Flying through fake clouds?

[gprellwitz]

How'd you like to fly through one of these clouds? Would you need an instrument rating?

A special-effects entrepreneur from Alabama has come up with a way to fill the sky with foamy clouds as big as 4 feet across and shaped like corporate logos _ Flogos, as he calls them.

Francisco Guerra, who's also a former magician, developed a machine that produces tiny bubbles filled with air and a little helium, forms the foam into shapes and pumps them into the sky.

Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta, said she had not dealt with the company before but it appears Flogos would fall under FAA rules pertaining to events like balloon launches. She said a local FAA office would need to be contacted before a Flogo launch so that pilots could be notified about it.

 

[dmccormack]

How'd you like to fly through one of these clouds? Would you need an instrument rating?

Four feet is max size?

"Yeah, I logged .000002 hours of pseudo-actual today...."

 

[gprellwitz]

Four feet is max size?

"Yeah, I logged .000002 hours of pseudo-actual today...."

Looking at a 50% increase in size, though! So .000003!

 

[Dave2]

Couldn't they charge you with "destruction of property" though

 

[dmccormack]

Looking at a 50% increase in size, though! So .000003!

"Artificial Actual" would be defined as "From the time the thump occurs until the popping sound at the other end can be logged as 'artificial actual'"

 

[fgcason]

Two positive outcomes:
Competing companies could hire GA to go chop the things up.
Plane needs a bath? Fly through them then find a light rain shower.

 

[Teller1900]

"Artificial Actual" would be defined as "From the time the thump occurs until the popping sound at the other end can be logged as 'artificial actual'"

So then, while you're under the hood, would the CFI have to pop a roll of bubble wrap to qualify as "simulated artificial actual?"

 

[dmccormack]

So then, while you're under the hood, would the CFI have to pop a roll of bubble wrap to qualify as "simulated artificial actual?"

As long as it's the big poppy kind, I can do that for hours...

 

[ScottM]

How'd you like to fly through one of these clouds? Would you need an instrument rating?

You need a 'fake' instrument rating.

 

[RMCN172RG]

You need a 'fake' instrument rating.

No you have to fly with fake instruments.

Like the Aspen brochure for the EFD1000