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Nothing quite like waking up with the intake of a slowly windmilling Trent 700 30' from your face because you nodded off in your van waiting for the aircraft to pull on gate. With the windows open. GAH! That wasn't there two
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hobbesmaster posted:The bigger story here is that someone can sleep that soundly on a plane. I’ll add to the folks here, I’m out cold on planes, even MD-88s in the back. Definitely before liftoff and half the time before the jetway is pulled back. That rhythmic vibration and hum of the engines, and air in my face knock me out so fast. blugu64 fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jun 24, 2019 |
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Jun 24, 2019 02:00
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I'm very jealous of people that can sleep in moving vehicles without being extremely fatigued.
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Jun 24, 2019 06:54
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blugu64 posted:I’ll add to the folks here, I’m out cold on planes, even MD-88s in the back. Definitely before liftoff and half the time before the jetway is pulled back. That rhythmic vibration and hum of the engines, and air in my face knock me out so fast. My girlfriend too. It's to the point that I think I could hypnotize her with a safety briefing.
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Jun 24, 2019 07:04
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I wish I could sleep outside of regularly scheduled times. Then I wouldn't do the thing where I work my overnight shift with one hour of sleep. It's totally safe.
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fknlo posted:I wish I could sleep outside of regularly scheduled times. Then I wouldn't do the thing where I work my overnight shift with one hour of sleep. It's totally safe.  I am physically incapable of napping. If I try to take a nap one of two things happen: 1. I lay there wide awake until I decide I'm wasting my time and may as well find something to do. 2. I fall full asleep, and either wake up feeling like poo poo because my body thought it was getting a full night's sleep or I actually do sleep until my body's ready to wake up...in the middle of the night now fully energized to start the day.
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wolrah posted:
Same here, the only time I "nap" is if I'm loving exhausted and fall asleep somewhere uncomfortable, eventually I'll wake up again with a dead arm or something and potter off to bed. What's great is I'm a heavy sleeper anyway and deaf in one ear, and naturally sleep with my good ear against the pillow, so once I'm out I am out to environmental sounds. Events I've slept through include a housemate breaking into our own house (useful, not dealing with that BS at 3am) and fire alarms (less useful, could have been roasted alive).
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Jun 24, 2019 18:22
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Dearest scooter and the sleep with me podcast is my lifeblood in hard to sleep places.
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Jun 24, 2019 18:26
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A bad name, not quite on the level of Blackburn Blackburn Bristol Fighter
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Jun 24, 2019 19:24
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ulmont posted:Face mask I agree with, but what's ANC in this case? Active Noise Cancellation? You go earbuds or headphones?
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Jun 24, 2019 19:58
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Nebakenezzer posted:A bad name, not quite on the level of Blackburn Blackburn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Fighter_(automobile) ?
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Jun 24, 2019 20:48
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A co-worker of mine flew ORD-SFO during a bad blizzard. He fell asleep as the plane taxied out, and woke up when everyone got up to get their bags after landing. When he got off the plane he realized he was still in O'Hare. Slept through a 2+hour ground hold, associated announcements and the the return to the terminal.
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Jun 24, 2019 21:14
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i slept through some in-flight anomaly ATL-GSO and was really confused when I woke up touching down and we were back at ATL and there were a lot of fire trucks
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Nebakenezzer posted:A bad name, not quite on the level of Blackburn Blackburn Not quite so redundant when you consider that 'fighter' wasn't widely the term for a aircraft designed mostly for air-to-air combat until the late stages of WW1, and the RAF in particular didn't start using the term until the 1920s. Until then they were 'scouts'. The USAAF didn't stop calling them 'pursuit aircraft' until the 1940s. Bristol (and the Air Ministry) saw the Brisfit as something different. Bristol had already produced the Scout (1913-1916), which was Britain's first recognisably modern fighter (in the sense of the term as we know it) - a single-seater with a tractor layout and forward-firing armament, even if synchronisation gear was yet to be invented. The Scout was, well, a scout - designed to be fast and agile for quick reconnaissance dashes, shooting down enemy observation planes and tangling with opposing scout aircraft. The Fighter was a bigger, heavier, less-agile but better-armed multi-role machine designed to be able to deal with scouts by dint of packing armament both front and rear and what was, for its size, a strong turn of speed. It was also capable of bombing, spotting and longer-range reconnaissance missions. So in 1916 calling your aircraft 'Fighter' was just a good pugilistic name to give your big, powerful, heavily-armed machine. Although the Royal Aircraft Factory also distinguished between 'Fighters, Experimental' which were two-seater pusher-layout aircraft like the FE2 and 'Scouts, Experimental' which were single-seater tractor-layout machines like the SE5. It just happens that a few years later when it became clear that the role of 'scouts' in modern military aviation was really destroying (or fighting!) other scouts everyone decided to call them fighters too, leaving the Bristol looking rather unimaginatively named.
