• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    8 个月前

    Being a pilot is still considered to usually be in the top five most dangerous things you can do.

    There’s a reason for the checklists. Like many aviation rules, they came from someone bending metal or getting killed.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      4·
      8 个月前

      Yea yea, but none of that mater. You see, if I don’t trim correctly, I get an ORANGE prompt in my ECAM.

      That’s even worse than a squiggly line in an IDE, it must go, and the fact that it even came up will probably keep me up at night.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 个月前

      I don’t think this is true though? In either the civilian or military world?

      According to stats from the US Department of Labor, commerical pilots have a fatality rate of like ~52. Which makes it about as deadly of a profession as “Healthcare Practitioner”, and about half as deadly as “retail sales worker”.

      I couldn’t find any hard numbers for the military but the last combat death Wikipedia has was Capitan Patrick Olson who died after his A-10 was struck by a missile on February 27, 1991 so take that as you will.

        • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 个月前

          I don’t think you actually read your whole article. It’s disputing the bureau of labor’s statistics.

          There’s two important quotes in there:

          Digging further to find those 82 deaths reveals a matrix of flight instruction, sightseeing, ag flying, aeromed operations, pipeline patrol, test flying and so forth.

          And

          Unfortunately, what appears to have happened here is that any commercial pilot involved in an accident was listed … as a commercial pilot death. So that means the commercial pilot flying a personal trip from Ohio to Virginia was probably listed as a commercial pilot death when he crashed, as was the commercial pilot who died on a post-maintenance flight after working on his personal airplane

          • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 个月前

            Ok, well, not the best article then…but without trying to get too deep in the weeds I did say I intended all pilots to be included in my original statement. Therefore even a commercial pilot operating a private aircraft and crashing would be included.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    8 个月前

    Utter tangent:

    Has anyone ever made a PC that … has to be pull started like an older ICE lawn mower?

    EDIT: I’ve jerry rigged together spare PC parts into a make shift media center pc… that used the box my roomate’s Xbox 360 came in as a ‘case’… you had to actually jump the right two pins on the mobo to start it, rofl.

    …we used a paper clip that had a bit of colored rubber or epoxy coating of some kind, wire stripper stripped that off of the last inch or so.

    But a lawnmower start pc … that would be even funnier.

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      5·
      8 个月前

      I imagine having an internal combustion engine that close to computer components would make for a very short lived computer.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        8 个月前

        I mean… yes, lol.

        It wouldn’t be the entire engine, just the starter.

        But even that would probably not be a good idea.

        I just figure someone must have made some kind of custom build that outwardly resembles a pull start, just as a novelty thing, but in actuality just… sends the power on signal to … whatever that particular pin board on the mobo is called.