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Inacio posted:Youtube has been recommending me a billion short takeoff/landing videos now and I came across this one again Incredible. It’s like something out of a videogame.
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Inacio posted:Youtube has been recommending me a billion short takeoff/landing videos now and I came across this one again God I miss flying those.  Never got to do anything that cool in them though.
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Jan 24, 2019 01:56
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Platystemon posted:Every propeller plane sounds like it’s falling apart, to the unrefined palate. Every propeller plane is falling apart, it's how quickly it's doing so that matters.
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Jan 24, 2019 02:02
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I have a flight booked in a PC12 next week and I'm excited.
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Good news: planes age like wine. Bad news: old wine is mostly vinegar.
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Platystemon posted:Incredible. You think he polishes the bugs off that chrome spinner himself, or has people that do that for him?
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Platystemon posted:Good news: planes age like wine. as a person who flies 152s regularly, you are absolutely correct
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monkeytennis posted:His WhatsApp messages were played on the news and he was saying stuff like “I’m on a plane that sounds like it’s falling apart”. I know he’s not an expert but obvs the media are all excited about it. Yeah it's pretty horrible. The latest drama is that some prick in Brighton (200+km away) posted some pictures of some contrails and posted it to instagram asking if they were flares and now the collected members of every team Sala ever kicked a ball for are harassing the local emergency services and coming up with fantastic theories about where he might be.
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PT6A posted:Every You should see some of these older CRJs
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e.pilot posted:You should see some of these older CRJs lol this is true, ever fly on a BAC-111 after 2012? e: they are built like tanks though
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Plinkey posted:lol this is true, ever fly on a BAC-111 after 2012? No, who was still flying them in 2012 
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Jan 24, 2019 03:19
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e.pilot posted:No, who was still flying them in 2012 2019 https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=164W
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hobbesmaster posted:2019 yeah, that's the old girl I flew on a few times a week. I dont think they fly it anymore though.
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Ardeem posted:You're all forgetting the ugliest sister. I'd give up what hearing the E-3 left me to crosstrain to the Connie.
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Jan 24, 2019 03:39
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 A private jet just made a straight flight from Russia to Venezuela. This would be off topic if it wasn't rad. Biz jets sure have range.
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Don't want to veer too far off into polichat, but this isn't exactly good news https://www.afacwa.org/air_traffic_controllers_pilots_flight_attendants_detail_serious_safety_concerns_due_to_shutdown quote:In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break. It is unprecedented
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Jan 24, 2019 04:35
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I swear to god if y'all's lovely malfunctioning government screws up my flight from Canada to Mexico in March, I will lose it 
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Inacio posted:
That’s interesting given today’s coup.
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Inacio posted:A private jet just made a straight flight from Russia to Venezuela. This would be off topic if it wasn't rad. Biz jets sure have range. I once flew Moscow to St Maarten in a BBJ, but we stopped in the Azores for fuel. Didn't like the idea of showing up to an island after flying over 2000 miles of open ocean with 45 minutes of total fuel remaining. The 550 is a beast.
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sandoz posted:computer, can I get a longer connie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-1Ue0FFrHY
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slidebite posted:Don't want to veer too far off into polichat, but this isn't exactly good news They made a mention of being union leaders; can they just strike at this point?
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Nebakenezzer posted:They made a mention of being union leaders; can they just strike at this point? Then Trump would get to have yet another Reagan moment (in addition to the sundowning) and fire them all.
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Jealous Cow posted:Then Trump would get to have yet another Reagan moment (in addition to the sundowning) and fire them all. Considering their beef is not being paid, I can't imagine even TUMP is that dumb Also I'm imagining all the unions mentioned in the statement going on strike at the same time
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Nebakenezzer posted:Considering their beef is not being paid, I can't imagine even TUMP is that dumb Looks like things might come to an abrupt end thanks to ATC: https://reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/aj6u1d/got_an_email_about_opms_guidance_on_leave_during/
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Jealous Cow posted:Looks like things might come to an abrupt end thanks to ATC: https://reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/aj6u1d/got_an_email_about_opms_guidance_on_leave_during/ I have a vision of the future quote:Hartsfield traffic, Delta one two three right downwind runway niner right
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Jealous Cow posted:Looks like things might come to an abrupt end thanks to ATC: https://reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/aj6u1d/got_an_email_about_opms_guidance_on_leave_during/ Am I reading this right? ATC can take leave whenever they are not being paid (like a shutdown), subject to a supvisor's approval? I remember the last shutdown congress was going home for the summer break, and one of the last things they did was get air-related services exempt from shutdown so they wouldn't have trouble flying home
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hobbesmaster posted:I have a vision of the future You didn’t end you call with the field name you barbarism. “Aircraft on ctaf what field are you talking about?” Or “URRRRR ONNNN GAAAAAAAARRRRRRRDDD!!!!!!!” pick your poison. Nebakenezzer posted:Am I reading this right? ATC can take leave whenever they are not being paid (like a shutdown), subject to a supvisor's approval? Yes, and since they aren’t getting paid the leave has no value, so they won’t be charged for leave they use during the shutdown. It seems like a loophole to let essential, non-furloughed employees just stay home with no loss of pay or consequences. Aka the shutdown buster. Jealous Cow fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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Noooooooo, this means I need more time before you let me solo?  ...anyways alternative joke is have the airlines handle their hubs and divert the other airlines. ORD can be full on electronic warfare.
