Yeah, except that you're probably full of it. There probably was weather, there was a guy on final and they had him exit the runway.
Tell me there sparky, how would a pilot know that an airplane is about to land on him from behind? The rear-view mirrors?
And why would the guy get off the runway instead of just taking off?
Per usual, you back-seat pilots are a pain in the ass.
Let's say New York Center (ATC) has a thunderstorm right over one of the airways. So Center puts 20 mile separation between departure (read: "ATC delay, weather")
Now a sparky like you comes up to the pilot and says, "Why are you lying about the weather? I just called my sister and it's clear in New York. You guys always lie!"
Really, the story is, "You back-seat pilots are always dipshits. Go back and play with your portable GPS some more."
Back in the day (60s) NASA did a lot of safety work and one of the things that came out of it was the scientific analysis of fatigue. The whole set of transportation rules (trucks, trains, airplane) that deal with fatigue, such as limits on duty days came from this. They identified short and long-term fatigue. Now your airline pilot is certain to be safe from a fatigue standpoint, but your surgeon might be on his 49t hour awake, but that's for another discussion.
Next they determined that pilots are so in fear of getting in trouble that they keep information about mistakes to themselves. "Hey!" someone wondered. Let's take this and use it as an incentive. So they came up with a program where if you screwed up, if you told them about what happened and your recommendation to keep it from happening again, they would give you immunity from getting in trouble. A flood of these reports started coming in (like the one from the previous poster yahoo who busted airspace and blames it on a controller).
Now these are anonymous. The form that comes back is a receipt with your identifying info taken off of it. But...it's not hard to tell that an Airbus 319 heading from Denver to Chicago at 9:00 at night on November 30th belongs to...Frontier Airlines. And then the pilots can be identified through their flight time...and that's about as appealing to pilots as posting their medical records on line.
The rabble-rousing reporters don't understand the program, the benefits or the rationale behind it. Publishing the data isn't going to make our airspace safer, it's going to ensure a drop in participation (I don't want to see my name in the headlines...especially if I am in an accident and an investigative reporter data mines the records to find the NASA reports I made, don't think it won't happen).
Most of the reports are for altitude busts (you get in trouble if you cause a "deal", or a loss of separation with another airplane), mistakenly crossing a runway when not authorized or for getting your paperwork screwed up.
Interestingly, one of the first articles to come out from this debate was about a flight crew who fell asleep on the way to Denver and reported it to NASA. No, they didn't get in trouble, but a reporter figured out that it was a Frontier flight (that's why I used the example) and it's no secret who was assigned to that flight, any Frontier employee could look up the records on the computer. Do you think those guys are going to ever file a report again?
Both NASA and the NTSB do a good job making recommendations. The airlines and their hand-puppet, the FAA do a very good job of ignoring them.
First, the RIAA has done a very good job at injecting false music files, especially with hot artists. If you search "Eminem", most likely the top ten downloadable files that return are bogus. They play for five seconds, then BUZZZZ. Irritating. But I gues it's fire with fire.
Second reason is that the initial flurry of downloading resulted in people downloading most of what they wanted. I used to be on P2P daily, but now it's only every couple of weeks, because my library is big enough that I could listen to it for days on end.
So I believe the survey, but I think it's disingenuous to place cause/effect squarely on the lawsuits. I like to think of it as an "all-you-can-eat" buffet where the crowd has already gorged themselves. The new guys coming in the front door of the buffet will be eating, and the rest of us will be going back for seconds, but not with immediate gusto.
I just started getting bounced messages from AOL, "Apply for Federal Grants", "Your grant money is waiting", etc., all with fake, random generated names @mydomain.com
I checked my server log and they're not using my mail server to send mail out, but I'm getting a bunch of bounces. Why would they spoof using my domain name? Does AOL check to see if the domain is valid before delivering?
Of course, since I haven't seen the actual messages with headers (and AOL doesn't reply to help me figure this out) I feel totally powerless about this abuse.
Arrgh. Any advice?
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Yeah, except that you're probably full of it. There probably was weather, there was a guy on final and they had him exit the runway.
