The Asiana hearing was toothless - it's like the board was looking for a way to say anything other than "the pilots screwed the pooch SO HARD that it's gonna have puppies!"
it's still on the NTSB site as a webcast
it's long as hell but you can skip about 2 hours of "breaks" where they just show an NTSB logo while people eat
Just comparing the way that hearing was handled versus Colgan Air though - I hope the final report has more teeth.
(AirBoyd on YouTube has the Colgan hearing which is absolutely worth watching)
Transponder settings (7700), who to try to call on the radio (whoever it's tuned to, or 121.5 if no answer), what to say, & a brief description of the flight controls
In Alaska a rifle is usually part of standard survival gear you carry. If you make an emergency landing & need to fend off wildlife (bears) you're gonna want that gun.
If I were in Alaska I'd also install a 406MHz ELT :)
I'd rather not have a firearm a determined attacker can wrestle control of :-) (and as far as my plans goes, who's gonna hijack me? Everyone I fly with I know)
@PatoSáinz that's probably not something for me to do, if we're gonna have a CW/Q&A-style post about it... I'd just ask the question yourself and see how it goes (in a way in which it won't get closed)
the constitution says "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." -- historically that's interpreted as "states can set reasonable restrictions on the right to bear arms"
e.g. in NY felons can't own guns, period. Anyone can buy a rifle or shotgun, but your need a permit for pistols/handguns
And I can't take my nassau-county licensed pistol into say manhattan or fly across the sound to Connecticut with it (because my permit is issued by Nassau County Police)
(most of our elected officials are though. And the rest are just.... generally not smart :-/
Oddly our international flight crews tend to be pretty decent. I think the airlines still drill it into them that they represent The Airline and they damn well better behave...
....this one time I was serving a couple of guys drinks, just talking away. As they were leaving they told me they were from the counter-terrorist unit and gave me some kind of oversized FBI coin
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