Are you brave enough to fly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now that we can get rid of the unqualified girl pilots, flying is safer than ever.

Girl? Have you seen 10 year olds fly? And boys crash too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now that we can get rid of the unqualified girl pilots, flying is safer than ever.

You can't get laid and you really make it everyone's problem huh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now that we can get rid of the unqualified girl pilots, flying is safer than ever.

Girl? Have you seen 10 year olds fly? And boys crash too

Remember that SW flight when the window broke and a women got sucked out the window?

The pilot was a "girl" and got everyone on the ground safely under dire circumstances. Maga can suck it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m brave, not stupid.

Pilot in the family and we will not be doing any flying any time soon.

Elon builds dangerous cars, and rockets that unintentionally explode. Not a reason in the world to trust he’s good at anything else. He just thinks he’s a genius.

He is a genius, but his margin for error is a bit too much

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/fdcb793f-87c9-4af5-8cee-fded88373ad4

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what the president plans for air traffic control:

We're all gonna sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new. Not pieced together, obsolete, like it is, land-based. Trying to hook up a land-based system to a satellite system. The first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can't hook up land to satellites and you can't hook up satellites to land. It doesn't work. We spend billions of billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying cut it loose, and let's spend less money and build a great system done by two or three companies, very good companies, specialists, that's all it is. They used 39 companies. That means that 39 different hookups have to happen. And I don't know how many people of you are good in terms of all of the kinds of things necessary for that. And it's very complex stuff. But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment. And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would've, bells would've gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn't stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would've gone off. They have 'em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would've just never happened if we had the right equipment.
And one of things that's gonna be, l'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, l use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I'm landing in New York and I'm using a sys- I won't tell you what country, but l use a system from another country because the captain says 'This thing is so bad, it's so obsolete.' And we can't have that.

We jmust cancelled all summer flights. We're going to be driving this summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Now that we can get rid of the unqualified girl pilots, flying is safer than ever.

You can't get laid and you really make it everyone's problem huh.

Not the PP but I took this as gallows humor (and laughed)

[Anonymous]

Trump said 'it's not your fault' to Sean Duffy during the dca crash press conference. Well, seems they are about to make it their fault. I hope they don't because I have to fly.

[Anonymous]

It’s an old Silicon Valley truism that rewriting or refactoring code is a trap.

You imagine clean lines of concise engineered code much easier to read and maintain.

But don’t realize that that extra bobs and bits were edge cases the idealized algorithm can’t handle, or real world limitations of hardware or meatspace, and have rolled back stability to V1.0 BETA.

Facebook still runs PHP. It’s also why banks have old mainframes. Replacing a complex, public safety system in real time while in use?

I’m getting a Winnebago.

[Anonymous]

I won't fly if there's AI ATC and I'm surprised the airlines are not already stepping in to ensure this doesn't happen. People are already spooked by the Boeing issues and now the DCA crash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m brave, not stupid.

Pilot in the family and we will not be doing any flying any time soon.

Elon builds dangerous cars, and rockets that unintentionally explode. Not a reason in the world to trust he’s good at anything else. He just thinks he’s a genius.

Very happy to see a comment from someone with a pilot relative. My son wants to go to flight school/become a professional pilot and after seeing the comments about the FAA I feel like we need to revisit that goal. Controlled by one company? With satellites? I wonder what company that could be? Will it cause things to blow up, just like the owner of that company's cars? As for AI, there is already a push to replace co-pilots with AI. I can only imagine Elon will jump all over that as well...and let's hope it doesn't go as well as his self-driving cars.

[Anonymous]

Nope, Elon has just sent the DOGE boys over to FAA.

Not flying now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope, Elon has just sent the DOGE boys over to FAA.

Not flying now.

Oh hell…

[Anonymous]

https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

[Anonymous]

This is catastrophic for the airline safety in our country. Where are the airline execs balking at this, much less members of the public. No way I am flying again until these people are restored and they cease talk of AI ATC's.

[Anonymous]

If I weren't worried about losing my job, I'd definitely fly for work or pleasure. How many plane crashes did we have today so far?