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the pilots need to fly <N> hours to keep their pilot rating anyways. So aside from the slightly elevated risk to the civilian observers, and the occasional ris
by dnautics 5mo ago
the pilots need to fly <N> hours to keep their pilot rating anyways.
So aside from the slightly elevated risk to the civilian observers, and the occasional risk due to maneuvers (I think they doing something particularly showy in this case?), the extra cost to the taxpayer do this is ~nil.
- SV_BubbleTime 5mo agoThere are two expensive holes in the ground that do not support your supposition.
- defrost 5mo agoOnly if there's a significant difference in risk between training flight and air show flight. Otherwise there's always a near constant ever present risk of uncontrolled unintended landings with expensive repair and replacement costs.
- Gud 5mo agoThat’s a pretty big “only”. Airplanes normally don’t fly so close.
- cortesoft 5mo agoFighter jets in training probably do?
- Gud 5mo agoDoubtful there is any acrobatic training like this for the regular fighter pilot.
- tedggh 5mo agoThere are many situations in real combat where pilots need to fly even closer than typical air show formations, like refueling or escorting other aircraft. So close formation flying is a fundamental skill for a pilot. Sure, we can minimize risk by not using certain aircraft and close formations during airshows, but pilots will still need to train and execute missions using high(er) risk maneuvers. Also air shows are probably not the largest portion of flight time for a pilot.
- hvb2 5mo agoFormation flying usually involves getting close and then 'just' maintaining distance. This has nothing to do with formation flying, this is acrobatics, different ballgame
- dnautics 5mo agoYou don't need to do some rigorous searching to find that military jet planes do not need an airshow to crash. Just search f-35 crash
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- lostlogin 5mo agoWhat sort of hours do you log for a crash? Does it end when the ejection starts, or feet-on/the/ground?
- hugh-avherald 5mo agoWhen the plane comes to rest on the ground.
- userbinator 5mo ago...or perhaps the last piece of it.
- fransje26 5mo agoEvery landing you can walk away from is a good landing.
- watchful_moose 5mo agoif the pilot doesn't have their hands on the stick flying the plane, i don't think those hours (... less than single digit minutes?) count.
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