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Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them

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Post by kingaillas »

hazeii wrote: post #454
IgorPartola wrote: post #393

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This one is scary to me, as a motorcycle rider. The other one that’s not fun: some motorcycles have two separate headlights on the front (low and high beams) and can be wired so that both can be on at once. What are you looking at? A car that’s really far away or a motorcycle that’s really close? Please watch out for motorcyclists. The blindness people have for us is astonishing. And terrifying.

I've had that on a bicycle. The bike had two small side by side halogens on the handlebars, I was on a main road when a car pulled straight out of a side turning and into the side of me. I released afterwards he'd glanced down the road, seen two small lights and assumed it was a car far enough away for him to pull out. On motorbikes I've had drivers in side roads look me in the eye and then pull out. On occasion I've…

>it's always "Sorry mate I didn't see you".

Ah, the SMIDSY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqQBubilSXU&t=387s

That video covers the optical illusion that leads to it and what motorcycles can do.

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Post by amelius »

gala8y wrote: post #260
peeters wrote: post #69

Took me a while to find on LiveATC as this wasn't actually on the Tower frequency, but here is the full feed: http://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX-Final-Aug-31-202... . At 5:23. Unfortunately their web player is not linkable, but this is the KLAX North/South Final Approach feed ( https://www.liveatc.net/archive.php?m=klax6 ) from Aug 31, 0130-0200 UTC.

"Only in LA." at 6:15.

Some of these guy's videos have been taken in Dubai, even one where he flies next to a commercial plane.

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Post by Filligree »

oh_sigh wrote: post #155
mamon wrote: post #94

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>> falling hundreds of feet into water is more survivable than hundreds of feet into earth or concrete. No, not really - hitting watter as damaging as hitting concrete once you get above 100 feet high. But at least you're not going to kill an unlucky pederastian by falling on them.

The world record for cliff diving is 192', so I'm sure there is some special way you can enter the water, if not safely, at least more safely than entering land.

Probably not if you're also wearing a jetpack. It'll rip you in half.

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

mrpopo wrote: post #401
ckocagil wrote: post #110

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All sorts of transportation are very fragile. Everyone with a driver's license is trusted with operating tons of steel that can move at enormous speeds. Society's based on some amount of mutual trust. We can't lock everything down and treat every person as a potential criminal. That leads to an inefficient and dystopian country.

If you have ever cycled on a national road, you know that this "mutual trust" fades away rather quickly in favor of "I can save 1 min and probably will avoid killing this guy if I accelerate right now".

Cyclists need not be involved. Just this morning on my way in to work I watched an SUV overtake me, decide they also needed to pass the guy in front of me, and accelerate up a hill in the wrong lane, not coming back into the correct lane until after cresting it. I later passed them as they waited to turn right at the next stoplight. People are just crazy stupid sometimes.

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Post by taneq »

iso947 wrote: post #449
sizzle wrote: post #443

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How heavy of a battery would you need to power these with enough electricity to lift an adult human, think like a drone on steroids...

Lift for how long? https://www.tmotoruavdrone.com/product-detail/48968207323300... Looks like the motor you need. 25KW

And you'd need four of those, I'd guess... so 100kW or so.

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Post by cglace »

mstade wrote: post #310
cglace wrote: post #247

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You often confuse motorcycles for cars?

At night, sure. Many times I've met a car with a broken headlight, only realizing it's not a motorcycle as we're passing. I don't know if this happened at night, but visibility can be reduced for other reasons as well.

Well yeah, when you remove 99% of the visual information it can be hard to tell if it's a motorcycle.

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Post by t0mas88 »

aaronmdjones wrote: post #436
t0mas88 wrote: post #433

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Autothrottle is not in speed mode for any transport category airplane on takeoff. You set a thrust demand and it maintains that. The V2 speed is achieved by pitching for that specific airspeed, followed by an acceleration phase and flap retraction schedule if necessary. Source: I'm a commercial pilot

Yes, that's depicted in the video I linked (THR REF is thrust mode). I didn't mean to imply that the autothrottle will only stay at V2 speed, but rather that the automation won't go below it.

But that's my point, automation doesn't hold V2 for you. On engine failure during takeoff you immediately disconnect the autopilot, then manually stabilize the yaw with rudder, adjust thrust and retract gear (and flaps in steps). Then manually fly the climb at V2 speed. All the automation does is indicate the correct speed on the PFD speedtape to help you decide what to do.

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Post by parineum »

rmccue wrote: post #121
martinflack wrote: post #76

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Incidentally, do pilots say left and right? They don't have a special word (port / starboard) like naval vessels?

They say left and right as others have noted, but the main boarding doors on planes are supposedly on the left for the same reason the left is called the “port”. It appears to be a relic of the flying boat era of aviation.

Doesn't it serve the same purpose, to keep boats/planes going the same direction in the (air)port?

It seems less like a relic and more like applying an already found solution to the same problem.

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Post by dvtrn »

bewaretheirs wrote: post #258
garmaine wrote: post #183

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It falls flat because people eat chicken for breakfast too..

when used rhetorically it's usually with an explicit context of "bacon & eggs" or "ham & eggs"

Wait but what if I’m eating oyakodon with some crumbled bacon on top?

/kidding, I know this is an absurd stretch of the terms, appreciate all the explanations.

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Post by tim333 »

hutzlibu wrote: post #442
mehrdadn wrote: post #311

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You might like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-Iwv5NJKg

I did. www.jetman.com has more infos But nothing on the actual jetpack, like how the engine works. But here they actually fly next to a jet. So maybe it was those guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc&feature=emb_rel_...

There's a how the engine works / is made video here https://youtu.be/oYpG0HDcFsA which I think is a similar model to the Jetcat P400 Wikipedia says the jetpack uses.
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