Recent content by Chaosrider2

The first video here is inspirational! Thanks for making it, and thanks for posting it! :-) :) TCS

This is a great vid, but seeing all the dead, abandoned machines saddened me. I've always bonded with my machines. I have a 1969 Mercury Marquis with about 175,000 miles. It served me well as a working machine for decades. His name is Behemoth, 4400 lbs, 19 ft long, and 8 feet wide. He doesn't...

Yes, I did read that. It's mosly word salad. Safety just doesn't require a whole new system. Mobile data, which we all use anyhow, would have been fully sufficient. Mobile data is associated with a specific phone number. It's not even hard to imagine how to use that data for either safety or...

Excellent point! "The fallacy of the excluded middle" is one of the most common argumentative fallacies. There are very few binary choices. :) TCS

Not a contradiction. BVLOS is a lot like instrument flying in terms of aircraft control and navigation, except that it's a lot easier. TCS

RTH is definitey an AI feature. I love it, and use it all the time. My objection was to the "fully autonomous" requirement, which as far as I'm aware, currently isn't available for civilian aircraft, and may not be for a long time. TCS

That would be a good feature. A challenge would be that VLOS varies not just from aircraft to aircraft, but from person to person. TCS

Excellent point. Other than near ariports, you just don't see manned aircraft at our elevations. Outside of take-off and landing, I have NEVER flown a manned aircraft below 400 ft AGL. And I think the crop-dusters can handle themselves just fine... :-) TCS

Putting the strobe on top is worthless during the day, but might work fine at night. I haven't flown at night yet. TCS

I was looking straight at it the first time I turned it on. I won't be doing THAT again! :) TCS

The strobe transformed the visibility of my Mini-2 for daytime flying. At least, against the background of the other side of the canyon. The strobe increased my comfortable VLOS range from 800 ft to 1000 ft. Foe me, that was a huge improvement. Thx, TCS

Which, IIRC, the Mini-2 isn't. Thx, TCS

Sorry, Mini-2. TCS

I was worried about that. When the hatch is closed, I don't think there are a lot of opportunities for it to wiggle around and get loose, or damage the hatch. No problems so far, will report back if anything happens in this regard. Thx, TCS

To be fair, they are in the business of selling new ones. Still, it would be nice to know where I can buy re-furbed Mini-2s, if I need to expand my fleet... ;-) TCS