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Cool, thx for taking the time to explain!
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Thanks for the explanation about the stock option. I suspect that the officers of the company can't just sell the shares as soon as they exercise the option.
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Sperglord posted:Thanks for the explanation about the stock option. I suspect that the officers of the company can't just sell the shares as soon as they exercise the option. They can if they aren’t under a blackout period or if they aren’t trading on any material knowledge. Frequently they will have their accountant determine a sales schedule ahead of time that they stick to regardless. That way no one can claim they acted on insider information.
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Yeah they take time to vest so when you get an award it gets split up and you receive like 1/5th every year for five years.
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Ok so on this Facebook group, there's an increasing regularity of posts of AF/Guard units asking for or offering tanker support for cross country flights and training and what not. WTF? Is this the newly discovered funny thing to do, or is the relevant military system that broken that this is an actual convenience?
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Mar 19, 2019 21:02
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Considering the outcome of the VW scandal, this should end up with quite a few jail sentences for Boeing management. But has the VW treatment been unusually severe? I couldn't find info about sentences with Ford Pinto. Maybe certification should be outsourced. EAA certifies Boeing planes, FAA certifies Airbuses, either of them certifies manufacturers from remaining countries. The national agency is under too much pressure and influence to be trusted.
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Mar 19, 2019 21:46
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vessbot posted:Ok so on this Facebook group, there's an increasing regularity of posts of AF/Guard units asking for or offering tanker support for cross country flights and training and what not. WTF? Is this the newly discovered funny thing to do, or is the relevant military system that broken that this is an actual convenience? Both are equally likely.
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Saukkis posted:Considering the outcome of the VW scandal, this should end up with quite a few jail sentences for Boeing management. But has the VW treatment been unusually severe? I couldn't find info about sentences with Ford Pinto. You're joking, right? VW willfully and premeditatively built a system into their cars for the sole purpose of deliberately contravening government regulations, across multiple jurisdictions. Lobbying the FAA to be allowed to do in house certification testing, and then apparently half-assing it is nowhere near the same level of fuckery.
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Mar 19, 2019 22:46
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Well, except for the resulting 300 deaths.
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Mar 19, 2019 22:54
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vessbot posted:Ok so on this Facebook group, there's an increasing regularity of posts of AF/Guard units asking for or offering tanker support for cross country flights and training and what not. WTF? Is this the newly discovered funny thing to do, or is the relevant military system that broken that this is an actual convenience? AR is a qual and a perishable skill just like everything else; pilots need a certain number of plugs in a given period to remain current and boom operators probably have a similar requirement on the other end. Setting up a tanker hit during a cross country seems like a convenient way to get that training as well as saving the trouble of stopping for gas somewhere.
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Mar 19, 2019 22:56
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Wingnut Ninja posted:AR is a qual and a perishable skill just like everything else; pilots need a certain number of plugs in a given period to remain current and boom operators probably have a similar requirement on the other end. Setting up a tanker hit during a cross country seems like a convenient way to get that training as well as saving the trouble of stopping for gas somewhere. No I completely get that, it's the same concept as a ton of things in civilian flying. My question is, why is this being arranged via a Facebook networking group?
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Ooooh. Yeah. Probably the same reason we got official hurrevac instructions via the base's Facebook page last fall. If I had to take a semi serious guess, given how often military commands have turnover, it's very easy to lose the institutional knowledge of "oh yeah, call these guys next time you're doing a cross country and they'll hook you up". But if there's a social media group with a lot of those people in it, you may reach some useful contacts that way. 
