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01-27-2020, 04:22 PM | #41 | |
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Munson, I'd think. The most recent that's even close is Jose Fernandez, but he wasn't at Kobe's stature. Even Munson wasn't, I don't believe, national in scope like Clemente was. Perhaps I'm wrong about that though. GH
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01-27-2020, 04:37 PM | #42 |
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Sad to say, but the pilot probably gets paid per flight. Thought he could make it. Probably flown in these conditions before. Union guys or airline pilots probably get paid regardless. So they'll take no chances. But I'm just guessing at how the pilot gets paid. Just an educated guess.
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How soon we forget.
Another NBA Star who died at age 41. All time leading college scorer. While in 8th grade played for his high school team that won state championship. RIP Pete Maravich. |
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Very sad. I was kinda numb for a while after reading it. He is one of the first whose career I followed from start to finish, and many debates were had whether he was "like" or "better than" Mike. As far as I am concerned, he is at least the next best one after Mike, but a true legend. A more gracious and down to earth superstar is hard to find.
Roy Halladay was also a devastating loss, but due to baseball being a different kind of a sport where you "only" saw Halladay every 4-5 days, I don't think he had as much of an impact to everyone. Everyone who followed baseball was devastated, but those outside baseball probably didn't know as much about Roy Halladay as much as those outside of basketball know about Kobe Bryant. Very sad and tragic. |
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I know I'm blaming the pilot and it could have been a malfunction, but by the witness accounts, air traffic radio and the fact he flew 180 MPH into the side of a hill, if it isn't the pilot's fault, I'd be surprised. This witness in particular.
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Here's a quick story. I was the Commander of a base weather station in England. We had the A-10's, in fact we were the first base outside of the US to house them. They were daytime VFR, and field minimums for the highest rated pilots were 700 foot ceilings and visibility 1 mile or greater. So...I see a fog bank coming in from the east, where the North Sea was just a few miles away. I notify the control tower that visibility will rapidly decrease. There were 30 planes on the way home from the gunnery range up in the Norwich area..about an hours' flight time. As the trainee pilots landed, I dropped the official weather observation down to the next category...from 3 miles, then to 2 miles. The next set of pilots landed, rated to land at 2 miles or greater. Did I have 2 miles visibility at the time? Ummm...no. I couldn't see the tree line, 1.7 miles away. We used fixed points around the base, at a known distance, to help us determine prevailing visibility. To end a long story, it was flat out foggy when the last pilot landed, the Wing Commander. He stopped by the weather station a little while later, and asked if I was the one doing the weather observations. I said I was..and he said thanks, and then told me "don't ever do this again." |
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At 150 miles per hour, this is 2 and a half miles per minute, or roughly 13 thousand feet in 60 seconds, or 220 feet per second. Add a half second reaction time, and your moving/reacting at about a football field every second. This doesn't work well when you are flying in dense fog/clouds.
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This pilot is very experienced and has probably frown in similar situations on numerous occasions. I just think he is a paid by flight pilot with a lot of confidence. No union guy or airline pilot that is getting paid anyway would take that chance. |
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Next time anyone acts like these athletes are just machines...watch Shaq break down talking about losing Kobe
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This is well put together and provides some good insight on the crash.
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This is difficult to believe in two respects:
1) A pilot with thousands of hours of flying experience, including at least 1,250 hours in this particular helicopter, and he doesn't know to gain altitude, abort, whatever needed to be done, to avoid flying into a hillside. 2) More money than one knows what to do with, but they don't bother to invest in a warning system that would have saved lives. In 2020, technology is available but we don't invest in it - to save money? But come to think of it, that has to be pinned on the chopper service, not Bryant. All that he probably knew about flying a helicopter was how to get in and out of it. Oh, that helicopter company has some 'splainin' to do.
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Watched a video this morning of Stephen Colbert, and he was advocating that black box or flight recording need to be added to helicopters. For some reason, helicopters do not have black boxes like planes do. Not sure of the logistics or reasoning for that.
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Not all airplanes have them either. Only ones over a certain take off weight have them. This usually means corporate planes, all commercial planes and planes that carry cargo. Most privately owned small planes do not have them. I have two aircraft that I lease with others and neither one has one installed. They do have emergency automated SOS that will transmit if the pilot turns it on or if the plane descends too quickly. But nothing to record the flight control inputs in the event of a crash. But both aircraft are used for civilian flying and cannot be used for commercial flying and both has a MTOW that must be strictly adhered too. |
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