The Hangar

I'm the person who always calls bullshit on Concorde and Space Shuttle "facts" which people spew out.

@JasonLowenthal Blessed +13 shoes of traction - enables flight attendant to remain standing in severe turbulence.

so I'm basically holding out for an STC that says "The lift transducer and AoA display is better. You can install it in place of the 1960s microswitch and light."

@voretaq7 That's pretty sensible and forward thinking, which makes me think it probably is unlikely to happen.

no one will believe us that there were unicorns.

Aviation Diet: "Don't eat that cheesecake! We'll never get this little Cessna 152 off the ground!"

I was deadheading out of houston one day and the lady behind me kept looking out the window and remarking to her husband "thats an awfully big lake, I didnt know we had one, do you know its name?"... "the gulf of mexico"

2016 still sucks: Bob Hoover died

4,800 visitors according to area 51. what i'm finding healthy is that we're turning up quite far up on google when i search in incognito mode :)

"clearly circuit breakers are a security risk and should not be allowed on aircraft!"

Yay, we're popular enough now that the review / flaq queues are actually meaningful.

@ratchetfreak "Once" :-)

My only speculation is that the Bermuda Triangle took a short vacation to S. East Asia this year.

I had one doc that said my BP was a bit high and a good way to get it down was sex (exercise!) and told me to use the flight attendants. I informed him 80% of our were either elderly or male and his response was a flat dry tone "son, exercise isn't always what you want to do or fun, but you need to do it anyway"

@voretaq7 Nono, it's runway 10, we're just using roman numerals

wow, 2200 visits according to area 51.

The conclusion is that guy got to fly a 709 ride to keep his certs and instead demonstrated a runway incursion and taxi back to parking

The romance of being an airline pilot wears off quickly once you are actually flying the line

@ymb1 Reclining?

I think the FAA logic must go something like this: we'll classify aircraft by how they produce vertical lift. Lighter than air, great! Hmmm... this thing has rotors, how about "rotary-wing"? Okay, an airplane has wings, we'll call them "winged-aircraft". So, does that rotary-wing a subset of winged? Um, no, that's probably not right, how about fixed-wing? Okay, now, gyroplanes. What the fuck is that? I'm done, just call them whatever the hell you want.

> Helicopter: (noun) A rotating mass of metal fatigue, surrounded by an oil leak, in search of a zip code in which to have an NTSB investigation.

@egid gotta say, that gets my vote for single coolest piece of info on the site so far :)

@roe he's a Server Fault moderator, of course he knows how to rant.

I want to submit a patch to Airbus so when a pilot is overriding by the law logic the computer will say in a very HAL-9000 voice "I can't let you do that"

@DanHulme You're British, isn't rain the status quo? ;)

@JayCarr To be fair I think most GA pilots would prefer to be at podunk uncontrolled strips in class E airspace and never speak to another human being :)

You could still link a comment to the image. It wouldn't have the same effect as showing inline, but we hate fun : ( sorry

TheThingThatGetsDataFromTheServer ? Really?

my first real LOL of the week aviationhumor.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/…

flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/sets/72157632208677161

@TimPost I accept my mod nomination! Otto to the rescue!! Who'll be the first to be randomly banned? :D

Oh, Canada....

@voretaq7 @egid @lnafziger Congratulations :)

There's strong talk about hiring Otto - we'd save a fortune on airfare if we just bought a plane and hired a pilot. And since we're so diverse, the opportunity to hire a pilot made out of plastic is just irresistible.

got to go... it's my birthday. going getting pissed! seeya

I just went out on my balcony, flapped my arms really fast and nothing happened. What am I doing wrong?

trying to promote Aviation.SE at Flightaware: flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/recently/new/39376/…

aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/…

Time to get my first log entry of 2014 out of the way.. wee :)

okay, I need to actually head into work. I'm late for lunch!

@PatoSáinz hey, mods are supposed to be lazy. It's the Stack Exchange way.

FU BS . . . wait, is the weather station reporting smoke and snow, or is it making a commentary on the state of the government? :)

I'm glad I stumbled across this Aviation site a few days ago. I've been lurking on various SE sites for a while but now I finally had a reason to make an account.

I remember when this chat room was about aviation, oh so long ago.