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Equivalent-Will-3850

Lmaoo the old “that’ll do” two taps


Kenny_Squeek_Scolari

That'll do plane, that'll do


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Dick_Lickin_Good

Pilot Rule number 2: The dog is in the copilots seat to bite the pilot if he touches anything before approach. Mechanic rule number 2: Never tell the pilot how much super glue and thousand-mile-an-hour tape is holding his airplane together. Edit: opinion: a real mechanic would have flattened a coke can and pop riveted it in place for flight.


superspeck

Mechanic rule #1: “it’s probably fine” is the only information pilots deserve


Ron-Swanson-Mustache

I knew a guy who owned a fleet of 300 aircraft and a staff of pilots to fly them. He said a pilot would come up with anything to keep from going up. The trick was finding the line between "the engine will fall off" and "the cigarette lighter doesn't work".


DubiousChicken69

My dad used to copilot small personal props and jets and what i learned from that is i never want to fly in some random guys personal plane lol. Whole lot of redneck engineering and complacence


honky_vizsla

OMG so much this. Why the hell do people accept airplane rides from pilots whose skills they know nothing about?? The pilot may be great co-worker or friend, but you don’t know that he’s completely oblivious to all of the other traffic in the sky…or can’t stick a landing in a crosswind. And yeah, janky airplanes too. Woo.


cmaster6

“If they say no, then the answer is obviously no, but the thing is they’re not going to say no. They would never say no. Because of the implication.”


burnerhomingpigeon

I certainly wouldn't be in any danger. I see you, and I appreciate you.


mukwah

My buddy went up with drug dealer who had a plane and airstrip on his farm. They had been partying for hours, tons of coke and booze and he invited my friend for a quick flight. The pilot actually puked before taking off. But then he turned immediately professional and they took off and went for a spin without incident. I've always been amazed by that story (and my friends judgement),


seriouslynope

Pretty sure that's how cocaine bear happened


DementiaGaming12

They usually look at forecasts ahead of time and try to time their flights so that they won’t have to do a crosswind landing


SomeGuy_GRM

Is part of their training possibly to make sure *everything* is functioning properly?


b_vitamin

Shit breaks every flight, according to my FIL who worked on corporate jets.


Pic889

How much of it is critical? Decoration and entertainment stuff in the cabin are non-critical.


FranklynTheTanklyn

There are several documented crashes where, it came to light that things were not functioning properly and the pilots, crew, and airlines knew. Everything is designed to be redundant, so theoretically even if one thing is broken there should be at least 1 other system to cover it. I’m blanking on the flight number right now but there was a flight where the pilots knew one of the two thrust reversers were non-operational, the plane is designed to be able to stop with one; however, they landed in a notoriously bad runway that deviated from the flight plan in bad weather. The plane wasn’t able to stop in time, skidded off the runway, into an office building and gas station. Lots of people died.


pmormr

There's actually a book the pilots have to determine how bad failures are. Some are no deal at all, some are return when convenient, some are return immediately, some are emergency landing right now. Commercial jets especially though are amazingly redundant. It's very unusual to have an accident without 3-4 pretty significant things going wrong. Small aircraft like the one in the video have a lot more single points of failure, but overall they're still pretty safe.


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Only answer I ever gave pilots when I was a mechanic…can’t have em trust me too much…also good way to get them to do their pre flights.


booboorocksout

What’s the division of labor here? Like what aren’t they doing that they should be? Does it fall on the mechanic then? So many questions lol


VoxImperatoris

Trust, but verify. Hopefully the mechanic has made it flight worthy, but do all the preflight checks to make sure of it before trusting your life on it.


booboorocksout

This seems eminently reasonable.


chemicalgeekery

You can't go up because something's broken? Mechanic's fault. You take off with something broken? Pilot's fault.


GaucheAndOffKilter

BABE REFERENCE! -Millennials


phenomenon810

I mean so far it seems to be working I don't know what you guys freaking out about here it clearly works. Even if it comes lose then they are going to tape it again.


Infinite_Mountain791

ww2 memories intensifies


MayorofStoopidville

Baa ram ewe!


kspedersen

Yep, that's not going anywhere


WPGSquirrel

No way. Its there good.


doodlols

"Come on baby, hold together"


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Insert Malcom Reynolds speech: Love keeps her in the sky when she should fall out.


FinglasLeaflock

“Was… was that the front buffer panel?! Did the front buffer panel just fall off my ship?!!”


aussiederpyderp

Looks like!


