Sadly, the only time I have logged in an aircraft is one hour in a Cessna 152 - and even that was mid air. It was my first time in a light plane and I would have loved to have to have gone further down the track, but time and money made that impractical.
I live that life vicariously these days....
Sadly, the only time I have logged in an aircraft is one hour in a Cessna 152 - and even that was mid air. It was my first time in a light plane and I would have loved to have to have gone further down the track, but time and money made that impractical.
I've had seven flights in a light aircraft, and landed in one once.
Gliding here is much cheaper, typically £30/hour - but that is because everybody is a volunteer, and so the cost comes in time spent at the airfield getting other people airborne. But then that is a very sociable activity.
So instead of "Fly-in Breakfasts" you have "Float-Away Breakfasts"?
I quite like that; much more civilized.
mnem
moo.
Well looks like I'm not going to get my Fluke 87iv. The seller hasn't sent it yet or responded to my emails. 5 days elapsed. Think I might kick off the claim process.
I've had seven flights in a light aircraft, and landed in one once.
Gliding here is much cheaper, typically £30/hour - but that is because everybody is a volunteer, and so the cost comes in time spent at the airfield getting other people airborne. But then that is a very sociable activity.
Seven flights and just one landing. Of course it's an expensive hobby when you write of six aircraft in seven flights!
As a parent with two small children... for whom I purchased each their own Kindle Fire and Amazon's FreeTime Kid-content subscription... I just need to say, somewhere that someone will hear me...
I hate you Amazon. You took what SHOULD be the easiest-to-use thing on the face of the planet, and delivered a complete and utter clusterfuck. Not only did you do this, but you insist on ignoring your customers' complaints. If I could, I'd kick Jeff Bezos squarely in the balls for foisting this shitshow off on its customers, who are truly desperate for what was promised and not delivered.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled insanity.
Thank you for your patience,
mnem
*muttermuttermumblegrumble*
LOL.
I've had my face in Amazon's AWS half of today so I agree. 2 fucking hours trying to work out which combination of three letter acryonyms allow me to route traffic from one VPC from a VPN gateway to another via a peering agreement. Turns out you cant because that's "transit" and AWS dont want you doing that in case you fart some data into an eu-west-1 VPC and out in the US thus avoiding paying transit. So I've now got to spent three days arguing with two companies to set up a VPN between the other VPC and route that out and back in again.
It's basically a whole field of fucking rakes to stand on.
Edit: Can we call Bezos "penis rocket man" from now on.
Edit: Can we call Bezos "penis rocket man" from now on.
No, that would be a grave insult to penises and rocketmen everywhere.
How about "Yog-Sothoth"? or "Eater of Souls"?
mnem
There, there, now little mnem... I would never call you a Bezos.
No both those titles have been taken by Larry Ellison already
Reading the past 25 pages trying to keep up i had difficulty reaching the end due to posts coming faster than i could read.
That said these last dozen pages or so have been right near depressing all things considered, especially since i have no money for tea. Despite all logic money going into the bank does not necessarily equate to money later coming back out of it.
(a joke with the note i don't encourage alcoholism, tis merely what may pass as a commentary on life)
Barkeep! Bring me something to drown my sorrows! -insert bottle of whiskey here- Stronger! -insert bottle of cyanide here- Yeesh, maybe not that strong? -insert bottle of absinthe here- Yeah, thats about right...
I've had seven flights in a light aircraft, and landed in one once.
Gliding here is much cheaper, typically £30/hour - but that is because everybody is a volunteer, and so the cost comes in time spent at the airfield getting other people airborne. But then that is a very sociable activity.
Seven flights and just one landing. Of course it's an expensive hobby when you write of six aircraft in seven flights!
Actually that aircraft was written off a few years later. The main spar buckled, the passengers saw what had happened and said "bye bye", and the pilot landed the plane safely.
