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gently caress YYZ. Really.
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Mar 20, 2023 19:26
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Sorry about your lack of taste, YYZ is the best
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Mar 20, 2023 20:36
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Trying to get picked up at YYZ is loving wild, people just randomly double and triple parking each other. I've never seen it as bad at any other airport, and I don't know what the difference is.
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Mar 20, 2023 20:46
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Y’all ever try to catch a Uber at YHZ?
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Mar 20, 2023 21:18
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I really enjoyed YYZ when there on a connection and our 11PM departure was delayed four hours for MX and then canceled, to be rescheduled for 7PM the next night. Wound up getting in behind a group of locals that decided to go home instead of waiting in the airport and had a GA open a construction door and let us enter into the ticketing area. We were illegal aliens for a day and were very thankful that Canada doesn't have exit immigration interviews.
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Mar 20, 2023 21:50
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it's a good song you guys are just mean
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Mar 20, 2023 22:03
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I can't imagine this would be used in an urban setting. I think more likely you'd see it too outer lying communities in Alaska, etc., where simply getting a truck through might be problematic or where it absolutely need an antibiotic or a specific drug given as soon as possible. I’ve been watching drones drop grenades down turret hatches for the better part of a year now. It doesn’t seem impossible to turn that into some form of urban speedy delivery for urgent items.
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Mar 21, 2023 00:00
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mobby_6kl posted:Sorry about your lack of taste, YYZ is the best FrozenVent posted:Y’all ever try to catch a Uber at YHZ? That city does desperately need something to get to/from there. But, the facility itself is at least decently laid out for a small little airport and easy to get around in. The observation "deck" is kind of a  but at least they have something.
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Mar 21, 2023 00:03
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Normally in international airports when you have a split between domestic airside and international airside international is the nicer part. Canadian airports are generally weird because US airside is more or less an extra domestic airside, as a result “domestic” services are split and are kinda half assed. That still doesn’t explain why you need to traverse the labyrinth to connect from an incoming US flight to a domestic Canadian or vice versa. It’s almost like a parody of international airports.
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Mar 21, 2023 00:11
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YYZ Insanity: one of these things is not like the other  We arrive from New York, park at B10 (this was years ago, so the exact gate is probably wrong), and go clear customs, as we're sometimes required to do, before returning back to the plane to fly back to New York. On the way back from Canadian customs to the plane we follow the directions to the B terminal for the gate we know we parked at: B10; and make quite a bit of headway by the time it starts feeling like it's going too easy, should have hit US customs, or at least some bureaucratic/international difficulties, before making it to the gate. But, whatever, we keep going. After a while, we make it all the way to actual gates, still with no customs, but there is a giant glass partition between us and our gate, and we're on the domestic side of it... and, moreover, on the inside it's called not B10 but A10! So we were supposed to be looking for A10 all along, but how exactly were we supposed to know that? What was supposed to have tipped us off to the bonkers crazy fact that gates have different names inside vs outside, and we need to look for signs for a different terminal?! 😤 Back to the outside, through all the international bottlenecks, we finally make it to
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Mar 21, 2023 01:05
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slidebite posted:If YYZ is the best, I'd hate to see your nomination for worst. Its pretty much universally loathed by people that fly with regularity for a reason.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftVTWDrtrlc I haven't been to that airport. For a developed country EWR was pretty bad imo.
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Mar 21, 2023 01:19
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There’s an east way to deal with YYZ, it’s called Billy Bishop.
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Mar 21, 2023 01:21
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It's great, because trying to get anywhere from Canada, you get to play: "would I hate YYZ more than US customs and immigration?" YYZ is slightly less awful, but only by the thinnest of margins.
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Mar 21, 2023 03:32
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airline travel question that seems really simple but I haven't been able to google: I'm going to get off an air France flight from Casablanca to Paris CDG at 2pm. My flight back to the US is on delta at 9am the next day. Will I have to pick up my checked bags in between? I'd rather leave them, if that's possible.
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Mar 21, 2023 09:03
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:airline travel question that seems really simple but I haven't been able to google: I'm going to get off an air France flight from Casablanca to Paris CDG at 2pm. My flight back to the US is on delta at 9am the next day. Will I have to pick up my checked bags in between? I'd rather leave them, if that's possible. Is it on the same ticket? If not, your bags will most likely be checked to CDG only. It's theoretically possible to interline bags to another ticket and carrier but I wouldn't bet on the agent in Casablanca knowing how to do that much less taking the time.
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Mar 21, 2023 12:39
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vessbot posted:YYZ Insanity: one of these things is not like the other FWIW, Oslo Gardermoen is the same if I remember correctly; different gate names on the ops side vs the customer side. Seems confusing for no good reason; made planning a mad 10-minute cross-airport connection a bit difficult a few months ago.
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Mar 21, 2023 14:34
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A lot of airports do that, but usually the names are in different formats, right?
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Mar 21, 2023 14:51
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American’s call to let you just up and get free wifi whips rear end. I’m shitposting at 35000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:48
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Warbird posted:American’s call to let you just up and get free wifi whips rear end. I’m shitposting at 35000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico. What? Did AA finally match Delta on this?
