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thesurlyspringKAA posted:Wow, what a loving terrible pilot. If an aircraft commander ever did that to me I'd probably go straight to the wing safety office about it. yeah I bet that guy was a total hack
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NASA TV has been on and off as well. Still up in the air...
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I've never had a good time at CDG. American airports seem to be the most consistenly poorly managed. I got into IAD one evening from france on a 757 (got switched from air france to continental... ugh it's amazing how bad US airlines are too, but anyway...) and it seemed like 2 other international flights were arriving around the same time. Immigration had 2 officers working for 3 airplanes worth of people - one for US poassport holders and one for the others. Luckily our plane was first to queue up and we were sorta near the front. About 20 minutes into waiting, one of the officers packed up and left. Couple hundred people left with ONE!!! person doing passports. And it was no rubber stamp, it was the usual (in my experience) treatment of that sort of being-looked-down-upon grouchy I-know-you-need-me-to-get-in-here attitude. Maybe if I had to do 200 passports by myself I'd be grouchy too! Ko Samui has the coolest airport  http://www.samuiairportonline.com/photo-gallery
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More airliners need more wacky liveries.
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Jun 27, 2012 02:41
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I sure wish I had that much amazing flat area to do a forced landing in if I bothered to take off overloaded for the conditions. I have a wall of trees though. Lucky idiot.
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How comfy are those airliner captain/FO chairs?
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Jonny Nox posted:Watch that Norway video, it's pretty awesome! The most basic instrument flying lessons teach you that you cannot trust your inertial senses to determine what the aircraft is doing. You need instruments. This is even mandatory training for private (non-instrument) pilots.
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May 1, 2013 17:27
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Instruments have various redundant systems and pilots are trained on partial panel flying. Total failure is really really rare. I don't know firsthand about commercial/airline ops but there is a rigorous preflight by various crew and walkaround done by a captain or FO that should be checking for basic things. I'm sure other people here would know more and there are some airline guys in the A/T Aviation Megathread.
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May 1, 2013 20:11
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I would have thought the entire point behind fighters is to be able to kill other airplanes
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Jun 2, 2013 19:13
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I'm curious to see the cockpit transcipts. It looks like nothing was said until a few seconds prior to impact, but how two pilots could be that oblivious to airspeed on a visual approach is dazzling.
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Jul 8, 2013 14:52
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what (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The instruments are off, but this grass strip here just feels right...
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Nov 21, 2013 18:23
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Regarding life rafts: Hudson River anyone? River ditching near a city is still pretty possible, and in winter with cold water people could easily die of hypothermia if forced into water.
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drunkill posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypast#Flypasts_associated_with_World_War_II Got to love the section right below that also: quote:Panic and disaster 
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Is it known whether the altimiter and attitude indicators were functioning on 447? I would assume attitude was but possibly not altitude, or was speed data the only thing they lost?
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Jan 3, 2015 20:03
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The dronekids are just moving fast and breaking things. You greybeards need to accept the new order and realize drones will have replaced all human aviators in 18 months, tops. True innovators like Vitamin J realize you have to break some eggs to make an omlette, the eggs being meat-ferrying aircraft and the omlette being the sweet utopia where the technocrats can subsist in a VR-goggled vegetative bliss, an efficient swarm of robots caring for their nutritional, hygenic, social, and sexual needs.
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Always relevant, the xkcd (which Musk cited when he was stealing the twitter-thunder after blue origin's grasshopper++ test) that explains getting to space vs getting to orbit: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ Also waiting for the future carrier-pilot-like dick waving about "our rocket lands on a ship." Infinotize fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Dec 22, 2015 |
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Dec 22, 2015 19:32
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I remember the first time I heard the stereo++ of 4 engines throttling up at the same time, pretty cool.
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May 23, 2018 02:18
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b-b-b-but elon said he could do it if he just wasn't so busy
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Jan 5, 2019 20:46
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Bet the Boeing factory tour is a little awkward right now
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Mar 12, 2019 23:25
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FAA et al should get real about type ratings. Narrow the constraints that determine whether a new rating is required. Stop these bullshit games the industry gets to play by forcing engineers to design a mutant airplane because of business requirements and then slap on unbaked software band aids.
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Mar 13, 2019 21:58
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And remember the training for all of this stuff (transitioning from 737-* to the MAX) is like a 60 minute ipad thing. I'm sure the pilots with years of muscle memory flying the older 737s are totally ready to troubleshoot the new systems in a loss of control situation after that. Oh and very cool that many features like an AoA indicator and AoA discrepancy light are optional and not purchased by many airlines.
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Mar 22, 2019 01:00
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still gotta film it for the gram though
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May 6, 2019 01:08
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Regional commuter electric planes would be cool and achievable, we should do that
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Sep 24, 2019 20:24
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From what I remember all of the highly publicized engine failures over the past few years (this one, southwest, at least one other) all had failures where the containment system didn't work
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Feb 22, 2021 21:06
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If that plane ever enters service the only reggos in it are the ones who fly business. Or probably a premium over todays business fares
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Nov 22, 2021 02:37
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DCA - lived in maryland for 30 years never once called or heard it called anything but “Reagan.”
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Sep 21, 2022 05:39
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Motorcycles are safer because they’re small and nimble, the statistics are off because I just spend my time weaving through traffic without a helmet at 100mph.
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Hadlock posted:So I found out you can get a 10 year loan on a used airplane Not sure if this post is more BWM or future NTSB report
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May 21, 2023 05:26
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The fygm and fake safety aspect are real but lol if anyone thinks airlines would pass the savings of cheaper pilots onto passenger fares.
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Jul 13, 2023 22:46
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Well we simply must pay all pilots minimum wage from now on
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Jul 14, 2023 04:12
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What the other poster said like $2X/hr (only time the plane is not at gate not getting to work, preflight, etc) and many were below poverty line
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https://flightattendant.pro/flight-attendant-hourly-rates/
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Jul 14, 2023 23:17
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Hadlock posted:At what age are the airlines no longer required to seat my child next to me. I think at 2 I am safe but I'm guessing the bean counters have the age set as low as possible, something like age 5 or 8 It’s 13
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Jul 25, 2023 01:39
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People in the comments “he would have made it if he leaned before takeoff” I mean, maybe just barely but not really what I think the takeaway should be (not operating at the limit with 5 pax).
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Aug 27, 2023 15:57
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There are different types of XC time, for private/instrument/commercial they require a landing but for ATP and military the landing is not required for that reason.
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Oct 13, 2023 15:16
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Lukla/Tenzing-Hillary as well 
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Dec 28, 2023 17:12
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They have a long way to go but any vc backed moneypit sure knows when to time a press event.
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Far west texas gets interesting to me, it's a lot of nothing but you have weird towns like alpine and marfa, big bend, and out by el paso guadalupe mtn, carlsbad caverns, and white sands are all really neat. You just have to get used to everything being 2-3hrs apart.
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