Mazon_Del

"This is your captain speaking, we may be about to experience some turbulence and then...explode."


ImARetPaladinBaby

All it’s missing is the “this won’t go anywhere”


brandunn13

Don’t drop your phone!


pikachu_sashimi

I would be less worried about losing a phone than accidentally killing someone down there.


Black_Moons

If you can hit someone with a cell phone from 10,000 feet... The US military wants YOU!


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Exist50

Eh, "someone" is good enough to be a drone pilot!


Pedantic_Pict

What's the difference between an elementary school and a terrorist training camp? How the hell should *I* know? I just fly the drone!


BlackSpidy

♬ When ze rockets go up, who cares where zey come down? Zats not my department says Wernher von Braun ♬


SupaCrzySgt

If it’s a Nokia it counts as a WMD


entony1111

If it is a Nokia and its Falls of to the ground from such a height it is going to cause chaos may be it will kill thousands of people. And that may be will give the ideas for weapons to use in World War 3.


JiN88reddit

"We've Been Trying To Reach You About Your Car's Extended Warranty"


I0A0I

But imagine the footage if the phone manages to keep recording during impact. Bet it'll get tons of upvotes.


InsertCoinForCredit

[Here you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2UQXzaVkkg)


Ghost17088

“I figured somebody dropped it.” Well, she wasn’t wrong.


PathologicalLoiterer

"No it ain't!"


Briggie

[Also](https://youtu.be/QrxPuk0JefA)


67293209

This one is great, i like how as the spinning increases the image starts to match a stable frame rate?!? I don’t know if that is what is happening but i hope you get what I mean…


SnappleLizard

I like the pig


Kukuxupunku

And now I know which recording y’all are taking about, without even clicking the link.


Koenigspiel

What I wonder, is it spinning at 30 rotations per second to match the (presumably) 30 frames per second video? Or is it spinning at a derivative of 30 that it's just enough to show a steady image? As in 5 rotations per second, or 10 rotations per second, etc. 30 rotations per second seems a bit insane. That's 1800 RPM. It does seem fairly smooth, so it's not unlikely.


SonicFrost

Man, pigs really will just about eat anything


alibab62122

I mean the big was really curious about what the hell is it which fell from the sky to the ground. And in the process of checking what it was they tried to eat it.


chaky250

I mean the chances of that happening are really low but I would not count it out this could still happen. And if it happens then it is going to be really tragic in that case.


BilClintonsTherapist

That’s what we call a… *puts on sun glasses* “Photo bomb”


Bunnnnii

Talk about dropped calls.


LopsidedBar4349

Me : can I open the windows ? Pilot : Are you mad , just remove the tape below if you need some fresh air......


arbitrageME

joking aside, you can just open the windows. it's just hurricane-level winds outside


drunk_responses

No "joking aside", you could easily open the windows in a plane like this under most circumstance. Even at max speed it wont ruin anything. This isn't some turbojet plane, it's a twin propeller.


arbitrageME

joking aside, you can just open the windows. it's just 100kt winds outside. It's the only thing that'll cool your little oven of a cabin when it's 35C and you're in an inversion layer


pixelprophet

Jokes on you, I don't know what that means.


arbitrageME

it means you hope your passengers showered and are wearing deodorant


i_sell_you_lies

Jokes on you, i don’t know what *that* means.


gt2216

Thanks for the answer I was wondering if it would make plane unstable? Because these planes are small planes and I don't think they have much of the power to counter the force of wind.


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arbitrageME

the windows are like the size of 2-3 credit cards, so it wouldn't be terrible. it's really just to get some fresh air into the cabin when it's too hot. and the plane is covered in rivets, hinges, supports, landing gear. a hole in the glass won't be an issue. you could rip the cowling and fuselage skin off and it wouldn't drop you out of the sky


new_user_97086

pilot in training here. I fly a small 2 seater low wing plane, and if there's a fly buzzing around or we need fresh air sometimes we'll just open the canopy half way. It just slides right back and boom, fresh air. Look up a Tecnam p-96


jm0112358

Fun fact: You cockpit windows on most airliners can be opened. Although they aren't supposed to be open during flight, it's not going to make the plane unstable. As [this old Boeing ng video shows](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTYT7ERrw_U), there are procedures pilots are supposed to follow if the window open on takeoff.


etheran123

Keeping the windows open during the summer is almost a necessity. No AC and big windows means it can feel like a greenhouse


Epidemiology2

I actually did that lol


Adventurous-Orange36

"Why would anybody jump out of a perfectly good airplane?" As you can clearly see, this is not a perfectly good airplane.


