Everything posted by Bobby_Batronic
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Animated tentacle porn saves nation from ravages of pandemic?
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The Airplane Fanatic Thread
Not hardly. Netjets has offered 1000 voluntary leaves of absence, roughly 1/3 of their pilot group, and Flexjet has cut their flying guarantee (just the pay guaranteed) by about 1/3. The super wealthy are largely sitting things out.
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Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes killing 157
If it was in Alternate Law then the only protection they had was load factor. They would have high and low speed stability trying to drop the nose, but stabilities can be overcome whereas protections cannot without turning off systems. The plane should have been screaming “Dual Input!” at them if thy were both using the stick at the same time accompanied by panel annunciations, and the summer input of both stocks would be sent to the flight controls.
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FW "Superman" Cop arrested on family violence charges.
She was clearly extremely annoyed with him in many of those videos. That plus her frequent trips to the gym should have been a tip off
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FW "Superman" Cop arrested on family violence charges.
I guess that’s why Jen left BatDad.
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Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes killing 157
Fear, panic and training. I’ve frozen up plenty of times and not reacted when the fecal fan interaction was in progress. Also, because of angle of attack protections in the Airbus, you can hold full aft stick and the aircraft will supposedly not exceed the critical angle of attack in normal law. Below thrust reduction altitude, usually 1000 feet, the procedure for Unreliable Speed/ADR Check procedures is to select TOGA power and 15 degrees nose up. At altitude it’s 5 degrees and climb power. Also, and I haven’t read the whole thing in a while, but the plane was probably not in Normal law meaning the angle of attack protection was inoperative. In fact, it was likely in abnormal attitude law meaning the flight controls were responding to direct pilot inputs with no protections. Lastly, the other FO and CA were unaware that the flying FO was holding full aft stick until he mentioned it very late into the situation. There is no visual or tactile indication of that fact with the other stick unless both are moved simultaneously.
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Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes killing 157
The short version is that they were getting unreliable indications leading to a stall situation, two FO’s were manning the flight deck, and one of them held full nose up inputs nearly all the way to the water.
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Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes killing 157
The 321 has the same basic wing as the 319/320, but can takeoff 20-30,000 lbs heavier than a 320 depending on variant. So it’ll never be a performer with regard to altitude, and any burble in the air could upset things in the coffin corner a lot easier.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
So the Philippines has decided to let the gays try to control this.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
Only played in air conditioned indoor practice facilities and stadiums? Night games only for those programs able to secure said facilities? I was actually wondering about some kind of late spring ball allowance as a make up for the practices being missed now.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
World War C.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
AA 757?
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
Why? Is he Canadian?
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Bailouts for large Corporations???
The thing is that most airlines were very well positioned to handle a normal recessionary period with ample liquidity and assets on hand. You’d be laughed out of the building if you told the C suite of any industry that they had to have enough cash on hand to survive a near instantaneous mass panic lasting 3-4 months resulting in a de facto shutdown of their product followed by what will probably be a complete shutdown by the government for a portion of that time. In fact, keeping hat kind of cash on hand prior to this would be viewed as merger/acquisition bait. Having said that, the gold standard moving forward might be to have that kind of liquidity on hand. It’s certainly encouraged in our personal lives. Perhaps Donny T’s bailout money will have strings attached requiring that rainy day account to be fully funded to some benchmark like the current scenario before repaying the low interest loans that are about to be handed out.
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What would you do if the US Treasury sent you $1,000
Head to the beach and make my 20%.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Not even the Corona virus wants to spread in that shit hole.
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The Airplane Fanatic Thread
IFL group out of Pontiac, MI flies them. They’re main facility is at the Oakland Co.airport with Convairs in various states of being parted out or rebuilt. Allegedly the flightdecks are very modern with glass. See them a lot in Laredo and other choice spots.
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Prove Me Wrong: American Airlines is the worst domestic airline
AA isn’t nearly as exposed to a loss of Asian travel as UAL is.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
I've been exposed to a lot of shit in the sealed aluminum petri dish the last 25 years, but I am getting up in years. Might be time to take one of those stay at home 50 hour lines and self quarantine if they’re offering it in your fleet/seat.
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2020 Texas Offseason Thread: Herman's Hail Mary
Coaches sometimes use press conferences to talk indirectly to their players to send messages or reaffirm them, or, as in this case, to try to build confidence in their charges. Herman is an elite OC who’s seen national championship caliber OL’s up close and personal. I have no doubt his hubris made him think the group you listed could be coached into adequacy. I also have no doubt that he knew that they weren’t anything close to the best OL he’s ever seen.
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ABIA Expansion Thread
I think it’s back and for between them and Frontier for the youngest fleet. Both have a ton of Airbus orders on deck and will be the youngest fleets going for sometime with the exception of startups like Breeze. Age wise both are in the 35-45 range for the majority of their pilots which won’t be that abnormal with the legacies sending all their olds off to polish their recliners.
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dumbfuck flat-earth dipshit dies in rocket crash
I wonder if he shut it down when things went pear shaped not realizing that his chute deployment at liftoff was part of the problem. Of course, anyone willing to bilk the flat earthers into funding their junior space man kicks may not have given a s**t that his steam powered thrust available was wildly short if that required to meet the mission.
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dumbfuck flat-earth dipshit dies in rocket crash
I thought he embraced the flat earth angle to try and secure funding for his private rocketry hobby. He had a long time to stare at the ground and think about his stupidity.
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NASA Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' Asteroid Rapidly Approaching Earth
Asteroid rudely bumps into Earth. You won’t believe what happens next. Social Justice Rock challenges planet and immediately regrets it.
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2020 Texas Offseason Thread: Herman's Hail Mary
Looks like Rob Ryan faces of meth merge.