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Kick Ass! Awesome setup and nice work!

I like how the pilot professionally included the cat in his regular scan..

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Airspeed, Altitude, Power, Field, Cat, Altitude, Power, Landing Field, Speed, Cat, Altitude, Field, Cat, Cat?, Cat!, Airspeed, Cat.

Speaking German fluently makes this video difficult as I hear the German text, and have to read completely unrelated English text.

Still extremely neat and funny like hell. The FAA doesn't let me fly because of anger management meds.... hahahahaha!

Thanks for posting this.

Too bad.  I don't Facebook and never will.

The sad truth is that people will "Like!" the obituary.

Thanks for sharing the link Av8r!

300/day was with 9 active email accounts running 8 websites and being mod on three forums at once. Major PITA.

I am down to monitoring only 6 email accounts these days... The group is completely private and I can't bring myself to sign up just to be nosy.

I just learned from one of my former members that "discussion forums are about to be replaced by Fakebook & other social media sites".

Oh well, I was going to retire anyways and move to Russia.

Thanks for bringing this thread back to life. I hadn't seen that plane yet. Waaaaaaay cooooool!

Hmmm..... we need to take a forum field trip... teach'em some manners over there It pissed me off too bandit.. I think it's the first time I've not spoke my mind about something like that. I had a weak moment and didn't say what I wanted too. I promise I won't let it happen again.

Can you share for us nosy people who don't want to go back to receiving 300 emails per day, or where does one sign up for that thingy?

Happy Birthday, Ed!

I think the AHOTY award is already in my possession dude, so you'd have to challenge me for it.

Ran across this a while back, Sorry Ed, it's all in fun!  Jim Chuk

Simply PRICELESS & stolen to share with my waterbound friends...

Hahahahahaha!

Propellator???

Let's not lose our heads...

Literally.

Example of one is visible here:

I know lots of happy Avemco customers.

The cheapest are definitely not always the best, nor do they always know what the usual general aviation aircraft looks like.

As I learned years ago, a Super Cub can haz 4 or even 6 seats and may even have more than one "proppellator".

Propellator = Dangerous invisible big thingy that goes around real fast...

Great writeup and nice pictures of the flyin.

I used to run a Kenworth/ International truck garage and as a function of the job I had to hire mechanics with valid CDL's.

Part of the deal was that the mechanics and drivers were subject to unannounced drug & piss testing as well as to pre-employment drug testing.

Most of the guys never had any issues appearing for the tests. Just one guy I hired came back and told me the female lab person had thrown him out, telling him to report to his boss. When he came in he was laughing, not a funny matter for the company, which paid for the testing. He said he had been 10 minutes late and when they barked at him, he answered that they should not be surprised that he was late, after all he had studied the whole night for the test........

Dollars are worth more than passengers until a crash!

EDMO

Dollars are worth more than passengers, no matter what. Never has been different, never will be different.

Thats a worldwide problem, not limited to Germany or Europe and the crapper in the cockpit won't help.

Whats scary is the level of involvement of so-called "experts" which have been feeding the press with a ton of BS.

A well known retired LH Psychologist I have known for decades just joined the discussion. Nice little bonus to a already high pension. Roundtables from 6AM to midnight "discuss" the issue to death, more and more hair raising details are released against good money, as with Lubitz's ex girlfriend. Her new Mercedes is already paid for. Depending on the amount on the table, she will release much much more...

One of Germany's most idiotic tabloid papers (Bild Zeitung) noticed that the printing machines went on strike, even machines have more style than some reporters and would prefer not to print what they write. The problem I notice is that lots of aviation media outlets (even in the U.S.) soaked this stuff up and they are spreading it around like horsemanure now. Now the pilots are wondering about his flight experience, the interruptions in training and all of his possible fetishes. Imagine being the parents of this kid and seeing your child declared a mass murderer by his peers. Even if he was, it was the damn job of the employer and authorities to weed him out and the system failed again.

Imagine a French built airplane crashes on French soil, killing 150 people. Stocks plunged within a few hours. People and even crews basically grounded hundreds of Airbus aircraft as pax would not board and pilots and FA's would not fly. Instantly, we knew that the airplane had been down for unscheduled technical issues the whole day before the crash, however that little tidbit of information "disappeared" from the news as quickly as it appreared. The technical blackbox went missing, just when the CVR tape popped out of the wreckage like a mushroom. Tons of issues lost in translation, the cockpit athmosphere was described as "frosty" when in fact it was supposed to mean it was jovial and normal, both pilots on par with sterile cockpit and level of professionalism.

