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It’s flying over a river not over people or buildings. Just some info for the terminally outraged.
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.
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.
