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I am not a pilot, I think this guy can make the same claim.




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Wow.

Just. . .

wow.



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Lucky to be alive!




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

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Glad he is alive, but it's because of luck not skill.

I'm not a pilot, but I'm 100% confident that plane had a throttle setting in between idle and full throttle. He drove (can't bring myself to use the word flew) that plane like a NYC taxi driver in stop n go traffic.



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That guy was totally clueless. I'll bet it is the last flight as well as the first. Anybody that would try again after that fiasco needs to be on suicide watch. Eek

Jim


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That was just plane dangerous.

Stolen from the youtube comments.


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Pretty sure I've logged enough hours on all versions of MS FlightSim to have done a better job than that.

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Drunk flying???
 
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Fake? Meaning, the guy knew what he was doing and planned the entire thing. Like Joe Bob the Drunk Pilot (or whatever the stunt pilot's name is who does similar things with a Cub/Super Cub).

I think with the correct plane (light frame, big wing, big motor), I could maybe do that with a little practice and a lot of soft grass...


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Fake? Meaning, the guy knew what he was doing and planned the entire thing. Like Joe Bob the Drunk Pilot (or whatever the stunt pilot's name is who does similar things with a Cub/Super Cub).

I think with the correct plane (light frame, big wing, big motor), I could maybe do that with a little practice and a lot of soft grass...
I was there with you until the plane ended up on its wing touching during landing.



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I meant to do that....



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Good god.



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That was just plane dangerous.

Stolen from the youtube comments.


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I don't know what model ultralight that is, but they should make this their sales video! That thing was so forgiving of low speed maneuvers it looked almost stall-proof. That plane saved that idiots life.




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OTOH, maybe that was a test pilot series testing the stall warner.




Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
 
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In any event, that was very difficult to watch.
 
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I've never seen one that bad. I've seen some pretty bad ultralight "pilots" (they insist on being called pilots). I was one that pushed hard to have them banned from our private airfield.

Of course...when you can't get a medical, and no instructor will teach you....ultralight looks attractive. Lot of people with money fly ultralights. I lost.

LSA isn't far removed from the same crowd... at least they used to be pilots.


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I hope that plane is damaged enough so as to make the guy sit back and ponder the worth of his life before he tries to take it back up again.

I've played a bunch of flight sims, and I'm convinced I could do a better job than that. That seemed to be the definition of 'ham-fisted' flying. No subtlety. As tatortodd stated, most throttles have progressive settings between idle and full throttle; he didn't seem to grasp that nuance. It was all or nothing with him.



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he's either really good or really bad
 
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Originally posted by Hound Dog:
I hope that plane is damaged enough so as to make the guy sit back and ponder the worth of his life before he tries to take it back up again....


He can always get a dirt bike and find a highway to jump.




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