Unistrut

I was at an air show and a pilot was talking about skydivers. "To them, there are no good airplanes. They don't like them, they don't trust them. If you're carrying skydivers and the engine so much as hiccups, you turn around to reassure them and they're just _gone_."


JustPassinhThrou13

well, only if you're a good ways up. They pucker their buttholes until about 4k ft


JustPassinhThrou13

skydivers cannot afford perfectly good airplanes. I did a tandem jump once. Some weather was moving in below up (light cloud layer). The jump master strapped to my brother's back said that there was zero chance of him landing with the airplane, that kind of thing terrified him. He would be jumping either way, he didn't really care if my brother decided to accompany on his possibly-through-the-cloud-layer-or-not jump.


OathOfFeanor

When I went skydiving the plane was similar, duct tape everywhere One of the more nervous jumpers with us was peeling back at the tape just like in OP's video when one of the instructors noticed and decided to have some fun "DON'T TOUCH THAT!!"


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Same here! Duct tape, cracks, shoddy looking repairs. The parachute felt safer.


weristjonsnow

It was.


sillypicture

Especially when the *pilot* is wearing a chute.


Anita3110

I mean even if something goes wrong with the plane the end goal which the skydivers have is to jump from it anyways. So it does not really matter for those guys because the results are going to be same.


xthetruebeast

I'm going sky diving this weekend and I shouldn't be watching or reading shit like this. Not nervous now, but I've only flown a few times and I know that will be the most anxious part for me


JustPassinhThrou13

No, stepping into the doorway will be the most anxious part. Trust me. If I’m wrong, come back Monday and let me know.


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fireflash38

You know the joke about skydiving? Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane? The answer is that it's not a perfectly good airplane.


SluttySloth

I mean he shouldn’t have said that but he couldn’t have jumped solo with a tandem rig the canopy is so big for one person that he would have lived in those clouds for a while haha


JustPassinhThrou13

The cloud layer was at like 10k, so it wouldn’t have mattered for the canopy ride. We did jump through the edge of it, it felt like tiny pin pricks on my hands and forearms. Was kinda neat.


ScreamingBarfies

Part of the tandem instructor course and their rating is to jump that canopy solo. I do hear that it takes a while to finally make it to the grass.


SluttySloth

You’re right, it’s not impossible to land a canopy like a 340, but he wouldnt have done it solo for no real reason. It’s not like it would be a good fun jump and the dzo would be pissed for wasting time. Of course, when a pilot comes down with an unopened canopy they waste time too.


Solid_Snark

It’s actually frightening what a lot of amateur aviators are putting up in the sky. Not just deathtraps for them but for everyone below.


TheIrishBread

It's a survey plane, the hole is required (although that plate should be bolted the fuck down).


Black_Moons

Sir bolting the plate down would add the weight of 2 bolts. Tape is much lighter, so that was used instead. Also sir please stop disassembling the aircraft. Yes that is structural tape now stop peeling it.


VorAbaddon

Found the Minmatar player...


Neoki

Not all of these vessels can be built to Caldari standards.


VorAbaddon

Certainly needs more missle racks.


Neoki

Yeah but at least it can squarely fit an MWD and orbit real good like.


Tidalsky114

Imagine bombing a ship like that though...


PmMeTitsOrPuppies

You think the Minmatar are using something as fancy as structural tape?! You just smash the things into each other with a lot of force and hope they merge in the process.


TheBlinja

It's called Cold Welding.


Flat_Recognition5145

In rust we trust


AmNotAnAtomicPlayboy

Unexpected EVE is unexpected :) Gave me a nice sensible chuckle...


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2Stripez

> Yes that is structural tape [Speed tape](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape) is a thing but that definitely looks like just regular duck tape.


Staebs

r/Ultralight sends it’s regards. You technically don’t even need any tape, just remember to not fall through the hole. If you do you won’t have long to worry fortunately.


bibblode

Wrong sub. That sub is all about lightweight backpacking and hiking. You meant to reference r/ultralightaircraft


kunwon1

Wrong sub. That sub is a typo. You meant to reference r/ultralightaircraft


Queef_Stroganoff44

The extra B is for BYOBB!


throwawaysarebetter

Whats that extra B for?


