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One time I was changing lights on life jackets deep in the bowels of a huge cruise ship when I came upon an airliner life jacket. Not a SOLAS inflatable life jacket, I know what those look like. An airliner life jacket. The cheap yellow poo poo with two inflation tubes and a tug rope. It was 15 years ago and I still think about the chain of events that must have occurred for that thing to end up in the bottom of a bin of SOLAS life jackets.
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Someone left two airliner life jackets at a house party I threw. One's still in the package, the other I opened up to verify that it was indeed a life jacket. They say "unauthorized removal from aircraft is a federal offense," but they have US Airways branding so hopefully no one's coming after them?
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May 5, 2022 14:27
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WT Wally posted:Someone left two airliner life jackets at a house party I threw. One's still in the package, the other I opened up to verify that it was indeed a life jacket. better turn yourself in, criminal scum
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May 5, 2022 14:32
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People will steal anything not bolted down and that extends to life jackets. About once a month Id say I have to call down to maintenance to have them bring up a new life jacket because someone absconded with one. If youre at an outstation with no spares you have to block off the seat, even if all you're doing is flying over Kansas.
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May 5, 2022 14:38
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I still think about the time a flight I was on was delayed like 30 minutes because someone stole a safety card and I guess that’s how long it takes to find a card and drive from delta’s maintenance hangers to the terminal at MSP.
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May 5, 2022 15:37
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hobbesmaster posted:I still think about the time a flight I was on was delayed like 30 minutes because someone stole a safety card and I guess that’s how long it takes to find a card and drive from delta’s maintenance hangers to the terminal at MSP. I found a typo in a 737 safety card at Southwest. I wanted to keep it for novelty's sake. So I put it in my bag and let the FA know about the typo as I deplaned. She said "oh, good. there's a thing we gotta do to get all of those off all our planes. Thought we'd gotten them all. I'll let maintenance know. What seat?" I told her I kept the card and she said "That makes it EASIER, then. I'll just say one is missing and it's, like, 1% of the paperwork." It's probably worth some money now, but pretty much anything from airplanes pre-2000 is.
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May 5, 2022 15:45
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It's worthless dude, you don't have the chain of custody paperwork.
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May 5, 2022 16:37
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You mean the life jackets aren’t free to take like the inflight magazines? 
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May 5, 2022 16:37
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https://twitter.com/filmuphates/status/1521996112244092928?s=21&t=QUYmhN5ICG8G-E2ML2ccoQ
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May 5, 2022 20:32
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Zero One posted:https://twitter.com/filmuphates/status/1521996112244092928?s=21&t=QUYmhN5ICG8G-E2ML2ccoQ lol that they overdub helicopter sounds because the whine of a small multirotor is annoying.
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May 5, 2022 21:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOoBX-T4qZA
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May 6, 2022 00:15
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I think he's more of a taxiway incursion expert.
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May 6, 2022 00:46
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There have been crews that have landed at whole-rear end wrong airports who've gotten less poo poo than Harrison Ford, not to mention a certain senator who thinks he's too good to check NOTAMs. I really think he gets targeted unfairly a lot of the time. Yeah, he's made a couple pretty big mistakes. So do a lot of people, but they don't get bothered with it for the rest of their lives because no one knows who Jim Bob McFuck is, and everyone knows who Harrison Ford is.
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May 6, 2022 03:34
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PT6A posted:There have been crews that have landed at whole-rear end wrong airports who've gotten less poo poo than Harrison Ford, not to mention a certain senator who thinks he's too good to check NOTAMs. I really think he gets targeted unfairly a lot of the time. Yeah, he's made a couple pretty big mistakes. So do a lot of people, but they don't get bothered with it for the rest of their lives because no one knows who Jim Bob McFuck is, and everyone knows who Harrison Ford is. Counterpoint: Indiana Jones 4
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May 6, 2022 03:36
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I thought he's only made two actual (notable) mistakes: the time he landed on a taxiway and the time he crossed a runway without a clearance. Obviously the ideal is zero mistakes, but two incidents across, what, 35 years of private flying I don't think makes him some kind of dangerous maniac. He has had a couple of crashes, but none of them were found to be his fault, and the time he put his vintage plane down on a golf course in LA after an engine failure was reportedly a really great piece of flying that unquestionably saved lives. Both the taxiway landing and the runway incursion were in the last 5 years, though. Sadly I think the dude is just getting old.
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May 6, 2022 03:49
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With all his money, someone needs to let him know how he could build some seriously impressive sim setups, even though I know nothing beats *actual* flying. I don't think he should be flying solo anymore, though. >.>
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May 6, 2022 05:31
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Yeah there's no need for him to build a sim setup. He's got the money to hire a safety pilot anytime he wants to go flying, or even keep one on call. He just needs to swallow his pride enough to do it. "Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth" and all that. Or like...he might not even have to pay anyone. There's a shitload of young CFIs who would jump at the opportunity to fly with Han Solo.
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May 6, 2022 06:42
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Sagebrush posted:There's a shitload of young CFIs who would jump at the opportunity to fly with Han Solo. But the instant one said anything about Star Wars he’d go Air Force one on them.
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May 6, 2022 07:00
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I have a great trick for dealing with airline seats and it's being short enough that all of them are reasonably comfortable Posting this from economy on a BA 787
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May 6, 2022 14:49
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Well. https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/man-opens-emergency-exit-of-moving-plane-walks-onto-wing-at-ohare-airport/ quote:A man was taken into custody after opening a plane’s emergency exit and walking onto the wing of a moving aircraft at O’Hare International Airport.
