Joe Shlabotnik

"The system is stacked against you and there isn't a bloody thing you can do about it, so why bother trying" of all the things to tell anyone, ever, about anything, that's got to be bottom of the list unless you REALLY don't like them" -Jordan Peterson

@CaptBob_Nomadic Look at all those 327 bulbs 😀

5/2017 We moved this “scrapped” C-9 off of Joint Base Andrews to Baltimore KBWI for a guy who won it in an auction. It's possible, but not cheap!

@derekahunter @AOC She obviously doesn’t know just how big the world is. 🤡

It's amazing how, even in a staged interview with a friendly outlet that provides topics and questions in advance and never, ever offer any pushback or challenge to anything she says, @AOC still comes off like someone who ate lead paint chips as a kid.

@Orlan1791James @bchuy81yahooco1 @alvinfoo It’s also here

@dougdrvr @bchuy81yahooco1 @alvinfoo Can you direct me to the transcript that shows this was on tower frequency?

The way he landed the plane, it saved 72 lives but him and his Co Pilot lost theirs. May their Souls fly high with The Angelic Angels

@Orlan1791James @bchuy81yahooco1 @alvinfoo This is a great video of the two frequencies sync together youtu.be/XniNV73Gc2E?si…

@BigDaddyHoosie @mj_roop40530 @RadioGenoa @grok what has happened to him ?

@mj_roop40530 @RadioGenoa Because look what happened the last time.

Father and son wanted to spend a quiet evening at dinner. That wasn't possible.

@CDNinvestigator @flying_steve Yup, everyone from Goodyear tires to Champion igniters , because, in many cases, it’s cheaper to settle than go to court.

It’s gross, I agree. Anyone who had anything to do with that flight will be sued. FAA, port authority of NY /NJ, the controllers, the aircraft manufacturer, the Fire fighters, the fire truck manufacturer, and possibly the estates of the pilots and air crew. They cast a wide net.

2 pilots are dead, their bodies barely cold, and this is the shit that CTV News and Gabor think is appropriate??? Absolutely disgusting.

@bchuy81yahooco1 @Orlan1791James @alvinfoo The NTSB briefing read a summary of the CVR that included the truck 1 request and tower clearing them across, therefore, that had to be on the tower frequency.

@Orlan1791James @dougdrvr @alvinfoo There’s no way. The truck driver will contact the tower on designated frequency which use for ground movement. The twr and ground frequency is mostly used for ATC and pilot communication. So the pilot on this accident did not hear the diglog between ATC and truck driver.

@ausmojo @Keg767 Good grief, I first read that as 3 degrees (gasp)😀

@Keg767 Hey mate. Can you explain the flap landing config point you're pointing out here. Is 3 really that much of a fuel saver over Full? Really curious

This is bad. Very bad. There should be no financial incentives for stuff like this. As an example, I do a Flap 3 landing wherever I can. But there are certain runway configs where I can’t do it. So I lose my bonus because of decisions by ATC? What compromised choice do I then..

@Keg767 Reminds me of a poster on the wall at TWA training center, way back when, that said, “Fuel conservation ends at the Outer Marker.”

@BuzzPatterson One my personal favs was we got a crossing restriction that we knew we couldn’t make. FO read it back and then, thinking he was on ICS (wrong switch) said, transmitting, “There’s no way in hell we’ll make that son of a bitch.” ATC cooly said, “Well, do the best you can.”

We’ve all done this at one point in our careers. Just not like this! 🤣🤣🤣

@socialwriter @FarrierMyers @joshryanjames At least it’s the right guy. The OP is wrong.

@FarrierMyers @joshryanjames Fabricated picture. A First Officer has three stripes on his epaulettes whereas the captain has four.

One from Quebec. One from Ontario. Died heroes together. Do you think that they argued with each other about language? Of course, they didn't. Grow up people. Stop embarrassing yourselves.

@joshryanjames Your AI apparently used the wrong picture for the guy on the right. And you want it to take over Air Traffic Control ?

@joshryanjames ICAO mandates English 😉

@OnDisasters Francisco, my man, don’t fall for this hysterical garbage.

CBS Los Angeles reported a U.S. Army Black Hawk crossed the path of a United Airlines flight headed towards John Wayne Airport in Orange County on Tuesday evening. Do they need ANOTHER mid-air collision and a hangar full of bodies to take some serious reforms on ATC in the US? We had a fatal crash this Monday, and the US Government appears not to care about aviation safety

@DankNDerpyGamer @HustleBitch_ I’ve actually made the horrendous mistake of relying on someone else’s post. Although it makes sense if the jet was where I think he was, the floor of Class B airspace is 2000 so they wouldn’t likely clear him below that. The helo was VFR.

