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We're going to build an exact copy of Ponyville... right over there! We've got less than a minute!

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Rainbow Dash keeps landing in trouble. For flying. Seriously? She's starting to think it's deliberate...

A fun little one-shot with Rainbow in the human (non-EQG) world.

Now has an awesome reading, by StraightToThePointStudio.

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Rule number one of flying:

Prepare to spend nore time PREPARING for the flight than the amount of time actually in the air.

"Now, we would not want . . hmm, a Tornado? A Blizzard? Maybe both? to come this way grounding all of your spamcans and allowing me to have fun in the sky while cleaning up the mess would we?"

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"Rainbow Dash...!"
"Heh-heh. Well, ya know, Twilight -- really freaky weather patterns, this side of the portal and all..."
:rainbowwild:

The flight plan I just filed with the agency lists me, my men, Rainbow Dash here, but only one of you.

"Technically you're classifies as an unmanned aircraft"
Ya well technically your mom.....SHUT UP!

Rainbow's characterization was so good.
:rainbowlaugh: nice work

Stories like these make me believe that if ever there is a portal to Equestria, there simply wouldn't be many pagasi, if any, on our side of the portal. There's just too many rules around flying for a species to whom flight is like us using our hands for them to bother to deal with.

Having to deal with the TSA every day I really feel for rainbow in that ending. More of an inconvenience than a security organization, especially with all the security holes and mismanagement.

What? No citation for breaking the sound barrier without authorization over US soil?

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Oh they'll get there. They're still pulling their hairs out over quantifying what the hell a sonic rainboom even is.

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The TSA is a good example of how NOT to do it.

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Rule number one of flying:
Prepare to spend nore time PREPARING for the flight than the amount of time actually in the air.

Huh! So that's why a 4-hour flight across country always takes 10 hours taxying on the airport runway waiting to take off! :twilightangry2:
This explains SOO-O-O-O-O much! :facehoof:

Well… being able to NATURALLY fly is going to throw a wrench in many laws… Any litigious lawyer would be on the line and argue that if eagles don’t need lights and flight plans neither do pegasi.

Fun Fact: The US reserves the right to control the weather in times of war or emergency.

Not making it up.

Imagine that red tape if RD had dragged over a couple of rain-clouds for that bush fire! :rainbowderp:

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Hmm, skimming the article she seems to be safe on that one. The resolution prohibits the use of environmental modification for warfare and other hostile actions, putting out fires would not fall under that.

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Eh, fair enough.

Just not one of those bits of trivia that I get to drop very often, you know?

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It's one of those moments where you go "really? How the hell did that come up?" and then you read the history and go "oh, okay, that's fair."

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Or a pilot's license, or a registration number, or most of that other stuff. Though having her take steps to ensure that planes can see her at night would likely be justified.

And I'm pretty sure you aren't required to file a flight plan if you aren't going into controlled airspace or VFR conditions (though it's still considered a good idea so search-and-rescue people know where to look if the unthinkable happens). I'm also pretty sure the "cargo declaration" thing generally doesn't apply to private pilots.

Comment posted by Kevin Lee deleted Aug 23rd, 2021
Comment posted by Emtu deleted Aug 23rd, 2021

I feel you, Rainbow…TSA can be a bit of a grind. But they have a job to do, just go with it^^

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Yeah but I would not be one bit surprised if some of the jerkass TSA CEOs and corporate lawyers tried to screw with RD and Eagles just to pull in a profit.

So. Many. Rules. :raritydespair:

Oh poor Rainbow. The freaking part where she's considered an unmanned craft was hilarious. :rainbowlaugh:

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Yes… but then they would have to contend with pissed off being that CAN manipulate the weather… Not really sure they want that ^^;;;

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While not ALL CEOs or lawyers are jerks, the ones I'm referring to are the ones who don't plan for anything except making a profit. They'd try and sue the Sun for being too hot, what makes you think that they would consider that RD is fully capable of defending herself? As far as they're concerned she's nothing more than a oddly colored h-word.

I swear you could do so much with each of the girls and human regulations.

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Well that is the basis of another story and dash-buttons.

Hilarious and interesting all at the same times with this fic! Each and every moment of trouble that occurs in the aftermath, my goodness it's a blast to read! Hope ya didn't mind, but I couldn't resist making a reading of this blissful fic of yours!

Audio Linky!: https://youtu.be/VGxSHCKXetc

(I don't mean to offend anyone with this comment in any way!)

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Wow -- thanks much! And thanks for doing the reading -- I'll be sure to check it out!
:twilightsmile:

Edit: Just gave it a listen -- very professionally done, and a great interpretative reading. Thanks again!

Always down for a good Pony-on-Earth story, and this did not disappoint. :D

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Thanks much, J.D.! We aim to please!
:twilightsmile:

Wonderful, but to be honest, pegasi will probably be classified as powered parachutes which require no license for solo and a sport pilot license for a two-seat trainer. That eliminates an *enormous* amount of red tape including registration numbers and lighting, plus the gargantuan time and money sink of a private pilots license. There's a pretty good book called Lifter by Crawford Kilian that just barely pokes into the troubles a human would get into if they could fly.

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Ah, you're assuming both a rational bureaucracy AND a unified, coherent response to an event outside of human experience.
Out of Cheese Error... Redo from Start...
:twilightsheepish:

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Yeah, they may have just ignored the parts of the report that were clearly embellished on account of being impossible.

Half way through this I wanted to give Dash a baseball bat and let her beat the crap out of one FAA bureaucrat for every section of the story. Sad part is I can see people being anal about this if we encountered a race with natural flight abilities.

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Pretty sure that they were just messing with her about the "cargo declaration". She is also legally an ultralight aircraft (while in the air), which does not need a transponder.
But most of the strict rules in aviation are written in blood, so we have a very good reason to have them.
She seems to have some kind of diplomatic immunity, but when such person causes too much trouble, it is good practice to talk with their superior (technically Twilight) instead (or public shaming, but that can be politically bad).
They apparently did not talk with Twilight, about the problems, so the human higher-ups probably think her misdemeanors are not even worth mentioning.

Oof!..

Would you consider the other side of the coin? Maybe invite a human TSA personnel over to equestrian and see what laws they accidentally break?

Rainbow...

Three words...

"Sport Pilot License"...

They'll still be anal, but stay away from the airport and don't fly at night, and you'll be fine...

And have Starlight Glimmer drag them into court to demand that the FAA has no jusisdiction over biologics with innate flying abilities...

They don't certify birds, for crying out loud!!

It didn't hit me until way later, but there is an existing category for pegasi - ultralights (or their own sub-category) ... :rainbowdetermined2:

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Its like those motodeltaplanes?

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Ultralights are hang gliders with motors ... bigger than a pegasus but with minimal equipment ...:rainbowkiss:

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I admire your faith that real, living, sapient and sentient flying ponies really will come to our reality.

Aggravated Dash is best Dash.

Honestly, I say let Dash keep it up. The more absurdities she finds in the bureaucracy, the harder it will be for the FAA to claim any authority over living aircraft.

Lovely bit of madness. I’m sorry it took me so long to get to it.

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