It’s not even risky. I’m not saying that the climber isn’t brave. But the parachute equates it to a protected, belayed wall climb. It’s a gimmick.
No more risky than skydiving?
But I react to the video title, “The worlds most extreme climb” and the intro where he says he will climb the aircraft without a rope or safety harness… He is implying that what he’s doing is extremely risky, isn’t he? If he falls off he just pulls the chute. If you fall off when free climbing a mountain, well… I call that extreme climbing.
Also…
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Is it just me or does it look like the last guy to go (in the black jumpsuit) hit the horizontal stab?
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My dad worked as a whitesmith on the front part of the fuselage back in the day in Let Kunovice.
Very much hands on affair. He loved that glider.
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Looks like it, yeah…
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Cool! Sturdy airframe! Aerodynamics are nowhere near that of modern day carbon composite constructions, of course, but it will probably outlast them
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Maybe. But the ADs were such that our club had to dump our L-13 for a song. It flew OK. But I don’t recall anyone shedding a tear when it was trailered away.
Wing spar problems, was it…?
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Don’t remember. That makes sense though as (IIRC) the glider was certified with enough load strength to allow mild aerobatics. That was limited away unless and until the AD was fully complied with.
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How did he/she land there, or why would he/she choose to land there…
I’m curious…
Does anyone here ever fly over the south Atlantic? Is there an effect on flight instrumentation?
Hope I’m not asking anything stupid. 
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I just flew with a C-130 ski pilot who flies regularly to Antartica. We talked a bit about Russian GPS jamming and spoofing. But he never mentioned compass anomalies. Truth be told, the magnetic compass is an anachronistic holdover from a far earlier time. I have never once referenced, nor was I ever trained to reference, the wet compass. All magnetic heading information is from the two or three IRS’s corrected for variation. If we fly far enough north or south (73N, 60S—in our relatively old 75- and 767s) we flip a switch to True.
And not at all a stupid question. This was news to me until you posted it here. Scary actually. The magnetosphere helps make life possible on Earth. I’d rather it be nice and stable.
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Isn’t the loss (or lack) of a magnetosphere one of the theories about why Mars once had a much denser atmosphere and abundant surface water, but now doesn’t?
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Borderline? It’s at least three full steps into madness.
We left “borderline madness” in the rearview mirror…
EDIT: and yet I’d wish I could work on that plane…
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Reddit. Sorry. On first seeing this I was certain it was AI. What made me confident of its voracity was the camera work. It is so truly awful as to be a clear example of the sort of ineptitude that only humans are capable of. Accord to reddit at least 4 of the 7 occupants were killed.
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I don’t get what the pilot was thinking.
He must have known that the aircraft had been severely damaged.
You are flying one of the very few helicopters that don’t instantly kill everyone when they lose their tail, you are on the ground (shallow water, not great but not death), everyone has a good chance of survival. And then you… decide to take off again?
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100% with all that you are saying
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Me too. I don’t think he realized that he had lost the tail. Something just “wasn’t right”. It seems possible that the tail struck the lower rotor disk at least once.
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The more recent of my two near fatal mishaps. As handling pilot I rotated and it all went wrong. I focused 99% on keeping in the air. In the background I heard my paramedic describe the problem exactly. My FO understandably for someone speaking a foreign language in high stress repeated the problem in a stressed tone. We both had attended the sim rides where this event had been presented resulting in the US Army captain almost leaving the aircraft early in flight and the manufacturer describing it as a non survivable event. I focussed. Made one decision - low level circuit to land at minimum handling speed, a decision made about 2 seconds after rotate. The voice recorder gave the time. I then said on the tape we are ■■■■■■. In such circumstances the pilot is under much more stress than in any sim ride and it is impossible to put yourself in his or her mind.
We survived. No damage to the plane but it took a week for that to be confirmed.
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