stevehawk

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by stevehawk 3y ago
4 days late on this but - if an airfcraft is in a sparsely populated area then it is allowed to be below 500' AGL so long as it is 500' away from "person, vessel, vehicle, or structure." This rule is suspended if the air
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by stevehawk 3y ago
On the other hand, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Spirit, Allegiant and others are all strapped with Airbus A320neos that are going to be grounded shortly due to engine issues related to P&W's GTF engine.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
And the 737NG has its own problems - https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-ng-nacelle-redesign/
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by stevehawk 3y ago
> Everybody agrees that FAA is not what it used to be, these days the Boeing engineers are basically self-certifying their planes. I think Boeing /engineers/ would argue that statement and instead tell you that Boeing /ma
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by stevehawk 3y ago
The planes are all flying IFR flight plans which are submitted in advance and include airplane type. How far in advance is a little bit random but still in advance of leaving the gate.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
ah. i've been wondering what the method of securing the bolts would have been and have not seen anyone mention it. torque values or threadlocker is rarely enough for the FAA. it's usually safety wire, castle nuts, lock washers, et
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by stevehawk 3y ago
maybe the textbook definition hasn't changed, but the interpretation (and application of said interpretations) certainly have in the United States. Especially since the hijacking of "being woke" by white people.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
do you live near an airport?
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by stevehawk 3y ago
> The other is privacy. True in the aviation world. I've noticed that most people under, say, 50 or so, like ADS-B (airplanes broadcasting their location) for the safety reasons. But most of the pilots over 50 will say "It&#x27
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by stevehawk 3y ago
You say that, but I recently ran out of disk space on my iPhone.. and the more I looked at the apps the more I realized "I bet these are all framework based apps and not native apps, and no one is tree-shaking their code or doing &#x2F
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by stevehawk 3y ago
> And I strongly doubt that agencies that are known to routinely violate the law, the constitution, and human rights care about "contractually mandated" 40-hour workweeks. lol they 100% do.. because they're all contractors
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by stevehawk 3y ago
I have to admit, I wonder how many lives would have been lost if this happened in America. "I have to get my laptop!" "where's my carry-on!?" "I think I left my phone!"
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by stevehawk 3y ago
"Line up and wait" is, historically, the ICAO phraseology, which the FAA adopted (and ditched the "taxi into position and talk for thirty more seconds and block comms" phrase). The phrase adoption went into effect Oct 20
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by stevehawk 3y ago
it also skyrockets the barrier to entry for software to a point that no one but the big companies could compete.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
maybe 10x the salary (probably not) but also a correlated increase in hours instead of a contractually mandated maximum of 40 hours, combined with the legal inability to do work from home, discuss work at home, and a lot of related perks.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
The fewer pilots flying cargo means the more pilots to fly passengers.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
You may not want to research how many airliners are fly by wire...
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by stevehawk 3y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. In my wife's hospital's case, a lot of the nurses were part time due to family requirements. When the hospital demanded they go full time or quit, they simply quit and went part
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by stevehawk 3y ago
That's weird to me, in the US, because I don't know a single doctor that draws blood for tests. And if a doctor ever tried to draw blood from me I would say "No thanks, let the nurse do it". The American equivalent of th
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by stevehawk 3y ago
Amtrak in the northeast corridor is Amtrak owned track
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by stevehawk 3y ago
i'm sure you understand why that is not particularly important to a small American radio station
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by stevehawk 3y ago
fwiw the correct email for this is arbitrationoptout@23andme.com
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by stevehawk 3y ago
we should caveat all of this with "USA teenagers" as Apple does not have nearly these adoption levels anywhere else in the world.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
Good video. It's a shame that his voice over is in that "TED talk" cadence where people pause as if everything they say is mind blowing.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
i think it's safe to say that you're not the average phone user.
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by stevehawk 3y ago
The article keeps saying "backhopping" but are they really talking about "bunnyhopping"?
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by stevehawk 3y ago
godaddy 100% did it. i remember looking for a domain, taking a day to debate, they reporteded it registered and they 10x'd the domain price on me. When I reached out to ICANN about such a bs move they just came back with "GoDaddy
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by stevehawk 3y ago
the amount of effort that your will to put into this to not enter your attic is absolutely astounding. by the time you finished formulating even a basic plane to fly a drone to run a cable and displace all of your blown in insulation you co
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by stevehawk 3y ago
resuming? Has humanity stopped since 1957?
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by stevehawk 3y ago
Well SpaceX launches rockets into space and the others don't so it seems unfair to compare right? :-P

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