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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Most crashes happen near landing sites as pilots make emergency calls for open runways whenever a mid-flight pan or mayday comes up. They immediately divert to the nearest responding tower designated site, but that doesn’t mean you’ll make it in time. If your engines stalled, you’re flying on your glide ratio alone, which gets far worse the more you course correct. Add the startle response and call-in stage, and you have much less time to get treads to earth than the theoretical Xmi at Y:Z glide ratio. Your final options are fields and highways, and you better hope you find a flat field or sparse country highway or you’re nosing dirt or guiderail like this guy.


  • If you’re remote-accessing these resources and can’t always be home to manage the cutover to cellular, I recommend splurging on a Unifi Dream Machine and LTE Backup module. Getting a verizon gateway or similar device won’t properly communicate with your network and has to use it’s own judgement through traffic monitoring to know when to take over DHCP/routing. We (local MSP) just resolved an issue where these devices couldn’t tell between an ISP blip or an outage and so it would wrestle DHCP from the firewall when they still had internet, killing their wireless printers. Unifi LTE communicates with the UDM over a very verbose and reliable protocol. The LTE doesn’t kick on until the FW realizes there’s a problem on the primary WAN.