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Surely sounds suspicious - like his buddy flying overhead just at the time of the trouble - hummi
Now, for recreational flying - NEVER fly out over water to a point where you can’t glide to shore. That’s just common sense - right?
Surely sounds suspicious - like his buddy flying overhead just at the time of the trouble - hummi
Now, for recreational flying - NEVER fly out over water to a point where you can’t glide to shore. That’s just common sense - right?
Self-described social media daredevil = attention-seeking narcissist _______ ! (fill-in the blank with your favorite disparaging adjective)
Wait! This settles it. I believe him.
“I have a perfectly good second aircraft that I am selling that if I was going to crash, I would have crashed my old airplane,” he continued. “None of it makes sense. I would not have risked my life to get a 1,000 Instagram followers.” David Lesh
Interview with the pilot and the pilot of the second plane. He doesn’t strike me as smart enough to stage the ditching. https://youtu.be/MgQAiG3pQis
Insurer: “so, you stated that you found metal in the fuel, before launching for an over-water flight”? Pilot: “yeah, but that’s normal… hey, where are you going”?
See, you don’t need a BRS to survive a crash, off field landing, ditching or whatever. They’re such a waste of useful load and money. The guy survived and that’s all that matters. Right? LOL
What a hero? Leaves his passenger treading water while he goes up in the helicopter. Real captains take care of their passengers first (e.g.; Tammie Jo shults and Chesley Sullenberger.)
A bit off topic, but watching YouTube coverage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQAiG3pQis) I was smacked upside the head by the generation gap – no, make that generation chasm – between my 50 plus years and these folk who came along a measly 30 years or so later.
Two points:
Obsessively pointing a video device at one’s own face while commenting blithely on every thought that crosses one’s self-absorbed little mind through the whole experience. In my day, that would have been evidence of a glaring lack of proper modesty.
You’re a man, a pilot, and the captain of your ship, and you took the rescue basket up to the heli before you female passenger?!!?!! And you explained (on camera, while taking the basket ride) that you needed to go first because you were tolerating the cold water worse than her skinny little body?!? And you were able to do this because you were still physically functional enough to operate a camera pointed at your mug while holding forth on your need to go first?!? In my day, you would have hung your head in shame, turned in your man card and your pilot card and found a hole somewhere to hide in, out of the public view!
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Noticing more of this “daring do” click bait online. Hope it passes soon. Can’t end well.
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I believe Mr. Ego, and his co-enablers have overestimated the USCG, NTSB, FAA, CalEPA, (pick an agency) sense of humor. I found video from an Aviation YouTuber who is interviewing these guys, still in their wet cloths while rolling video of the actual ditching taken by the airplane above. Conspiracy.
Please keep us posted.
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Yes they are Raf., says Paul.
I think birds should have parachutes too. They are the in thing you know.
No s___.
What baffled me was that his girlfriend kept laughing and smiling every time she was on screen. There was no sense of concern at all. Seemed like a planned event.
Just a modest request, folks. Please do express your opinion, but please don’t resort to name calling. Thanks.
–The Management
I’m sure his insurance company will fight this for a LOOOOONG time.
FYI - Per Garmin: For experimental planes, Smart Glide is supported natively within the ‘G3X Touch Display for Experimental Aircraft’ without the need for a GTN TXi navigator.
Yep, the B-21 will be “optionally manned” https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15902/document-confirms-b-21-to-be-delivered-optionally-manned-and-nuclear-capable