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I listened to it. I don't find anything surprising about his demeanor or what was said if this recording is, in fact, true. Do you expect him to be sobbing to the controller? He's clearly stunned but also actively dealing with an emergency situation and preserving his own life - remember his...

you're right, it was probably approach/center and not tower. this was the video i was looking at that had some coms

does anybody have a timeline of the major events here? i was just seeing that he told RDU tower that he had two souls aboard but the video made it seem like this occurred after the copilot left the aircraft. don't know if that was inaccurate or not.

this is, hands down, the most preposterous scenario i have ever read in the mishaps sub

i feel like you're just admitting to yourself that it's not a reasoned position. do you trust your gauges and your flight timing or not? you're scared to forget to fuel up or stop, i guess, so you just always make sure you have way more than you'll ever need. no offense, but i feel this...

this doesn't make much sense as a strategy. perhaps in whatever you're flying you have enough fuel and load to do it this way but in many airplanes you need to trade some fuel for load in the example airplane for instance with four people you can't even takeoff with more than half tanks. the...

yes, spot on.

very easy to work with, i have a policy through them

hey guys i'm all for talking about accidents and stuff but just as an observer here i don't think it's fair to go deep into the mind of either of these pilots and say things like "he was so upset about the bad landing he offed himself" or that the pilot flying intentionally threw him out of the...

ah, yes straight to the limit. no. i'm saying that the only thing we care about in this accident is why the pilot fell out. as far as why that is, we have zero information. so we can be "responsible" in discussing things. well the following...........

yes, that is my point you don't think saying he killed himself or that the copilot murdered him is negative? it is a bizarre scenario no matter how tame the actual reason that he fell from the airplane. what spurred me into even commenting was the comment i saw about how basically the...

they are wild because they are speculative and completely unsubstantiated by known facts i don't see the point in speculating so publicly and so negatively about this young man and his copilot when we have no clue what happened

again, i'm not suggesting at all that I intend to land with 1.5 gallons per side. that is foolish. i am 100% with you on the "you never know" part, but the times I'm saying I would be comfortable with 30 minutes of fuel is when I'm totally VFR, totally good weather, totally good TAF, and in my...

sure a little slip, normal turns in the pattern.

That looks interesting, thanks! Will have to dig in later

To be completely clear, 1.5 gallons each side is too few to be flying around on. It's a few minutes worth of fuel. Terrible idea. But I want to know, when does the engine start having fuel starvation issues when you're doing normal maneuvers. That's how I would set my limits, a buffer from that...

man you guys sure have some wild theories. suicide, sole manipulator intentionally throwing him out, wow.

Yeah your first story is what I'm driving at. What's really the line for safe vs dangerous in fuel levels? Everybody seems to have a different opinion. Some say half tanks which I think is too conservative. Correct the plane has 53 gallons usable over 56 gallons total. But does that literally...

I have a lemo plug which splits to dual GA so you can plug an ordinary headset into a lemo. It broke at the soldered connections, so you can't easily identify which wire went where. If I could figure that out, I can fix this in about 5 minutes for free. Anybody have any ideas? I can't easily...

This is basically what I'm talking about. I have a 172S. When I'm looking at flight planning if you plan to land with say 8-10 gallons, you could have 4/4 or 5/5 in each tank. That's supposed to get me 45+ minutes of fuel. The gauges in my plane were surprisingly accurate, if it shows 5/5 and I...