pageflight

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preliminary information indicated an "in-flight emergency" was to blame, without offering more details.

I'll be interested to read more when it's available. I've been on a similar tour.

Such accidents have occurred before. In 2022, seven people were killed in a plane crash, including two Chileans and three Dutch nationals.

In October 2010, four British tourists and two Peruvian crew members died when an AirNasca plane crashed after taking the tourists to view the site.

Just small planes being more dangerous?

on Homelab Documentation · c/selfhosted · 3 pts · 12d

I learned Ansible for this purpose, so all the modified configs live in a git repo. I still get lazy and modify some things directly (looking at you Minecraft plugins) but a lot of it is pretty easy to set up via IaC.

Thanks for the terminology correction!

Removing the lights, taking the nails out, and untwisting the antenna lowered the SWR but didn't improve the tuning.

SWR improved

Moving it away from the 4x4 pillar, anywhere from 3" to several feet, fixed the tune.

Tune

I ended up using wood standoffs, since I didn't have plastic, which seems to work fine.

final

A five-kilometer beam would not illuminate only its paying customer. Scattered light could reach nearby communities, habitats and roads. The exact reach would depend on weather, atmospheric conditions, brightness and how the mirror is aimed. Flashes created while a reflector changes direction could also distract pilots or drivers.

It's annoying enough when my neighbor's motion sensing porch light keeps turning on. This sounds horrible.

If someone were to aim some spotlights at the employees' houses all night, which nobody should do, it would make interesting news.