Quick question from a non-flyer... Why have a control lock on a plane at all? I think I know one answer... To keep control surfaces from flapping around and getting damaged in windy conditions while parked?  Are there other reasons?

In this case, the control lock is ahead of the control stick and between the elevator pedals. It’s a bit hidden even though it’s painted red. The main issue appears to be the case that with the lock in place, it is still possible to use the tail wheel AND the rudder to turn the plane from side to side while on the…

Complacency sets in with everyone, especially with the people who should know better. The kind yet stern old Senior Master Sergeant who instructed me said to me that checklists are written in blood, and so I slavishly adhered to the checklist at all times.

I’m about to watch the Blancolirio channel’s coverage of this - Juan Browne is a professional ATP pilot usually a pretty thorough reviewer of the NTSB findings on his YouTube channel.

It’s the little things that can trip you up.

They should just include the masks with the COVID tests!

I’m an airline pilot that flew out of Chicago during this storm. What happened here was you have a contaminated runway, snow and ice with braking action advisories in effect, plus a strong gusty crosswind. After touchdown, the mostly likely cause was as the plane slowed and the rudder loses effectiveness you rely more…

Lol that's for posting that video lol

What a great and underated movie, now I gotta go home and watch that movie

The husband asked for a wellness check on the son because he suspected something was off.

I remember a case where a woman shot and killed her daughters and herself because her husband was leaving her - the woman told her husband outright, as she was doing it, that she was doing it to punish him. This mentions her ex-husband; I wonder if this is a similar thing?

Odd, if my black ass told the police that I thought the President was talking to me directly through the TV screen, I’d be thrown in jail for life (I don’t even get a nice padded cell, either). This guy gets the “Oh, he’s just has an old head injury, poor boy” defense. The fuck is this nonsense?

That Betty White meme is going to be the answer to anything and everything for quite a while longer, I’m afraid... Do we even want to imagine the scenario if the colour scheme were reversed? I kinda don’t.

It can start to feel stale because it’s recirculating the air that everyone inside the car is breathing out, and I think some folks might be more sensitive to that than others. But recirculated air will definitely be more humid, which is why it’s a bad idea to use that mode in the winter (fogs up your windows).

When you first get into a sweltering car and start to crank the AC, hit the air recirculation button, too. This will recirculate the now slightly cooler air from the car and cool it down even further, rather than pulling in more hot air from outside. The process cools your car down quicker than using the regular fresh…

I read some time ago somewhere (might have been here in LH) that when you get into a hot car in the Summer, you should open the windows and hit the A/C at full power with the recirculation button OFF, so it “pushes” the hot air out. As soon as you feel that the air blast from the vents starts to cool off, you close…

I had the exact same experience in the late 90s, only it was with Phantasmagoria. A friend who had a PC which was very rare for me in those days, we never had one growing up, was playing the game one day and my mind was blown. It was like a cheesy b-movie complete with cornball death scenes and it was amazing. I…

Worst part is that people don’t learn from the mistakes of previous generation, but repeat them instead. I bet someone comes out and blames those Spinners of causing young people to degenerate, and then saying how back in their days things were better.

I was a youngling (10/11 or so) when Night Trap first released, but I remember the furor it sparked. Between that and the Congressional hearings on Mortal Kombat, I thought the wave of “games are bad, mmm’kay,” was about as bad as it could get.

Then, during my undergraduate years, Jack Thompson rose to prominence on…

See also: Double Switch, the spiritual successor with Corey Haim, Taylor Negron, and Debbie Harry.