Yeah, I think you're probably right. Thanks for helping to clarify this!

(Written on 2019年 11月 01日)(Permalink)

OK, I get that you've bought into the neo-Nazi philosophy. And it sounds like you might be nursing a grudge because you didn't get to go to college--or at least a good-enough college to learn not to use "collage" when you mean "college", and "to" when you mean "too". But I still don't see how this connects with a judge upholding the right of an airline to refuse boarding to a drunk passenger. Seems like you might have an argument if the judge hadn't upheld that right. But, in fact, he did; and so where's the liberalism in that decision? Or didn't you actually read the article?

(Written on 2019年 11月 01日)(Permalink)

Sorry--how is upholding the right of an airline to refuse boarding to a drunk passenger somehow "liberalism"?

(Written on 2019年 11月 01日)(Permalink)

In a word, yes.

(Written on 2019年 11月 01日)(Permalink)

Modern digital general aviation autopilots such as the Garmin GFC 500/600 or Avidyne DFC90/100 have the same feature--if the pilot is unresponsive for a given length of time at high altitude, suggesting hypoxia, the autopilot automatically descends the plane to an altitude where the pilot can recover.

(Written on 2019年 11月 01日)(Permalink)

Actually, it will help with continued flight into adverse weather. A pilot who ends up low on fuel with all airports within range below minimums, or who is not instrument rated and unable to program an approach in the autopilot needs only to activate this feature and sit tight while Auto-land declares an emergency, and flies to the nearest airport with a GPS approach and lands, even in zero-zero conditions.

(Written on 2019年 11月 01日)(Permalink)

Yeah, we are a bit intolerant; but I'm not sure that being tolerant of Nazis and fascists is anything for republicans to brag about.

(Written on 2019年 06月 08日)(Permalink)

The only thing sicker than soldiers being forced to salute Trump is the video of Trump saluting an North Korean general!

(Written on 2019年 06月 08日)(Permalink)

It didn't so much as mimic runaway trim, it WAS runaway trim in every respect; and there's a known procedure for dealing with runaway trim.

(Written on 2019年 03月 29日)(Permalink)

I call BS on this story. ATC would NEVER tell a pilot not to declare an emergency. And unless you caused the emergency by stupid pilot tricks, there's rarely if ever any paperwork. Of course, if you got yourself into an emergency by violating FARs, you're likely to be violated for that; but never for declaring an emergency. Unless you have evidence of this, as far as I'm concerned it didn't happen.

(Written on 2017年 02月 10日)(Permalink)