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You know it’s true because it’s 2020. Remember that whole alien thing back in April? Me neither because about 10 years worth of events has happened in the past four and a half months.
ATCs have a reputation for never losing their cool and that really shines through here: “Tower, there’s a guy in a jetpack flying outside.” “Copy. To your left or your right?”
There are youtube videos of ATC recordings (with transcripts) of pilots losing their cool. You are right, I don't think any ATC lost their cool in any of the recordings I've listened to. This quote from the article made me smile: >> Another pilot chimed in: "Only in LA."
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Most of that alien stuff was miscalculating velocities by not taking into account field of view (zoom in/out) changes in the camera.
Are you referring to the documented cases of UFO sightings by the US navy? AFAIK there were also numerous pilot testimonies and radar logs to prove what was happening. Or is it a different case?
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Incidentally, do pilots say left and right? They don't have a special word (port / starboard) like naval vessels?
They say left and right as others have noted, but the main boarding doors on planes are supposedly on the left for the same reason the left is called the “port”. It appears to be a relic of the flying boat era of aviation.
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Would you be able to provide a link to the paper? Sounds like an interesting read.
It may well be this classic from my old office colleague https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Rich...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-supported_cooperative...
[1] http://www.academia.edu/download/48677152/Collaboration_and_...
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One would think that there would be higher fines for this sort of misbehavior.
As it turns out, you can't just make up laws just because someone did something unsafe for the purpose of punishing said person
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It is quite admirable. I respect someone able to communicate effectively in a high stakes situation.
I recommend listening to the flight director loops from the Apollo missions. There are thousands of recorded hours available (various places, but try lunarmodule5’s playlists on Youtube, or https://apolloinrealtime.org/ for a museum exhibit style) - including practically the entirety of missions 8 to 13, and most especially try the notorious manual burn of 13 during which everyone sounds like they’re discussing where…
https://www.wired.com/story/apollo-11-mission-out-of-control...
I don’t imagine it was these guys but another “Ironman” type flight suit I’ve been following is the tech from https://gravity.co/ - it looks like so much fun although I’m sure it’s much harder to use that the videos suggest.
I think those look really exhausting and unnatural since you have to carry your whole bodyweight on your arms. Seriously, try suspending yourself with your hands on two chair backs. Now imagine doing that for many minutes at a time, while also withstanding heavy vibration and precisely controlling your flight.