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Compressor stall. Inexperienced FO shuts down the wrong engine. They then mishandle the other one somehow. Crash.

How long did it take? I’m doing an MRI for extremely elevated prolactin. Even if there’s no tumor I’ll probably be prescribed cabergoline, but would prefer to return to normal without using another drug.

Yes. I think about this all the time. It's so strange, and aside from internet comments it doesn't seem to come up in the mainstream. What happened to people? Why do they not care? It's very evident in driving, but shows up in other areas as well.

Thanks all. Wasn't aware of MusicXML or musescore. I do write out exercises on manuscript paper and find that the time it takes and contemplation is helpful. They're legible bug generally pretty ugly, and I don't always want my notebooks to take up space when traveling. Even when I do use tools to generate certain things, I often still write them out as a way to contemplate the music without my instrument. Also having a bunch of handwritten manuscript paper makes me feel more accomplished than I am.

Ha. I did fly a real non-radar DME arc in a PC-12 using just the bearing pointer...once.

Ugh. Aviation before, say, 1990 was amazing. Still necessary to do things like ground speed checks, non-radar approaches, VOR to VOR, etc. Real pilot sh*t. And lots of the equipment going back decades was still flying. An amazing time to be a pilot. Now everything is so optimized and dumbed down. I was born too late.

Phoenix and Manhattan have about the same population, but Phoenix has five Manhattans worth of parking.

pivot into it later in your career

How "later"? Age discrimination seems somewhat problematic in tech.

Edit: Two other "old" replies pop up at the same time.

Others have said it better. If you google 'notams are broken', numerous results will show up explaining various problems with the NOTAM system.

Edit: Here's a good one - https://fixingnotams.org/ending-notam-nonsense-in-the-digita...

A general inefficiency example using two airpots I often have in mind: IAH and JFK. In IAH, traffic is spaced out in cruise well before the arrival begins, where they're burning much less fuel at high altitude. They're then instructed to descend via the full STAR (standard terminal arrival), including the transition to the approach for the runway in use. This looks like a hundreds mile long line of planes all following the same path to the same runway. The only further instruction necessary from ATC is speed adjustment, and allows for an almost continuous descent to the runway provided there's no weather in the way.

At JFK, the spacing occurs much later and, even though the airport has some similar arrivals (though none quite as thorough), they instruct every altitude change and speed adjustment for every aircraft individually, along with vectoring them to the approach for the runway in use. It results in an incredibly busy radio environment and numerous inputs from pilots flying planes capable of simply following a STAR and transition, like in IAH (or ORD, SFO, LAX, etc). There's also much more time spent at low altitude burning more fuel. It reminds me of everything else in NYC, which seems to be inefficient on purpose (NYPD, MTA, DSNY, etc.).

JFK and IAH have a similar number of aircraft movements. Yes, NYC has busier airspace with numerous airports, however, I don't see how this prevents the design and implementation of more modern procedures. Flying around at 4000 feet in an airliner getting numerous vectors just seems ridiculous compared to what I experience elsewhere.

The NOTAM system is embarrassing. This just tops it off. Actually, our whole ATC system and the way the FAA operates is embarrassing. It all works kind of like waste management in NYC. If they were to add new tech and efficiency, fewer people would have jobs, so we keep doing it the old way to the detriment of everyone else.

Cargo planes like the C-17 can make a steep “tactical approach” by creating lots of drag, with spoilers, reverse thrust, etc. It’s difficult to get very aerodynamic aircraft to ‘go down and slow down’. That’s not to say that the flying wing design couldn’t have drag devices, but it’d take more to reach similar performance.

The approach isn’t “slow” in terms of aircraft speed but rather its duration. Shallower equals more time in reach of adversary weapons.

The characters signing in with their unique splash screens at NYC pay phones in the movie Hackers was quite cool to 12 year old me.

"Specifically, police issued 14 summonses for excessive vehicle noise — the most between 2018 and the present, a period in which the police issued a total of 26 excessive vehicle noise summonses."

Glad to see this law but NYPD doesn't care about anything. They'll issue far more tickets for cyclists not having lights than something like this. You can drive through NYC in a way so reckless that it should be considered assault (with no license plate) and nobody will do anything about it. I regularly look up reckless drivers on howsmydrivingny.nyc while walking around, often to find tens of school zone speed violations. NYC is non-functional, regardless of what the law says.

Yes, happens frequently to me in my area of Queens. Especially on weekends. Often, it's difficult to go back to sleep. A day of productivity lost for me and probably many others for no particular reason. It's kind of a tragedy. I once commented on it in the neighborhood FB group, only to receive a cascade of "get over it" and "Karen" comments. It's amazing to me how few New Yorkers are aware of the effects of noise. And then there's the honking. Every day, on a quiet neighborhood morning, at least one person will feel the need to make their displeasure at having to briefly stop known to hundreds of people. It's the main reason I can't live in NYC full time. Not sure what it would take to get anyone to care, but it seems that it'd require such a large cultural shift as to be almost impossible to change. Even NYPD use their siren through almost every intersection for no particular reason.

