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That really, really depends on what conditions you are flying under. This is not a naturally stable aircraft flown at relatively low speeds far away from any ob
by arghwhat 2y ago
That really, really depends on what conditions you are flying under. This is not a naturally stable aircraft flown at relatively low speeds far away from any obstacle, and it is not being flown from a couch with a gamepad.
Even if he fucked up severely and needlessly burned an insanely expensive asset at the cost of tax payers, that’s a fuckup from an individual actually qualified for and skilled at flying the thing, unlike everyone at this site.
The whole lot of us would probably have the plane go up in flames before we even got into it.
- thrill 2y agoThe flight control software was not malfunctioning. He had instruments and communication capability that would have let him land an otherwise flyable aircraft.
- arghwhat 2y agoAgain, a very easy judgement to make when you’re not the one strapped to the rocket in what the documents describe as “challenging conditions” as your displays you were flying after go dark. He only had “basically working” comms, which seems to suggest that it too was degraded, and the instruments referred to as being available is just the tiny artificial horizon display in front of his right knee.
- thrill 2y agoI've been strapped to such a rocket in such challenging conditions with even worse remaining operable equipment more than once.