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Jun 24, 2019 21:57
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I can sleep soundly on an airplane usually. Though the WHOOP WHOOP PULL UP! is pretty annoying to wake up to.
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Jun 24, 2019 22:16
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Not sure if this has been posted before. Cessna ocean crash filmed from inside the cabin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knJ54JNtcJc
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https://twitter.com/airplane_pic/status/1142788520739844099?s=21
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Jun 25, 2019 02:21
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Jun 25, 2019 02:25
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Motherfuckers gonna door ding it.
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Jun 25, 2019 02:26
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Another Icon A5 accident: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/plane-crash-okanagan-lake-1.5188553
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Jun 25, 2019 03:23
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How many stalls you gotta pay for to park that sumbitch
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PT6A posted:Another Icon A5 accident: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/plane-crash-okanagan-lake-1.5188553 He was clearly trying to ditch the pursuing fighter with the maneuver at 1:15 in this video. https://youtu.be/Jv1ZN8c4_Gs Elviscat fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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PT6A posted:Another Icon A5 accident: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/plane-crash-okanagan-lake-1.5188553 Surely there is a gear down indicator
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Jun 25, 2019 13:04
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Surely there is a gear down indicator "A 72-year-old man from Alberta and his 59-year-old male passenger were on board." 
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Jun 25, 2019 13:12
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Surely there is a gear down indicator "Sure I can fly amphibian, I've flown retractables for 30 years and I've never had a belly landing so far! Let's see, fullest tank selected, three down and locked, mixture rich, prop full fine...water runway looks clear...hmm."
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Jun 25, 2019 13:17
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Any one of us would be googling "how to start an airliner" within seconds of realizing that we had just won an airplane in "finders, keepers". I'd taxi over to the paint shop and have something garish painted on the nose.
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PhotoKirk posted:
If "finders keepers" didn't apply, the paint job would remove the three police star wanted level anyway.
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Jun 25, 2019 13:43
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747 update: I couldn’t snag the rearmost window seat at check-in, but the flight attendant let me have it because there’s like 8 of us up here.
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Bombardier sells the CRJ to Mitsubishi.
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PhotoKirk posted:Any one of us would be googling "how to start an airliner" within seconds of realizing that we had just won an airplane in "finders, keepers". Sadly there’d be no fuel so your dreams of A320 acrobatics wouldn’t work.
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PT6A posted:Another Icon A5 accident: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/plane-crash-okanagan-lake-1.5188553 this one is definitely a between-the-ears one although in fairness they've all been between-the-ears type accidents
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:this one is definitely a between-the-ears one You're right, but the marketing was very "this time it's different, everyone can fly this leisure machine", but the accidents show the truth is more "it's a normal flying machine and old accident modes apply here as well".
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hobbesmaster posted:Sadly there’d be no fuel so your dreams of A320 acrobatics wouldn’t work. Stop harshing my mellow.
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Ola posted:You're right, but the marketing was very "this time it's different, everyone can fly this leisure machine", but the accidents show the truth is more "it's a normal flying machine and old accident modes apply here as well". yeah, for sure
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Finger Prince posted:Yeah, how dare I express the controversial idea that people should take some loving personal responsibility. The moral of this story is don't fall asleep on public transport if you don't want to wake up someplace other than where you expected to be. How the gently caress anyone considered it to be national news is beyond me, but I guess I'm out of touch. lol lmebo
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Elviscat posted:He was clearly trying to ditch the pursuing fighter with the maneuver at 1:15 in this video. https://youtu.be/Jv1ZN8c4_Gs Ha, literally the same day I get an e-mail from a recruiter trying to fill a Design Engineer position in Tehachapi. I'm unemployed right now, and I wouldn't touch that with someone else's 30 foot pole. Incidentally, if anyone has an engineering job in Greensboro they want to hire for that isn't at Honda, hit me up.
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Elviscat posted:He was clearly trying to ditch the pursuing fighter with the maneuver at 1:15 in this video. https://youtu.be/Jv1ZN8c4_Gs The original video is better, though I like GUNSHIP’s music: https://youtu.be/AjXr9Nj5ZbI
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EightBit posted:I'm very jealous of people that can sleep in moving vehicles without being extremely fatigued. I’m jealous of people who are short enough to take advantage of airline headrests and armrests. Sleeping in one is completely impossible for me.
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ApathyGifted posted:Incidentally, if anyone has an engineering job in Greensboro they want to hire for that isn't at Honda, hit me up. you down with trucks because Volvo Mack is right there
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