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Mar 21, 2023 19:56
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Warbird posted:American’s call to let you just up and get free wifi whips rear end. I’m shitposting at 35000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico. Oh yeah well United gives me 2 dollars off for being a MileagePlus member  I get to put it on the corporate card though so whatever
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Mar 21, 2023 20:20
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mobby_6kl posted:I read about Zipline years ago and in Rwanda (IIRC) where they started out the roads were poo poo and almost impassible during the raining season. But unlike with like the phone stuff, I don't think this will transfer to developed countries. https://youtu.be/DOWDNBu9DkU I realize it's not for everywhere yet but learning about Abdul, his story and how he is such a seemingly amazing guy is just 
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Mar 21, 2023 20:22
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slidebite posted:I know this was talked about a few days ago, but I literally had no idea what you guys were talking about with "Zipline" until I stumbled upon this. As I mentioned I last heard of them years ago when they were starting out so it's great to see it's working out.
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Mar 21, 2023 21:01
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FunOne posted:What? Did AA finally match Delta on this? Idk, maybe? You watch an ad and get 20 minutes free. In theory you can re up but I wasn’t able to on this leg. They’ve also abandoned in seat screens to some degree as they all have USB and socket power available in addition to a device/tablet holder deal at the top of the seat, though that may only be the Airbus model(s) I flew on.
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Mar 22, 2023 00:03
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Warbird posted:Idk, maybe? You watch an ad and get 20 minutes free. In theory you can re up but I wasn’t able to on this leg. They’ve also abandoned in seat screens to some degree as they all have USB and socket power available in addition to a device/tablet holder deal at the top of the seat, though that may only be the Airbus model(s) I flew on. I flew a few AA 737s over christmas that were like this too - and had the big overhead bins upgrade too. Honestly really good paxex.
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Mar 22, 2023 00:13
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I have an old laptop with an ancient version of openVPN set up for PIA that can get past captive portals on planes but for some reason the same settings in PIA on my new one don't work and openvpn has some driver problem I'm too lazy to fix for the super rare occasion I don't fly on delta.
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Mar 22, 2023 03:20
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FunOne posted:What? Did AA finally match Delta on this? Middle of January on most flights out of SFO, slowly rolling out across the country
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Mar 22, 2023 04:26
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bonelessdongs posted:I have an old laptop with an ancient version of openVPN set up for PIA that can get past captive portals on planes but for some reason the same settings in PIA on my new one don't work and openvpn has some driver problem I'm too lazy to fix for the super rare occasion I don't fly on delta. Can you elaborate a bit on this? Most captive portals are intranet only VLANs and so on and re route you to something with internet actual access once you sign in/pay/whatever. I’d be interested to hear how you were bypassing the pay to play stuff. I wonder if I could rig my WireGuard dial home to make use of it.
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Mar 22, 2023 13:13
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Warbird posted:Can you elaborate a bit on this? Most captive portals are intranet only VLANs and so on and re route you to something with internet actual access once you sign in/pay/whatever. I’d be interested to hear how you were bypassing the pay to play stuff. I wonder if I could rig my WireGuard dial home to make use of it. I don't really spend enough time in places like that to bother with it, but I'd be curious how that works too. The only other thing that I had in mind was on the un-encrypted connections/portals you could intercept somebody's login and just use that.
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Mar 22, 2023 13:34
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There are a lot of captive portals that pass DNS as normal and just block other traffic and redirect HTTP requests to the login page. In those cases something like iodine can be used to tunnel data over DNS. There are also similar methods to tunnel data over pings, which I once used to get free internet on a cruise ship. edit: This actually reminded me that I've left an iodine service running on my VPS since 2018....
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Mar 22, 2023 15:49
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It’s a shame I don’t fly more these days. I’d love to get on a plane’s intranet and poke around at it.
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Mar 23, 2023 03:34
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Warbird posted:Can you elaborate a bit on this? Most captive portals are intranet only VLANs and so on and re route you to something with internet actual access once you sign in/pay/whatever. I’d be interested to hear how you were bypassing the pay to play stuff. I wonder if I could rig my WireGuard dial home to make use of it. No idea, I was using one of these files and some old version of openvpn on windows 7 and it magically connected lmao https://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/kb/articles/where-can-i-find-your-ovpn-files
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Mar 23, 2023 04:44
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Tickets for the last Reno Air Races went on sale this morning. Everybody Taylor Swifted the ticket site and they got 22 tickets sold before the whole thing went down for all events. Took an hour and a half to get it working enough for sales to resume. Looks like plenty of tickets left if anyone wants to do a goon meet. https://airrace.org/reno-air-races-tickets/
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Mar 23, 2023 05:46
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Airlines should totally keep doing those "single pilot" studies: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna76275
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Mar 23, 2023 19:32
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Airlines should totally keep doing those "single pilot" studies: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna76275
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Mar 23, 2023 19:50
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Every issue of the Callback newsletter is a good reminder why having two people in the cockpit is a good idea. https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/publications/callback/cb_517.html
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Mar 23, 2023 19:51
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I'd want to ask the idea men how they square having triple redundancies for every system in the machine with having none for the god drat pilot, but I'm scared I would try to strangle them first
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Mar 23, 2023 23:33
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I'd want to ask the idea men how they square having triple redundancies for every system in the machine with having none for the god drat pilot, but I'm scared I would try to strangle them first Think of the stock buybacks you can do when you halve the pilot payroll.
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Mar 23, 2023 23:36
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Old but maybe some haven't seen this before https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1638889057638858752?s=20
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slidebite posted:Old but maybe some haven't seen this before I've heard from reliable source that the bottom of this aircraft was wet. The T56 is not what I'd describe as an excessively powerful powerplant.
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