@dougdrvr @HustleBitch_ If I recall correctly, though, isn't there a FAA mandated minimum *vertical* clearance of 1,000 feet? That (2,000 - 1,500 foot) difference is only 500 feet. (Do you have a timestamp in the vid that tells you what altitude the aircraft was at? My dopey ass keeps missing it.)

🚨 “THIS IS NOT GOOD.” 🚨 PACKED UNITED PASSENGER JET SECONDS FROM CRASHING INTO BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER ON FINAL APPROACH That’s not a caption. That’s the air traffic controller… reacting in real time. A United flight carrying 168 people was seconds from landing at John Wayne Airport in Newport Beach, California... Then out of nowhere, a Black Hawk helicopter cuts directly across its path. • Just 525 feet apart vertically • Less than 0.3 miles separation • Top-level collision alert fires inside the cockpit Pilots immediately halt descent mid-air to avoid impact. This wasn’t cruising altitude. This was final approach over Southern California… where there’s almost no margin for error. A military helicopter… crossing directly in front of a commercial jet… in controlled airspace. And it’s all caught on video… and audio. And this comes after the LaGuardia incident, multiple recent near-misses involving helicopters… and a deadly mid-air collision last year. So how is this even happening… And at what point do we admit this isn’t random anymore… it’s a pattern?

@BrianEastwoodx WHY WAS THIS ALLOWED ? David Muir GET ON THIS NOW 😉

This Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring was distributed by Kix cereal in the late 40's, for 15 cents and a mail-in box top. It was actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210 (one of the most toxic substances out there). A child would take the toy into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206.

@DankNDerpyGamer @HustleBitch_ If both aircraft are on an IFR flight plan.

@MCCCANM My God, look at the responses to this post. It is causing mass hysteria. x.com/HustleBitch_/s…

Ok, the helicopter & the United flight. You’re hearing that the United jet got an “R.A.” on final approach. This is a “Resolution Advisory” from the “Traffic alert & Collision Avoidance System” (TCAS). TCAS is a small unit in the jet or helicopter that talks to other TCAS units in other flying machines. Sometimes little airplanes don’t have a TCAS, so the TCAS in that case just listens to that airplane’s transponder. When TCAS determines that the airplanes will get close, it issues a “Traffic Advisory” (TA). It announces “TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC” over the speaker & colors the visual depiction of the traffic on your screen so you can see who it’s concerned about, what altitude they are at & whether they are climbing or descending. With that information, you know specifically where to look outside to visually acquire the offender. It’s not too unusual to get a TA. You don’t have to do anything about it & usually the offender levels off a thousand feet above or below you…TCAS doesn’t know that’s the plan though, and it didn’t like the rate of closure, so it spoke up. Now, if things start getting even closer & TCAS thinks there will be a collision, it issues a Resolution Advisory (RA). TCAS has been planning for this possibility the whole time & coordinating with the other TCAS…they are chatting to each other specifically, even as both continue to talk to all the other little TCAS boxes in the area, too. TCAS can only tell you to climb or descend (it can’t tell you to turn), so they work together to figure out who will climb & who will descend to create separation the fastest…they will *not* issue the same instructions, like having both jets descend. Even if the other airplane doesn’t have a TCAS, TCAS can perform basically the same thing by listening to that airplane’s transponder…it’s just that the other little airplane without TCAS is probably still clueless that a potential collision is looming. Anyway, TCAS comes over the speaker & says “CLIMB, CLIMB” (or descend). It puts a target on your attitude indicator to raise the nose to. If it doesn’t like how you’re doing it, it says “INCREASE VERTICAL SPEED”. It will do this until it announces “CLEAR OF CONFLICT”, at which point you return to your ATC cleared altitude. You *must* obey TCAS. It overrides ATC instructions. There might be a circumstance where you wouldn’t obey it, but it better be bulletproof because you are going to have to explain yourself. Not obeying TCAS has caused at least one major accident. As soon as TCAS issues an RA, you tell ATC “Responding to TCAS RA” & they know you are busting their clearance. They’ll focus on making sure you don’t become a problem for someone else in the area. Eventually, the whole thing gets written up in reports & the incident is investigated for a loss of separation. In the DC crash, the TCAS never said a word, and that’s by design. Below a certain altitude, it inhibits itself, as it assumes you are landing…I think it’s around 1,200’, but don’t quote me on that. As you approach to land, there are a bunch of jets on the ground with their transponders turned on…TCAS can’t filter out who is doing what, and if it worked like it did when you were in the air, you’d never be able to land. So, that’s basically what happened here. Hope it helps!

@MCCCANM We always got 28R and I used to love scooting up to about the 3:30 position on the aircraft on the left and not worry about his wake. Legal formation 😉

@MCCCANM Yup, I remember that.