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by blantonl 4y ago
https://twitter.com/JonHuntTV/status/1623390223190134784?ref...
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by blantonl 4y ago
...which incidentally has a very nasty problem brewing with Continental engines, grounding of all of the manufacturer's fleet running Continental engines that were made in the past few years. It's actually an aviation crises in th
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by blantonl 4y ago
There's really very little reason for a GA single piston aircraft to land at a Class B airport anyway.
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by blantonl 4y ago
This is a fair argument to make. Normalizing web site metadata (which is essentially what SEO is) resulted in Google getting crowdsourced work done for them for free. It has been a self-fulfilling positive feedback loop since then.
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by blantonl 4y ago
> If you're flying in and out of KDFW you should have no trouble with a future Class B KAUS :-) Given my experience navigating the already PITA Bravo shelves in DFW (don't bust through those without an explicit clearance) and&#
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by blantonl 4y ago
I fly in this airspace. (KAUS and KSAT and KDFW) KAUS might be the most classic example of Class C airspace in existence. They only have 3 App/Dep positions with a spare 4th, and the top of the charlie is 4500 feet. I can overfly tha
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by blantonl 4y ago
believe it or not, this controller is a known problem child in the ATC world and has been shuttled around to multiple facilities all the while filing EO complaints against the FAA any time he was in trouble for anything.
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by blantonl 4y ago
Guy is a known problem child. He's been shuttled around the NAS. He's finished.
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by blantonl 4y ago
TCAS is muted/disabled on the ground and at this altitude.
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by blantonl 4y ago
For all intents and purposes, yes, you are correct.
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by blantonl 4y ago
It was without a doubt a performance problem with the tower controller. FedEx deserves all the credit for avoiding a disaster. As soon as they got their clearance to land, they called back to clarify and verify it. So, they knew that
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by blantonl 4y ago
It is well known in the ATC community that this tower controller that was responsible for this incident was a problem child. He had been shuttled multiple times between facilities as a poor performer and was well known for filling EO compl
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by blantonl 4y ago
Class B criteria is > 300K operations annually - ~200K is KAUS. KSTL and KMCI were formal airline hubs and are still Class B most likely due to legacy assignments. It's a lot harder for the FAA to "demote" a piece of airs
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by blantonl 4y ago
For operations on a specific runway, yes. Departing and arriving traffic on the same runway use the same frequency (called "Tower"). Some airports will have a single "Tower" frequency that controls all arriving and depa
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by blantonl 4y ago
Getty’s strategy at the time appeared to be to meet any infringement accusations with a massive legal response. I'm surprised at this in your case because typically copyright infringement cases are massively weighted in favor of the
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by blantonl 4y ago
That is an amazing IFR flight plan. I wonder if someone captured the readback on the radio. You’re cleared to the Cincinnati airport via ……
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by blantonl 4y ago
that didn't happen. They flew this.
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by blantonl 4y ago
Not at this extent, and the ability for the general public to be aware of it.
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by blantonl 4y ago
custom control system This would be the very last explanation in aviation for sure. Like, dead last in terms of speculation.
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by blantonl 4y ago
Given that they flew this below 15k feet, not requiring the full IFR flight plan which would be required above that altitude, I suspect they might have hand flown this out by Moses lake by following a magenta line on a map. They could have
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by blantonl 4y ago
This was almost certainly drawn out by hand, waypoints (lat/lon) and turns were plotted and then inputed into the flight management computer, and there is a good chance the plane just flew itself as told. Although given it was flown at
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by blantonl 4y ago
What's cool is that aviation can be so stifling at times with training, rules, regulations, etc, that it seems that certain very cool traditions are either set in stone, or born and survive relatively intact. ADSB reporting, which powe
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by blantonl 4y ago
speaking from experience, I would tell you the sky penis is one of the easiest things to "draw" by flying an airplane. It's two turns around a point and a quick run out to maybe to a training maneuver or two, them a 180 and
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by blantonl 4y ago
I don't know about you but we change stacks and go on massive rewrites of frameworks and code every two years to stay busy. /s
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by blantonl 4y ago
you realize that organizations that develop open source software can sell support contracts, consulting, services, hosting, etc, all things that generate revenue. I guess you could have said the same about RedHat, yet IBM acquired them for
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by blantonl 4y ago
the addition to the real estate pose is to make absolutely sure your Rolex is high up on your wrist, and the arm is prominently crossed in front, with the sleeve slightly pulled back to accentuate the watch.
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by blantonl 4y ago
Pity the executives who have been forced to stand side on to the camera, tilt their heads slightly like a giant parrot, fold their arms and told to look natural. If you ever saw someone standing like this in real life, you would think “bet
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by blantonl 4y ago
You have should do the following immediately 1) Take down this post. LinkedIn's lawyers will almost certainly eventually read it and use whatever you've said here against you 2) Get an IP/Copyright lawyer and start followi
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by blantonl 4y ago
No they aren't. There's far more critical snowflakes out there... FAA Airspace management, a medical radiation device, avionics in an aircraft, and facebook.
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by blantonl 4y ago
I'm not sure I'm willing to go that far. That would be like complaining Twitter sold to Facebook.

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