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Somehow less weird than frequent flyer forums talking about Deltalina
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Department P. Mmhmmm.
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Jan 31, 2023 22:14
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I've only used Dulles to fly to LA and Hawaii a few times and it was fine. I like parking in the garage that's walking distance from the terminal. Waiting on the daily parking bus at BWI sucks. I didn't even know you could avoid the trams though, I might have to try that (I don't mind walking around in airports, I'm usually pretty lightly packed) ATL is an efficient airport though. I used to fly through there a lot when I was stationed in Germany and doing Frankfurt -> ATL -> home a few times a year. Never had any issues. What do people think of Denver? Their newer security setup seems like a nightmare at times. I am also not a fan of off-site rental car places.
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Jan 31, 2023 22:32
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DFW is the most easily navigated airport I've been to as a passenger, but shout out to weirdo longboi Detroit A for having to have a train for intra-terminal movement instead of inter-terminal movement. Is there anyplace else that's done that?
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Jan 31, 2023 22:59
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shame on an IGA posted:DFW is the most easily navigated terminal I've been to as a passenger, but shout out to weirdo longboi Detroit A for having to have a train for intra-terminal movement instead of inter-terminal movement. Is there anyplace else that's done that? MSP. Well, kinda, if the MSP managers were running DTW there’d be 3 concourses in the A gates with no real separation between them.
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Jan 31, 2023 23:01
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shame on an IGA posted:DFW is the most easily navigated airport I've been to as a passenger, but shout out to weirdo longboi Detroit A for having to have a train for intra-terminal movement instead of inter-terminal movement. Is there anyplace else that's done that? MSP has a tram that runs along the C gates, but technically the last stop is the end of C and the beginning of the A/B gates e:dammit
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Jan 31, 2023 23:03
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shame on an IGA posted:DFW is the most easily navigated airport I've been to as a passenger, but shout out to weirdo longboi Detroit A for having to have a train for intra-terminal movement instead of inter-terminal movement. Is there anyplace else that's done that? Sitting at A68, just watching the train go back and forth.
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Jan 31, 2023 23:09
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I really appreciate that DFW external doors are labeled to match up with terminal letter and gate number. Flying though SFO is maddening by comparison. How the gently caress do you have two international concourses next to each other and you still have to go through security again to connect MAD has some absurdly long terminals, the newest one in particular. Never been in an airport before where it was faster to use the elevator than take the escalator
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Jan 31, 2023 23:43
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Psion posted:also i'm researching setting up my own ads-b receiver and, just to be clear, I could use flightradar24's software and feed flightaware or vice versa right? my initial goal is a localhost map for 'what am I picking up/what is over my house' and I'll choose what services to send data to, if any, later -- but I want to make sure I don't lock myself in at the start. I really like the adsbx software. It's really easy to feed other services with it. How well it'll keep going after the adsbx sale, we'll see. But it's good for now. Sapozhnik posted:anybody ever use opensky-network? seems to be the same sort of idea as adsbexchange before the latter's owner sold out a few weeks ago I'm going to try to feed OpenSky and if I could find another receiver or two, I'd feed voice data there and acars to airframes.io
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Feb 1, 2023 01:09
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hannibal posted:I've only used Dulles to fly to LA and Hawaii a few times and it was fine. I like parking in the garage that's walking distance from the terminal. Waiting on the daily parking bus at BWI sucks. I didn't even know you could avoid the trams though, I might have to try that (I don't mind walking around in airports, I'm usually pretty lightly packed) I don’t have any problems with DEN (and it’s my home airport and I fly out of it a lot) but I do have Precheck and Clear so I’m usually through security in under 5 minutes. Security lines can build up pretty deep at peak times but from what I understand they still go pretty quickly. The updates they’ve made to the B and C concourses are pretty nice. I agree with offsite rentals but don’t have to deal with it since I’m parking there. It is nice that both garage and economy parking are within walking distance of the terminal.
