@EricLDaugh Erm it’s shut again and two tankers on fire at present…
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🚨 GREAT NEWS: Tankers are SURGING through the Strait of Hormuz in recent hours because of President Trump’s strength
The “experts” said this would never happen again, but things will be FULLY flowing soon! 🇺🇸👏🏻
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@TheKimulation I have a feeling they had that penguin from Madagascar on their crew. “Kaboom yet?”
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The guy who proposed setting up a FARP inside of Iran
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@PilotHusky @Flyer_Magazine Could always start spraying brake fluid/pesticide prior to landing.. raining down copper nails too
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Landing at Wadswick earlier this week. The Windsock was gone. The saplings in the Runway 28 undershoot suggest that the neighbour is not endeared to aviation and seems to lack an appreciation of airfield safeguarding.@Flyer_Magazine
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@elonmusk What’s the hold up? Thought with the factory now established the cadence of test flights would be higher by now.
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@aakashgupta Nice way to spin rubbish software, I guess all advertising is good advertising to someone?! lol
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NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices.
And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works.
Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse.
This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster.
The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit.
Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Artemis II crew experiences issues with Microsoft Outlook on their way to the Moon, asks ground crew for assistance.
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@CaptBob_Nomadic Was it an April fools joke?
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KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨✈️ B-737 Wrangler@MCCCANM
There was apparently an April Fool’s joke yesterday about the FAA proposing new rest rules for pilots. I could not find the notice, nor could I find the statements the article said ALPA (Pilot Union) & others issued. Which should be easy to find. Sorry, fake news.
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I’ve been a 40+ year experiment in fatigue and flying. I’ve adapted to it, mostly out of survival. Contrary to the many who continually criticize, I can adapt quite well.
The FAA and 121 need to look at this from a Safety-II perspective. You can’t fix the disruption of one’s circadian rhythm, regardless of the rules you implement in an attempt to fix it. PERIOD!
They must find techniques and teach crews how to deal with being tired and flying. Here’s a thought: implement more enroute protocols like controlled rest. Research, develop and train for even better techniques.
If you don’t know:
“Safety-II is a proactive safety approach defining safety as the ability of systems to succeed under varying conditions, focusing on why things go right rather than just why they go wrong.”
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@CaptBob_Nomadic Im not a pilot or work shifts. But I have lived in the UK all my life, and I’ve noticed that when our clocks change to go forward (one hour in spring and one hour back in autumn), my sleep pattern is to wake an hour earlier in spring a week before, could this be circadian rhythm?
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@MCCCANM I’d be asking for a pushback from the gate to the end of the runway, an split the bonus with the tug driver.
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This sounds controversial, but most US airlines already do these fuel savings programs in some form. They are not specifically monetized like this, but factor into profit sharing.
Common means of minimizing fuel use include taxiing on only one engine, starting the other just in time to meet the warm up time requirements before takeoff. Or shutting one down after the cool down period while taxiing in to the gate.
If there is going to be an extended delay, we’ll ask ground control for a place we can park & shut both engines down. The Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) is a small turbine engine in the tail that burns a lot less fuel than the engines & provides both electric & pneumatic power for air conditioning & lights, etc. (it doesn’t provide any thrust).
The bigger savings is often in how the flight is planned, though. The dispatchers run a program that optimizes the route for fuel burn, or time, depending on what you prioritize. This may entail flying at different altitudes to get out of the worst headwinds, or even flying a longer route; a famous story at my airline is of a crew flying from the East Coast to LAX. ATC offers them a route that’s direct to the destination, in theory shaving a bunch of time off the flight. They accept, but their route had been selected to avoid the heavy headwinds…and around PHX, they realize they don’t have the fuel now to make it to LAX, choosing to divert into PHX. Embarrassing! Now we have a rule that if ATC gives you a route that goes more than 100 miles off your planned route, or if you get stuck at an altitude more than 4,000’ off planned altitude, you must consult your dispatcher in flight.
Another way fuel gets “wasted” is by pilots “bumping up” the planned fuel load at the gate. It’s not uncommon for a pilot to add an extra one or two thousand pounds of fuel “just in case”.
