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The Day I Slalomed Through the 737s
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wrote 3 years 18 weeks ago
Nice story. It just feels good on those days when the entire aviation world seems like one interconnected and mutually supportive family.
"Line up and wait," which I first encountered in Australia, has always had a quaint and archaic, British colonial flavor, like "circuits and bumps" (touch-and-goes) or "airscrews" (propellers). It's weird, but we'll get used to it eventually. At least it is English, and not pseudo-crypto-French like all the bizarre abbreviations in the METARs we were forced to accept instead of our good old sequence reports.
Now that they've changed the terminology, I wonder if FAA will resume allowing airplanes to "line up and wait" at the many general aviation airports where the practice has been banned for the past four or five years.
Sun 'n Fun Tornado Bills Stir Anger
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wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago
So the SnF capomafiosi elected to pay to move damaged airplanes so they could resume making money, rather than let the owners move them a couple of hours later at no cost. Fine, it was their business decision, to enhance their profits. For them to turn around and bill the owners is an outrage.
I live closer to Lakeland than to Oshkosh, but I'll just keep going to Oshkosh. To hell with Sun n Fun! It used to be a great show, and a great gathering, but I'm through with it.
Lining Up
from sdlmd
wrote 47 weeks 1 day ago
It's silly to suggest that "Line up and wait" more accurately describes what the pilot is expected to do than "Taxi into position and hold," any more than "FU" and "BR" more accurately describe limitations to visibility than "smoke" and "mist." The ONLY reason for changing to this less clear, less understandable terminology is to satisfy European bureaucrats. We're apparently stuck with it, so we must learn it, but don't try to justify it as anything but a(nother) political surrender by FAA.
It's probably worth taking a peek, as well as a peak, for traffic.
Report: Controllers Cleared Superjet 100 Below Safe Altitude
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wrote 41 weeks 6 days ago
The comments about the controller not being your boss are valid, but completely irrelevant. From the report, the controllers were all that could have saved the pilots from their own error. This isn't a case of controllers initiating a dangerour and erroneous instruction; this is a case of controllers going along with the crew's request to do something that turned out to be deadly. The controllers should have denied the crew's request for a descent to 6000.
TSA to Allow Knives, 'Sticks, Clubs' On Aircraft
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wrote 11 weeks 1 day ago
It's okay for the pax to have knives, but I'll bet they keep confiscating the pilots' Leatherman tools. As the TSA genius told the female United 767 captain while confiscating her eyebrow tweezers: "We can't allow you to be in possession of anything that might permit you to gain control of the aircraft!"
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