Random Announcements
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I'm glad I wasn't on this flight. https://news.sky.com/story/pilots-skill-captured-as-they-land-a380-plane-sideways-in-storm-dennis-at-heathrow-11935729
that's how they usually land crosswind, storm or no storm. i'm not trying to take anything aways from those tremendous pilots, but people need to stop glorifying these kinda stuff.
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Another airline stat, I saw a week earlier in the previous storm, that a non SST, flight, BA from New York JFK to London Heathrow had a 200 mph jet stream traveled at 800 mph and broke a record at 4 hours 58 minutes.
I heard about that! An LA flight to NY took under 3.5 hours. Crazy
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I'm glad I wasn't on this flight. https://news.sky.com/story/pilots-skill-captured-as-they-land-a380-plane-sideways-in-storm-dennis-at-heathrow-11935729
that's how they usually land crosswind, storm or no storm. i'm not trying to take anything aways from those tremendous pilots, but people need to stop glorifying these kinda stuff.
Disagree. I think we need to do more to recognize the level of skill required to do that job. People tend to think of pilots as barely more than overrated bus drivers, when it is actually a very demanding profession. Most of the time flights are routine, but every flight, particularly takeoff and landing, is an opportunity for something catastrophic to happen. That the flights are instead generally routine is a fact that we shouldn't take for granted.
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Agree with you @Chris . That day there were a couple hundred flights cancelled at UK airports. And a bunch of train lines were down.
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Disagree. I think we need to do more to recognize the level of skill required to do that job. People tend to think of pilots as barely more than overrated bus drivers, when it is actually a very demanding profession. Most of the time flights are routine, but every flight, particularly takeoff and landing, is an opportunity for something catastrophic to happen. That the flights are instead generally routine is a fact that we shouldn't take for granted.
hmm.. maybe my love for aviation and little knowledge on how to operate an aircraft makes me see it differently hence my statement. i don't mean to take away any recognition but there's been a lot of over exaggeration on even the most simplest of landings recently.
there's no way i would ever say they are overrated bus drivers because the qualifications and training needed to get a commercial pilot license is tough as hell. even a private aircraft license is not easy to get. Not to mention after that, they need to get their certification for an aircraft type and clocking hours on the simulator etc. and having retraining depending on the fleet of the airline.
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Apparently, I wasn't paying attention when I got dressed this morning.
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I absolutely hope that is real and that it's driving you nuts…
It was.
I went home at lunch and changed into the
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What a beautiful stroll to work @neph93
thx 
