Re: Most annoying car features

Touchscreens for all car functions. Why would you do that? I always compare it to commercial airplanes, where for important functions, they still have knobs and levers with standard designs (landing gear, flaps, slats, etc.), so that you can utilize those without looking at them. I don't want to hav...

Re: My son has had a bit of a week

Ouch! Glad your son is OK. Of course, little kids recover from stuff like this much faster than parents do. I'm imagining I will have to use the Heimlich or similar on my son sometime in the next 3 years. Glad it hasn't happened so far.... If you mean mandarin orange, I almost had that issue with my...

Re: RIP Gigneil

Dang, that's sad. Condolences to his family and friends.

He used to be fairly active in Tech/Ops back in the day, if memory serves. Seemed pretty knowledgeable. As you noted, I hadn't seen him post in years.

Re: SUVs and emissions.

I was someone who constantly said "I will never buy an SUV". Then toward the end of 2018, I was about to have a kid, and I decided I wanted something larger, and also something that was not stick shift. Wanted to stay with Mazda, because my two previous cars had been Mazdas and I liked the...

Re: Storms Bring Snow to Los Angeles and San Francisco, Tornadoes in Central United States, and Snow to Northeast

Yesterday afternoon was honestly more beautiful than Southern California has been in quite a while. The sharp contrast between the dark clouds and rays of sun, the unusually low snow line, and the days of rain clearing the smog out of the sky really created something unique. The past several days h...

Re: First white card drawn in Foodball

It is an innovation that has only been introduced in Portugal for the time being. It is not a punishment, like the red and yellow card, but expresses appreciation for an incident with remarkably fair play. In this case, it happened when the caretakers from the two teams worked together to treat a m...

Re: Rep Clark daughter arraigned on cop assault

To be fair, if it were the LAPD, they'd have teargassed the entire neighborhood and taken pot shots into the crowd. This one is actually a little tough if you're not familiar with Boston in that era. Fenway wasn't built as thicc as it is today, it was mostly the older buildings around Fenway Park a...

Re: Rep Clark daughter arraigned on cop assault

bluecrew wrote:

Even in cases of civil unrest, they don't hit the street with batons and teargas, like Minneapolis did. It's a remarkably safe city and a great place to live.

Re: Jeff Beck Died

Sad day.

There's an A.net connection for me, too. I saw Jeff Beck in concert probably 10-15 years ago, and I believe I met A.net member KevinL1011 at the show.

Re: Harry's New Book 'Spare': Scuffle between Harry and Willie

It’s seems like harry is moving away from his demons but is acting like a petulant child with running his mouth off to the media to things that should remain private and confidential due to his very unorthodox family situation. It makes sense in a way. He likely didn't have much of a normal childho...

Re: The respiratory viruses -- make it stop!

Personally, my son coughed nonstop from August until this last weekend, when he finally stopped. First of all, congrats, I didn't realize you had a kid! How old? My son (almost 4 now) has coughed on-and-off since....I want to say March or so. Just about when he started preschool (go figure). Some w...

Re: World Series!

I'll love the Friars forever for knocking off LA this year. When the G-men can't do it, I'm perfectly happy to root SD from now on. San Diego is probably my NL team now, simply because Don Orsillo is their play-by-play guy. As much as a Sox fan as I have been, I'll always have some resentment that ...

Re: World Series!

Five years ago I didn't think it was possible for fans outside BOS/NYC/LA to hate anyone as much as those respective teams, but it is positively refreshing to see the Astros universally despised, and well-deserved at that. I'll give the waste bin a double tap in their honor. The ALCS this year was ...

Re: Brand loyality

Cars - Mazda (I'm on my 3rd Mazda in a row, but I have a feeling my next car will not be one)
Cymbals - Zildjian
Drumsticks - Vater
Guitars/Basses - Ibanez (I have 2 Ibanez guitars and 2 Ibanez basses, though I do have a Yamaha acoustic, and an Epiphone SG as well)
Camera stuff - Canon
Phones - Apple

Re: Delta and the Psychiatrist Take a Great Fall

and were clearly outside her role as a pilot. Is safety not the paramount role of everyone in aerospace and aviation? But the characterization that it was some kind of Delta vendetta is not really true. They got a (now former) psychiatrist to state that she had bi-polar disorder, when she clearly d...

