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Mr. Funny Pants posted:I wish news outlets would take the extra time to find out what the likely sentence will be rather than always going for the sensational maximum sentence. He's not going to do 20 loving years. Call up an attorney, have them look at the schedule and get a realistic range. That would cost both money as in time and money as in money
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hobbesmaster posted:Reddit was getting anywhere from 12 months to 36 months out of the guidelines. Based on the article it seems like the facts are: he conspired to break the law for money, broke the law, was approached by investigators, lied to them, then attempted to destroy the exact evidence the investigators were asking about. Seems like this case could easily face stricter sentencing if those things are all true.
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azflyboy posted:That's basically what the airport does, but Alaska refuses to admit that Seattle is terrible at being an airport, so they'll set up all kinds of deicing stuff and attempt to run a normal schedule into an airport that's effectively closed. I got got by the early season snowstorm that hit Seattle in Oct 2017 - I'd landed in LAX around 7am from Melbourne, Australia, enroute to SEA. I availed myself of the Alaska lounge where I promptly passed out. I woke up to utter carnage - SEA was effectively shut down due to a freak snowstorm and pretty much every flight to SEA was cancelled because the deicing contractor hadn't trained staff or bought equipment and, y'know, deicing fluid yet. The lounge was a lock-in, if we left we lost our seats. We ended up stuck in that lounge for longer than the flight from MEL-LAX, like 18 hours or something stupid.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:I wish news outlets would take the extra time to find out what the likely sentence will be rather than always going for the sensational maximum sentence. He's not going to do 20 loving years. Call up an attorney, have them look at the schedule and get a realistic range. wishing a clickbait mill would incur billable hours rather than be sensationalist is like wishing for the tide to not come in
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Wombot posted:I got got by the early season snowstorm that hit Seattle in Oct 2017 - I'd landed in LAX around 7am from Melbourne, Australia, enroute to SEA. I availed myself of the Alaska lounge where I promptly passed out. I woke up to utter carnage - SEA was effectively shut down due to a freak snowstorm and pretty much every flight to SEA was cancelled because the deicing contractor hadn't trained staff or bought equipment and, y'know, deicing fluid yet. The lounge was a lock-in, if we left we lost our seats. We ended up stuck in that lounge for longer than the flight from MEL-LAX, like 18 hours or something stupid. Alaska does something very similar to that every year, and every single time it's followed by a "Here's what we learned from this colossal fuckup!" sent out to employees a week or so later, when we all know that they'll completely fall apart the first time it snows nexr year.
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azflyboy posted:Alaska does something very similar to that every year, and every single time it's followed by a "Here's what we learned from this colossal fuckup!" sent out to employees a week or so later, when we all know that they'll completely fall apart the first time it snows nexr year.
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evil_bunnY posted:Every time we fly into/out of the US we basically do it for free because they'll gently caress up *something*, delay us a couple hours and run afoul of EU regs (where we get our tix) then have to pay us back. It's happened thrice now and it's really funny. US airlines raced to the bottom so hard they’re barely airlines anymore. Whenever I book tickets now, my Google calendar is just loving awash in flight change notifications for the entire intervening period until the day of the flight. They all view the “regularly scheduled air carrier” part of Part 121 more as a guideline than as a rule, and are operating with next to no system flexibility. If something happens to your scheduled airplane, crew, or if the weather moves in, you’re probably hosed with no recourse. I’ve been told “There are ATC delays” on a route that departs through my own airspace. Call work, “hey uhhh, are we showing any delays off Lauderdale or into Dallas?” loving course not. The thing is, the airline is liable to reimburse passengers for a broken tail or a sick crew member. They’re not liable for a nebulous “ATC delay.”  Super jealous of Aussie and EU customer protection regulation generally, but particularly when it comes to the airline industry. What a loving joke of an industry.
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MrYenko posted:US airlines raced to the bottom so hard they’re barely airlines anymore. Whenever I book tickets now, my Google calendar is just loving awash in flight change notifications for the entire intervening period until the day of the flight. They all view the “regularly scheduled air carrier” part of Part 121 more as a guideline than as a rule, and are operating with next to no system flexibility. If something happens to your scheduled airplane, crew, or if the weather moves in, you’re probably hosed with no recourse. I’ve been told “There are ATC delays” on a route that departs through my own airspace. Call work, “hey uhhh, are we showing any delays off Lauderdale or into Dallas?” loving course not. The thing is, the airline is liable to reimburse passengers for a broken tail or a sick crew member. They’re not liable for a nebulous “ATC delay.” Sure is great having companys that are accountable for their actions. Sort of.
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I hate how media report the maximum possible sentence, which will never be levied, with a casual “he faces up to 20 years in prison” and no discussion of what he’ll likely get. He’s not going to do anywhere near 20 years, but I wouldn’t mind if he did.
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Didn't he plead guilty to the obstruction charge because there was a real chance of him being charged with terrorism or something for intentionally crashing an airplane?
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MrYenko posted:Super jealous of Aussie and EU customer protection regulation generally, but particularly when it comes to the airline industry. What a loving joke of an industry. Rainman tried to warn us back in the 80s. "Wanna fly Qantas. Definitely, definitely wanna fly Qantas."
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OMGVBFLOL posted:wishing a clickbait mill would incur billable hours rather than be sensationalist is like wishing for the tide to not come in I agree that it's a lost cause to get journalists to do any sort of journalism beyond reading Twitter, but lol @ describing The Guardian as a clickbait mill.
