Why is an advertorial with a lot of hyperbole and very little content on the frontpage? I am an aviation enthusiast and I'm sure we could find better sources about this subject.
Less Turbulence on Delta Flights?
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Re: Less Turbulence on Delta Flights?
#52As someone who holds a commercial pilots license but works in software development, I'd love to find a hybrid job solving problems I'm aviation with tech.
You probably don't. Aerospace is horribly conservative and slow, both in the work itself and in office culture. Imagine spending an entire week checking every calculation in a 50 page technical report. It must be correct , and it has to be that way.
Although I agree aerospace is slow, it's not that bad. Yes there is a lot of verification, paperwork, etc. however, safety is number one so it's understandable.
Also if you get into early TRL projects, you don't even have to deal with such restrictions.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Boeing must hire software devs?
They definitely do. They usually end up leaving because of the culture and the pay. Reading about X is very different from working in X professionally.
Yeah, I don’t understand why companies like Boeing don’t pay competitively.
Their revenue is pretty good.
Also, they seem to hire a lot of people.
What am I missing? Why do they hire so many people at less than awesome comp?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
They definitely do. They usually end up leaving because of the culture and the pay. Reading about X is very different from working in X professionally.
Yeah, I don’t understand why companies like Boeing don’t pay competitively. Their revenue is pretty good. Also, they seem to hire a lot of people. What am I missing? Why do they hire so many people at less than awesome comp?
I've found the pay to be decent. The culture on the other hand is horrific.
Re: Less Turbulence on Delta Flights?
#55Pity - turbulence is one of my favorite parts of flying!
A friend told me once when he was flying that the jet hit some severe turbulence. Everyone was white-knuckling the armrests, until some texan towards the front started waving his hat and yelling yee-haw! Which went a long way towards relieving everyone's anxiety.
When I hit turbulence, I just try to keep in mind that airplanes are extremely robust and can handle considerably more turbulence than a typical person might imagine. For example, see how much airplane wings can bend without breaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--LTYRTKV_A
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
A friend told me once when he was flying that the jet hit some severe turbulence. Everyone was white-knuckling the armrests, until some texan towards the front started waving his hat and yelling yee-haw! Which went a long way towards relieving everyone's anxiety.
When I hit turbulence, I just try to keep in mind that airplanes are extremely robust and can handle considerably more turbulence than a typical person might imagine. For example, see how much airplane wings can bend without breaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--LTYRTKV_A
My father, AF pilot, was once flying a DC-3 over New Mexico, when he encountered clear air turbulence. The airplane shook violently. The airspeed indicator just ping-ponged around. He said there was nothing he could do but pull the airspeed back to the minimum (to reduce stress on the airframe), radio the controller to warn other aircraft, and ride it out.
After he landed, the mechanics showed him where rivets had been pulled out of the wings.
Edit: one of the reasons the DC-3 was such a robust airplane was nobody had any experience with an airplane of that size and type, so it was overdesigned. It's the same reason the B-17 was a tough bird.
Re: Less Turbulence on Delta Flights?
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Delta is really serious about customer satisfaction, they’ll hurry up with the retirement of their old MD-80s (and MD-88s). I’m hardly an aviation buff, but I’ve learned to identify these things by their sound from inside my house, which is 20 miles from the nearest airport (occasional departures fly over at roughly 10,000 feet). Those old low-bypass JT8D engines make so much damn low-frequency noise. Every time I…
Agree that the md80s are noisy monsters, but really has very little overlap with customer satisfaction. <1% of Delta's customers are going to live close enough to an airport with Delta mad dog departures and even fewer of them will take noise at home into consideration for their satisfaction.
True— I was sort of venting and neglected to note that it wasn’t really related— but at the very least, I personally avoid flying Delta because it bugs me so much. It’s perhaps a silly reason, but it’s the truth.
Just a sample size n=1 though.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
You certainly may be correct that Delta’s competitors may be using additional or different sources. However, there definitely is not any access to SiriusXM WX or ADS-B weather onboard FAR 121 aircraft. Many airlines are just now getting around to ADS-B out for compliance. When I worked for one of the regional airlines we had just been approved for EFBs (iPads) in 2017. Point is simply that GA is typically significant…
Great point. It really does amaze me that I likely use tools like precision GPS approaches and live access to weather data more than the typical part 121 airliner. However, I do think the FAA's strategy to slowly and methodically make changes to part 121 is valid given the safety record you cite. It does excite me to see these things come to GA though. If you chose to use them properly, tools like ADS-B in and inflig…
Dumb question, but what does 121 mean in this context?
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#59This article sounds like an ad, but in any case cutting cost and achieving higher customer satisfaction are all good things so props to Delta for that. However, I have to wonder why the article makes it seem like only Delta is using data for turbulence avoidance and not other big players. Is this a relatively new thing when it comes to Big Data in airlines? Edit: This is an ad after all > This post contains reference…
Company culture has a lot to do with it! I work with some airlines and Delta are definitely among the most innovative and open minded. Delta also do quite a lot of their systems in-house as custom development, instead of relying on packaged turnkey garbage from oldschool integrators.
Re: Less Turbulence on Delta Flights?
#60This article sounds like an ad, but in any case cutting cost and achieving higher customer satisfaction are all good things so props to Delta for that. However, I have to wonder why the article makes it seem like only Delta is using data for turbulence avoidance and not other big players. Is this a relatively new thing when it comes to Big Data in airlines? Edit: This is an ad after all > This post contains reference…
If Delta is really serious about customer satisfaction, they’ll hurry up with the retirement of their old MD-80s (and MD-88s). I’m hardly an aviation buff, but I’ve learned to identify these things by their sound from inside my house, which is 20 miles from the nearest airport (occasional departures fly over at roughly 10,000 feet). Those old low-bypass JT8D engines make so much damn low-frequency noise. Every time I…
Customers actually like the Mad Dogs because the average cabin noise is lower; with aft-mounted engines it's only the last few rows that are loud. Everyone ahead of that gets to ride first-class-cabin-quiet even in economy.
Now near-airport-resident satisfaction is another, unrelated issue.