But that hobby was boring compared to gliding. I never landed more than 20 yards from where I wanted to be, and the height of ambition was for (ex) passengers to hold hands in mid air.
With gliding you never know what might happen in the next flight: the sky might say "shan't" and spit you out, or suck you up like a homesick angel until your bladder becomes the weakest link. (Yes there are remedies, and no, this isn't the forum for them).
Dang since I mentally gave up on amateur radio for a bit I'm on fire on the TEA department again. Have 22 items on the watch list and 2 in flight offers again
That video is too motivational. With regards to speed that is about my clock rate
Currently doing an R&D project on FPV drones. They really aren't that expensive so far thanks to the endless supply of dirt cheap bits from China (unless you slam a tree every time you fly one).
Also profitable:
Keeping it TEA I am now the owner of a Fluke 8010A. Suppose I better slide into the "old fluke multimeters" thread.
Dang since I mentally gave up on amateur radio for a bit I'm on fire on the TEA department again. Have 22 items on the watch list and 2 in flight offers again
"In flight" is getting a bit ambiguous in the thread recently.
Indeed!
@mnementh: that's actually in my watch queue.
... main thing is working out how to avoid getting fecked by import duty here
Edit: damn I now own a drone chassis!
Yeah, well... looks like we're actually gonna lose our cheap electronic toys & parts here soon... so best buy up while you can.
Do yourself a flavor; look for
Joshua Bardwell. He's a good guy, is knowledgeable, and his bent is towards teaching the average guy all the nuts & bolts. He didn't name himself "FPV Know it All"; he was given that nickname by the community, and he earned it by videoing his own journey from being a noob all the way to becoming one of the most watched FPV quad channels on the Tube.
mnem
*p00t!*
Just watching those fly through the obstacles at those speeds makes me feel light headed and uneasy, a split second between success and a massive crash, its very impressive and definitely something that I can't see myself attempting
That's where the fun is... the times you crash can be as much fun as the times you make it; the pits are where you make friends.
mnem
My spirit animal is Launchpad McQuack.
What, thats where the fun is
Surely if you crash into a fecking tree at that speed its a write off? Where's the fun in watching your investment being wrecked
Oh, hell no. I crash all the time. Usually just replace a prop or two... every great once in a while wreck a motor. Modern freestyle quads are made of 3-5mm 3k carbon fiber plate. They're quite durable. I mean yeah, if you plough head-on into a tree trunk at speed, you're probably gonna need to do a major rebuild. But around the trees is where you're usually doing direction changes, or have to go under and over, so you're already pitched way back and
But cost of entry has gone WAY DOWN. You can afford to build 2 or 3 quads, which is what we usually do... you can build a real 50-60mph racing/freestyle quad for ~$150 from the ground up; entry-level machines around $100. And then another one or two built out of crashed parts as "beater quads" for perfecting the crazy shit. Or as in my case, keep trying to learn the basics.
It's the pro AP rigs and racing quads... where they shave every gram possible, and the arms are skinny as bamboo skewers... THOSE are the fragile ones. Even most racing quads are fairly robust; bracket classes have minimum weights/maximum size of battery, so as long as you land on grass/dirt, mostly they survive. Only the unlimited classes are where the skinny-legged spiders rule. And we've seen seasons where they got trounced by some sharp young kid who just made sure to finish in the money, but flew something robust enough that he finished EVERY TIME.
mnem
*Says a prayer to Ifni and the Wind Gods*
Do any of you know what those Probe ID pins on probe connectors do? Searching for it tells me all about all the probes that have it, but not quite why I'd want it.
Do any of you know what those Probe ID pins on probe connectors do? Searching for it tells me all about all the probes that have it, but not quite why I'd want it.
Typically there's a certain resistance between the pin and BNC gnd, for a 10x probe it's normally 10K.
On scopes that have probe sensing rings the input attenuation is auto adjusted to match the probe and if you are swapping probes and input cables it saves a heap of stuffing around changing input attenuation each time you do.