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set that alarm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861717#48864989

Have this bookmarked. I love the Crissy Field section, considering what it is now and how recently it was being used. https://airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm#cr..…

Flight plans are usually filed hours before a flight with old wind data and sometimes can't be changed in congested airspace. But pilots really care about wind shear. Its the thing…

https://jonbeckett.substack.com/p/ils-cat-i-cat-ii-and-cat-i... Real auto land, CAT iii, is what you're thinking of and it requires specific things that most airports and planes do…

You're right about Amazons leverage. In Santa Clara county we have our local behemoths trying to get their property valuations dropped. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/202…

Charlotte is specifically called out as one of the worst offenders in this article mate.

Weird. I just bumped into this paper when I was trying to learn why Charlotte has such a confusing layout. I've never felt more lost.

Same one about the combo here. Almost every person I ask has some variation on that one. Crazy how universal it is in my world, especially since it's usually about something that w…

Four Lions puffin party. Parody of incompetent jihadis using a kids game to communicate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fd4yjFto0A

Looks like DROWN is still out there. https://opennav.com/waypoint/US/DROWN

Seeing a lot of similar stories here. We used to do a game of hide and seek on our massive dead end street. Wed use peoples bushes and cars to hide. I still remember the sound of c…

I have a 2018 Chevy, and cancelled onstar immediately, which was intentionally an exercise in annoyance and confusion. But I still got metrics emailed to me. I found a way to detac…

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So far they've had to pull out of a few airports when FBOs stop hosting them, mostly without explanation. The same FBOs that allow part 135 operators, some owned by the majors, to …

I just had a flight with JSX cancelled because of this, it's sad. Regulations are written in blood, but this one just looks like it's written in green.

We live in fame or go down in flame, hey! Nothing'll stop the U.S. Air Force!

Who knows what they've been grabbing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5qYH-Y3tQ4

That's true for everyone, right? Nobody sees a psychiatrist because they're happy all the time.

The title is a tip of the cap to Controlled Flight into Terrain, CFIT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain

I've made investments in some companies after not getting an offer, mostly successful. It's kind of like Groucho Marx, 'I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member'. T…

Mine are all online now. So you can activate them before you go. In the time it would take to pull the scissors out of the drawer, I can just .click() all of them. I don't even pay…

Every time I explain this to people you see the 5 stages of grief go across their face, especially when it's a property that used to host their favorite restaurant or something. I …