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What is Congress' favorite airport?
Presumably Dulles because international and probably long-haul generally flights. (Though I imagine more fly in and out of Reagan/National on a regular basis.)
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> As hinted at by their name, a public servant's first loyalty should to the public/nation rather than their Minister/Master. Maybe the US has a different system? Both systems rely on the people in charge being told okay with being told "no, this is a bad idea". The Ministers/Secretaries/Executive may think their plan(s) are a good idea and the civil service are being obstructionist. (Of course the civil service coul…
The U.K. had a documentary in the 80s about civil servants handling ministers, for better and worse.
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Okay they arrest Koresh outside the compound… then what? Be specific please.
Your specific concern was Koresh having sex with children. Are you moving the goal posts, or was that not your concern? How does he have sex with kids in adult jail? Or do you mean what should happen when someone doesn't pay $200 for an NFA stamp ( in this case i beleive for alleged machine guns or destructive devices), which is another crime they were accused of. In that case I'd say asset or wage garnishment is a b…
I’m arguing it was not really about taxes and it was almost certainly not avoidable. Neither “arrest him outside” nor “don’t use CS gas” were likely to avoid the outcome.
You can prove your point by describing how it was avoidable. If your answer is “let people operate child sex slavery compounds if they’re sufficiently well-armed,” that’s an opinion you’re welcome to hold, but just come out and say it.
[1] https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663888-aa5342-d...
Not that being near DC affords me any kind of right to an opinion, but: Given the uptick in near miss incidents across the US the last few years, this is the kind of incident that should've been entirely avoidable through changes in policy from these past events but is also apparently the only kind that can spur along policy changes. I can see a world where the fault is on the VH-60, but absent more information, it w…
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And if you're on a collision course the other vehicle will appear motionless, with no change in direction. If the airliners was approaching faster than the helicopter it could have been approaching from behind. How large is the field of view of a UH-60?
From the radar tracking, they appear to have been at least somewhat head-on. (Also at a low altitude in a large city ... lots of lights.)
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>Everybody railing against the assessment fundamentally misunderstood the test. There are no DEI questions. The issue is the correct answers were intentionally leaked to a black ATC union
The "correct" answers on a biographical test are to claim to have more experience than your really do. In other words... fraud. If you get caught you lose the job and spend some free time in a cell. You're really stretching to turn this into a scandal. Nobody complained that the answers to the previous test had been leaked.
That's not what happened, and that isn't what the test questions were about at all:
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
>You're really stretching to turn this into a scandal. Nobody complained that the answers to the previous test had been leaked.
There hadn't been such a test previously, the black ATC union lobbied for it to be created in the first place.
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> over noisy radio I've been told the noise on the recordings is always a lot worse than in practice due to the location of the recording antenna not being ideal. I have no idea if this is correct or not. Maybe someone can enlighten this.
I watch a lot of pilots on Youtube. Most of them use some kind of audio splitter to record sound. You hear what the pilot hears. But minus the plane noise, vibrations, etc (unless that's mixed in via some open microphone). So, it's actually better. So, it really is that bad. Especially when flying low, on the edge of the range of the radios, etc. VHF radio is ancient technology. It's not great even under ideal condit…
Your forgetting about latency, which matters when you are trying to land an airplane. Also who cares if you could talk to the aircraft from anywhere in the world with different technology? The only thing that matters is there is a low latency audio connection between the traffic controller and all the planes coming in. Direct line of site VHF communications is better in every conceivable metric then any alternative. It has nothing to do with old technology or design by committee.
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Wow. I thought Trump instantly blaming DEI was ridiculous in this case but I’m somewhat reconsidering. How much less of a shortage of ATCs would we have now if it wasn’t for that debacle?
> How much less of a shortage of ATCs would we have now if it wasn’t for that debacle? Probably not much, considering the biggest constraining factor is pay. For example, San Carlos airport is shutting down ATC entirely because they can't pay anyone enough to live locally to the tower: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/bay-area-airport-losing-... There would be no problem filling the seats if the compensation was h…