Thanks for the comments, very interesting for someone like me who isn’t a pilot.

I don’t really see how this would prevent a great deal of go-arounds, they’re a separate discussion entirely.

As an everyday pilot by profession I admit I’m intrigued, but frankly I have to question the usefulness of this type of system. What we already have in the aircraft is more than sufficient. I fly a brand new Challenger 350 so it’s more advanced avionics-wise than anything I’ve flown before and is ready for ADS B and…

But would it make airports faster?

“Most powerful” is troubling terminology to me as well (and does not seem to be a claim that Ad Astra themselves make).

“You should always plan to have spare capacity to deal with the unexpected” on basically the first page of the guidelines would appear to be rather apposite and something which didn’t appear to have taken place considering the starting altitude.

I’m a military pilot and have flown in airshows here in the States and elsewhere many times, one thing that’s always at the top of the list is trying to mitigate the risk to people on the ground if things go wrong in the air, this is why high speed passes and especially......especially aerobatic maneuvers are planned…

Singapore Airlines has an excellent safety record... Thai has an excellent safety record... Garuda Indonesia has a very good safety record... Air Asia has a very good safety record, Malaysia Airlines has VERY bad luck but a VERY good safety record....

No, airports with little technology, mixed with terrain that literally goes from 1000 to 10,000 feet or higher in a quarter mile, mixed with older aircraft with less ‘awareness’ and weather that goes opaque at the drop of a hat. Mix all that with the fact that if you prang anywhere that’s not within a couple miles of…

I’ve watched enough Mayday: Air Crash Investigation to know that it probably ended up on the surface or in the water, at some attitude and speed.

Doug do you guys realize you talk over Jeannette Klein like crazy? Not attractive.

I’m sorry — with all due respect, you sound tone deaf.

Qantas, Etihad, Cathay Pacific...there are many Non-Western airlines that are regarded among the safest (as well as all around best) in the world.

I bet you stand up at ballgames and salute ‘the greatest country in the world’ as well, with all the other people who have never set foot outside of CONUS. Etihad, Emirates, ANA, Turkish Airlines and several more make flying on an American airline something you would only do if you had to.

You asked this question in English, and not in Russian (or German), so I would say yes, they are good at their job.

It's an incredibly slow plane (on purpose, it's an ultralight with a very low stall speed) and the waterskier was fine. The pilot also did a fine job of controlling the aircraft despite the drag of the skier, and pilot and plane were also fine. They made a video that I found an entertaining couple of minutes, and it…

I grew up barefooting on a small lake my father co-owned with an air force pilot. There was always talk about trying it behind a plane, but unfortunately we only had access to an F-16.

Interesting car fact. The Morgan 3 Wheelers starter button is the bomb release for a Eurofighter.