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Finger Prince posted:You're joking, right? VW willfully and premeditatively built a system into their cars for the sole purpose of deliberately contravening government regulations, across multiple jurisdictions. Lobbying the FAA to be allowed to do in house certification testing, and then apparently half-assing it is nowhere near the same level of fuckery. Yeah, there is a big difference between doing something badly and working really hard to avoid laws
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Stories from the aviation museum: today I got to say "you see Fidel Castro on a toboggan? Over there." Also got an old person legend. In World War 2 (I mean, hopefully) a squadron [flight? - ambiguious] of Hurricanes were trying to get to Newfoundland Airbase, during the night, in the winter, with piss-poor visibility. Finding the airbase was made harder because, apparently, they were under blackout. The flight reported they were over Norris Arm (community aprox. 50 km west of Gander, so they were almost there. Then, nothing. They just vanished, with no sign ever found of them. One theory behind what happened is Gander Lake got them. So, next to Gander (nee Newfoundland Airbase) is a lake, not all that wide, but extremely long and deep. While working at the museum, I found the only sounding survey map ever made for it, and most of its length it about ~200 meters (700 ft) deep, even though it's only about 2 km or so wide. (You may remember talking about a lost B-24 in it; I've been talking with the guy who's looking for it. He's apparently coming back this spring with a proper towfish sidescan sonar. But he sent me this photo, so you get the idea:)  Anyway, because of this depth, the lake has two interesting features. One is that the water in it circulates vertically where it is deep, with cold water moving beneath slightly less cold water. In the winter this means water nestled at the depths becomes warmer than the water being chilled on the surface. The second interesting fact is that this cycle means the lake rarely freezes over, and if it does, the ice in the middle is always extremely thin Do you see where this tale is going One theory as to where those Hurricanes vanished to is that they mistook an ice and possibly slightly snow-covered Gander Lake as Newfoundland Airbase, and landed there, only to all go through the ice My tale-teller also confessed (and I've actually heard variants of this more than once) he had an old machine gun, likely .50 cal, that he salvaged from one of the many WW2 aircraft wrecks around Gander. While he'd deactivated it somehow (blocking the firing pin) he cut it up a few years ago, as holding onto a machine gun that you found in the woods is frowned upon by the RCMP
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Nebakenezzer posted:Stories from the aviation museum: today I got to say "you see Fidel Castro on a toboggan? Over there." Were you the Goon who did the RB-36 hike recently? I moved to St John's this past January, and I want to do it and have questions. I don't have PMs but I'll get it if I need them.
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vessbot posted:Ok so on this Facebook group, there's an increasing regularity of posts of AF/Guard units asking for or offering tanker support for cross country flights and training and what not. WTF? Is this the newly discovered funny thing to do, or is the relevant military system that broken that this is an actual convenience? I'd be very surprised if tankers aren't as heavily tasked as they have been for the past...25 years or so. I guess it could be the case, but as late as last May they were turning down joint exercises due to an overabundance of requirements. Edit: That only addresses offering. Asking...man, you gotta beg, borrow, or steal AR support by almost any means necessary if you're not Red Flag, the Weapons School, or deploying aircraft overseas.
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Speaking of museums, I visited the RAF Museum in Colindale last week and it was pretty great. Definitely one of the better museums I've been to when it comes to WW1-era craft. Always nice to see a Lancaster in person too. I've now been to IWM Duxford (still my favorite, absolutely incredible), IWM London, HMS Belfast, and RAF Colindale, so I think RAF Cosford and IWM Manchester are the last two major UK museums left for me to visit.
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Museum chat, the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, Ontario is really good, especially in the warmer months when you can wander around outside checking out all the static display aircraft. There is a Halifax bomber that was raised from a lake in Norway after sitting on the bottom for 50 years. It was lovingly restored and is now absolutely marvelous to look at. They're also slowly restoring a Lancaster but that'll be years before it's done.
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Bring back flight engineers IMO:"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/how-an-extra-man-in-cockpit-saved-a-737-max-that-later-crashed posted:As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing Co. 737 Max 8, they got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit.
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bull3964 posted:Well, except for the resulting 300 deaths. VW killed plenty of people, too. They just killed them in a nebulous manner.
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Platystemon posted:VW killed plenty of people, too. I don't think there are any deaths caused by VWs emission scamming, but the lesson is still: when businesses self-regulate, they immediately gently caress it up to boost profits. Businesses should be regulated hard as hell and crooked CEOs should be punished harder than drug dealers.