Depression and suicidal thoughts are not as rare as we wish to believe, mental health issues kill tons of people every year. We blame and regulate to death, the tools and weapons those people use to do their deed, but we ignore the base of the problem and try to fix it with regulations that are foolish and full of loopholes. Part of it is putting a 60KG girl in the cockpit when either of the two button pushers needs to go pee. Cameras will be mandatory to observe the smallest movements. I would not be surprised if the industry developed technology that allows the aircraft to be controlled remotely in case both of the pilots become mentally ill or otherwise incapacitated.

How many depression & mental issues, drug & alcohol abuse disorders are concealed and remain "officially undiagnosed", just because doctors know that pilots will instantly loose their medicals and basically become unemployed? Now everyone screams for a law to report the prescription of psychoactive drugs as well as all medical visits to the authorities and in the end, a suicidal or depressed pilot will simply not go to the doctors office. You are perfectly fine flying any airplane with a loaded gun sticking out of your mouth, just as long as you don't get diagnosed and treated for depression. We might not wish to hear it, but we know that medical exams are tiny momentary snapshots which reveal nothing and contribute absolutely nothing to the safety of aviation. How else could I explain flying with a Class I medical holder a day before his pretty terrible death from cardiac arrest? He had medical exams every half year! He was supposedly healthy like a horse, flying big iron around the globe.

The discussions amongst AME's in Germany is no different now than it has been in the U.S. and neither Lufthansa nor Germanwings are comprised of a bunch of blind dumbos. The German authorities are just as helpless as the U.S. authorities and the mob screams to have a monster and some solutions quickly, so they can blame someone and go back to flying cheap and feeling safe. It could have been a mechanic or a pilot, or a controller, as long as the public can blame someone, everything is just fine. Whats sad is that even pilots & professionals are jumping on the wagon and use "Bild Zeitung" information to feed their speculative discussions - knowing that at this point in time, nothing is confirmed. Thats grotesque.

All we really have is a French AG who shook like a young girl on a Navyship quickly releasing some but not all information within 48 hours of the crash, mentioning that the aircraft was COMPLETELY well. Within hours and the wreckage still warm and rolling down the hill, everyone was able to absolutely discount any and all technical issues.

I can't help but think that a lot of this stuff stinks all the way into outer- space, just the high heavens ain't enough.The funky thing will be that at some point in the distant future, those tasked with this twisted and predetermined biased investigation will release a final report - except nobody will really read or understand it.

Welcome back!

He had some computer troubles last time he posted. Sounded like a browser/ popup flooding. I hope he didn't think it came from this site.

Awesome pictures and thanks!

Congrats to the 1000 Member mark! Impressive!

Merry belated Christmas & Happy New Year, Dudes!

Geeeze, I know Russia had some snow, but I've never heard of planes having snowplows installed.

What a headline:

 

French CEO dies in Moscow in plane crash with snowplow operated by drunk driver

French CEO dies in Moscow. Plane had snowplow installed? CEO was operated by drunk driver?

Who the hell let that drunk driver into the emergency room? And who told him to operate on the French CEO?

Well done. Plane pretty much intact and at least someone got some "tundra experience", landing in those shrubs.

A good pilot is one that has landed virtually ANYWHERE and on EVERYTHING, once. Glad the guy didn't get hurt.

Friend of mine put a deltawing in the trees and wasn't really dead until he scientifically proved that the human body is not generally known to survive hard impacts following long falls.

After his funeral, people kept repeating that they were glad that he died doing something he loved.

I wasn't there but I doubt he was screaming "Oh Heck, I love this!!!" while falling 65 feet, hitting every possible branch on the way down, before landing on his noggin and snapping his neck. Never made it to the hospital alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o40_MzuKIGA

EXCuse mE!?!

Thats not a GeeBee! That's a super duper ultra fast XLi GLX Super Bee with some Gee! ^™ in it!

The thing stalls at 189 Miles per hour and flying it is like taming a angry bush animal.

I would know because I flew single engine fighter planes in the war. This thing, gents, is a completely different kind of flying, altogether!!!

Just ask the pilot, he's holding on to that cowling getting ready for a turn, and that Schnulli (mouthpiece oxygen enhancer) is going on high gear!

Haha!

Happy surgery recovery to your daughter and that thing needs some amphibs! Seriously!

Mr. Perry, Sir!

Thanks for sharing my tiny little seaplaneforum.com here with the gang.

Mark,

The answer to the security question is in the logo and its "ʞɹoʍʇǝN" (including the five most common ways to misspell that word). Makes sense to type the word right side up. Generally those who can't figure it out will eventually contact me and I'll set them up. Thank the Chinese & Russian computer pro's for this requirement.