Post: #26

You can probably do a playback of the flights on http://www.flightradar24.com/ (clock symbol in top right corner)

Post: #27

(06-03-2015 06:05 PM)phoenix101 Wrote:  You can probably do a playback of the flights on http://www.flightradar24.com/ (clock symbol in top right corner)

on this site. I just browsed the map and I'm absolutely stunned at how crowded the skies are at any given moment.

Post: #28

(06-03-2015 06:05 PM)phoenix101 Wrote:  You can probably do a playback of the flights on http://www.flightradar24.com/ (clock symbol in top right corner)

You cannot. Plenty of military flights are off the radar as well as many others or do you think you can map any CIA or president flight there for any actual would-be terrorist to see?

The conventional civilian flights are on it, but it is doubtful that it was a civilian one - there would be markings on the plane and the safety violation would be a major mistake.

Post: #29

So, after "debunking" Evolution with the use of anecdotal evidence and one (1) seriously flawed book, now it seems that Roosh's favorite pastime is finding "evidence" for laughable conspiracy theories? While, of course, not explicitly saying so, but hey, what else could a plane leaving smoke trails be doing?? Let's just leave the rest to the imagination of the readers and some already jumped at the opportunity...

Well, sorry Roosh, but I'm stopping following your blog. Stay with your growing weird extremist crowd and give more reasons for rational men, who despise feminism, to no longer support you in your other causes. Really sorry that this had to happen, but you have taken a turn for the worse in the past year.

Btw, please provide people who want to permanently delete their profile with an option to do so -unless it was there and I missed it- I did not want to go public with my indignation and force my ban, but...

Peace.

Post: #30

(06-03-2015 08:47 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

(06-03-2015 06:05 PM)phoenix101 Wrote:  You can probably do a playback of the flights on http://www.flightradar24.com/ (clock symbol in top right corner)

on this site. I just browsed the map and I'm absolutely stunned at how crowded the skies are at any given moment.

That's blown my mind. I had no idea that planes must be regularly flying under/above one another all the time, especially in crowded airport areas. But I suppose when you consider the sheer amount of flights that happen all the time, it shouldn't be surprising really.

Air traffic controllers...wow, what responsibility they have.

Post: #31

(06-04-2015 06:35 AM)Teedub Wrote:  

(06-03-2015 08:47 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

(06-03-2015 06:05 PM)phoenix101 Wrote:  You can probably do a playback of the flights on http://www.flightradar24.com/ (clock symbol in top right corner)

on this site. I just browsed the map and I'm absolutely stunned at how crowded the skies are at any given moment.

That's blown my mind. I had no idea that planes must be regularly flying under/above one another all the time, especially in crowded airport areas. But I suppose when you consider the sheer amount of flights that happen all the time, it shouldn't be surprising really.

Air traffic controllers...wow, what responsibility they have.

Yeah and when I was an intern at the FAA, I visited an air trafffic controller station near Dulles airport. Most of them were younger than me, on their summer jobs in between college semesters.

Apparently you only need high school diploma and a steel set of balls to be an ATC. Not for the faint of heart.

Post: #32

(06-02-2015 06:54 PM)Drazen Wrote:  I flew about a week or two after 9/11 and there were a few guys with turbans on. The flight was eerily empty and everyone was super quiet and nervous. I had a pen in my hand the entire 45 min flight (LAX to San Jose) ready to stab someone in the neck.

That's just shockingly ignorant.

Post: #33

(06-04-2015 07:31 AM)CleanSlate Wrote:  Yeah and when I was an intern at the FAA, I visited an air trafffic controller station near Dulles airport. Most of them were younger than me, on their summer jobs in between college semesters.

Apparently you only need high school diploma and a steel set of balls to be an ATC. Not for the faint of heart.

You have got to be kidding me. This does not make me feel any safer.

Do you mean for domestic flights? Can't imagine that would be the case for international.

Post: #34

ATC here in Europe is one of the toughest, most mentally demanding jobs to acquire.

The tests are long, arduous and brutal.

They don't care about your academic credentials, just how smart you are at what they need.

Post: #35

^^^^

Yeah, and it takes a few years of vocational school to get certified.

Cleanslate, there might be other duties that don't involve separation that you can get with less qualifications.

Post: #36

And today commercial airliners usually have TCAS so if the air traffic controller screws up and directs two airliners in the air towards each other the pilots are given automatically generated avoidance instructions.

Now if one aircraft (some state aircraft are more prone to this) and drones don't use any transponder, that could be more of a problem.

Post: #37

delete

Post: #38

I thought this post was going to be more like, Close Encounters of the Roosh kind!

Post: #39

(06-04-2015 10:06 AM)DickDastardly Wrote:  Imagine how you'd feel if you are cruising over the Alps and you notice two fighter jets tailing your plane. Nobody else see's it but the cabin crew look nervous as shit.

And you never find out what was going on.

Or the time your plane was just descending to the airport and all of a sudden it drops like a fucking brick and people are screaming and crying.

Or the time you are a half hour or so from landing and the pilot warns the entire plane twice that they should be aware of the nearest emergency exit. The lands all go off and strip lighting comes on. Total silence on the plane...you descend through the clouds and all of a sudden the plane is all over the fucking place. You can see a motorway below and just how badly the wings are dipping. As you come in to land you notce the wing on your side of the plane is dipped over to the point it looks like it is going to strike the ground rushing towards you.

At the last minute the pilot flips the plane hard against the wind so that it is level just as it wallops off the runway, sending all the luggage in the overhead compartments crashing into the aisles, all the food and drink and beer cans come flying down the aisles from where they prep the food and all the passangers are screaming and the engines are roaring and you are just waiting for the bang to end everything.

Then silence. Have a nice day.


Fuck, I hate flying.

In that case I would look for an innocent but scared looking 18 year old girl and ask her 'you don't want do die virgin, do you?'

Post: #40

This ATC screw-up happened two days ago at Naha Airport on Okinawa. The Japanese military helicopter (2) requested take-off clearance but was told to wait by ATC. Either the helicopter pilot then mistook a take-off clearance given to another aircraft and then took off, or else the controller mistakenly used the helicopter's call sign in giving a clearance to another aircraft. The helicopter took off and crossed the departure end of the runway (left side of the photo) at low altitude.

At that moment, an ANA B737 was on its take-off roll (1). The pilot spotted the helicopter in time and aborted the take-off and, as the photo shows, was either sitting on the runway awaiting further instructions from ATC or is taxiing for the next runway exit.

Behind it, a TransOcean Air B737 was on final approach. ATC directed it to do a go-around, but for whatever reason the pilot decided to land anyway (3). So it landed on the runway with another aircraft sitting in the middle of it. Very dangerous situation.