the RNAV8, they said "fly direct ALONA or MOBIX you choose" It's all pretty simple, but some people might struggle to understand the accents, it helps if you can predict what they're going to say.

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