Ok so I have a question what is life like as a pilot?

Something on my own: Was just watching another episode of Air Crash Investigation about LAPA Flight 3142. The cause of the crash is an old chestnut that has come up in many accidents and ACI episodes - trying to take off without flaps and slats deployed - but what is new is that the pilots received a loud warning for over half a minute that the plane was not configured for takeoff and yet tried to do so, seemingly ignoring the alarm.

Coleman: You will have to narrow it down a bit. What sort of pilot we talking about?

A regional commercial pilot such a interstate flights or state to state for non-expensive goods like soaps, t shirts, etc.

So I did some birbwatching today.

edited 10th Feb '18 7:47:48 AM by eagleoftheninth

Flurry Of Aircraft Shootdowns And Counterstrikes Erupt Across Israel And Syria (Updated).

Shit be gettin' weird in that part of the world.

And I think that marks the 2nd or 3rd air-to-air kill by an Apache helicopter in history.

Also the Harop's second confirmed usage. That thing is pretty cool.

That said, Syria is pretty much a case study in going from bad to worse at this point.

edited 11th Feb '18 4:18:15 PM by archonspeaks

I considered putting my name in for the NCO drone operator program, but I've read enough about that job to know it can be pretty stressful in its own ways. Decided it just wasn't worth what would come with it.

Well here's something that had everyone aboard at full brown alert: a United flight to Hawaii lost an engine cowling and had to make an emergency landing

edited 13th Feb '18 7:35:30 PM by tryrar

Flight Simulator Add-On Tried to Catch Pirates By Installing Password-Stealing Malware on Their Computers

So they included malware with their software that would steal folks' Chrome username and password lists and send it back to them for reasons. Supposedly it only activates on bootleg copies, but it was originally included even with paid copies.

Pretty sure that's flat out illegal.

Also guarantees the company a coveted position on my blacklist of untrustworthy merchants.

I feel more insulted how they attempted to hide the code on a fucking file named text.exe.

For the fucks sake, this is more obvious than the first 1Kb file you'd get whenever you typed anything on Limewire.

And people wonder why most gamers that don't pirate games utterly hate DRM even more than the pirates do?

Like they haven't learned anything since EA Games tried to DRM Mass Effect 2 in ways that forced the legit buyers to get the cracks for the game.

Yeah the firm screaming "muh copyrights" just done something that means I will never buy their shit, ever.

Take this to the computer thread guys.

You don't always get what you want◊

Given how they operate, 'tis a waste of perfectly good sensors too

edited 23rd Feb '18 2:55:30 PM by Krieger22

I can see where they've made an effort at stealth but there's a lot of parts that really just don't look stealthy at all to me. Between the entire back end and the gaping intakes and IRST disco ball up front I'm not sure how much of that is actually gonna be stealthy.

It's probably have the same observability of the F-35, that is to say, barely qualifies.

If anything, it'll probably run stealthier given the T-50 hasn't set itself on fire or runs such an uber-hot engine exhaust that you could see from halfway across the galaxy.

The F-35 will probably end up being a lot stealthier. Just from looking at the two you can see the difference, the F-35 has DS Is which block the view of the compressor from the front while the Su-57 has totally open inlets, plus the LO shaping of doors on the F-35 compared with traditional doors on the Su-57. Even just in terms of the overall shape the F-35 comes out ahead, it doesn't have all of the surface features the Su-57 has. The US is the undisputed master of the game when it comes to stealth.

I think it's an interesting example of differing design directives though, we're moving away from a maneuverability requirement while the Russians are pursing extreme maneuverability.

The Su-57 isn't a full on stealth craft it is supposedly as invisible as anything we've made but only from the front.

I think the idea they were going for is a silent approach and then overpowering enemy aircraft with superior maneuverability and armament once they're within visual range.

If they get snuck up on from behind or so on then they've already failed to do their job in the first place and make the intercept.

edited 23rd Feb '18 6:03:36 PM by LeGarcon

Yeah, I've heard that theory as well. I just can't imagine it's that stealthy from the front either. It's clearly been given some LO shaping but it's almost like an afterthought to the design. The stealthy run up approach isn't really a viable tactic any more, you really need to either go all in on the stealth or just forget about it. The WVR era is over.

Combined with the fact that there seems to be zero interest in acquiring any real number of them I'm starting to think the real purpose is bragging rights as being part of the 5th gen/stealth jet club. It's a shame because it's one sexy aircraft.

Is it 1963 again?

I could see it as also being a tool for developing the tech in the first place. The Russians were never very big into stealth prior to this for their aircraft. It took the US over a decade of study to create the F-117.