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RaffyTaffy posted:https://twitter.com/AirportHaber/status/1215566068665720832?s=20 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"Anything to declare?" Finally got round to watching this and I truly almost fell off my chair in surprise that the guy who notably flies places where he doesn't know local rules got pinged by Russia for not following a local rule. Like sure, if you know what the deal is and your Russia Guy tells you the wrong info, fine, but it sounds like nobody on the plane even knew it was a closed border region in the first place.
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Add to it the fact that Russia's more or less the wild west extortion-wise with regards even to *open* regions. You're bound to run into a situation eventually where some "guy in charge" tells you about a ~foreign landing tax~ or some bullshit, and it's not like calling the cops is going to help since the airport guy is probably having to kick money to the cops for 'extra protection' and you getting them involved just gives *them* a license to start making up things to fine you for. You're "free to go" at any time, but if you can't get fuel for your plane or cough up the storage fees, welp, it's *their* plane now. I like to imagine the 'interview' with the local news crew was for a story about how his Youtube video might attract other dumb Westerners in their private planes that can be similarly fleeced in the future. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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That kinda situation got real and peaked for me when a C-5 replacing us got diverted to Azerbaijan and got an "apron tax". The =/<O-4flight crew had no idea what that meant, and spent 5 days back and forth with higher and higher levels of command before someone just said "jesus christ just pool your money and pay the dudes the $1100, we'll put it on your DTS when you get back!" About 12 hours previous, one of the loadmasters had gotten jailed downtown for being drunk and disorderly. That took another week to straighten out. Longest 12 days of my life.
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Jan 12, 2020 11:15
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You’re supposed to have shenanigans like that in a friendly nation with a good climate and a high per diem.
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Platystemon posted:You’re supposed to have shenanigans like that in a friendly nation with a good climate and a high per diem. For real. I remember making a stop in Hawaii on our way to Guam where the AC told me to do the most thorough post-flight check of my life. The one time I couldn’t find a single drat thing to bring with me to debrief. I swear.
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holocaust bloopers posted:For real. I remember making a stop in Hawaii on our way to Guam where the AC told me to do the most thorough post-flight check of my life. The one time I couldn’t find a single drat thing to bring with me to debrief. I swear.
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https://twitter.com/m_bizar/status/1216088079347388416?s=20
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Jan 12, 2020 16:32
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It’s bizarre to see a country kind of own up to an extremely tragic mistake so quickly. I hope Iran sees it through beyond any sort of political/global reputation gain and takes care of the families.
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I think they realize they can’t blow the goodwill they have right now from being hosed over by Trump on the NPD, Soleimani, and the substantial support Iranian citizens are getting from westerners on social media.
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holocaust bloopers posted:It’s bizarre to see a country kind of own up to an extremely tragic mistake so quickly. I hope Iran sees it through beyond any sort of political/global reputation gain and takes care of the families. They've been using the Vincennes incident literally for decades as a lighting rod against the US and now the shoe is on the other foot.
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Jan 12, 2020 18:06
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That sure is one hell of an angle.
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Okay, so Iranian statecraft is in a really good place, hm.
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slidebite posted:They've been using the Vincennes incident literally for decades as a lighting rod against the US and now the shoe is on the other foot. It’s probably actually internally even worse, since the airplane they iced was half full of Iranians; not an AAL tail full of American tourists. Trump keystone-kopsing the Ayatollah would be peak worst-timeline.
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Yak-110 has strong "because I could" energy.
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bloops posted:It’s bizarre to see a country kind of own up to an extremely tragic mistake so quickly. I hope Iran sees it through beyond any sort of political/global reputation gain and takes care of the families. For all the lumping in with Iraq and North Korea in the axis of evil that it got, Iran is actually full of dissenting voices and has some level of flawed democracy and permitted expression. Compared to Saudi Arabia, it's a liberal paradise.
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Jan 13, 2020 20:09
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It's the jet engine, really, that puts it over the top. It is just so gratuitous!
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Tetraptous posted:It's the jet engine, really, that puts it over the top. It is just so gratuitous! Christ; on first glance, I thought that that pod was a fuel tank.
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Jan 13, 2020 23:55
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https://twitter.com/Silodrome/status/1216734986847391745 The insanity is the prices... ($350 plus $50 for the reduction gear assembly if the tweet preview doesn't show it) Apparently the -135 variant of the V1710 was the one of the ones used in the P-63 Kingcobra, presumably why they were so cheap in surplus as they were of a configuration that was useless for any other aircraft.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:12
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Cross post from PYF.
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Elviscat posted:Cross post from PYF. We made that same joke here a few weeks ago so it’s not like I can fault the guy for poor taste in that, though it’s still a lovely line.
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Jan 14, 2020 06:39
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It’s a bad line on a comedy forum and a much worse line in a flirtatious text message.
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Jan 14, 2020 06:43
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It's probably not a great Cunnilingus technique either, my partner does not enjoy it when my head hits their crotch at mach 0.8.
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I feel like there's a bunch of AvGeek pick up lines to be made. Like "Hey baby, you must be a Valkyrie because my Starfighter wants to bump into your tail."
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Jan 14, 2020 07:37
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Hey baby is there an airport round here or is that the sound of a cruise missile taking off?
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Nice Cessna. Wanna gently caress?
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Hey baby, do you wanna gently caress a DEATH CATHEDRAL? 'Cause my name's Victor.
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Hey baby, can you fit 70,000lbs inside of you? Then you must be a BUFF! no, don't ask what it stands for.
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"Oh no, it's 281,000 lbs? Damb girl, you must be a thicc-rear end FRED!"
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Jan 14, 2020 08:24
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A better person than I needs to make a poopy suit pick-up line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEgQBYhygLs
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RandomPauI posted:A better person than I needs to make a poopy suit pick-up line. I've given that drat show soo many chances to like it. I really want to like it. I think I'm old and 'Down in front" comes to mind.
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Humphreys posted:I've given that drat show soo many chances to like it. I really want to like it. This it the most depressing post I've ever read on these forums
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https://twitter.com/ShorealoneFilms/status/1217171015966449666 https://twitter.com/LACoFDPIO/status/1217181087773802496 Not a good look tbh
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gently caress sake, you're in LA, you have time to either get over the ocean before dumping or, if you don't, you may as well consider landing over MLW.
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hobbesmaster posted:That has to be 100% on ATC, right? In an emergency, the pilot could theoretically request whatever is most appropriate given the situation? A hold over a waypoint that's safe to dump fuel over would probably be granted in such a situation, but it's not entirely on ATC if they don't think to offer it. That's a captain-level decision, that's why they get paid the big bucks.
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FBS posted:https://twitter.com/ShorealoneFilms/status/1217171015966449666 Literal chemtrails
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It's just kerosene, no big deal. Like, after the obvious fire-related scenarios, probably the next most likely way to die from jet fuel exposure is to drown in a storage tank
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