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hobbesmaster posted:I have a vision of the future Everyone gets to re-learn to fly procedure turns on a regular basis! EDIT: I suppose the proliferation of RNAV approaches lessens this possibility a bit.
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"Burbank traffic, Southwest 1234 is 9 miles south, FL330, descending straight in runway 33..... LEEROY JENKINS!"
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I was going out for a lunch today here in Helsinki and noticed a fast plane flying a big S over the city. A bit later I saw three contrails in the southern sky, with two of the planes very close to each other. Turns out it was a Finnish Air Force F-18 going to say hi to a pair of SU-27:s. https://twitter.com/FinnishAirForce/status/1088413636580835328 This is not exactly rare thing over the Gulf of Finland but first time I could watch it live right in front of the city.
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Sagebrush posted:I think the Apache's weird asymmetrical tail rotor is also a noise-reducing feature. It looks like a fenestron tail rotor designed for low noise has a similarly asymmetrical layout. It's just ducted: 
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https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1088812502215987201?s=19 Can't find news anywhere else so uh grain of salt and all. E: flightview showing a ground stop at LGA.
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Plinkey posted:https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1088812502215987201?s=19 I'd wait for something official, knowing NYC it could also be because someone saw a cloud. News article I could find: https://www.independent.co.uk/trave...impression=true Those delays are going to get much worse over the day even if the airport is nominally open. edit: here we go: https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1088821088476450818 well, except not https://flightaware.com/live/airport/KDCA hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Plinkey posted:https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/1088812502215987201?s=19 Yeah, ground stops at LGA are nothing out of the ordinary. People will blame it on the shutdown, but any other day it could be weather or too many airplanes or Bob called in sick.
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Finger Prince posted:Yeah, ground stops at LGA are nothing out of the ordinary. People will blame it on the shutdown, but any other day it could be weather or too many airplanes or Bob called in sick. I get what you mean about the low hanging fruit explanation combined with the mass hysteria tendency over the scandal du jour, but in this case "staffing" was in the official reason box of the ground stop program on the OIS website. Plus, there was also "staffing" for programs through ZDC and one other place, that they were metering and rerouting outbounds for, which blocked gates for inbounds, creating gridlock. It took us an hour and a half to get to a gate after landing (just before the ground stop.) Then when we departed, the (inbound) ground stop had been in effect for a while, and the airport was nearly a ghosttown. It was downright eerie seeing LGA like that. vessbot fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Finger Prince posted:Yeah, ground stops at LGA are nothing out of the ordinary. People will blame it on the shutdown, but any other day it could be weather or too many airplanes or Bob called in sick. Bob, Tom, Joe, Sal, Liz, Amy, and Ed the flight controller all called in "sick" because they aren’t being paid.
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One union leader sees total air traffic shutdown happening soon, and wants a general strike Which frankly seems reasonable at this point, and...has America ever had a general strike?
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Nebakenezzer posted:One union leader sees total air traffic shutdown happening soon, and wants a general strike Nationally? No, but entire industries in cities have striked before throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_strike#Notable_general_strikes
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Non-political: apologies if my posting gets a little, ah, Gander Gander GANDER  right now, I handle historical archives that are mostly about the place. Anyway, found something cool:  This ugly SOB is a Hadley-Page Harrow. Two were at "Newfoundland Airport" (Gander was not officially called Gander until 1958) for a fairly incredible reason: they were the first air tankers. Civilian operated, they could refuel on the wing Short Empire flying boats. The aircraft actually did have the range to cross the Atlantic, but you could swing more payload if you took off, then fueled up. Apparently they only did this with cargo, not passenger flights. The deal Pan Am/BOAC had struck was Pan Am would handle passengers, while BOAC would handle freight/mail. The guy in the suit is standing in front of the hose spindle. The hose was retrieved "via boathook" apparently   longer post for the curious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOlgtozYPh8 Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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