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voretaq7

Dec 24, 2013 21:43

Hooray! Public Beta!

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voretaq7

Feb 25, 2015 22:41

Challenge: Contrive and file a flight plan such that your clearance will be read back to you in verse.

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Dan Hulme

Sep 13, 2019 10:52

cessna 83457 u ok hun

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Bret Copeland

Jun 22, 2016 22:25

Money is sort of like the consolation prize for not flying.

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Dan Hulme

Aug 7, 2019 09:47

If you're a judge and you convict or acquit people according to your whims because you live in a democratic society, you'll get the sack. A judge's job is to apply the law that has already been democratically decided.

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voretaq7

Nov 19, 2014 15:03

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TomMcW

Oct 4, 2017 17:33

@Federico Do you feel like you just upgraded from C172 to A380 with all the extra controls :-)

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ratchet freak

Jul 1, 2019 08:45

quick disclaimer: that site doesn't have the best track record of tech articles

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voretaq7

Mar 3, 2016 22:12

(not to be confused with the Airbus stall warning where a little door next to the stick opens up and a mechanical hand comes out to smack you with a newspaper while the voice says "NON!")

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casey

Sep 24, 2014 16:06

@voretaq7 ^^^ and yes, I purposely keep vim and emacs open and visible in my screenshots. It tends to make everyone upset

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Shalvenay

Jul 30, 2021 23:38

@uhoh yeah, the open ocean is generally navigable XD so I suspect what they meant was "this is off the normal routes for merchant ships"

Gallifreyan

Aug 9, 2017 16:28

Book Lovers Day - Free Aeronautics e-Books from NASA

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StackExchange

Nov 16, 2015 21:15

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Q: Congratulations, Aviation is graduating!

It's a big day, and I know you folks have been waiting. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Aviation met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that you're good to go. Reaching 'mature community' status is a...

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TomMcW

May 21, 2017 21:01

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falstro

Sep 25, 2015 18:59

by the way, that whole VW thing, isn't that a perfect example of what we in the software industry call "test driven development" :D

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falstro

Sep 22, 2015 19:35

why is it that no tech person ever advocates net-non-neutrality...? because it's a stupid ******* idea

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TomMcW

Feb 19, 2019 20:08

@Federico I believe that's the published holding pattern

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voretaq7

Jan 28, 2014 03:56

"In the event of a water landing your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device.... um, we tested that with FAA-Standard 170lb scrawny bastards, so you fat ass Americans...y'all gonna drown."

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voretaq7

Jan 28, 2014 03:55

@BretCopeland your chair could slide back short final causing your plane to veer wildly with the crosswind and wind up in the bay. It's fine, the passengers can swim.

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Bret Copeland

Jan 13, 2014 20:26

@egid Fist one to 100k wins. Then we shut down the site.

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Bret Copeland

Jan 9, 2014 16:51

Joel Spolsky (Stack Exchange CEO) promoting the aviation site on twitter. Feel free to retweet! (picture is of me)

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TomMcW

Mar 13, 2017 02:50

I'm so excited! I used MathJax for the first time! I'll be like Peter Kämpf in no time! I think I should change my handle to TömMcW

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ymb1

Apr 23, 2021 17:55

@uhoh and answered ;) the blog post wasn't authoritative enough for me, although admittedly it wasn't easy to research -- my workaround was to omit the word "ingenuity" from the search

Dan Hulme

Dec 11, 2018 16:30

"Mixture control? I thought that was for the in-flight cocktails!"

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ymb1

Mar 20, 2021 14:26

which reminds me, would anyone be interested if we held community events, ala Space.SE? e.g. space.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1746/32596

rbp

Mar 25, 2015 16:04

somewhat dramatic, but...
http://www.nycaviation.com/2014/03/youre-the-captain-explosive-decompression/#.VRLcJJPF-lc

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ymb1

Mar 16, 2021 15:30

@Federico fb and twitter, the two fountains of wisdom :D still, as a user, disruptive behavior is disruptive, whether trolling is intentional or innate

Farhan

Mar 16, 2015 19:42

~~Hippocratic~~ StackExchange Oath: I will save others by answering their questions.

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voretaq7

Oct 26, 2016 19:02

(A crumpet, per my rudimentary knowledge of UK slang, is merely a strumpet that won't put out…)

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voretaq7

Dec 19, 2014 18:58

"All maneuvers likely to lead to an inadvertent departure from controlled flight are prohibited."

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SMS von der Tann

Aug 31, 2016 11:38

In other news, I got past 5k rep here.

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voretaq7

Aug 15, 2016 16:31

There are stories of DME indicators and ADFs becoming mysteriously INOP on checkride days so the students don't have to fly a DME arc or the NDB approach, but I'm sure all of those were genuine equipment failures and not just the random application of a placard to duck a test element!

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TomMcW

Aug 2, 2018 17:43

Didn't realize they released the MH-370 report

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voretaq7

Jul 12, 2016 15:46

@JayCarr A nice old jewish lady once explained to me that there's a difference between chutzpah and "brazen arrogance that will make the rabbi smack you upside the head"

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voretaq7

Jun 22, 2016 21:23

Woohoo, audit season is over (well, aside from writeups) and I'm back baby!

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TomMcW

Jun 16, 2016 16:24

@falstro May it never be said that TomMcW hath left a nit unpicked! For unimportant minutiae are my greatest forte. Bwaahahaha!!!

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rbp

Apr 27, 2016 17:13

I broke 10K rep today!

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Federico

Nov 18, 2020 16:03

@DSarkar in a way, yes.

voretaq7

Mar 29, 2016 18:12

(More than one paper was returned with "If I see Hungarian notation for variables again I'm going to assume you're cheating and give you a zero.")

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Federico

Mar 13, 2016 14:15

oh, the Germanwings crash final report is already out: bea.aero/uploads/tx_elyextendttnews/BEA2015-0125.en-LR_04.pdf

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voretaq7

Mar 11, 2016 18:37

@JayCarr "Mommy, where do biplanes come from?"

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voretaq7

Apr 19, 2014 04:35

Apple UK Pricing Scheme: Take the price in USD, cross out $ write in £.

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voretaq7

Apr 3, 2014 16:39

Lookity-look, we have a site blog chatroom now too

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roe

Mar 20, 2014 20:57

but then again, french people are weird ;)

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Federico

Mar 26, 2018 14:46

I understand modern autogyros are much more stable, so I've probably angered the autogyro people by impugning their safety. Once they finish building the autogyros they've been working on in their garages for 10 years, they'll come after me.

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SMSvonderTann

Jan 29, 2016 21:35

Well, congrats to Boeing for the first B737MAX flight today!

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Bret Copeland

Oct 12, 2020 17:47

Air conditioning doesn't work unless the engines are running or you're connected to a ground air supply.

casey

Feb 20, 2014 00:10

@voretaq7 a level D sim can actually kill you, just remember to wear your seat belt if you are ever in one, especially if someone insists on demoing full stalls or inverted approaches :)

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voretaq7

Feb 14, 2014 20:10

@BretCopeland I'm a sysadmin. We're a unique kind of lazy :)

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Bret Copeland

Feb 11, 2014 04:00

Select Stack Exchange employees have instituted an every other Monday "let's go out drinking" event... where apparently the goal is to learn all of the secrets your coworkers would not be willing to divulge sober. So far, this looks like a promising tradition.

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