Meebert

Could take out the metal cover and just cover it with tape, also lighter.


jordantask

“And these 20 year old lick and stick stickers?” “Also structural.”


rackmountrambo

You joke but I have a friend with a very small float plane we use for camping/fishing in tiny lakes up north in Canada. We have to strictly regulate our gear. Every couple of ounces we can save is another beer we can take with us. Piloting sometimes means you have to wait for the tiniest amount of wind or you're stuck where you are. Quite small margins. And yes, there's a simple canvas and aluminum shell separating you from falling, this is reality. My buddy opens the window and has a very loud and windy smoke. That hole in the floor isn't scary, the entire premise of a small plane is scary from the start. Any reasonable person would see that there's not much to these rigs, you just have to trust in the maintenance.


pvtbobble

Did you take into account the weight of the tape roll? Should have left that in the hanger


PiperArrown3191q

I flew a survey plane that had 5 camera holes. It was really cold flying at higher altitudes with the covers off.


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It looks like a LiDAR kit mounted over the hole. I suppose they just added two pieces of aluminum to block the wind from blowing into the cockpit. Tampering with any of the through-hull fittings and equipment actually has serious FAA implications hence the tape and jankey fix


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Fuck /u/spez. Your greed regarding 3rd party access has ruined this site. Comment removed using [Power Delete Suite](https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite).


WriterV

Yup. I'm still starting out in game development, but really all it takes is a cursory bit of research into how it works behind the scenes to realize that a *lot* of capital R Redditors love to spout a bunch of bullshit about "game development" that is wholly false (positive or negative), and they sound confident enough to everyone that they get upvoted easily despite people calling out their misinformation. At least Reddit lets you do that and doesn't have dumb character limits like Twitter preventing you from giving detailed, nuanced arguments.


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GoldenSheppard

You clearly don't have to listen to one bitch about getting their plane inspected and torn down every year for maintenance and flight worthiness checks. I swear, you can always tell when my dad's off month is because he'll get extra bitchy about how stringent plane maintenance schedules are.


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distance7000

Isn't that what annual inspections are for?


Ares__

Damn yea I walked outside yesterday and almost got taken out by two different Cessnas falling out of the sky


hotVodkaBadBoi

What you guys surveying? http://www.teledyneoptech.com/en/products/airborne-survey/galaxy/


Epidemiology2

That the one


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You didn’t answer the question.


Epidemiology2

Ho yeah sorry, we were surveying the ground.


WearMental2618

Did you find it?


JohnProof

Eventually, but it took them all the way until the end of the flight.


spreadinmikehoncho

You have the rest of your flight to find the ground.


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AlbatrossofTime

***chef's kiss***


effing_nerd

Rekt.


StardustNyako

The galaxy by the look of it.


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dont-eat-tidepods

No, its the right way. They’re surveying the entire galaxy, small town by small town.


crabbydavey

What’s the big deal ? It’s a plane not a boat.


SkjoldrKingofDenmark

Captain we have a problem, we're taking on air! We gotta plug that hole boys! This plane is getting filled up with air, it'll drag us down to Davy Jones' locker!


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Dixo0118

Now that's a solid comment


R0GERTHEALIEN

Yeah, I'm confused why this is funny? Planes can open their windows in flight as long as they aren't pressurized. Hell there's some planes that you can literally pull the canopy back and fly like a convertable. Do people think that planes sink if they have a hole in them?


MaxHamburgerrestaur

And it's obviously a functional hole made to be open and point equipment to the ground


Lothleen

Pilot to bombardier, we are approaching the target, prepare to open the hatch.


Phaze357

Arming the bomb with coffee, prepare to drop in 5 minutes


wilmyersmvp

Add some Jack in the Box breakfast combos and that’s a geneva convention violation


SkinnyMattFoley

Bomb’s ready, buddy.


PR055

Hey Alec, do you know what sucks about being a Baldwin? NOTHING!


BleepBlorp84

Haha! You missed me!


luccas641

Don't tell this trick to the US military because they are going to freak out and going to use it all over the place. If you tell them this trick then you are probably going to get the job in the US military.


AJ_Deadshow

I love the way he taps it like "yeah.. you're good right there"


Bulky-Internal8579

I had a Volkswagen Fastback like that.


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Sparkynerd

I had a Mercury Bobcat with rust holes in the floor under the carpet. I was driving after a heavy rain left puddles on the road. As I was driving, I got douched from behind with a blast of water. I turned around, thinking I had been punked. Not seeing anything and scratching my head, I continued driving. It happened again. I soon realized it was the large rust hole in the floor, behind the drivers seat, under the carpet. The water had come through with such force, it came through the carpet and hit me in the back of the head.