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Ola posted:I don't think there are any deaths caused by VWs emission scamming, but the lesson is still: when businesses self-regulate, they immediately gently caress it up to boost profits. Businesses should be regulated hard as hell and crooked CEOs should be punished harder than drug dealers. Researchers at MIT think VW’s emissions cheating will lead to 1200 premature deaths in Europe. http://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-deaths-europe-0303
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St_Ides posted:Were you the Goon who did the RB-36 hike recently? I moved to St John's this past January, and I want to do it and have questions. I don't have PMs but I'll get it if I need them. No, that was someone else. I remember the two bits of advice they gave me, though: the actual parking lot for the hiking trail is easy to miss, and the road between Clarenville and the spot is stupendously awful. As for getting there, there's a tourist info site on the trans-Canada which should be able to guide you. You should get PMs, tho. I've not done the hike either, maybe we could arrange some sort of goonhike? Also, scanned that 1950s DC-8 manual, if anybody knows of a good site for posting PDFs with download links, I'll post it there.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Also, scanned that 1950s DC-8 manual, if anybody knows of a good site for posting PDFs with download links, I'll post it there. Post it on Scribd
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Pepperoneedy posted:Post it on Scribd done
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Death Star trench run IRL: https://twitter.com/CcibChris/status/1107695967535579142 The Corinth Canal is just over 21 meters wide. 
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Ola posted:I don't think there are any deaths caused by VWs emission scamming, but the lesson is still: when businesses self-regulate, they immediately gently caress it up to boost profits. Businesses should be regulated hard as hell and crooked CEOs should be punished harder than drug dealers. VW wasn't self-regulating (it designed its cars to defeat independent 3rd party testing), and I have yet to see a reason that the FAA would have caught something that Boeing didn't. As it happens, Boeing has already faced a severe financial penalty for the safety of the 737 MAX, which they never would have intentionally put themselves at risk of receiving. In fact Boeing isn't really self-regulating either, in the sense that it is clearly still accountable to external regulators.
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VW also tested their car emissions on monkeys who probably died early too. Aviation related, have a timelapse of heathrow approaches: https://youtu.be/pw5Om1zLBIA drunkill fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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Mar 20, 2019 17:15
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drunkill posted:VW also tested their car emissions on monkeys who probably died early too. wow
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Mortabis posted:VW wasn't self-regulating (it designed its cars to defeat independent 3rd party testing), and I have yet to see a reason that the FAA would have caught something that Boeing didn't. As it happens, Boeing has already faced a severe financial penalty for the safety of the 737 MAX, which they never would have intentionally put themselves at risk of receiving. Boeing incorrectly categorized the MCAS system as something that couldn't bring down the plane which allowed them to use only a single sensor.
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Cat Mattress posted:Death Star trench run IRL: https://i.imgur.com/QPz1hjm.gifv http://www.modellingnews.gr/el/_...5-kinetic-148-0 (from the twitter comments)
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Reminds me of when Russia tried to pass off a satellite photo of a Ukrainian fighter shooting down that airliner as authentic, and the fighter could be seen perfectly as if it were hanging completely still in the air.
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Sulphagnist posted:Reminds me of when Russia tried to pass off a satellite photo of a Ukrainian fighter shooting down that airliner as authentic, and the fighter could be seen perfectly as if it were hanging completely still in the air. It was the Su-27 from Flaming Cliffs 2, and the way they hosed up the scale, the Su-27 was something like 3-4 times the size of the 777.
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I want to believe BIG HEADLINE posted:It was the Su-27 from Flaming Cliffs 2, and the way they hosed up the scale, the Su-27 was something like 3-4 times the size of the 777. I think it was a Su-25, because I remember they chose a ground attack plane that cannot even reach airliner cruise altitude, or at least not with a conscious, living pilot.
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Cat Mattress posted:I want to believe Russia *claimed* it was an Su-25, then put this image out there: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hoddy-fake.html
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Russia *claimed* it was an Su-25, then put this image out there:
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Nebakenezzer posted:No, that was someone else. I remember the two bits of advice they gave me, though: the actual parking lot for the hiking trail is easy to miss, and the road between Clarenville and the spot is stupendously awful. As for getting there, there's a tourist info site on the trans-Canada which should be able to guide you. I'd be up for that. I'll figure out how to get them soon. My biggest concern is if I can make it up the road in a stock Impreza, or if I need a 4wd. Thanks, I'll give a shout when I get them.
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St_Ides posted:I'd be up for that. I'll figure out how to get them soon. My biggest concern is if I can make it up the road in a stock Impreza, or if I need a 4wd. Subaru made a car that doesn't have 4wd?
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Ardeem posted:Subaru made a car that doesn't have 4wd? The BRZ roadster is RWD only.
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