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> But The Times found that the combination of six-day workweeks and round-the-clock schedules has caused controllers to develop physical and mental health problems. Many avoid seek…

That’s what it already does though. We get a total fuel figure in the flight deck (FOB) and a figure for how much the engines have used (FU - measures flow in the pylons). Add the …

That’s good lateral thinking :) Given that the aircraft can be landed over max landing weight (needs a maintenance inspection) and is still controllable with total imbalance I’d sa…

It’s a good idea, some aircraft have quite complex fuel systems though so it would have to account for fuel moving between tanks. E.g. the A330 has an inner tank in each wing (whic…

A320/330/340/350 driver here (can't get away from Airbus apparently). Nope, there is no system to confirm a leak apart from a camera around the tail if you're lucky enough to have …

Geez, it's a programming language not a spouse! You can just, you know, use another one if it doesn't work out.

Airline pilot here: passing another aircraft opposite direction on the same lateral track with only 1000ft of vertical separation is about as normal as it gets. I’d say that it has…

You should try having to read several hundred of them before a long-haul duty! Good luck trying to find the runway closure notam buried among the 400 reports of a crane within curv…

It won't auto-level the wings for you in an airbus, however unless you're in an unusual configuration in alternate or direct laws (requiring a significant series of failures), the …

Good question, I ask myself the same thing every time I come to this site :) I'm also a programmer in my spare time, I started coding long before I was a pilot. Sometimes I do cons…

Human airline pilot here, a lot of comments about the reliability of automation for takeoff, landing and some emergency scenarios but the proposed regulation is a little more speci…

I think the GP comment you're replying to nailed the reason why: > I take a contrarian opinion on this, the price of a flight in the US outside of major hubs is egregious. Especial…

Human airline pilot here, I'm not sure where you're getting this from: > Many private planes with modern avionics now have an auto-level button on the AP that very reliably recover…

No worries, here's my opinion (lots of lang-war stuff, so note "opinion"): I would say that it depends on your comfort with async code in Rust since much of the web ecosystem is bu…

No disagreement here. My post is a praise of Rust, not "everyone must use Rust!". These languages and tools are also great! (edit) added 'tools'

I would say that curiosity about languages in general is one item that you should look for in candidates. Not the only one of course but curious people do tend to learn and adapt w…

Author here: lots of usual language-war type comments here. Just thought I'd add my own little bit of water (hopefully). In my post notice that aside from my personal background wi…

Author here: didn't expect this to get on the front page, some kind of life goal achieved I guess. Here's a link to our Show HN from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

It's good to hear that media literacy is being taught like that in high schools. Education on the topic is the best sure-fire solution in the long term. We really like AllSides but…

It's almost ready! It works together with a browser extension which adds the highlights and extra information to articles so we're in the process of tweaking that interaction. We d…

Skepticism welcomed, it's a crazy space so the more of that the better! We differ by giving the reader the tools to form a better opinion for themselves rather than telling them wh…

Hi everyone, I’m Steve, one of the team working on The Daily Edit. We’ve built a news aggregator which shows you every detail that has been reported on a story regardless of which …

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