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First, something cool.

Now, AIRPLANE DRAMA!

Some background....Dan Gryder is a Georgia-based CFI who retired from Delta Airlines about 9 or 10 years back. Before that, he was most infamous for an incident in which he was arrested by police after a long-running feud with officials at Spaulding-Griffin Airport. Delta suspended him for a time before reinstating him, and he retired a year or so after that. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=e9ebdcc3-4ace-4dd6-82fd-d58dc055ec22

Since then, he seems to mostly have behaved himself, aside from a co-partnership in a skydiving venture that does not appear to have been successful. Dan is one of the last few people left on the planet offering type ratings on the DC-3, which I am told is good business with all these boomers and their six-figure pensions buying up historical icons.

His main focus these days seems to be improving the safety culture in general aviation, particularly by incorporating tools and options such as AQP (Advanced Qualification Program(s)) (used liberally by airlines in the Part 121 world) which many 135 companies and normie aviators have not heard of.




He has his own youtube channel now where he mainly talks about crashes, including his own commentary, which often runs counter to official NTSB findings, which rubs some people the wrong way. And now he apparently is not afraid to call out another youtuber for what he describes as being party to fraud. The accused individual is Matt Guthmiller, who is mainly known for flying around the world at 19 and also the time he thought it was a good idea to invite himself to Russia and got detained.


Some high-quality autism begins at around the 8 minute mark.


Standing in traffic while wearing a stethoscope and bugging bystanders! Dan has some real potential.

 
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How expensive is aviation fuel on average? I've always wanted to own a plane to tour around the world.
 
Ser Prize said:
How expensive is aviation fuel on average? I've always wanted to own a plane to tour around the world.
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Expensive. Jet A is averaging $5 a gallon in the US right now, which is up compared to a year ago. Russia is getting blamed as they can't export their oil.
 
The fucking Reno Air Races did it again, managed to have a double-fatal collision between two T-6-class aircraft on left base AFTER the race had concluded.

For those who are unaware, the Reno Air Races have a horrible safety record.

I have a distant connection to the 2011 crash, a friend of the family was dating a man who took his son to that race and they were sitting in the grandstands when the Galloping Ghost went directly into the ground. They were both injured; the son was blinded by debris.

Last year they had another fatality in the Jet-class race.

@Archie_Kimkicker Dan Gryder is going to be losing his shit over this one.
 
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The fucking Reno Air Races did it again, managed to have a double-fatal collision between two T-6-class aircraft on left base AFTER the race had concluded.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uk8z7EtGiAA
For those who are unaware, the Reno Air Races have a horrible safety record.

I have a distant connection to the 2011 crash, a friend of the family was dating a man who took his son to that race and they were sitting in the grandstands when the Galloping Ghost went directly into the ground. They were both injured; the son was blinded by debris.

Last year they had another fatality in the Jet-class race.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pjW0ruRavHw
@Archie_Kimkicker Dan Gryder is going to be losing his shit over this one.
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My understanding is that this year's races were going to be the last for Reno, barring a miracle.

I don't recall if Dan touched on last year's crash. He can be hard to keep up with since he likes to delete videos after about a week.
 
So far there is a surprising lack of photo and video of this happening considering the place. I know they were on cooldown and approach respectively, but there had to be some cameras trained on them. The way RARA handled this crash was pretty disappointing. I was watching live and had to go, when I resumed the stream later and the T6 race ended it went on commercial break then went to a title card until the stream ended abruptly. I figured they messed up the stream, when I saw an email about it a few hours later it was quite a sad realization. They didn't say a word about it on the stream, no announcement, no chyron, no nothing. Just the title card then the end of the stream, which had two seconds of camera focused on distant emergency vehicles right at the end of it. A sad way for the Reno air races to end, and a bad omen for their search for another venue where they can continue racing. The aircraft involved were the first and second place finishers in the T6 gold class, FWIW.
 
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So far there is a surprising lack of photo and video of this happening considering the place. I know they were on cooldown and approach respectively, but there had to be some cameras trained on them. The way RARA handled this crash was pretty disappointing. I was watching live and had to go, when I resumed the stream later and the T6 race ended it went on commercial break then went to a title card until the stream ended abruptly. I figured they messed up the stream, when I saw an email about it a few hours later it was quite a sad realization. They didn't say a word about it on the stream, no announcement, no chyron, no nothing. Just the title card then the end of the stream, which had two seconds of camera focused on distant emergency vehicles right at the end of it. A sad way for the Reno air races to end, and a bad omen for their search for another venue where they can continue racing. The aircraft involved were the first and second place finishers in the T6 gold class, FWIW.
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I had the same experience. Stream just suddenly ended, I didn't know what happened until I saw Juan Browne/blancolirio's video.

This industry is practically begging for the FAA to start introducing additional restrictions for airshows and racing.

These geriatric fucks keep crashing shit for whatever reason and they keep emphasizing the "no one injured on the ground" but for fuck's sake it's been purely by the grace of God these idiots haven't managed to kill more audience members or even non-participating people on the ground.


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Apparently Race Control earlier, during the Unlimited Gold race, allowed a Yak 11 that had a stuck landing gear to RE ENTER the race and the pilots started bitching at them for being retarded.


Jesus fucking Christ, these people.
 
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