Re:Updating my plane’s very old GPS data in a very modern way
by paulmd on Saturday November 19, 2016 @02:42AM
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PS: as far as I know all of those pilots flew again. Except the ultralight guy of course.
The air traffic controllers are there for you. They are waiting for you to declare an emergency so they can use their superpowers to help - I've literally heard a controller prompt a distressed pilot to make a declaration. Once you say those magic words, "[tail number] declaring an emergency", you literally can request any clearance or approach and reject anything they grant if that's what you need in order to get onto the ground. They will bend heaven and earth to get you back down safely - they will divert multiple airliner traffic for you if that's what it takes. Tell them what is wrong and they will rally ground resources for you and tell you from a 3rd party perspective what they think your best move is. They are there to help you, the pilot who is fighting a losing battle in their tiny, fragile, flammable little bubble of a world, and the FAA will likely forgive all if you weren't a total retard about the whole accident. Admitting you made a mistake is 75% of the battle.
That's the deal, you tell daddy and everything will be OK. They need to know what actually happened so they can address the actual risks of aviation. If people are flying tired, they want to know. If digital cockpits are too complex, they want to know. Etc etc. That's their mandate. General aviation is a super fucking risky business, they know it, there's tons of hardware failure and pilot error and combinations thereof, and they want to try and make it safer.
But if you try to fuck the system then you will be taken out and shot out back as far as the FAA is concerned. Lying to them is the worst offense you can possibly do as a pilot, either in an incident report or in your maintenance logs. If they catch that it's over.
They track every problem back relentlessly and they will have a very solid chance of catching you in a lie, because they want to make damned sure nobody else ever dies needlessly to the same thing that downed your aircraft. There is no such thing as "nobody's fault" as far as the FAA is concerned and they will bend heaven and hell just as hard to find out what really happened. Every part in every system on your plane has a page in a binder that lists everyone who touched it - they will find it eventually.
If you have a problem, you fess up to your lie right then and there, or you better hope you crash so bad that when you hit every chip on that memory card is shattered beyond repair. You get to choose, either confess and live, or die and keep your secret, or live and keep your secret and spend the rest of your life as a paraplegic. Either way it will be on the ground where you belong.
The air traffic controllers are there for you. They are waiting for you to declare an emergency so they can use their superpowers to help - I've literally heard a controller prompt a distressed pilot to make a declaration. Once you say those magic words, "[tail number] declaring an emergency", you literally can request any clearance or approach and reject anything they grant if that's what you need in order to get onto the ground. They will bend heaven and earth to get you back down safely - they will divert multiple airliner traffic for you if that's what it takes. Tell them what is wrong and they will rally ground resources for you and tell you from a 3rd party perspective what they think your best move is. They are there to help you, the pilot who is fighting a losing battle in their tiny, fragile, flammable little bubble of a world, and the FAA will likely forgive all if you weren't a total retard about the whole accident. Admitting you made a mistake is 75% of the battle.
That's the deal, you tell daddy and everything will be OK. They need to know what actually happened so they can address the actual risks of aviation. If people are flying tired, they want to know. If digital cockpits are too complex, they want to know. Etc etc. That's their mandate. General aviation is a super fucking risky business, they know it, there's tons of hardware failure and pilot error and combinations thereof, and they want to try and make it safer.
But if you try to fuck the system then you will be taken out and shot out back as far as the FAA is concerned. Lying to them is the worst offense you can possibly do as a pilot, either in an incident report or in your maintenance logs. If they catch that it's over.
They track every problem back relentlessly and they will have a very solid chance of catching you in a lie, because they want to make damned sure nobody else ever dies needlessly to the same thing that downed your aircraft. There is no such thing as "nobody's fault" as far as the FAA is concerned and they will bend heaven and hell just as hard to find out what really happened. Every part in every system on your plane has a page in a binder that lists everyone who touched it - they will find it eventually.
If you have a problem, you fess up to your lie right then and there, or you better hope you crash so bad that when you hit every chip on that memory card is shattered beyond repair. You get to choose, either confess and live, or die and keep your secret, or live and keep your secret and spend the rest of your life as a paraplegic. Either way it will be on the ground where you belong.