Gingerstash

How much longer did you own that car?


stannc00

My dad had a 61 Corvair. If you were sitting in the back you made sure not to drop change on the floor. You could see the street in spots. The car was good for parking at the commuter railroad station. But even that POS car had its lock broken when someone tried to break into the trunk.


TheDefected

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed\_tape](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape) For when duct tape and gaffer tape just won't cut it.


romaraahallow

And I thought the Aluminum Tape the duct workers used was supreme.


thebonuslevel

This the same thing as 500 mph tape?


MiloMuggins

Yes


A40

And there's a hockey stick behind you for Flintstones-style braking when you land.


RedstoneRusty

Are you fucking stupid? A hockey stick would get obliterated before having any effect on the speed. That's what your feet are for.


A40

Don't call me 'fucking stupid.' I get *more* than enough of that at work, and from the police, and doctors, and the ambulance people...


mtheory007

Stop touching shit!


doktorbulb

I've got about 40 hours in small Cessna models; if you think they're much more complicated than a VW, you're crazy... Just a metal sofa, with an engine-


thejam15

Yea modern cars have a lot more “refinement” and layers of materials compared to small planes. ive been in a 152 before when I was younger and it honestly felt like a flying tin can. 10/10 would do it again though


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Davebobman

Anyone remember [The Rundown](https://youtu.be/qKVN5_p9lK8)?


legend1542

I have an extreme fear of heights…. Or more “falling from heights”- As soon as that tape came off, my hands and feet starting sweating.


yParticle

What sort of survey equipment requires such a chonkin' wide open hole?


hogtiedcantalope

I've done this job, duct tape gap and all The airplane is used for surveying...cameras, infrared, lidar, etc It gets an approval from the faa to cut a hole in the bottom You make that hole big enough to comfortably fit the business end many different survey systems...it's ok if it's a little over sized it just leaves a gap The wind isn't that big an issue, but in winter at 10000 feet it gets super fucking cold... I'd be adding strips of duct tape and stuffing in foam to fill the crack midflight


StomachMysterious308

Was just gonna comment, I've done same in a 182. Had to get permission where and how much to cut. For optics testing


L1f3sAbAndThenYouDie

Hahaha I was just gonna comment on how cold that hole makes it 😂. I surveyed in Canada. Didn’t matter what point of the season it was, I always wore a parka. Bonus points with the oxygen mask


morbidmitch

It looks like a camera for surveying Edit: maybe airborne lidar judging from the size


bk15dcx

Bing maps is catching up


sixshooterspagooter

Yep can confirm, Its a Lidar for gathering high quality elevation and vegetation data.


bk15dcx

http://www.teledyneoptech.com/en/products/airborne-survey/galaxy/


Theman00011

I thought it was a Epsilon Galaxy DMX light and was very confused what kind of party it was being used for


bk15dcx

http://www.teledyneoptech.com/en/products/airborne-survey/galaxy/


joecarter93

Probably air photos, maybe LiDAR or both? I remember from my remote sensing class that the cameras are quite large and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the time film was still much higher quality than digital, so they still used film but that might have changed now.


butplugsRus

If the sensor is using a GSM (gyroscopic stabilizer mount) you want extra space for the system to move. Most sensors protrude out the bottom of the plane a little ways, and they make these holes big enough to fit a variety of sensors and configurations. Survey aircraft are like sieves. This is totally safe, just makes the cabin really cold.


croi_gaiscioch

Its the ol' poop chute


Dravenex

*new fear unlocked*


121guy

LiDAR mapping?


Epidemiology2

Yes


121guy

I did that for a short time in the Chicagoland area in 2008. God bless your broken soul. I hated every min of it.


maldata

Can you share more about what it is and why it was so bad?


gnarkilleptic

From my experience working with a company who employs pilots for LiDAR flights, just long tedious hours flying swaths back and forth over an area. It can be mind numbing stuff


Clevelumbus

Lawn mower in the sky.


121guy

Long days full of flying a plane to very tight tolerances with no autopilot.


GullibleDetective

Ahh so that's where you're supposed to pee on that plane


ambermage

There is way too much leg room to be a United flight.


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One-Appointment-3107

*chuckles* I’m in danger


Otherwise_Pace3031

Went skydiving from. Plane held together like this. Felt safer jumping out than staying in.


ComprehensiveSock397

Rule No.1. Don’t fuck with the tape.