Re: Do you use the phrase “Thank God”?

EstherLouise wrote:

I use it as a figure of speech. When I say it, I am not thinking about God, nor think "religiously" at that point.

Re: Inconsistent standard

From the thumbnail it needs some leveling can't tell the rest but whatever happened to rare photos easy to get accepted and common hard to get accepted? You telling me a photog can't bother to do 10 seconds of editing on a rare photo? It's ridiculous to have photos that can't even be leveled proper...

Re: Photoshopped photo?

Either way you are out of line posting that here. If you have reason to believe a pic in the DB has been cloned or photoshopped in some way email the screeners privately. You are dragging a long time photog though the mud here. Sorry, but looking at the photo, the long-time photog deserves it. Horr...

Re: Photoshopped photo?

Either way you are out of line posting that here. If you have reason to believe a pic in the DB has been cloned or photoshopped in some way email the screeners privately. You are dragging a long time photog though the mud here. Sorry, but looking at the photo, the long-time photog deserves it. Horr...

Re: EWR 22R/L and 04R/L shortened to intersection M?

airportugal310 wrote:

Since the LDA (Landing Distance Available) is 1,794ft shorter than the TORA/TODA/ASDA...then it indicates a displaced threshold usually or something in lieu of that (a stopway perhaps?)

Re: EWR 22R/L and 04R/L shortened to intersection M?

Not normal, likely something to do with these notams !EWR 04/074 EWR RWY 04R DECLARED DIST: TORA 10000FT TODA 10000FT ASDA 10000FT LDA 8809FT. 2204091638-2404302300 !EWR 04/073 EWR RWY 22L DECLARED DIST: TORA 10000FT TODA 10000FT ASDA 10000FT LDA 8206FT. 2204091630-2404302300 What do those NOTAMs m...

Re: So what’s cooking today?

mirrodie wrote:

I’ll probably wake up late, have some coffee while working out and smoking 3 racks of baby rack ribs over charcoal with hickory chunks.

What are you cooking today?

Re: Autobrake question: MAX vs. RTO, and performance (and pax)

Departure Attain as much altitude as possible before reaching residential areas. Use full length of runway when able. I don't understand. Why would a pilot " use full length of runway when able " [that's one heck of a derate!] if trying to " attain as much altitude as possible before...

Re: Autobrake question: MAX vs. RTO, and performance (and pax)

Indeed noise abatement/curfew does apply to the entire airport. I've heard from pilots of said airline that there are FAR fewer noise monitors (microphones) on the other approaches that'll rat them out. While technically 12/30 is the only "active runway" after hours -- probably to catch v...

Re: Autobrake question: MAX vs. RTO, and performance (and pax)

The landing distance is indeed calculated from the threshold. And since you're nominally at 50 feet at the threshold, the ground roll is shorter than the landing distance. The nominal aimpoint is at 1000 feet, and your actual touchdown point is a couple of hundred feet beyond that since you flare. ...

Re: Autobrake question: MAX vs. RTO, and performance (and pax)

Full auto brakes aren’t no maximum braking capacity, so you would need to look at using manual braking. Then, dry runways landing distances do not use full reverse. Performance engineering might have the charts or computer app that calculates stopping distance from touchdown. Crews have landing dis...

Re: Have quality standards changed on here recently?

I have to wonder if the top of the photographers choice at the moment and views is really for the skillful photography or the “undercarriage” in the foreground of the photo, which would seem to be the main subject of the photo from the comments. I suppose everyone will be doing those photos now. On...

Re: Brittney Griner Sentenced to 9 yrs

seb146 wrote:

And there we go:

EVERYONE knows it is illegal to cross borders with weed in any form. I do not smoke at all but I know that. The brosband smokes the real stuff and he knows that. EVERYONE knows that. Even Brittney Griner.

Re: Lake Mead, 3rd body found and low water