- sleep deprived pilots ✅
- pilots not allowed to vent or display any mental or emotional problems ✅
- underpaid pilots ✅
- flying schools and certification extremely expensive ✅
- profit driven plane manufacturers adding safety DLCs to the plane ✅
Yup. I’m sensing something great is cooking
I think stuff like this is more due to overworked ATC and extremely tight timings of takeoffs and landings than pilots. But yeah, that definitely doesn't make this better.
Cramming drastically more flights down the same runways we've had since the 70s ✅
Chatbox copilots would be safer than the human actually! :so-true: :lathe-of-heaven:
near misses are pretty much always on air traffic controllers clearing two planes to the same runway. most of the points stand, however
Clean water is already a commodity In many countries, I won't be surprised if its ends up as one in the US as well
Oh you’re right. Neoliberals salivate about that. They want to be able to sell you water like you have to buy in mexico.
be american
ride the train
get derailed
drive a car
get t-boned
take a plane
get crashed
ride a bicycle
get run over
walk
everything is 200 miles away
arrive at destination
get shot
what other transit options do we even have left at this point?
- heelys
- scooter
- horse
- astral projection
- conga line
i don't think any of these are very good
the one thing the entire us can agree on at this point is that horses get given the good drugs
A very CW: Suicide, but this reminded me of
Resumé, by Dorothy Parker
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
The next 9/11 will just be a couple of tired pilots making a mistake, and yet America will still have brought it upon itself.
The covid conscious Twitter community is saying that it's multiple infection related brain issues. I think that's very possible.
Edit: oh ya, this happened
While this article seems okay, try to find a better source than the Daily Heil in the future lol.
Within 14 seconds? Idk, that seems like plenty of time. By that logic I survive thousands of "near misses" on my 10 minute drive to work every day. Don't they have, like, entire teams of people whose entire full time job is to monitor the planes in relation to one another and guide them to safely interact in and around airports?
It would take a bit to convince me there's actually serious danger here
Cars are a lot more maneuverable than planes and can share a road a lot better than a runway and there should not be any risk of contact at all with planes
there should not be any risk of contact at all with planes
And the fact that they were in the same place 14 seconds apart means there was risk? I don't buy it.
I would assume it’s a matter of the system not staying within operating parameters.
It’s designed to run with a certain amount of clearance for other aircraft. And if you’re unable to keep the thing running within the safety parameters you set for yourself, that really is an issue—even if the margins are large enough that violations don’t necessarily lead to collisions (ie, as opposed to running with zero margin)
Not if everything is working perfectly, but if something happens to the plane on the runway, like it stalls out or otherwise can't move out of the way for whatever reason, there's not going to be any time for air traffic control to reroute the incoming plane. The pilots might be able to make some last-second evasive maneuvers, but huge passenger jets aren't that maneuverable in a 14-second window. The idea is that there should always be a large enough window of time that if something goes wrong on the runway, the incoming plane can be safely and easily routed somewhere else. 14 seconds just isn't long enough when you're talking about these huge jets full of people. It's a completely unnecessary risk with potentially catastrophic consequences, and it can be avoided entirely by spacing things out a little more.
I'm not a pilot, but I'll bet ten bucks there is a known time-frame within which a landing can be safely aborted, and that's probably the amount of time that the runway should be completely clear.
By that logic I survive thousands of “near misses” on my 10 minute drive to work every day.
Yeah, pretty much. Depending on where you live a few hundred to a few thousand people aren't as lucky.
