April 20, 20224 yr LOL! "All eyes will be up to the skies above California on Sunday as two cousins dare to accomplish a never-before-seen air stunt." https://abcnews.go.com/US/pilot-cousins-attempt-1st-plane-swap-midair/story?id=84172966 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
April 20, 20224 yr go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong.......... Edited April 20, 20224 yr by W2DR Kant spel Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
April 21, 20224 yr You guys are pessimists, the world needs the one in a million people like this with crazy ideas, otherwise Christopher Columbus would have just stayed home. Risk takers have their place in human development I think it's awesome and when well planned the risks are drastically reduced, as Benjamin Franklin once said.... "failing to plan is planning to fail" Or to quote Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith.... "I love it when a plan comes together" 🤣 Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
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April 21, 20224 yr Are groups elegible for Darwin Awards?😝 Best regards,Luis Hernández Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (with SMT off and CO -50 mV), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5060Ti 16GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS air cooler, Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120-144 Hz (G-sync compatible), Windows 11. Running P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 scenery objects as an additional library, just in case), FSX-SE, MSFS2020, MSFS2024 and even FS9! Lossless Scaling for all my sims. What a godsend...Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there .VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/mobile.
April 25, 20224 yr Moderator Apparently it didn’t work and they lost one plane but fortunately no one was killed or injured. Video of the stunt in the link. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/24/plane-swap-stunt-unsuccessful-arizona/7434361001/ Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
April 25, 20224 yr 11 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said: Apparently it didn’t work and they lost one plane but fortunately no one was killed or injured. As it turns out, the FAA had previously denied the organizer's request to fly this stunt. So now, the Feds are looking into Red Bull's operation to "switch pilots between two airplanes"... kinda the same way they investigated Trevor Jacob. 😬
April 25, 20224 yr A link that includes the FAA's Denial of Petition before the flight: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/failed-plane-swap-stunt-prompts-faa-investigation/story?id=84295598
April 26, 20224 yr My view is; I still don't care if these two want to jump between airplanes as they planned, but I didn't realize they did not have consent from the FAA, seeing as this was a Red Bull sponsored event you would have thought they would have received a consent beforehand, but I guess not. If the FAA doesn't give permission they should not have done this, if they don't have permission from the FAA then go somewhere else who will, this could be good publicity for another country like over the desert outside Dubai if they give permission. Edited April 26, 20224 yr by Matthew Kane Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
May 12, 20224 yr Aaannnnd both pilots have been... SUSPENDED!! No great surprise. This will be the case that folks cite "When the FAA says NO they mean NO!" as a warning not to cross the Feds.😁 Have to wonder how long the YouTubers will continue trying to monetize their aviation adventures by doing... well, not smart and/or unapproved stunts. In this case at least one of the pilots was also fined almost $5000US. More here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-suspends-licenses-two-pilots-involved-failed-red-bull-stunt-rcna28506
May 12, 20224 yr https://thehill.com/news/3486186-faa-revokes-licenses-of-pilots-in-failed-red-bull-plane-swap/
May 13, 20224 yr Moderator 11 hours ago, RobPol471 said: https://thehill.com/news/3486186-faa-revokes-licenses-of-pilots-in-failed-red-bull-plane-swap/ Since there was already a topic on this, i merged your post to it. Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
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