catminou

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by catminou 3y ago
And strangely Reagan was the president of the actors union and a supporter of the Polish anti-communist labor movements.
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by catminou 3y ago
After Reagan fired all the controllers in the 80s Clinton allowed for them to come back in the 90s. The washout rate of folks coming back was super high from what I recall (part of that is also probably due to increased traffic load).
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by catminou 3y ago
Isn't this related to the fact that the FAA themselves shutdown the recruiting & training pipeline and now we're seeing the impact of that?
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by catminou 4y ago
This. For the feds they're called 2703d orders to request for information. It's a pretty common thing.
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by catminou 4y ago
And some other aircraft (like turboprops) use deicing boots on the leading edges. Rubber like surfaces that expand at specific intervals (usually a low and high setting). And those in the GA community have weeping wings / TKS deicing f
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by catminou 4y ago
It happens occasionally: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Juan_de_Fuca_laser...
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by catminou 4y ago
And the first officer too. It's a team effort and safety is the responsibility of all crew members (including the flight attendants to call out something, jumpseaters and even folks dead heading). I recall in a CRM training they asked
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by catminou 4y ago
Reminds me of a time in 1999 when a US Air crew at Rhode Island refused to takeoff in the fog when the controller insisted it was okay. Another aircraft had landed and was lost in the fog about their location, even saying they were on on an
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by catminou 4y ago
Over the years the India telecommunications department has repeatedly null routed or diverted traffic to BBC websites thru scrubbers domestically. Know this because I have infra in India and can observe them do this regularly (when our cust
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by catminou 4y ago
Some actually do. If folks are escalating to the neteng crews it usually means something is broken via normal channels and it could use attention. That's social network is exercised for a variety of things: Abuse, ddos, IP spoofing, bo
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by catminou 4y ago
I recall years ago in the mid 2000s a moderately sized US ISP that sold internet access in office buildings to mostly businesses had a rather interesting outage. They had switches (Extreme switches - known for their purple color aka Barney