Steve 🇺🇸 🇲🇽
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Steve 🇺🇸 🇲🇽
@stjets
Dad, husband, pilot, referee..."This is not a rehearsal!"
Doylestown, PA Beigetreten Şubat 2009
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Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
(Stolen meme. Also, Air New Zealand has had this going for a while & apparently it’s pretty popular. Guess we’ll see)
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@cia_surveilance @MCCCANM @willguisbond I doubt it. I am sure there is training on the stop lights, but no sim. Training will certainly be part of the investigation!
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Is there sim training for ground crew?
I’m just a private pilot, but I totally understand how problematic getting a getting a runway crossing clearance while in motion (on rollout) can be.
“Turn right at Charlie. Cross runway 25R. Contact ground point six.”
Very easy to become fixated on the crossing at the expense of caution.
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NTSB says there were other vehicles at LGA behind the firetruck that did NOT begin crossing the runway when the accident vehicle did
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@MCCCANM @willguisbond Yup! And at almost every recurrent training evolution in the past number of years, you will be cleared to cross a runway, or cleared for takeoff with the red lights on in the simulator, just to see if you’re paying attention.
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@willguisbond The RELs were on. When they are on, you’re not supposed to move, even if tower clears you to. You can see them turn off in the video after the truck enters the runway.
The RSL system was designed to prevent this kind of accident.
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@naftasux @KeenanPeachy They’d have missed by 75 feet. Maybe. The tolerance for an instrument checkride is plus/minus 100 feet. The NTSB recognized the systemic issues at the root cause.
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@stjets @KeenanPeachy If she had been on altitude, all of those people would be alive.
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This is what happened at DCA: one guy working both runways AND the helicopters over the river.
Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson
Sounds like the LaGuardia ATC had one guy working ground AND tower. That’s insane. Of all places, not there!
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@naftasux @KeenanPeachy Way too high? Get a grip! The airspace was set for this, and near misses were a constant issue. The planned vertical separation was 75 feet! 🤦🏻♂️
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@stjets @KeenanPeachy Her instructor could be heard repeatedly telling her she was too high.
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🚨 INSANE LINES AT HOUSTON AIRPORT! TSA security lines at Houston Airport are stretching into the basement and outside the terminal before looping back in, with wait times nearing 4 hours!
🎥: @ScooterCasterNY
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@chainsawrocks @jonostrower To badly quote Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park, “Your engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they COULD do something, they never stopped to think if they SHOULD do something”.
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While most increases in maximum take-off weight (MTOW) typically require (or already include) structural reinforcements to the airframe, Airbus achieved an interesting exception in 2008 with the A320ceo.
Through a simple software upgrade to the aircraft’s existing Load Alleviation Function (LAF) in the flight control system, Airbus raised the A320’s MTOW to 78 tonnes - an increase of roughly 1 tonne. This provided operators with approximately 150 nautical miles of additional range without any hardware or structural modifications.
The upgrade reactivated and refined the LAF, which uses the ailerons and outer spoilers to reduce wing loads during manoeuvres and gusts. This demonstrated just how sophisticated and capable the A320’s fly-by-wire computer systems already were, allowing meaningful performance gains purely through software.
Aeronews@AeronewsGlobal
FAA has certified an increased maximum takeoff weight (iMTOW) for the 787-9 and 787-10 #Dreamliner. 787-9: Roughly 10,000-pound (4,540-kilogram) increase enables about 3 metric tons of extra payload, or more than 300 nm (560 km) of additional range. 787-10: Roughly 14,000-pound (6,350-kilogram) increase enables about 5 metric tons of extra payload, or more than 400 nm (740 km) of additional range. boeing.com/features/2026/…
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President Trump, who is in the midst of pressuring senators to curb the use of mail-in voting, voted by mail ballot in Tuesday’s special election in Palm Beach County, Florida.
wapo.st/47fVUwf
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@xAviation @amars50 I had a passenger ask me to do this once. Man was he pissed when I refused.
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@KeenanPeachy The helicopter over the river was flying way too high, I don't think it had anything to do with ATC.
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@PIC_Colleen So, who pays for the lease? For other fixed costs? For the facilities that are ready for you, whether you land there or not? I agree aviation is expensive, and price gouging, esp for “Special Events”, takes place. Unbundling is not popular in the US, but would be more transparent
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Another pet peeve… expensive landing fees for no apparent reason. Try charging me $695 to land when the fuel minimum is high and roughly $200 more, plus a $200 GPU and not let this landing fee cover two landings in the same day! I’ve gotten better deals in less popular places 😂
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Trump: "Tomorrow morning, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build. One shot. It's gone. It collapses. Why would they want that? So they called. I didn't call. They called. They want to make a deal."
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@Lebeaucarnews trying to keep @BeckyQuick on target regarding waiting for the investigation instead of jumping to conclusions in the LGA accident on @SquawkCNBC this morning. Keep at it Phil!!🤦🏻♂️
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@FordJohnathan5 @RWMann @SecScottBessent Math is SOOO hard for someone that should be better at it! 🤦🏻♂️
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🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration won't raise taxes to pay for the war because we have a trillion. Then why is the Pentagon asking for 200 billion in additional spending @SecScottBessent 🚨
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@stjets @lisamurkowski @GOP What’s your issue with requiring bulletproof ID for steering the future of a superpower then?
There’s no downside
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.@lisamurkowski is corrupt & lying to you
How do I know?
Because I flew to the villages to pick up the natives & remote workers, checked them into the flight with their ID’s, and then to/from Anchorage for their gov provided healthcare on gov paid plane tickets
@GOP should disown her
Andrew Kolvet@AndrewKolvet
Lisa Murkowski has been on the Senate floor for over ten minutes. As a member of the GOP, she's doing an EXCELLENT job of advocating for the SAVE America Act… oh wait... no, she's not. She's explaining why it's apparently TOO HARD to overcome logistical and geographical issues because of sled dogs and other things far less important than our nation's sovereignty. The amount of effort these people put into opposing something as simple as voter ID is astronomical and only proves how afraid they are.
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@cezieg @lisamurkowski @GOP What is the problem? What is the rate of illegal voters? Especially affecting an election? Some other countries make illegal NOT to vote. Our elections already have amazing integrity.
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@miami_rick Track up is the way.
Heading up makes my eye twitch.
North up is heinous except when reviewing a long route for DISCONs or for wide area WX.
I will not be taking questions.
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If your Navigation Display is referenced to Heading-Up you wear your sandals with socks to the beach..
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