Photos in flight? Bad idea!
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I have enjoyed reading this article, as I ... shock horror ... like to take pctures when I fly. I do it carefully, when the aircraft is trimmed out, etc, and no other 'traffic' is around, and certainly not at 'critical' phases of the flight. I like taking pictures when I fly, and as one poster said, it allows you to look back and re-enjoy what you saw during your flight. I have some beautiful pictures of the Shropshire hills last summer, and also one of me joining of the mile hile club ... (reaching 5280ft) ... not the naughty one ... tricky in a 152?!
Where are them blood pressure pills?
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I do have to pull up two posters ... Pace ... you are a culprit! ... 'some may flirt with the female in the right seat' ... that would make me a lesbian ... assumptions ... assumptions!
Apologies I was talking from my perspective
But could be a Guy in the right seat being flirted with a woman in the left or even a Guy and a Guy or a Woman and a Woman or the family pet to some distorted mind as to the Mile high club I am sure that happens to and is far more dangerous than taking pictures in many ways
In my Seneca twin days I can remember flying low level along the islands and then up Loch Ness to Inverness in the height of the summer with a very attractive female co pilot who was very well endowed. In hot weather she had the habit of unbuttoning a number of buttons too many
especially in turbulence it was very distracting and far more so than taking scenery pics out the window As for someone grabbing the joystick at critical stages of flight the mind boggles ))))Only joking (the last bit joking)))
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OK, so what about this guy:
Warning, his video of their take-off plays obnoxious loud music: Instagram
To be fair, the pilot in the right seat looks completely focused on the job at hand, so it's not clear to me that there's a safety issue. Nevertheless, I can't help but hope that the camera got sucked away.... :P
Warning, his video of their take-off plays obnoxious loud music: Instagram
To be fair, the pilot in the right seat looks completely focused on the job at hand, so it's not clear to me that there's a safety issue. Nevertheless, I can't help but hope that the camera got sucked away.... :P
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Don't quite get what he's doing there, is he holding a camera out of the window on a pole? If he lost the camera it looks like it would go neatly into the left hand donk.
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I think you are right his hand is out of the side window so one of those poles for Selfie extensions which is not a clever thing to do and as a Captain he should know better
if it did detach and go through the engine the bill would be $500 K {{ expensive picture and very irresponsible.
the Jet appears to be on a taxiway so I presume with engine running and not parked up with dead engine before flight. Plain stupid!
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I think you are right his hand is out of the side window so one of those poles for Selfie extensions which is not a clever thing to do and as a Captain he should know better
if it did detach and go through the engine the bill would be $500 K {{ expensive picture and very irresponsible.
the Jet appears to be on a taxiway so I presume with engine running and not parked up with dead engine before flight. Plain stupid!
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Once on very short final with a female instructor who was definitely built to the original drawings, her seat back collapsed, lifting her and seat upright while flaring with one hand not the best idea, I should have taken a picture
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there was a certain trilander Captain in the CI that used to smoke a pipe.
His habit was to knock it out on the side of the plane in flight.
One day the bowl came off and went into the prop which then fired it straight through the hull and out the other side.
Think it cost him a crate of beer to get fixed.
His habit was to knock it out on the side of the plane in flight.
One day the bowl came off and went into the prop which then fired it straight through the hull and out the other side.
Think it cost him a crate of beer to get fixed.
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Pace: ' In my Seneca twin days I can remember flying low level along the islands and then up Loch Ness to Inverness in the height of the summer' Ooooh ... interested in the Seneca ... would love to fly one of those! 'with a very attractive female co pilot who was very well endowed.' Well, we have to use everything to our advantage, thank goodness for Wonderbras, and 'chicken fillets'! 'In hot weather she had the habit of unbuttoning a number of buttons too many especially in turbulence it was very distracting and far more so than taking scenery pics out the window As for someone grabbing the joystick at critical stages of flight the mind boggles )))) ' Now, you're just being silly! It would have to be a pretty dumb pilot to get 'one of those' mixed up with the joystick?! Or maybe someone's just after a promotion? Hmmmmm :-)
especially in turbulence it was very distracting and far more so than taking scenery pics out the window As for someone grabbing the joystick at critical stages of flight the mind boggles )))) ' Now, you're just being silly! It would have to be a pretty dumb pilot to get 'one of those' mixed up with the joystick?! Or maybe someone's just after a promotion? Hmmmmm :-)
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PACE I watched the video above before it was deleted from Instagram, the video clearly showed the Captain doing the selfie thing while the aircraft was rotating, he in my opinion needs to be shot.
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A thought for the Instructors following this thread, suggest you confiscate your student's smartphone before sending them off on solo flight.
It's very cool for the student to come back with the photo/selfie to show their friends but ...
(I can't believe I'm the only student to have done it !)
It's very cool for the student to come back with the photo/selfie to show their friends but ...
(I can't believe I'm the only student to have done it !)
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suggest you confiscate your student's smartphone before sending them off on solo flight
I worked with 2 instructors during my training. One didn't care about me taking quick photos on the downwind leg on my 3rd solo circuit practice. Half of those pics were useless, as I just shot them on a try-and-error approach, the other showed me focusing so strongly on flying the plane, my friends asked me: why are you so serious? I said I was waiting for the engine failure that we practiced for sooo many times...
The other instructor took photos about me before my solo flight, just to get that stuff behind us
Interestingly, in ground school, we were also educated on how to buzz something on the ground. The instructor explained that such low level flight manouvers are clearly illegal, very risky and therefore stupid, but if we ever want to try it, at least we should know how to avoid crashing. So he explained how to select the right speed not to stall out during the pull up, how to plan approach and the exit to avoid obstacles on the ground etc. Curiosity satisfied, we weren't so interested anymore in this topic afterwards, especially knowing how many extra things can kill us in low level manouvering.
