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Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage

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Re: Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage

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Post by thatguy0900 »

SamPatt wrote: post #15

Serious question: At what point does the failure of government services warrant the partial withholding of taxes? This isn't sufficient of course but when the FAA repeatedly demonstrates incompetence, when do we eventually just tell them no, you can't have any more of my money, you're obviously wasting it and making us worse off?

From the governments point of view failure means they need more money, not less. Not paying taxes just means you get arrested, they don't have any incentive to fear you doing that.

Re: Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage

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Post by ledauphin »

brootstrap wrote: post #13
jcutrell wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Things I use as a pilot of a single engine piston: - Temp dew point spread - Barometric pressure - TAF / forecast - Wind shear - Freezing level - Cloud tops - Cloud level AGL - visibility measured in actual distance All of these things can’t be measured easily by a human. Visibility is probably the easiest, but can you tell me what the dew point is easily? If I use it, imagine the critical importance for airliners.

Wind shear is easy. feel the wind on your face, then jump as high as possible and feel the wind up there.

this is an advanced technique that they don't usually teach until the commercial certificate.

Re: Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage

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Post by pc86 »

SamPatt wrote: post #15

Serious question: At what point does the failure of government services warrant the partial withholding of taxes? This isn't sufficient of course but when the FAA repeatedly demonstrates incompetence, when do we eventually just tell them no, you can't have any more of my money, you're obviously wasting it and making us worse off?

I don't think that's a serious question, but the serious answer is never, unless you're willing to go to jail or kill people to get away with it.

Re: Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage

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Post by ck2 »

SamPatt wrote: post #15

Serious question: At what point does the failure of government services warrant the partial withholding of taxes? This isn't sufficient of course but when the FAA repeatedly demonstrates incompetence, when do we eventually just tell them no, you can't have any more of my money, you're obviously wasting it and making us worse off?

Just swap civil services budget with military budget.

Imagine what NASA would do in ten years with Pentagon's budget swapped.

Re: Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage

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Post by shmatt »

SamPatt wrote: post #15

Serious question: At what point does the failure of government services warrant the partial withholding of taxes? This isn't sufficient of course but when the FAA repeatedly demonstrates incompetence, when do we eventually just tell them no, you can't have any more of my money, you're obviously wasting it and making us worse off?

This is the conservative playbook. Cut funding until the entity can't run properly, then yell JEEZ GUYS YOU REALLY SUCK wHY DON'T WE SHUT YOU DOWN

The previous president significantly cut the FAA's budget, maybe we're just seeing now how that affects us in the long term

Re: Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage

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Post by bombcar »

jcutrell wrote: post #10
chasd00 wrote: post #3

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Things I use as a pilot of a single engine piston: - Temp dew point spread - Barometric pressure - TAF / forecast - Wind shear - Freezing level - Cloud tops - Cloud level AGL - visibility measured in actual distance All of these things can’t be measured easily by a human. Visibility is probably the easiest, but can you tell me what the dew point is easily? If I use it, imagine the critical importance for airliners.

Isn't there a way to rough out the dew point from the cloud base altitude? I seem to remember that from ground school.

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Post by [deleted] »

bombcar wrote: post #27
jcutrell wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Things I use as a pilot of a single engine piston: - Temp dew point spread - Barometric pressure - TAF / forecast - Wind shear - Freezing level - Cloud tops - Cloud level AGL - visibility measured in actual distance All of these things can’t be measured easily by a human. Visibility is probably the easiest, but can you tell me what the dew point is easily? If I use it, imagine the critical importance for airliners.

Isn't there a way to rough out the dew point from the cloud base altitude? I seem to remember that from ground school.

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