Maintain thy airspeed.

AAPalmTree said:
Wow. Possibly the most idiotic thing I've seen. Should I give my money to a family recovering from an sick infants medical bills or some dumbass who crashed his plane?
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Cars have always been one of my hobbies and I'm on a few forums for them too. You'd be shocked by the number of millennials that think begging for money via GoFundMe in order to modify their car is a perfectly valid idea.

It got so bad, one forum I'm on, modified the code to post "imauselessmillenial" when someone linked to a GoFundMe.
 
AAPalmTree said:
most idiotic thing I've seen
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This request by Sarah Russell to help is normal in civil societies, and has been responded to by
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not a great amount. In hindsight, many accidents could of and should of have been avoided, yet then we'd live in a very risk adverse world. Think of it this way, purchased insurance covers lots of preventable accidents everyday, and insurance companies pay out for those 'idiotic things' we do.
 
Looks like there was more to the PA-30 story outside of Haines. If you do something stupid in a plane by yourself that's on you, but please don't do it with passengers on board.
http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/So...f-one-of-the-aircrafts-engines-426799121.html
Valentine reportedly told investigators that, after shutting down the engine on purpose to illustrate how a pilot can then restart it, “the engine would not rotate through with electrical power to start the engine."
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alaskadrifter said:
Looks like there was more to the PA-30 story outside of Haines. If you do something stupid in a plane by yourself that's on you, but please don't do it with passengers on board.
http://www.ktuu.com/content/news/So...f-one-of-the-aircrafts-engines-426799121.html
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Yeah, holy crap.
-shut down engine in flight with pax. Ok, not really prudent, but still shouldn't be a big deal if handled with care.

-can't get prop unfeathered. Uh, ok, something is wrong there, even without unfeathering accumulators (no idea if accident aircraft was equipped) starter should get the prop to unfeather. Mechanical issue? Didn't put the prop lever forward? [edit] oh holy crap the article is updated...says people who knew the plane told NTSB it had battery problems. I literally can't even.[/edit]

-decide to divert to restart the engine...ok, not a bad idea, but divert to frigging Glacier Point?

For those not in the know, the Glacier Point strip is narrow (most of it I would guess not wider than the wheelbase of a Caravan), gravel, unattended, mostly uninhabited, not terribly long, and (last time I was there) has trees fairly close about midway down the runway. COMPLETELY unsuitable for a single-engine landing in a twin other than as a last-ditch drift-down because you can't hold altitude, and even in that case the beach might be better. Anyway the 4000' paved Haines airport is a stones throw away across the river.

[speculation] Haines Brewfest was happening and I would hazard that the prospect of rolling into Haines with one motor caged with one of the biggest events of the year happening was not attractive. [/speculation]

-do a flyby of the strip to inspect. ON ONE ENGINE? ARE YOU FRIGGING KIDDING ME?

-WITH THE GEAR DOWN?!?!!? What the actual •?!???
 
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Derg said:
Eek!

I don't mind being a psuedo Airbus pilot.

You do know there is a captain who put it into alternate law, intentionally, in flight to demonstrate, yes?
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SMH...I know a guy that happens to do a fair amount of safety work who's head is spinning hearing this.
 
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