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Feb 1, 2023 01:19
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If your hardware can run Docker and if you're any sort of computer toucher, there are various containerized versions of the trackers. I think I'm feeding... 5? ADSBX, FR24, Flight Aware, OpenSky, and RadarBox. A single modern Raspberry Pi should be able to run Docker, so you don't need a bunch of hardware.
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Feb 1, 2023 01:25
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Oh word? I hadn’t considered that but it doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been thinking about moving everything off the ancient Pi2 in my attic besides just the antenna for a bit now and that would be a good excuse to.
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Feb 1, 2023 01:32
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adsb.one , adsb.fi , adsb.lol and theairtraffic.com are all picking up a big part of the adsbx diaspora
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Feb 1, 2023 01:54
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Charlottes C terminal (I think?) is the only one I really hate. Oh, and Dallas Love. You’re never not walking shoulder to shoulder, nut to butt with every other person there.
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Feb 1, 2023 01:59
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:seriously ohare is the worst large airport in america by far No, sorry, it's Denver by a mile. Terrible for planespotting, bumpy on the way in, bumpy on the way out, not enough seats, and you're delayed either by storms in spring /summer or snow in fall/winter. Denver International Airport's design and oeuvre was heavily inspired by the last panel in Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthy Delights"
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Feb 1, 2023 02:16
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Salami Surgeon posted:I've been wanting to set one up for a while, and this thread has inspired me to finally do it. Tonight I'm going to try the adsbexchange image and feed flightaware and flightradar24 with that. I'll let you know how it goes. I've been fiddling with it for over an hour now. Probably 30 minutes to unbox, write the image, boot, and set the WiFi. Then I cannot connect to it when it's on my WiFi. ADSBexchange says it's getting my data, I can see the MAC in my DHCP leases, but I can't connect to my pi locally now. I'll fiddle with it some more later.
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Feb 1, 2023 02:20
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ManifunkDestiny posted:No, sorry, it's Denver by a mile. Never, ever have a connection in Denver after about noon from June through October. There's holding in every gate with diverts everywhere multiple times a day every day. Don't fly out of Denver after noon during that time period if you have a connection or are time sensitive for something either because your flight either got caught in a ground stop or had to divert to ICT. I got to see that shitshow in action daily for 5 years. I think I'll get to fly out of the new MCI terminal in May for work, so that will be cool.
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Feb 1, 2023 02:23
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Bob A Feet posted:Charlottes C terminal (I think?) is the only one I really hate. Oh, and Dallas Love. You’re never not walking shoulder to shoulder, nut to butt with every other person there. On the plus side, DAL *does* have a Whataburger in their food court.
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Feb 1, 2023 02:24
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Charlotte has a Shake Shack and a Smashburger, but neither in the middle food court. Just like everything in that airport, you have to hoof it to another zip code.
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Feb 1, 2023 02:40
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Bob A Feet posted:Charlottes C terminal (I think?) is the only one I really hate. Oh, and Dallas Love. You’re never not walking shoulder to shoulder, nut to butt with every other person there. Is that the one with the carpet or the one that’s perpetually under construction?
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Feb 1, 2023 02:47
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hobbesmaster posted:Nothing is worse than that runway at AMS that requires a road trip. It’s a literal league, three statute miles.
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Feb 1, 2023 02:50
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hobbesmaster posted:Nothing is worse than that runway at AMS that requires a road trip. imagine wanting to go to the GA terminal and getting assigned 36L lol  nearly a 5 mile taxi as the crow flies, crossing at least three other runways and imagine doing it at the FAA-condoned taxi speed of "brisk walking pace"
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Feb 1, 2023 03:00
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Sagebrush posted:imagine wanting to go to the GA terminal and getting assigned 36L lol Easy. "Ground, request air taxi".
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Feb 1, 2023 03:04
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Sagebrush posted:nearly a 5 mile taxi as the crow flies, crossing at least three other runways Yeah but you’ve got that scenic canal crossing. ImplicitAssembler posted:Easy. "Ground, request air taxi". There are scheduled passenger flights shorter than that taxi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westray_to_Papa_Westray_flight
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Feb 1, 2023 03:09
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Platystemon posted:It’s a literal league, three statute miles. If/when they add the fifth runway at Dulles, running parallel to the existing 12/30 (creating 12/30 R & L), that's also going to be a pretty long taxi.