Airline pilot here. We point.

Dr Peter Attia, who has some interesting things to say about fasting, uses a completely different definition of “intermittent fasting”. What’s being described here is “time restricted eating” while intermittent fasting is periodic fasts of up to three days.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama11/

There's an incredible amount of inefficiency in the airspace system that causes massive fuel and time waste, but flying VOR to VOR in cruise doesn't seem like one of them. Airline routes are still frequently planned along airways with lots of VOR to VOR along the way. Yes, you get directs, but these only save a minute or two. If you're in a Gulfstream flying above everyone else, sure, it's "direct Van Nuys" from over NYC. Airlines don't get that treatment though.

Literally heard “Let’s go Brandon” on the emergency frequency today in airspace too far from land for it to not be an airliner or other commercial craft (in contrast to the usual meowing).

I’ve been an airline pilot for a long time and work for a large airline. In the US, pilots tend to be quite culturally conservative. It’s not my naive generalization. Yes, if the mandate happens most will get vaccinated, but there will be plenty of kicking and screams leading up to it.

Pilots in the US are an extremely conservative bunch. On my pilot group's FB page, the number of times I've read "Let's go Brandon!" in response to this supposed sickout are numerous. Every trip I hear the far-right Breitbart, Newsmax media narrative, and links from similar pseudo news blog sites are posted all the time. It's impossible to fly to SFO or LAX without a comment on homelessness, taxes, liberals, etc. Once, when I happened to be alone on my way to the hotel, a van driver in Trinidad asked my why the pilots are always talking about guns. Many US airline pilots are full-on anti-vax and claim that they'll be fired before being forced to get the vaccine.

Electric cars still result in Phoenix, AZ. What we need is Amsterdam.

On my 2015 MBP with 16gb I currently have 20-ish tabs in Chrome, Scrivener, GitKraken, Capture One, Slack, WhatsApp, Messenger, Books and Xcode open. The only things that's really bogged down is Capture One.

I don't understand this. Does the chip make up for it? Do I have to wait until the next generation for 32gb?

Interesting. I don't know the name of the song, but have often visited this video simply to listen to the drumming. It seems mood-boosting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atkp8mklOh0. In the comments people way things like, "this is so calming", "why do I keep watching this?" Will explore some of the other links here with the addition of meditative breathing.

In response to such events, pilots often write confident yet misinformed sounding articles such as this - https://liveandletsfly.com/airline-automation/

As a mid-thirties airline pilot, these articles make me wonder if I should re-skill now or ride it out.

Perhaps pilots of previous generations could do this but, having trained numerous pilots for international airlines, as well as pilots for "fee-for-departure" (regional) airlines in the US, I wonder how many crews are up there that could competently handle most catastrophic events. Though I didn't train him directly, the pilot who crashed the Atlas 767 was pushed through the training program I worked for. Described as a "train wreck" in articles, his ability level was characteristic of others I trained (which I regret). Major US carriers do well screening their pilots but, at lower tiers of US aviation employment, I wonder if more automation would be the safer choice.

My like or dislike isn’t the issue. Let’s just correctly price the externalities.

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 not humans). Will the cost of this ever come into consideration? Will anything in America be human-sized in 80 years? Perhaps my view is clouded by the Texas sprawl I see every day.

The pickup truck perfectly represents the excesses of this development pattern: It consumes large amounts of fuel and takes up lots of space. With high hoods (and often added bull bar/brush guard) it's dangerous to those outside of it while protecting the single person inside at all costs. It can hold four/five people while also carrying/towing a large amount of purchased goods, and though it isn't often used for such purposes, it represents a "hard work" ethos, especially that of the hourly worker, which fuels the consumerism that enables such a vehicles existence.

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 week I slept from 9pm - 2:30am, 12am - 7am, 7am - 11am, 9pm - 6am, in that order. The week before I had to wake up at 1am two days in a row. It isn't possible to function normally on such a schedule and it's horrible for your health, yet that fact is completely ignored. I'd be considered alarmist and met with a "suck it up" attitude if I were to take a stand against such things. The FAA wipes their hands of it by saying that it's "your responsibility" to make sure you've gotten adequate rest and to call in fatigued if you haven't, but one would soon lose their job for doing so as often as would truly be required. Flying an airliner is easy, but we have two pilots because one or both are often totally exhausted, whether they realize it or not. Operating on "stem power" is a phrase sometimes used, as in, 'so tired that your higher level functions are shot and you're operating on brain stem power alone'.