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> There's no such thing as "an ILS approach where the pilot agrees to visually maintain separation from aircraft landing on the parallel runway" Not a cleared instrument approach, …

You can see an example of a parallel landing at SFO (on 28L) after sunset here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ1mUkxj0UM . I first spot the strobe of the other aircraft (eventua…

The issue is the parallel runway, not the traffic in front, which has a much larger separation. What the environment at SFO does not permit is for a pilot to be able to rely on the…

The key dialog happens at 1:18 in the video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdapQfJDAM ): > Lufthansa 458 heavy, just for my planning purposes and for the Final controller's pla…

One aspect of aphantasia that I haven't seen mentioned yet is memory of Chinese characters / kanji. I absolutely cannot for the life of me visualize any* of the characters I can ea…

Amazon's air safety record is less than stellar. Prime Air had a fatal 767 incident in early 2019. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/AA... In the accident f…

Look at the "Net demand trend" graph here, and take a look at yesterday: http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx Non-renewables (edit: all minus solar and wind), hit …

Interesting that you picked "mow my lawn" as an example. In California, gardeners are considered employees. The only reason most people don't have to deal with employment taxes, pa…

Online certifications are no joke. https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1197256/downl... > On or about September 25, 2018, in the District of Kansas, the defendant, for t…

Here's a recap of the pertinent NTSB's conclusions from the last time this happened. How many will apply again this time? “There was sufficient sight distance to afford time for ei…

> Every NTSB report has a "probable cause" section determining who or what was at fault. And then the FAA hands out fines and courts award additional damages largely based on that …

Here are the details on Project Zero's tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...

> The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd amendment only prohibits the federal government from "infringing" on your right to bear arms, and not the states. This was true only betw…

I'm not seeing any connectivity between Cogent and Google. Try Cogent's Looking Glass[1] and test connectivity to www.google.com, for example. ("Destination unreachable: No route")…

> Hell one of the reasons passenger trains is shit in the US is that passenger rail does not get priority over freight They do have priority: > (c) Preference over freight transpor…

You can see the list in the link above, but the short answer is very few, such as domestic support (alimony, child support) and administrative expenses of the bankruptcy. The most …

In the U.S., employees are also protected to a degree. Unpaid wage claims up to $10k, including vacation, severance, or sick leave pay, are prioritized over general unsecured credi…