I'm just surprised it wasn't at a Russian air show again.
[QUOTE=ss1234;20081788]"One of the planes, a single-seat Piper Pawnee, was towing a glider. The pilot of the Piper died in the collision, said Rick Brough of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office.
After the collision, the pilot of the glider was able to detach from the plane and land safely, Brough said."
So he dies in the collision, and comes back to life? Am I missing something here?[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=ss1234;20081788]"One of the planes, a single-seat Piper Pawnee, was towing a glider. The pilot of the Piper died in the collision, said Rick Brough of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office.
After the collision, the pilot of the glider was able to detach from the plane and land safely, Brough said."
So he dies in the collision, and comes back to life? Am I missing something here?[/QUOTE]
Piper is towing a glider via a tow line. Glider disconnects from tow line after collision.
[img]http://www.zenithair.com/zodiac/pic06/glider-tow.jpg[/img]
:/ All the bad stuff with aircraft happens to us. First the balloon boy hoax, now this. I heard on the local news that the whole thing was for a kid's birthday(minus the collusion, of course). That must really be a shitty birthday :(
The glider guy did pretty well to get it down safely if you ask me, considering his towing plane crashed into something and got destroyed so nearby.
This is something you'd hear about happening in Battlefield or something and everyone has a good chuckle about it.
[QUOTE=ss1234;20081788]"One of the planes, a single-seat Piper Pawnee, was towing a glider. The pilot of the Piper died in the collision, said Rick Brough of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office.
After the collision, the pilot of the glider was able to detach from the plane and land safely, Brough said."
So he dies in the collision, and comes back to life? Am I missing something here?[/QUOTE]
....The plane was towing a glider with someone inside. The pilot of the plane died. The pilot of the glider lived.
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I'm a pilot. If you're inattentive, it's easy to hit another plane. There are areas of constant air traffic that are dangerous as fuck. Florida for instance has an unusually high air traffic average. Especially over the major cities.
This is literally two minutes from my house. Pics coming soon.
Epic win that it didn't hit mah mouse.
I read that as "Planets". :frown:
I bet one of them was trying to give the other the bird.
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This is why all airplanes should be equipped with their own personal radars.
The fucking speed limit was 420!
[QUOTE=Chris122990;20083315]This is why all airplanes should be equipped with their own personal radars.[/QUOTE]
How would that have helped? Seriously, how?
[QUOTE=Aaronn;20081995]....The plane was towing a glider with someone inside. The pilot of the plane died. The pilot of the glider lived.
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I'm a pilot. If you're inattentive, it's easy to hit another plane. There are areas of constant air traffic that are dangerous as fuck. Florida for instance has an unusually high air traffic average. Especially over the major cities.[/QUOTE]
When were blind people allowed to get flying licenses?
[QUOTE=Roborodent;20083407]How would that have helped? Seriously, how?[/QUOTE]
I don't know, maybe the fact that they would've had an instrument that shows nearby planes could prevent them from crashing into each other.
[QUOTE=Chris122990;20083554]I don't know, maybe the fact that they would've had an instrument that shows nearby planes could prevent them from crashing into each other.[/QUOTE]
Radars are useful for beyond visual range, crashing denotes you are IN visual range. A cirrus of the model that crashed would have a relatively low top speed, so they would have been able to use their eyes.
The guy in that glider must have felt like a badass, flying away from a collision like that.
I don't understand how they could crash unless they weren't paying attention. That glider was in plane view!
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When he made that split-second decision to disconnect, he did it on the fly.
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He winged it.
Obviously they were trying to do this.
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[QUOTE=jordguitar;20081729]The FAA does not require TCAS to be installed on small planes. It also requires both planes transmitting some signal with its current speed and altitude for one TCAS system to work.[/QUOTE]
Dude I'm no flying man.. FAA? TCAS?
But yeah I think I got your point. Both planes has to transmit signals and shit for TCAS(Anti-air collide system?) to work? FFA?
List of shit to happen in my state in the last few weeks.
1. Guy at McDonalds is unruly and tells his kid to bite the cops face off.
2. The United States Air Force Academy includes a hippie drum circle (neo-paigan circle) to their grounds.
3. Fucking kid in a hot air balloon sharade.
4. Now planes are crashing into each other midair.
I thought the thread said "Planets collide midair in Colorado" :v:
My own on-scene report.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d43_VLxat2E[/media]
That's sad. I used to live a couple hundred metres from the Boulder airport and there were lots of gliders above our house...I think that's all they use that airport for.
Seriously the mathematical probability of this happening is astronomically low.
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Groovy baby.[/QUOTE]
Fool, that's the 60's
Also, what the fuck? Weird shit is always going on in Colorado. I'm starting to see a pattern here.
The only thing that would make this story more badass is if the glider pilot had engine failure before he could land and had to bail out, parachuting to safety as various aircraft crashed to the ground all around him.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;20095895]The only thing that would make this story more badass is if the glider pilot had engine failure before he could land and had to bail out, parachuting to safety as various aircraft crashed to the ground all around him.[/QUOTE]
"if the glider pilot had engine failure"
Fox and CNN are probably going to talk about this all day.
[QUOTE=gekko;20087440]Dude I'm no flying man.. FAA? TCAS?
But yeah I think I got your point. Both planes has to transmit signals and shit for TCAS(Anti-air collide system?) to work? FFA?[/QUOTE]
FAA- Federal Aviation Administration
TCAS- [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCAS]Traffic Collision Avoidance System[/url]
[QUOTE=jordguitar;20078088][url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8502704.stm[/url]
Video of one of the planes parachuting to the ground[/QUOTE]
When did they start putting parachutes on plane. I mean, I've heard of the idea, but I didn't know they started implementing that safety feature.
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