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Feb 1, 2023 03:12
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ManifunkDestiny posted:No, sorry, it's Denver by a mile. don't care, don't care, don't care, don't care, last thing is annoying. my main objection to DEN is that its in loving Kansas
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Feb 1, 2023 03:30
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Sagebrush posted:imagine wanting to go to the GA terminal and getting assigned 36L lol I landed that runway once in the 747 and then had a bit of a traffic jam behind us because we taxied pretty slow. ATC was asking us to pick up the speed too lol. Also never go to the wataburger or the chicken fillet in DAL because they're always crazy busy. Campisi's or dickys bbq are where it's at.
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Feb 1, 2023 03:46
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That WhataB in Love is probably the most efficient one in the world. That line flies. The center-hallway bars and news stands piss me off. Instead of expanding the terminal they just keep cramming poo poo into it.
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Feb 1, 2023 04:38
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are you guys tracking the delivery flight for the last 747? Little easter egg in the route https://flightaware.com/live/flight...Lquvhx3jksXE5BA
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Feb 1, 2023 19:24
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Animal posted:are you guys tracking the delivery flight for the last 747? Little easter egg in the route Nice! Long live the queen.
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Feb 1, 2023 19:26
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Animal posted:are you guys tracking the delivery flight for the last 747? Little easter egg in the route queen of the skies 
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Feb 1, 2023 19:26
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https://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1620843533316902913 Aeronautical? check Insanity? check.
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Feb 1, 2023 21:19
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somebody get Howard Hughes on the horn
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Feb 1, 2023 21:25
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quote:Goals include takeoff and land in Sea State 4, sustained on-water operation up to Sea State 5, Sea State 4 is defined as 1.25 to 2.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 8 ft 2 in) and state 5 is 2.5 to 4 metres (8 ft 2 in to 13 ft 1 in)  Trying to imagine taking off and landing in 8 ft waves, holy poo poo. Then fill your cargo bay with
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Feb 1, 2023 21:36
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1620843533316902913 Do they have that Pontoon C130 flying already?
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Feb 2, 2023 00:48
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1620843533316902913 This just reminds me of that stupid "Gavin" delivery plane. You know the one. Also everyt ime I saw that stupid websites models of how it would work, this would start playing in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCDLW7n53A
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Feb 2, 2023 01:16
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Hadlock posted:Sea State 4 is defined as 1.25 to 2.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 8 ft 2 in) and state 5 is 2.5 to 4 metres (8 ft 2 in to 13 ft 1 in) Yea or emergency landing in them due to an electrical fire or an engine eating some albatross
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Feb 2, 2023 01:20
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Hadlock posted:Sea State 4 is defined as 1.25 to 2.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 8 ft 2 in) and state 5 is 2.5 to 4 metres (8 ft 2 in to 13 ft 1 in) surfs up, dudes.
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Feb 2, 2023 01:24
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Hadlock posted:Sea State 4 is defined as 1.25 to 2.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 8 ft 2 in) and state 5 is 2.5 to 4 metres (8 ft 2 in to 13 ft 1 in) What kind of forces are involved when one hull touches down 8 feet before the other?! There are probably a lot of ways I might design a huge sea plane, but I don't think catamaran would be one of them.
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Feb 2, 2023 02:09
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It says "Goals include" so I'm not sure if that's strict criteria The China Clippers of yore had a monohull with two pontoons, both were a fair distance higher than the waterline, I think combined with the righting moment of a structure that massive, probably gave pretty good seafaring capability in up to 3.5' waves, which you'd expect to find nearly anywhere. Hugely wild speculation but I'm guessing they end up with a china clipper looking thing, cargo floor being ~85' long and 15' wide, plus nose and tail. Biplane might not be totally unreasonable to shrink the wingspan and avoid excessive loading forces while beached
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