That sounds reasonable & in some cases may be justified, but the dispatchers take this stuff into consideration. They also track an astounding number of metrics at an airline, one of which is how much fuel you land with. It’s not done in a punitive way, they just want to see how the flight plans are working out in the real world. They use this data to come up with a fuel load that’s realistic, but still offers a pretty robust safety margin that is above what the FAA requires (it would take too long to explain required fuel reserves, as it differs based on the weather & things like going to an island, etc.).
In cases where pilots add fuel, it almost never gets used. But the heavier a jet is, the more fuel it must burn to fly…so something like 3% of the extra fuel is burned just to carry the extra fuel…if you load an extra 2,000 lbs of fuel, 60 lbs will be burned just to carry it….a little less than 10 gallons. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but imagine it happening 3,000 times a day…that’s 30,000 gallons of fuel a day that’s burned for nothing. At the current price of jet fuel, $7.32, that’s roughly $220,000 a day.
Now, sometimes jet fuel is significantly more expensive at the destination than at the origin. If so, we’ll load up at the origin & “tanker” fuel to not need as much there. They’ve done the math. You can’t bring in all you need, but you can reduce how much you have to buy at the expensive place.
Anyway, pilots are very aware of the fuel burn. I’d say the culture in the U.S. at major airlines is to save fuel wherever we can, and we’ve found a happy medium where it doesn’t present a safety issue. The less fuel we burn, the more profitable the airline is, which factors into our annual profit sharing checks.
Hope that helps provide a little context! As always, I’m simplifying for a general audience here.
Airliners Live@airlinerslive
💷 British Airways Offers Pilots Bonus Pay for Burning Less Fuel 👇 British Airways is introducing a new financial incentive that will reward its pilots with up to a 1% bonus on their basic salary if they successfully reduce aircraft fuel consumption. Starting in 2027, the proposed scheme requires flight crews to collectively reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60,000 tonnes compared to 2025 levels. Pilots will achieve these targets through operational adjustments, such as optimizing taxiing procedures and carefully managing the amount of extra fuel loaded onto the aircraft. The British Airline Pilots Association, which represents 85% of commercial pilots in the United Kingdom, will vote on the proposal at the end of April 2026. ✈️
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@Fanzone1913 @SkySportsNews PSV wanted Fulham to sign him now but with no get out clause if he got crocked playing before the end of the season. Doesn’t sound like Fulham messing..?!
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@stappinuk @SkySportsNews No Fulham is playing games Again. Why would we let him sign now. In a few months there are better clubs for him.
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BREAKING: Fulham's proposed £30m signing of Ricardo Pepi has fallen down for a second time 🚨
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@FulhamTransfer @BBCSport It's all written by AI now days. They don't employ people because they could be offensive, and of course there's less chance of AI causing national scandals..
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@FulhamFC Welsh Messi, dances along the 18yd line and smashes it past defenders. Top work.
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He's done it again. 🎵
Every angle of Harry Wilson's latest. 🪄
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I shall be watching this in anyway I can. The goalsman.
CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️@CBSSportsGolazo
🚨 Paramount+ announce a new docuseries — You Don’t Know Where I’m From, Dawg — a comprehensive look at the life and career of @USMNT legend Clint Dempsey. From a trailer park in Nacogdoches, Texas to a national hero — the five-part series coming soon to @paramountplus 🍿
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THE REFEREE HAS DISALLOWED FULHAM'S GOAL! x.com/MUFCLive2/stat…
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@GoalsXtra Relevant part of #Law16, which governs these situations, from the @FA's website:
"The ball is in play when it is kicked and clearly moves.
Opponents must be outside the penalty area until the ball is in play."
Source: thefa.com/football-rules…
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@sfmcguire79 @rickygervais put your vodka down, now this would be a worthy show! David Brent as PM rolling from one crisis to another.
If Hugh Grant has played PM why not David?
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This is like an episode of The Office
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer's calls with European leaders about the strikes on Iran
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