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  1. Just now, Hate said:

     

     

    He jumped with his hands in the air on purpose.  The bad throw led the receiver into the contact.  IMO, that should have been a no call. Thw biggest problem the NFL has going forward is the pass interference calls.  The are too much a part of every game.  One game it gets called and the next it doesn't.  That call on Kittle at the end of the half?  That was ridiculous as well mostly because that never gets called.

    Is this the first game you've ever watched in your life? Throwing short and away from a receiver to draw a pass interference flag on the defender when his body gets in the way of the WR getting the pass without the defender even turning around is a classic acceptable move... 

  2. I'm 33. I have almost all of my retirement investments going into Vanguard Institutional 500 Index Trust since I was told to just follow S&P 500 and set it and forget it. I get the gambling itch to take some of it out into Fidelity's Brokeragelink where I can invest some in any stock just to learn more investing. I see companies returning much more than the 29% my current portfolio returned last year and I wonder... what if I took 20% of my portfolio and hopped on a band wagon of one of these companies and rode them for a year.. TO THE MOON! 

    But then I get scared because I have no idea what i'm doing.

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  3. I guess I’m missing it.  I see white truck back away, fire truck leave, third vehicle go speeding by.  there’s a fourth?


    Between the 15 and 25 second marks you’ll see a white truck drive into the drive way of the home on the top left and never leave. Right in the path of the fire.

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  4. If all they had was the ipad then surely its broken or fried and even if it wasn't I doubt they could recover useful data from it. Do those piloting apps store data locally? Do they stream it to the cloud and that data is available somewhere for NTSB to look?

    Also has the S-76 been known to ever clip off the tailboom with the MR blade in any condition? Is it a fully articulated rotor that could get into a dynamic mode that flaps the blades enough to cause it? This happened in our Bell 525 aircraft in a certain regime but I wouldn't imagine it happen to a production aircraft with plenty of flight hours.

  5. 34 minutes ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

    I'm a bit confused.  Some reports say he was in a climb  to rise above cloud and others are saying he was rapidly descending and hit a mountain.  

     

     

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    Zobayan was told to follow a freeway and stay at or below 2,500 feet (762 meters), according to radio traffic. About four minutes later, “the pilot advised they were climbing to avoid a cloud layer,” Jennifer Homendy of the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.

    It was his last message to air traffic controllers.

    “When ATC asked what the pilot planned to do, there was no reply,” Homendy said. “Radar data indicates the helicopter climbed to 2,300 feet (701 meters) and then began a left descending turn.”

    So to answer your question, he did both, first a climb then for whatever reason started a left descending turn. Maybe as others suggested the turn and descent was inadvertent as he got lost in the clouds, spatial disorientation or vertigo. Or maybe because he was already at 2,300 ft while climbing he knew he could only climb 200 more ft before he violated the 2,500 ft max so he started to descend while turning back towards the direction he came from, not knowing that the mountains were hidden in the clouds.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    This. 

    I'm not sure how busy that area they were in is, but I dont think it is in class B airspace. Having said that, it can be really busy for flight training since it is (guessing) just outside of B and likely D.  

    As far as the quick decent, I have had spatial disorientation once before, and it scared me. It was with an instructor and he was ripping me around with a "hood" on (blocks vision) and I knew in my heart we were holding altitude in a slight right turn. I look up and we were descending 600 feet per minute in a steep left. He pulled power so the rpms never changed. 

    How did you not feel the change in direction from right to left even if the RPM's never changed? 

  7. I can judge whomever I please. Yeah he can do whatever he wants and he did. And I can point to its grandstanding nature. Cuban probably doesn’t see it that way, but he’s making a move that nobody else will make. Why?  To call attention to himself. 


    On that note, congratulations on being a mind reader. Since he seriously needs the attention and money right now. Luka and his billions aren’t enough. Eye roll.
  8. Jives with what ESPN is saying but they could just be reading the same graph I guess.

    "Shortly after 9:40 a.m., the helicopter turned again, toward the southeast, and climbed to more than 2,000 feet above sea level. It then descended and crashed into the hillside at about 1,400 feet, according to data from Flightradar24.

    When it struck the ground, the helicopter was flying at about 160 knots (184 mph) and descending at a rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute (45 mph), the Flightradar24 data showed."

    https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28572984/helicopter-carrying-kobe-bryant-made-climbing-turn-rapid-dive

     

    EDIT: duh they say it in the quote "the FLightradar24 data showed" 

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