How is that different than any shopping mall or restaurant? Just wait for them to come back to the car. I can understand the underlying thought, but I think the difference in the logistics of robbery aren’t so good - particularly given that all those cars have multiple cameras that can be programmed to record their…

There is no indication that anyone believed that a misreporting AoA sensor would lead to loss of control. As a result the Max simulator (nor the NG simulators before them) cannot even simulate a misreporting AoA sensor, so there would never have been training for the exact accident sequence seen by Lion Air and…

This may surprise you, but when Britain was under attack by Germany the entire country didn’t simply go home for the duration and stay with family until it was over. Cows got milked and cheese got made. Industry of all kinds continued.

My guess is that his comments were about the simulator software development and not about the actual airplane software. However it was sensational to take them out of context and imply they were about the aircraft flight software.

The only extra-price option was a display of the AoA value, which commercial pilots mostly don’t use. All the planes were supposed to have an indication that there was a mismatch in AoA readings, but a software bug cause that not to be included in the software build unless the AoA value option had been chosen.

Commercial pilots don’t use AoA; typically fighter pilots, running to the edge of the envelope need that. Commercial airliners are never operated anywhere near the edge of the envelope when flown normally. In manual flight they mostly use pitch attitude and power for the aircraft weight.

The Ethiopian pilots knew about the automation and crashed following a failure to follow the stall warning procedure that preceded the onset of MCAS. The first, and successful 90 minute flight pilots at Lion Air did not know anything about it.

The fuck are you talking about? You have zero alternatives for them do you? Just sit at home, no income, no food, no fuel and, what?, die?

WTF. Runways are the strategic target at an airport, not structures and not the only example of its kind. Plant crater makers at 3000 foot intervals and no one is using it. The point is - the Russians don’t care to preserve usable infrastructure and very likely deliberately targeted the plane because it’s a national…

Since they toasted the AN 225, the only example of an operating extreme heavy-lift aircraft with significant commercial and military uses, I’d say the Russians aren’t concerned about keeping anything running; this is primarily an internal propaganda operation, showing that they are going to kill all those who oppose…

Um - let’s see. If they work then the have an income to buy things from outside Ukraine like food and medical supplies or maybe transport out. If they don’t work, what should they do? Just wait for bombs?

Taxi drivers were dying because the medallion system was fundamentally broken. Medallions should never have been allowed to be sold or transferred; doing so allowed a scarcity that was exploited to push the prices north of 1 million dollars per cab. That’s insane. Uber exposed the insanity for what it was. The…

Just me, but as long as Russia is going after targets of particular note, I’d probably not publish any such information. Good on Automotive News for painting a target on them.

I think adapting a large version of a claw machine - just get grabbed awkwardly and yanked into the air and then carried off to be dumped into the arrival chute.

Not yet.

It’s likely used as a reward and a place for 3rd party meetings out of sight and listening range. I wonder if it disappears from the ship tracking systems.

They call them “campers” when they only go 20 mph over in the left lane around here. Triple digits will still get someone tailgating.

They only operate where there are parking meters and are not “on demand” nor in infinite supply. We don’t have time to look at bus footage.

Are you also against whistle-blowers getting a portion of the fines? It seems like this law is one that is nearly unenforceable in a conventional manner. By the time police would typically respond the truck would be gone; much like police have difficulty with vandalism - the perps run. Unlike the Texas abortion law…

That FR24 is altitude vs time-stamp, not altitude vs actual time. The intervals are not uniform even though they are displayed that way. With a subscription one can get the data in CSV format for correctly plotting it.