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by unionemployee 6y ago
My like or dislike isn’t the issue. Let’s just correctly price the externalities.
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by unionemployee 6y ago
It seems there's almost no barrier to adding the infrastructure required for everyone to live in individual castles, carting themselves around in ever-growing wheelchairs to gigantic commerce centers designed for said wheelchairs (but
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Airlines Self-Announcing at Las Airport (Tower Closed for C19)(youtube.com)
1 points by unionemployee 7y ago|0 comments
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by unionemployee 7y ago
As an airline employee who sometimes faces large shifts in sleep times, I've become quite worried about brain health. Papers like this and Matthew Walker's recent popularity seem to have brought more attention to the issue. Last w
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How Accurate Is This? – What Single Pilot Looks Like(airlinepilotforums.com)
5 points by unionemployee 7y ago|0 comments
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Air Niugini Flight 73 cockpit video(youtube.com)
2 points by unionemployee 7y ago|0 comments
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by unionemployee 8y ago
Had they paid closer attention to their airspeed. The aircraft could have been saved. By reactivating the system at such high speed, adding further nose down trim, there was no way to keep the aircraft level. Tunnel vision.
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by unionemployee 8y ago
Ugh. I just read the report and maintain that the pilots acted incompetently. Though they regained control of the plane and turned off the stab trim system, their reaction took considerable time. The fatal blow, however, is this: distracted
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by unionemployee 8y ago
That would be the autopilot disconnect button or, in this case, the trim switch, the pressing of which is the correct immediate response to this occurrence, followed by the disabling of the system using switches on the center pedestal. Whil
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by unionemployee 8y ago
I don't think that's avoidable. The demand is too high right now. Personally, I'd like to see increased automation and "low-pilot" aircraft enter service.
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by unionemployee 8y ago
In response to future 'trim system/AOA sensor' comments: Transport aircraft have a procedure to cut out a runaway/malfunctioning trim or stick pusher. Usually, this procedure is to press and hold the autopilot disconnect
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by unionemployee 8y ago
Loved it.
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by unionemployee 8y ago
A completely different situation, but a Las Vegas controller had a stroke while on duty not long ago. You can hear in the transmissions that as the situation goes on the pilots stop obeying and begin verifying instructions - https:/&
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Plane Flying Cargo for Amazon Crashes in Texas(wsj.com)
1 points by unionemployee 8y ago|0 comments
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by unionemployee 8y ago
I often visit a pedestrian friendly small community in Queens. The number of very old people I see walking around is amazing. Tragically, the intersections are dangerous and people drive fast through the narrow streets. There's little
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by unionemployee 8y ago
I think some of us who hate cars (me included) also picture development patterns where cities aren't so sprawling that those with disabilities would have trouble getting around. In your case, a walk/bike ride across town might not
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by unionemployee 8y ago
How would this work when our cities have been so heavily developed to favor the automobile? I'm for road users paying for the roads or access, but public transit is so lightly used in most of the US and there's so little existing
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by unionemployee 8y ago
I agree that that more focus should be placed on the system, however, with so many NTSB reports naming "pilot error" as the cause of accidents/incidents, I think we're still very much focused on the the pilots.
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by unionemployee 8y ago
Maintaining the roads and infrastructure associated with sprawl places a huge financial burden on cities that often can’t be supported by local taxes alone, not to mention the cost to individuals. Look at how much American consumer debt is
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by unionemployee 8y ago
It isn’t. Your footprint becomes much smaller once you get out of your car. There are walkable/bikable areas all over the place that are livable, but they may not stand out if one isn’t looking for them.
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by unionemployee 8y ago
The scariest thing about Texas growth to me is the insane sprawl that seems to go unchecked in the state. Massive roads lined with gas stations, chain restaurants and big box stores, surrounded by cheaply built homes with four cars in the d
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by unionemployee 8y ago
The previous flight had PIC stick shaker activation for the entire flight. PIC gave control to SIC. PIC realized the trim would stop moving with the STAB TRIM switches to CUTOUT. Flew the rest of the flight with manual trim and no autopilot
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by unionemployee 8y ago
I'd consider that even more dangerous. Stick pushers actually activate before the plane stalls. These large aircraft are designed in a way that a full stall could be catastrophic. Stick shaker events (the thing that happens before the
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by unionemployee 8y ago
For a time, I instructed airline pilots in simulators. The aircraft I taught had a similar mechanism with a "cutout switch" like this Boeing. Often, even when they knew it was coming, the pilots would fail to immediately shut down
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by unionemployee 8y ago
https://www.facebook.com/jaime.oliver.5/videos/1015582303591...
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by unionemployee 8y ago
Well, I'm also 35 and have never worked as an engineer. But yes, at 25, I'd agree that this is certainly possible.
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by unionemployee 8y ago
As an average potential software engineer in the Midwest, it's at first exciting to see these salaries, but I also feel the need to check myself and realize that, in some ways, this is another universe to which I probably don't ha
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by unionemployee 8y ago
Or I was going to sleep and didn’t want to stay up to write a report on my phone. Use your data but consider my anecdotal comment above. The aviation world is more opaque than one might think, and the governing bodies in certain areas are e
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by unionemployee 8y ago
Unfortunately don’t have time for a long post at the moment, but as an airline pilot and instructor/check pilot, I can say that extreme incompetence exists in the airline world, especially in Africa, India, SE Asia. There could be some
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by unionemployee 8y ago
While this is true, many of the aircraft that are ferried lack this equipment. Even plenty of airliners are still crossing the pond with just HF and SELCAL.

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