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#that’s the RAF (british) roundrel but the French flag?#who is she #edit I have looked it up and it’s a holdover from ww2 #it is not the French flag it’s the british tail flash. Apparently the Union Jack looked too much like the German flag from a distance #so they reduced it into just the colors of the Union Jack as stripes #read from front of the plane to the back as red-white-blue and easier to ID from the ground. so they didn’t get shot by friendlies as much

kibumkim

Have y'all seen this 😭

apas-95

genuinely very interested in what the people in the notes think the pilot was doing

endcant

this has to be what was going on yesterday bc i was 40 minutes early getting back and my homies were like hello i thought you were supposed to land at 6. and i was like. me too

soyuzam

Yeah I guess I’m obligated to say hiiiii. I fly airplanes. They’re so fucking safe it’s actually frustrating for us. I promise you that the administration who won’t even let hobby pilots fly for ten days after taking a Benadryl aren’t going to be letting commercial pilots do anything that will intentionally put you in danger.

The reason that flight times can be so different is mainly dependent on three things: the specific aircraft, the route, and the wind. I could go on tangents about all of these, but the point is that you can be flying the exact same plane on the exact same route at the exact same airspeed… and still get drastically different travel times due to the wind fucking with your ground speed.

(Ground speed = true air speed + wind component, if you care.)

And if you’re worried about pilots ramping that shit up to the maximum velocity… you would know if we did. Because we would have to point the nose down for the whole flight. The engines are already often operating at their maximum thrust any time you’re departing or ascending— but as my flight instructors have screamed at me since the day I started flying, “pitch for speed, power for altitude”. I’m not even sure you can hit the “never-exceed” velocities in a stable airplane without slamming the stick forward and nosediving that thang.

We also have this handy color coding on the air speed indicator! (And similar coding on the vertical tape versions in those newfangled glass cockpits.)

Lastly, almost every commercial flight is going to have two people up front. Even if the captain does something stupid, the first officer is there to say “hey, don’t do that” and make corrections accordingly. Even if they do agree to do something dumb, someone on the ground is going to tell them to cut it out. Nobody just gets to fuck around up there.

Flying is safe and fun. Mass transportation rules. Give me money so I can pay my Garmin Pilot subscription.

eater-of-the-sand

#@ prev on 'what do you mean my pilot took a shortcut'#it means that your pilot got clearance to fly a more direct and faster route to your destination #normally flight paths are along designated like. air roads. between GPS waypoints. and depending on traffic and weather and w/e #a flight path that goes waypoint A-B-C-D-E and is 300 miles may be shortened to smth like A-C-E thats 150 miles instead

wizardarchetypes

the thing about adulthood is when someone says something extremely rude to you, you can either turn the other cheek or calmly & firmly correct them. The third option is to tell them “say that again, I’ll bite you” & everyone sort of nervously laughs and tries to move on from your little joke. Which is why I think it’s very important that when they do say it again you follow through. Nobody actually expects you to bite them. We should be biting more. Also if you’re with the county health department do not read thi s post

hellsitegenetics

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wizardarchetypes

NO WAY

sashayed

sunbentshadows

So, about that outage, huh

marlynnofmany

I do love the tradition of compiling Historic Current Events into montages with a soundtrack of "In The Hall of the Mountain King." It's both educational and funny. I'm sure future generations will enjoy watching them in history class.

idoodlestuffsometimes

I need to share how the IT guy at work greeted my department on CrowdStrike Blue Screen Friday. Never have I seen a man so shocked by the sight of perfectly functional computers

(They were off during the update)

muse-meter

Never have I ever seen a more compelling reason to turn off my work computer when I leave.

despazito

Aviation investigation channels: this crash happened because the captain forgot to set the trim and didn't follow his pre-flight checklist or maintain proper altitude

Shipwreck investigation channels: the clouds were in the shape of a dog on the day of the sinking which was a terrible omen, the captain stepped out of the latrine with his left foot first, putting a curse on the ship.

severalowls

The ship's captain also failed to maintain proper altitude.

jetix

2019-06-21

herpsandbirds

Razorbill (Alca torda), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, Iceland

Photographs by Nick Mir

weirdness-is-good

tiktoksthataregood-ish

toast-ranger-to-a-stranger

The best thing for me, as an ex- Starbucks employee, is the horror that genuinely is the milk delivery when it’s only you and one other shift member. Though, I did end up learning how to carry six individual gallons of milk at once.