14 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

Do you participate in air shows or fly aerobatic in real life?

I go to air shows as a spectator. 

1 hour ago, Slides said:

I go to air shows as a spectator. 

And at any times did you see anyone performed "risky" maneuvers with passengers on board?

P.S. One flying school I was getting my commercial ticket was run by former Top Gun instructor. The safest pilot you could imagine ! 

10 hours ago, mazex said:

Yep - looks a bit young (but he is 26 years and that's the age of many squadron leaders in WW2 😉). He seems to know what he's talking about though and seems like a nice guy.

He's a son of a billionaire trust fund kid who never worked a day in his life. i find it hard to trust someone coming from that position.

1 hour ago, sd_flyer said:

And at any times did you see anyone performed "risky" maneuvers with passengers on board?

P.S. One flying school I was getting my commercial ticket was run by former Top Gun instructor. The safest pilot you could imagine ! 

Don't know but they performed risky maneuvers over the crowd.

Just now, Ikaro said:

He's a son of a billionaire trust fund kid who never worked a day in his life. i find it hard to trust someone coming from that position.

Pure prejudice of course, but I agree with you. Up the revolution. 🤣

Just now, Chock said:

Pure prejudice of course, but I agree with you. Up the revolution. 🤣

It could be I'm just jealous. I sure wish I could have spent my twenties travelling the world and playing flightsim with real airplanes without any financial worries!

8 minutes ago, Slides said:

Don't know but they performed risky maneuvers over the crowd.

There are plenty tragic accidents when aircraft plunged  into crowed during demonstration. As far as I know in most developed countries do not allows preformed over the crowd and sometimes even near. Usually performance done over in special area like runway and etc

1 minute ago, sd_flyer said:

There are plenty tragic accidents when aircraft plunged  into crowed during demonstration. As far as I know in most developed countries do not allows preformed over the crowd and sometimes even near. Usually performance done over in special area like runway and etc

Yeah but as accidents show, the risk is still there.

Went for a joyride in a Bell 206 once at Barton airshow. Following week the exact same chopper I'd rode in was doing another show near St Helens and it crashed. Airshows can definitely be dangerous and anyone who has been to one will know it has a big disclaimer printed on the back of the ticket which basically says, 'if a plane crashes on you, tough, that's a chance you're taking'.

Edited August 15, 20205 yr by Chock

11 minutes ago, Slides said:

Yeah but as accidents show, the risk is still there.

As mentioned before we mitigate risk in aviation. There are always a risk. But there  is also recklessness. The buddy you admire is no military pilot who training in path star war canyon. He is just fun loving kid he hasn't bumped his head enough yet. So there is difference between joes and pros.

Now I apologize for off topic lets move on with fight model. There are people who already got release version! Wow! 

 

Just now, sd_flyer said:

As mentioned before we mitigate risk in aviation. There are always a risk. But there  is also recklessness. The buddy you admire is no military pilot who training in path star war canyon. He is just fun loving kid he hasn't bumped his head enough yet. So there is difference between joes and pros.

Now I apologize for off topic lets move on with fight model. There are people who already got release version! Wow! 

 

Not every stunt pilot is a military pilot. Everyone was a joe once. I didn't even know about this guy until two days ago.

1 minute ago, Slides said:

Everyone was a joe once.

True, but as the saying goes: 'there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.'

Edited August 15, 20205 yr by Chock

6 minutes ago, Chock said:

True, but as the saying goes: 'there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.'

Yeah but the bold pilots who made it to old age were usually the pioneers. 

41 minutes ago, Ikaro said:

He's a son of a billionaire trust fund kid who never worked a day in his life. i find it hard to trust someone coming from that position.

You can't buy a pilot's license and you can't get to CFI without actually putting in a ton of effort. Trust me, I know.

8 minutes ago, Chock said:

True, but as the saying goes: 'there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.'

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