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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 07:28:57 JST Account: Aviation

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2025/01/09/firefighting-aircraft-crashes-into-drone-flying-illegally-above-palisades-fire-faa-says/

Sadly this was obviously coming. Skies are going to be literally full of drones, and their controllers do not care about rules. Catch me if you can!

Remember that the culprit of the first collision in the U.S. was identified because a part of the drone stuck in the aircraft was serialized. Police were able to find the seller, and obtain information on the buyer. But they didn't track the control unit operationally as the collision happened (e.g. through witnesses).

As the technology developed for Ukraine trickles down to consumers, we'll see drones operating far beyond the line of sight.

There may be some hope in low numbers of lasering the pilots in recent couple of years. Perhaps vast majority of drone operators will remain law-abiding. But the incentives are different for them. Imagine all the clicks you can get by filming massive fires.

Here's a previous post about a collision of Cirrus jet with a drone well within Class C for Austin KAUS: https://mu.zaitcev.nu/notice/AnVtubC7ZEAHPxPx0C

#drones #aviation
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  Drones and other aircraft not helping with firefighting efforts are prohibited in temporary flight restriction zones around wildfires.
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  If I read the preliminary report correctly, a Cirrus Jet, N442CV, collided with a drone on approach to Austin KAUS on 09/14/2024. The impact came in the middle of the windshield, and displaced inte...
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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 13:03:37 JST Account: Aviation
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- Rocc
@Rocc Just as long as you have a place to park it. Everything else is secondary in airplane ownership: insurance, maintenance, training, consumables. Parking is what's killing. Not only it's expensive, but it's extremely hard to find. There's no market. You have to know a guy in order to get in.

I rented for years. Although many people complain about clapped-out rentals, it wasn't an issue for me. But the poor dispatch reliability and the expense of even a short-term rental made me buy. I had a couple of cases, where the airplane that I reserved was taken away from me, either with a 100h inspection, or because someone else was more privileged. In addition, FBO managers really do not like to let airplanes be unused. My place was reasonable: at least they let me do it. But they charged $450 per day if Hobbs didn't clock 3 hours. So even a getaway for a week was racking fees very quickly.

BTW
http://zaitcev.mee.nu/flying_so_you_want_to_travel_by_a_private_airplane_part_1
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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 12:41:32 JST Account: Aviation
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- Louis Ingenthron
@LouisIngenthron I'm tempted to ask what's wrong with you Sir

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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 00:39:50 JST Account: Aviation
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- 受不了包
@shibao What is?

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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 00:07:14 JST Account: Aviation

https://spacenews.com/boeing-sues-virgin-galactic-over-mothership-project/

Boeing is suing Virgin Galactic
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  Boeing and a subsidiary have filed suit against Virgin Galactic, alleging that the suborbital spaceflight company has refused to pay more than $25 million.
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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 07:20:39 JST Account: Aviation

Autogyros at Stephensville, Texas today. The area including KSEP and 9F0 (Dublin) is teeming with them. Dublin even has a 94UL for Rotax fliers.

#flying #aviation #texas
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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 05:27:45 JST Account: Aviation
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- Sexy Moon
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@Moon @bronze
I'm afraid that airplanes are not as well protected as they should be. In particular, the now ubiqutous flight management connectivity is a serious weak link. Every pilot must carry a tablet nowadays. By cracking that tablet, one can get into the app like Jepp, and jump to a navigator. On a plane that has Garmin Autoland it's basically a direct access to flight controls. In a world where Israelis were able to jump air gapped systems and infect PLCs in order to blow up Uranium refinement centrifuges, crashing airliners should be easy, it's just nobody got around to doing it. Crashing my own airplane this way might be harder, because its engine and flight controls are not computerized, but one can for example direct me to nowhere and make me get lost and run out of fuel by screwing with the navigation software (theoretically speaking, of course - I mostly fly VFR).

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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 09-Dec-2023 10:32:41 JST Account: Aviation

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1733277584895488226

Another Chinese launcher comes online. Where do they find payloads? China launches about as much as Elon Musk, but the latter has Starlink.
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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 07:45:28 JST Account: Aviation
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- triodug
@triodug I think the square protrusion on the tail clinched it. Some Albatrosses have short noses, and some are long, but not this tail.

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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 00:49:23 JST Account: Aviation
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@Moon @pwm You don't need anything beyond a tiny stick and a ground plane for 1090ES.

Wavelength is: 299792458/1090000000 = 0.275 m. Quarter is 6.9 cm or 2.7". Four wires are perfect for a ground plane, you just bend them to match to the impedance of your coax or receiver. Usually it's 50 Ohm, so something like 43 degrees. That's all! I soldered mine to the actual connector and used it indoor on top of the receiver in a USB stand. See this photo:
https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/226449.html

In fact, don't even do that. Just take a wire from an Ethernet cable, cut to under 3 inch, plug it into the receiver with the connector upright. The receiver itself provides the ground plane.

The reason why this works is that airplane transponders are absurdly powerful. For example, my Garmin 333 is rated for 250 Watts. Not micro- or milli-watts. Watts! If your cellphone output that, it'd cook your brain in a minute.

So stop thinking about unnecessary complexities and focus on the whole system.
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  About a year ago, when I started playing with ADS-B over 1090ES , I noticed that small airplanes heavily favour UAT in 978 MHz, because it's cheaper. For the purposes of independent on-board traffic, thus, it would be important to tap directly into UAT. If I mingle with airliners and their 1090ES,…
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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 05:24:03 JST Account: Aviation
- 受不了包
@shibao Flying a "technically advanced" airplane is the closest you'll ever get to a Gundam.

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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 03:09:10 JST Account: Aviation

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Account: Aviation (avia@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2023 06:19:48 JST Account: Aviation
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@shibao Looks pretty brutal for 3.5 hours of this. Looks like a checkride for something.

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