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Plane Travel Becoming Dangerous in US - Near miss Video

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by citygator, Feb 26, 2025.

  1. G8tas

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    The best investors aren't buying crap right now
     
  2. OklahomaGator

    OklahomaGator Jedi Administrator Moderator VIP Member

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    No air traffic controllers were fired by Trump, Doge or the FAA. The email is obviously to previously retired ATCers who might want to return to work.
     
  3. citygator

    citygator VIP Member

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    Amateurs are running the FAA now. People are gonna be clapping regularly upon landing now expecting to nearly die in the process these days. What a disaster.
     
  4. ATLGATORFAN

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    you do realize the FAA does more than just ATC. I mean you do know that right ? Someone who is self proclaimed in the highest percentage of intellect and income. And those people have nothing to do with ATC..Right. People that process a 3rd class medical. Or someone that drives through and makes sure a sign is posted correctly at an airport in podunk, Iowa. Your posts are firmly on the GatorJo level of outright idiocy.
     
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  5. shaun10

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    Can you expand on "major changes"?
     
  6. citygator

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    Plane travel went from safe to a crap shoot nearly over night. Trump owns this and is doing nothing to fix it other than giving Elon money to use his network. Shocking that the problem Trump caused can only be solved by giving Elon money.
     
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  7. ATLGATORFAN

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    Not sure what happened to you. I disagree with your posts but they were somewhat article and decently written…..you’re in pure looney town now. Trump has anything to do with some Blackhawk chick flying outside her assigned corridor in DC or some FlexJet captain being in a hurry and not seeing a brown 737 1500 feet away on a very short 6000ft runway in midway. But sure. Keep it up. Trump trump trump. It worked so well in the last election
     
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  8. wgbgator

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    Blaming the incumbent president for literally everything worked very well in the last election .. were you paying attention? LOL.
     
  9. ATLGATORFAN

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    Here we go with apples and astronauts. Biden border policy vs a flexjet captain clearly ignoring Tower and crossing an active runway. Exactly the same. And yes I purposely picked border because it was the largest issue per voters. Good deflection errrr thread hijack. OP opened a thread about air travel and ATC and blaming trump.
     
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  10. wgbgator

    wgbgator Premium Member

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    C'mon, the border wasn't the only thing conservatives blamed Biden for lol. We had posters on here complaining about bad service at restaurants because "no one wanted to work" because of Bidens policies. That level of stuff. City is just giving it back.
     
  11. thomadm

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    The entire way pilots and ATC communicate needs to change. Trying to coordinate directions over a static ridden comms system where your id is a number just asks for trouble. It was acceptable 40 years ago when air traffic wasn't as busy as it is today and technology was limited.

    There are a lot of mistakes the press doesn't report. There are several incidents here in Florida that could have ended up in massive death the last few years. It is not safe to fly.
     
  12. OklahomaGator

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    Air travel is still the safest form of transportation.
     
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  13. shaun10

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    So, is it more comms related or logistical? I'm guessing both, but would enjoy hearing more about it from your perspective. I started my work career right at 40 years ago with MCI. At that time, we were providing point-to-point and multi-point analog circuits for the FAA around the country as an alternative to AT&T. Those circuits always took the highest priority when there was an outage. I know the networks have been upgraded to some degree over the years, but would they be considered outdated based on current technology?
     
  14. duggers_dad

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    Question: if you take the DC crash out of the equation … are we merely left with Streisand Effect ?
     
  15. magnetofsnatch

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    Ok. I’m sure you follow all the 13F filings and are up to date on what family offices and hedge funds are doing.
     
  16. homer

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    Anchorage, Copper River, Fairbanks, and Denali, the 21st thru the 27th.
     
  17. duggers_dad

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    My wife and I are flying to Anchorage in July. We have kids there.
     
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  18. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    I see what you are doing. (Returning the silliness of the anti-Joe Biden folks), but none of what you are posting is related to current admin...or likely the previous one.

    SFO has had its issues and ATC has had its issues for some time.
     
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  19. demosthenes

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    As “looney town” as it seems that’s exactly what people like bill, Rick, flg, egator, 5151, etc were doing the past four years. Sitting somewhere in the middle I wish it would stop both ways as it was exhausting seeing this crap from anti-Biden people last term. Now we have to deal with it coming the other way.
     
  20. citygator

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    Let’s be honest. It wasn’t just the posters on this site, it was the crazy leadership of the right. Gone are the right wing politicians like John McCain who would tell his constituents that Obama isn’t a secret Muslim who hates the country. Or like Mitt Romney who will tell you the election wasn’t stolen.

    The right learned one thing. Bad ideas don’t win (Mitt/McCain) but bad ideas fueled with lies and hate does win (Trump/MTG/Elon). So here we are and I have zero issue spending time mocking their absurdity.