- cross-posted to:
- damnthatsinteresting@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- damnthatsinteresting@lemmy.ml
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It’s flying over a river not over people or buildings. Just some info for the terminally outraged.
IIRC there’s an onboard view that’s pretty cool as well
It’s on purpose to generate outrage bc they posted it 3 separate times, not even a crosspost, and one of them is correctly labeled. This world instance is super bad with the outrage porn.
What do you mean correctly labeled? In the flying one where the Riverfire festival is well known I used the more specific phrasing. To the average person Riverfire literally means nothing so I left it out for the more generic description.
From the posts it looks like you removed context and changed wording to get more of a reaction or double clicks bc people might think its a diff view. It’s wierd behavior bc most users would make a complete title, not clicklbaity, and then crosspost.
This was the first post I made and I slightly tweaked the phrasing as I went on. To be honest I haven’t found the cross-post button yet, the UI here is leaving a fair amount to be desired, so I just went through my subscribed communities and found places it would fit in and posted it again since Lemmy is generally a barren wasteland with low participation.
here, i agree the ui isnt great https://imgur.com/a/Vnp8iTL
Yeah, a small icon that you need to hover over to find what it is. Does the view button on my Xbox controller crosspost as well? It has the same picture that is totally a universal symbol. Meanwhile, when scrolling through posts I absolutely love the feature where the same exact place to click does different things on different posts. Sometimes it expands a picture like RES, sometimes it opens a whole new page, it’s always a fun guess on whether you’re going to see content or lose your spot in your feed!
Either way I have generally seen crossposts on reddit as being abused by spambots and as such, favor unique posts in relevant communities rather than single button spamming a dozen at a time. To each his own.
yea the little grey icons are on the top right of the thumbnail so its hard to tell, my shits always losing its place.
Hm…glad it’s not just me noticing it.
the river isn’t that wide. also it just seems so unnecessarily dangerous.
Like, wtf?
It’s for an annual airshow.
That’s fuckin stupid.
I mean, it’s an annual airshow. It’s done every year without an issue, it’s not more dangerous than normal military flying if done correctly.
I think the “if done correctly” is the part they’re worried about. Accidents do happen at airshows. Still though, what an experience to see that.
Simple low level flying is one of the safer things they show off at airshows. This really isn’t anywhere near as dangerous as people with no experience or training in it think it is.
Humans make mistakes. That’s just a simple fact.
This stunt is putting lives at risk. And for what, marketing purposes? That’s just stupid.
Very little in flying is left to chance or simple human execution. If there is an actual risk, it has been identified, discussed and mitigated from multiple angles. That is why the C-17 has a min crew of 3 and they fly this with at least 5. Two pilots and two additional observers in the jump seats. Every obstacle is known, charted, identified and visually acquired before they are allowed to continue without climbing. The route is closely monitored and built into the mission computer to ensure they are sticking to it. There are calculated margins and buffers with triggers should any be breached with sufficient excess to allow an escape maneuver before anything bad happens. People who don’t know what they are talking about thinking it is dangerous doesn’t make it dangerous.
Ok, so what about this one C-17 that crashed in Alaska in 2010 practicing for an air show?
Its stupid to be that confident in anything. What if an engine fails? A control surface? What if the plane breaks in half? Maybe those are unlikely to happen but is the risk worth killing hundreds if not thousands of unsuspecting people?
Its a 100 ton machine flying at 300km/h between buildings in a populated city. It doesn’t matter how much people believe it’s safe, nothing is ever 100% safe and here the risks are too high while the reward is simply a cool stunt.
I was initially quite suprised that there has been two seperate air crashes in the last month of military excersises here in Aus, but seeing this makes those start to make a bit more sense
Lotta armchair pilots in this thread
Always is, which is even more fun when you’re an actual pilot.
This is older than the reddit api controversy and exodus
So… Not that old?
Probably around a year or two before the api controversy based on what I can recall
thats definitly cgi, dafuq
It’s a regular thing, not sure why you think it’s CGI.
i am no pilot, but a typical one would be frightened if saw such plane would fly that low, especially between skyscrapers like that…anyway, thats also taxpayer freedom money not put in very good use
Morale, recruiting and training value. Low level flying is one of the C-17’s main mission sets. If it wasn’t doing it here it would be doing the exact same thing somewhere else.
i thought chinooks were intended for that kind of usage, but i am no expert…u seem to be informed enough that i shouldn’t argue with u much. so TIL