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May 6, 2022 15:03
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BIG HEADLINE posted:With all his money, someone needs to let him know how he could build some seriously impressive sim setups, even though I know nothing beats *actual* flying. I don't think that's necessarily true. If runway incursions were rare, there wouldn't be such a concerted effort to stop them whenever possible. It's a thing that happens, and if I recall from the discussion of Ford's incident in particular, the controller used improper phraseology "continue to hold short." "Continue" should not be used in that context, because if the transmission gets misheard or stepped on, the pilot will understand the exact opposite of the thing they were supposed to understand. As for landing on a taxiway... that's harder to defend, but: poo poo happens. I've had students line up to land on a taxiway, I've seen the plane in front of me narrowly avoid landing on a taxiway because the controller noticed what was happening and said "XXX go around NOW!" By the standards of private pilots, I'm really, really not sure that Ford is even below average in terms of proficiency. Mistakes will always happen, they will even happen to professional crews that land at the entirely wrong airport. Aviation safety has come as far as it has because we accept that demanding perfection out of pilots cannot possibly work to eliminate all mistakes. If the FAA is satisfied that he does not require enforcement and/or re-training, I think the rest of the world should be satisfied with that too. If the standard to hold a license of any kind was "has not made a really stupid mistake" there would be precisely zero licensed pilots in the entire world.
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May 6, 2022 18:51
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https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/1522662453649330178?s=20&t=BaUVxiwPTIYgWiarxskDfQ Can't really cut it any closer than that, huh?
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May 6, 2022 20:43
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Wow, looks like they took off, immediately had problems and then crashed.
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Cojawfee posted:Wow, looks like they took off, immediately had problems and then crashed. I'm "You Pick It We Stick It"
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Cojawfee posted:Wow, looks like they took off, immediately had problems and then crashed. U-Pull & Pay (the throttles & the insurance deductible)
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May 6, 2022 22:12
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*looking around cavenders* you're telling me a boot built this city?
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wolrah posted:That is a valid point, when a light flight gets you an entire row segment to yourself the more seats the better. Most comfortable flight I ever flew was overnight transatlantic on a brand new 787 with four out of five middle row seats to myself.
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Spaced God posted:*looking around cavenders* you're telling me a boot built this city? Those of us who grew up in the Houston area deeply appreciate this.
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Cojawfee posted:Wow, looks like they took off, immediately had problems and then crashed. I'm Fast Park & Relax
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Did anything happen to the crew on that Air Canada flight that nearly landed on a taxiway (full of other airliners) in San Francisco?
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/1522662453649330178?s=20&t=BaUVxiwPTIYgWiarxskDfQ Hell of a fencing response.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Did anything happen to the crew on that Air Canada flight that nearly landed on a taxiway (full of other airliners) in San Francisco? I hope not… https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/reports/air1801.pdf#page81 quote:2.3.3 Role of Flight Crew Fatigue Get it together Transport Canada!
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May 7, 2022 02:37
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I'm going to have a JFK-DUB-BER flight in a week or so. They seem to be forcing all bags that don't fit under the seat to be checked in, but some things changed and I'm not going to get on the last flight. Since there's a long, like 10 hour, layover in Dublin anyway, it wouldn't be suspicious to ask them to send the bag to DUB only, right?
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mobby_6kl posted:I'm going to have a JFK-DUB-BER flight in a week or so. They seem to be forcing all bags that don't fit under the seat to be checked in, but some things changed and I'm not going to get on the last flight. Since there's a long, like 10 hour, layover in Dublin anyway, it wouldn't be suspicious to ask them to send the bag to DUB only, right? It's rare to find an agent that will short check a bag, but you can certainly ask.
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Beef Of Ages posted:It's rare to find an agent that will short check a bag, but you can certainly ask. But in this case they’ll have to get the bag back to clear EU customs? They should be able to just go ground side with their bag after customs instead of the recheck. idk if there’s something specific about Dublin though, I was there once 10 years ago.
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hobbesmaster posted:But in this case they’ll have to get the bag back to clear EU customs? They should be able to just go ground side with their bag after customs instead of the recheck. I think they'd be a transit passenger at DUB at the bag would get checked through without reclaim. Customs would happen at BER upon Schengen entry. Only the US makes you claim and recheck when transiting (because we suck, a lot).
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Huh, I didn't consider how customs would play into it. TBH I've no idea, flying TO Dublin was actually from the non-schengen terminal so maybe they'd have us go through customs at the final destination normally? After googling "short checking" it seems that some airlines will let you do it if it's a long layover. I had 23 hours flying out and they kept the bag (which was fine and I didn't ask for jt) but hopefully 10 hours this time might be enough. Since it's actually the return leg of my trip, they can't really cancel anything to screw me over but this luggage thing is definitely a complication. Worst case I could still fly to Berlin and waste a later Ryanair ticket I have from Dublin instead.
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Mortabis posted:I have a great trick for dealing with airline seats and it's being short enough that all of them are reasonably comfortable My trick is upgrading to business class. Posting this while laying down in United Polaris on a 787.
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hobbesmaster posted:I hope not… IIRC in that particular incident they also put some of the blame on NOTAM fatigue -- the runway closure being buried below five hundred NOTAMs about 200 foot cranes and above the ones warning against overflights of Syria -- which is something I think every pilot in America has griped about at some point.
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