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Sagebrush posted:I agree that it's a lost cause to get journalists to do any sort of journalism beyond reading Twitter, but lol @ describing The Guardian as a clickbait mill. Honestly, a lot of the formerly respectable MSM outlets are mostly writing clickbait stories now, why not the Guardian? NASA is ending the prohibition of supersonic flights over land: https://www.airguide.info/nasa-is-to-end-the-50-year-ban-on-supersonic-flights-over-land-in-the-us/
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Nebakenezzer posted:Honestly, a lot of the formerly respectable MSM outlets are mostly writing clickbait stories now, why not the Guardian? YES rattle my windows! 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Honestly, a lot of the formerly respectable MSM outlets are mostly writing clickbait stories now, why not the Guardian? Well, I guess the market just opened up for supersonic bizjets for ultra-wealthy assholes. Can't wait for all the Santa Monica to Jackson Hole flights, with their claiming bragging rights for getting there a second quicker than anyone else.
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eh, for it just signifies that they are very comfortable that concord won't cut US airplane company grass now.
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there's also a broader restriction that applies to military aircraft over US land too, isn't there? 30,000ft is a number kicking around in my head for some reason.
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For the military anything supersonic will either be within their own ranges (ie Nellis) or “operational” (ie, F-15s scrambled from Portland because a ramper stole a Q400 in Seattle)
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Operational necessity outside of dedicated supersonic-authorized training ranges is all pretty strictly defined. I'm blanking on the document title, but years ago I had to be passingly familiar with it. But basically unless poo poo is actually happening, military aircraft have to follow the same rules as everyone else outside their ranges, when the ranges are active.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:wishing a clickbait mill would incur billable hours rather than be sensationalist is like wishing for the tide to not come in It's not just clickbait sites, it's the big boys too.
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https://markosun.wordpress.com/category/aviation/ The best model airport in the world is in Hamburg
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Nebakenezzer posted:https://markosun.wordpress.com/category/aviation/ Germany: proudly home to the best model airport, and arguably the most historically dysfunctional actual airport.
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Nebakenezzer posted:https://markosun.wordpress.com/category/aviation/ That place is insane. There are just shy of 400,000 photos of it on google maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/M...s%2Fm%2F03cxk63 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYY3cN40gu0
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MisterOblivious posted:That place is insane. It is incredible. I love it there and try and stop for an hour or so whenever I am travelling through that part of Germany. They do behind-the-scenes tours too
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MisterOblivious posted:That place is insane. James may checks this place out on his old toy show and then races the creators on a separate episode. Just flew from Frankfurt to DIA on a BRAND NEW 787 w lufthansa. First of all I never realized how many 747-400s they operate. Frankfurt was lousy with them. And the 787 is a super nice jet to fly on even in economy class. Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 13:05 on May 14, 2023 |
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Preoptopus posted:Just flew from Frankfurt to DIA on a BRAND NEW 787 w lufthansa. First of all I never realized how many 747-400s they operate. Frankfurt was lousy with them. And the 787 is a super nice jet to fly on even in economy class. Lufty definitely still has some 747-400 birds in service but my guess is you were seeing members of the 747-8 fleet as well.
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Beef Of Ages posted:Lufty definitely still has some 747-400 birds in service but my guess is you were seeing members of the 747-8 fleet as well. Fair play. I managed to snag a pic of this one getting some food stuffed in her.  Bonus a380 
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That's a 747-8i. You can tell the difference by the longer upper deck.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That's a 747-8i. You can tell the difference by the longer upper deck.  
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That's a 747-8i. You can tell the difference by the longer upper deck. 747-MAX
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:i believe mr headline was making a joke about the big forehead plane Nope, it's just been so damned long since I've seen a passenger -400 that I hosed up on the ID. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 16:17 on May 14, 2023 |
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dupersaurus posted:747-MAX This one has the autopilot invert the bird before nose diving into the ground.
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the kid in me is still bummed that the a380 wasn't much of a success. i want to see big chungus ocean liners in the sky. imo the airliner variant of the C-5 being cancelled was the point where human progress stalled and began its long regressive slide into ignorance superstition and fascism
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The hilarious part of the A380 saga is that Boeing, when it decided not to develop a new plane to compete, correctly predicted what the ultimate demand would be for the A380 (Boeing guessed 330, it peaked at 331 orders before Emirates bailed in 2019)
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Yes Boeing, famously forward looking when it comes to what it's customers and their customers want in a new airplane
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Arson Daily posted:Yes Boeing, famously forward looking when it comes to what it's customers and their customers want in a new airplane Airlines want the cheapest airplanes to buy and fly, customers want the cheapest tickets. So Boeing now makes cheapest crap they can.
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Arson Daily posted:Yes Boeing, famously forward looking when it comes to what it's customers and their customers want in a new airplane they did correctly predict this particular thing though
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Arson Daily posted:Yes Boeing, famously forward looking when it comes to what it's customers and their customers want in a new airplane Ya, that’s right on target for modern Boeing. It’s the “famously looking forward to make sure their airplanes don’t have glaring systems integration issues that directly result in hull-loss accidents” part that they dropped the ball on. A very strong argument can be made that Southwest Airlines is one of the largest contributing factors to the 737 Max debacle.
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