Tell me there sparky, how would a pilot know that an airplane is about to land on him from behind? The rear-view mirrors?
And why would the guy get off the runway instead of just taking off?
Per usual, you back-seat pilots are a pain in the ass.
Let's say New York Center (ATC) has a thunderstorm right over one of the airways. So Center puts 20 mile separation between departure (read: "ATC delay, weather")
Now a sparky like you comes up to the pilot and says, "Why are you lying about the weather? I just called my sister and it's clear in New York. You guys always lie!"
Really, the story is, "You back-seat pilots are always dipshits. Go back and play with your portable GPS some more."
How 'come everyone else can use paragraphs, but it took mine out? I'm not a run-on kinda guy.
Back in the day (60s) NASA did a lot of safety work and one of the things that came out of it was the scientific analysis of fatigue. The whole set of transportation rules (trucks, trains, airplane) that deal with fatigue, such as limits on duty days came from this. They identified short and long-term fatigue. Now your airline pilot is certain to be safe from a fatigue standpoint, but your surgeon might be on his 49t hour awake, but that's for another discussion. Next they determined that pilots are so in fear of getting in trouble that they keep information about mistakes to themselves. "Hey!" someone wondered. Let's take this and use it as an incentive. So they came up with a program where if you screwed up, if you told them about what happened and your recommendation to keep it from happening again, they would give you immunity from getting in trouble. A flood of these reports started coming in (like the one from the previous poster yahoo who busted airspace and blames it on a controller). Now these are anonymous. The form that comes back is a receipt with your identifying info taken off of it. But...it's not hard to tell that an Airbus 319 heading from Denver to Chicago at 9:00 at night on November 30th belongs to...Frontier Airlines. And then the pilots can be identified through their flight time...and that's about as appealing to pilots as posting their medical records on line. The rabble-rousing reporters don't understand the program, the benefits or the rationale behind it. Publishing the data isn't going to make our airspace safer, it's going to ensure a drop in participation (I don't want to see my name in the headlines...especially if I am in an accident and an investigative reporter data mines the records to find the NASA reports I made, don't think it won't happen). Most of the reports are for altitude busts (you get in trouble if you cause a "deal", or a loss of separation with another airplane), mistakenly crossing a runway when not authorized or for getting your paperwork screwed up. Interestingly, one of the first articles to come out from this debate was about a flight crew who fell asleep on the way to Denver and reported it to NASA. No, they didn't get in trouble, but a reporter figured out that it was a Frontier flight (that's why I used the example) and it's no secret who was assigned to that flight, any Frontier employee could look up the records on the computer. Do you think those guys are going to ever file a report again? Both NASA and the NTSB do a good job making recommendations. The airlines and their hand-puppet, the FAA do a very good job of ignoring them.
First, the RIAA has done a very good job at injecting false music files, especially with hot artists. If you search "Eminem", most likely the top ten downloadable files that return are bogus. They play for five seconds, then BUZZZZ. Irritating. But I gues it's fire with fire. Second reason is that the initial flurry of downloading resulted in people downloading most of what they wanted. I used to be on P2P daily, but now it's only every couple of weeks, because my library is big enough that I could listen to it for days on end. So I believe the survey, but I think it's disingenuous to place cause/effect squarely on the lawsuits. I like to think of it as an "all-you-can-eat" buffet where the crowd has already gorged themselves. The new guys coming in the front door of the buffet will be eating, and the rest of us will be going back for seconds, but not with immediate gusto.
Ha ha ha ha, that was great! That was such a funny response that I'm still laughing! "Smoke signals", heh. Heh. Hum. I don't get it.
I just started getting bounced messages from AOL, "Apply for Federal Grants", "Your grant money is waiting", etc., all with fake, random generated names @mydomain.com I checked my server log and they're not using my mail server to send mail out, but I'm getting a bunch of bounces. Why would they spoof using my domain name? Does AOL check to see if the domain is valid before delivering? Of course, since I haven't seen the actual messages with headers (and AOL doesn't reply to help me figure this out) I feel totally powerless about this abuse. Arrgh. Any advice?