Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: Callisto on July 05, 2006, 06:10:35 PM
Title: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: Callisto on July 05, 2006, 06:10:35 PM
Ok so I've always wondered... How cool is it to look down on fireworks??? Who has done this? What is the flight rules governing this (if any different from "standard" rules)? I've seen GA Craft fly over different Forth of July celibrations and always thought, "That's gotta be cool!"
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: spacer on July 05, 2006, 11:15:17 PM
It's pretty cool, different angle and all. Generally, fireworks are easy to stay above, and at least I've never heard of a light aircraft being hit by 'em. Of course, there's always FlightSim. If you're flying over Vegas at the New Year, you'll see MSFireworks as you fly over (not quite the same as the real thing, though)
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: Callisto on July 05, 2006, 11:30:33 PM
MSFireworks you say? I've been a life long fan of MSFS, why didn't I know this?
I'll have to check that out! Thanks!
New Years midnight? Over the strip?
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on July 06, 2006, 03:06:43 AM
It's ok. Personally, I'd rather be up close so I can hear them, too. I was actually up last night, and saw many amature displays in Fargo. Pretty, but not as fun as being on the ground.
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: fireflyr on July 06, 2006, 03:31:24 AM
One of the last flights with my Dad was in a Mooney on July 4th 1976 over Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay where they set off the fireworks for the whole city to watch. It was not very impressive because of the airborne perspective and their were a ton of other idiot pilots out there and all of us flying wierd orbits trying not to run into each other----turned out that fireworks are best seen and appreciated from the ground! :-\
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: spacer on July 11, 2006, 12:37:27 AM
----turned out that fireworks are best seen and appreciated from the ground! :-\
...where you can drink a beer while watching them while saying after each one "WOW....Looks like a palm tree !!!! "
NOW you've straightened out the priorities! |:)\
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: Firegirl on July 13, 2006, 04:51:56 PM
Fireworks and beer seem to mix very well.... ;) (that's been my experience)
Although, have you guys ever seen the video of those stupid drunk kids where one decides to launch a rocket out of his a$$ and gets severly burned? HA HA I guess you have to use beer AND fireworks in moderation!! :D
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: Callisto on July 14, 2006, 03:25:49 AM
Fireworks and beer seem to mix very well.... ;) (that's been my experience)
Although, have you guys ever seen the video of those stupid drunk kids where one decides to launch a rocket out of his a$$ and gets severly burned? HA HA I guess you have to use beer AND fireworks in moderation!! :D
HAHAHA----saw the video---the moron should have made the "Darwin Awards" list ;D ;D
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: happylanding on July 14, 2006, 07:33:51 AM
HAHAHA----saw the video---the moron should have made the "Darwin Awards" list ;D ;D
Gosh, when you hear things alike, you can actually think that stupidity isn't limited by anything :( :(. A lot of folk is used to think that fireworks are games and minimize the danger they usually bring...
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: FlyingBlind on July 14, 2006, 08:19:06 AM
Fireworks and Flying...... Do those two things combine like WW2 and Flak ? :P
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: madpilot44 on July 14, 2006, 07:24:45 PM
HAHAHA----saw the video---the moron should have made the "Darwin Awards" list ;D ;D
Gosh, when you hear things alike, you can actually think that stupidity isn't limited by anything :( :(. A lot of folk is used to think that fireworks are games and minimize the danger they usually bring...
Wasn't it Einstein who said "I know two infinite things: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not even sure about the first one"
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: FlyingBlind on July 14, 2006, 07:36:51 PM
HAHAHA----saw the video---the moron should have made the "Darwin Awards" list ;D ;D
Gosh, when you hear things alike, you can actually think that stupidity isn't limited by anything :( :(. A lot of folk is used to think that fireworks are games and minimize the danger they usually bring...
Wasn't it Einstein who said "I know two infinite things: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not even sure about the first one"
I am not quite positive about that one mad.....Einstein said: ,, There is one diffrence between geniousness and stupdity - stupidity has no bounds ''
Although he COULD have said that mate...
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: Callisto on July 14, 2006, 07:55:43 PM
Fireworks and Flying...... Do those two things combine like WW2 and Flak ? :P
:D :D :D
Well I would HOPE that one would fly a little higher than the fireworks... but as stated above... some people aren't very smart ;D
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: FlyingBlind on July 14, 2006, 09:58:10 PM
But still, i would laugh, if i worked in a tower and heard a conversation : ,,The sky is clear a-... TAKING FLAK FIRE OH MY GOD...wait...oh...fireworks...my bad'' ;D
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: Callisto on July 14, 2006, 10:40:53 PM
HAHAHA
Chuck is that you??? :D
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: FlyingBlind on July 14, 2006, 11:43:04 PM
Good answer my friend :P
Title: Re: Flying and Fireworks
Post by: Mike on July 22, 2006, 01:53:50 AM
HAHAHA----saw the video---the moron should have made the "Darwin Awards" list ;D ;D
HA HA!! Good one Jim! He almost did!! . . . missed it by an inch, I guess. If the rocket would have burned up his .... you know . . . he'd be on that list :D :D :D :D
