This was an extremely high hour machine, 13,000 on the airframe and 26,000 on the engine. Not sure if that's significant, but it's definitely interesting.
thevoyagekayaking
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I suspect they're just seeing big bull deer or a Wapiti.
I think I've heard about this dude, he's basically a benign version of a conspiracy theorist.
I'm very much on the same page, pics or it didn't happen. If there really was a moose population, there would be prints, poo, antlers, or some other evidence.
Instead, we have a number of sightings, almost always by people from areas where moose live, but no photos.
And I believe the fact it always seems to be Americans or Canadians is significant, perhaps they're more likely to think moose when they see a shape, rather than a NZer, who would assume it was a deer?
And everyone else on that frequency, which would have been a few people if this was broadcast on 16.
Ouch. How many units do you have in service?
The weather forecast that Inreach offers is also excellent, hopefully there will be a way to replicate that over cell service.
We'll find out, I guess.
There is something funny about him just bypassing them, to be honest.
Steering it wasn't the issue, it was how to actually take control from the autopilot.
Except it was a different failure mode to what they were concerned about.
Third incident, this is the second major fuck up in recent time.
And I was on the boat for the first one.
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Helicopters can autorotate, meaning fly without power, and the Jetranger from my understanding has quite good autorotation characteristics.
If this was simply a power failure, they should have been able to land just fine.