Well it cost money and held yous back.
/s โฆJustin Case.
"Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."
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Well it cost money and held yous back.
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Just to put this into perspective, here's a visualization of the flight data. The two aircraft were never on a collision course. They slightly violated a 5-mile separation requirement: their closest point of approach was 4.85 miles. The pilot did need to respond to the TCAS alert, but that alert was very conservative.
These conservative warnings exist for a reason, though. That being hundreds of lives at stake. What I think would be more interesting is to hear how often these types of events occurred before and after the layoffs at the FAA
Agreed. The point of a conservative warning is to give plenty of time and opportunity to react without bouncing your passengers off the ceiling.
Fault for the loss of separation seems to be on the controllers. Not all separation incidents are the same, though. This one seems to be rather minor. By my estimation, the encroachment was a maximum of 264 yards, and the duration of that encroachment (without pilot or controller intervention) would have been less than 10 seconds. Too tight, yes. It needs addressed so it doesn't become a habitual violation that could lead to more severe encroachment by these controllers. But there was no real danger of bodily harm from this encroachment.
Fault for an overly aggressive maneuver is on the pilot. There was a risk of injury from that overly aggressive response. The pilot's actions elevated a minor, no-risk event to one that risked serious injury to the passengers and crew. But, he was following instructions from a device designed to improve aviation safety, and the nature of the warnings from that device, an over-response is much safer than an under-response. He has to trust his instruments, and his instruments (erroneously) told him to push the nose down, quickly, lest he hit another plane.
TCAS is designed and intended to reduce risk and prevent harm. In this specific incident, though, it seems like the TCAS-RA actually increased the risk of harm, by calling for an immediate action that wasn't actually necessary to prevent harm. Is there a way to improve TCAS?
I, too, would like to know how often TCAS incidents were recorded before and after the layoffs. Those layoffs definitely harmed aviation safety. But if someone were injured in this incident, I don't think I could point the finger at the controllers or lack thereof. This particular incident seems to suggest a shortcoming in the TCAS system.
Yeah, just let the pilots fly Tony Hawk freestyle. Time to get creative!
Is gutting the federal government working yet? Is the swamp drained? Is the winning complete? Are my bigoted piece of shit nazi flag flying neighbors satisfied yet?
Exactly. I don't say those things at work anymore because they are too many of them.
I can't help wondering if they are remorseful.
One thing I know is people don't like to be told. I stop correcting them. The more we point out their flaws, the more irrationally they will hold on to the false beliefs
A fascinating theory I read is that MAGA is making a big deal out of Epstein because it provides an off-ramp that lets them save face.
Legit I'm like "bruh, you're upset that your billionaire 'grab em by the pussy', 'accidentally' walking into the miss teen usa changing room, 'I'd fuck my daughter if she wasn't my daughter' president is on a list of billionaire sexual predators? I'm glad that something finally looks like it might stick to him but c'mon guys.
They will instead irrationality believe that it's working in their favour and be emboldened. They didn't reach their position by being rational. Don't let a bully tell you that you deserved it after he punches you in the face.
Nah, let's cut them and burn the evidence!
See!
Remind us who cut funding to FAA?
This is Joe Biden s fault. I don't mean he cut funding or anything like that, I mean he was literally flying the other plane. It was full of woke trans immigrants headed to Texas so Democrats can get more votes while simultaneously rigging the election.
Obama was copilot? Smoking crack in the back in his tan suit? With Dijon mustard?
hotdog
why you gotta bring hulk hogan's skin into this?
Which time? In January or in Trump's last term?
Fuck Jimmy Dore, he turned against the queers. Last I saw a video of him interviewing with some bad-faith transmedicalist harassing people at pride acting all innocent like "I'm just asking questions" - his loud mouth was good as 2016 was going down but of course loudmouths don't always know when to shut it.
Yeah Jimmy Dore fucks around with Alex Jones. They can both go to hell
I had no idea who this person was until @zelahdieliekeis@piefed.blahaj.zone's comment prompted me to look into it. Calling out crap like this is helpful.
This ain't no shitpost.
You have to admit it'd be pretty shitty to run into another airplane in the sky though?
Without pilot intervention, the closest they would have come would have been 4.85 nautical miles laterally, and at the same altitude.
With the pilot intervention, the closest they came was 4.85 nautical miles laterally, and 500 feet vertically.
stuff like this is why i'm lowkey terrified of flying also this isn't a shitpost

Yeah, shitpost needs some better moderation. Shitpost has literally just become post whatever you want. And if that's what it is, I guess that's what it is, but the term "shitpost" to me had always been someone coming and derailing serious threads with nonsense opinions, unrelated pics, etc. So silly trolling.
This post is a picture of a tweet about a near mid-air collision. Unless the second plane was just fucking around, shitflying as they say, I don't know that it qualifies for the low, low bar that is shitposting.
I can assure you some pants were shit on that flight
Shitpantsing then
Put your fking seatbelts on. All the time.
TCAS warnings initially come up about 90 seconds before a potential collision, and a resolution advisory comes up about 60 seconds before a collision. A resolution advisory is obviously a serious situation, but itโs early enough that the climb or descent commands are really not anything crazy, not anything outside a normal climb or descent. No one should be hitting the ceiling if a tcas resolution is flown properly.
Once the flight smoothed out, Ulasewicz, who was traveling to Las Vegas, said the pilot made an announcement indicating the plane used software to avoid a midair collision.
Apparently it was right before catering service and well into AP flight. As a europoor I only master Airbus so I donโt know how a 737 is supposed to respond to a TA/RA.
Letโs wait for better sources than twitter and nbc.
Do we have two pilots in here
The 737 wonโt fly an RA on autopilot. We have to disconnect the autopilot and auto throttle and hand fly it. Thereโll be a red box on the PFD that we just keep the pitch outside of, and weโll be fine.
Ok, I just looked at the737-NG PFD RA and it looks different from what I know but I wasnโt aware that you had to hand fly it.
As the aircraft was climbing and with the yoke I guess itโs easy to push it a bit too hard and spill some coffee.
More like an aeronautical source with knowledge about how things works in the industry, like https://avherald.com/h?article=52aca268&opt=0 or https://simpleflying.com/...
Thatโs right. Thatโs why I always wear mine. Even if I have to get up to go to the bathroom or grab something- I still wear it. Sometimes the flight attendants get mad when I cut it off, but I remind them itโs for safety and they usually get it.
Sitting in an airport right now. Great.
I won't be using them, ha.
Well? Does u/Agent641 get the computer?
I made it through. Maybe next time.
Relevant news story about air traffic control.
reminds me to catch up on https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/
And this is why I don't fly anymore. It was never an enjoyable experience (except takeoff. Wee!!) and now it's even less worth it.
Now I find myself having a depressed opinion on the lack of train options.
Don't planes have seatbelts? How did so many people manage to fly out of their seats?
Also friendly reminder to everybody that planes are still the safest mode of transportation by a significant margin
Planes are the safest form of transportation if you look at safety per km travelled. If you look at other metrics, like safety per trip or per travel time then they are less safe than busses or trains.
Last time I posted something about this, it was downvoted to oblivion. Glad to see that didnโt happen here. There are some statistical quirks that make this obvious once you think about it though.
Planes tend to make long trips, so anything measured on a per-km basis is going to be wildly diluted. Nobody is taking a plane to travel a few blocks. Something like a car will tend to make much shorter (but more frequent) trips, so the per-km stat wonโt be diluted. But inversely, the per-trip stat will be diluted with cars, purely because theyโre used much more often.
As with all statistics, you can make the numbers say what we you want. Planes can carry 500+ people, so an incident risks all 500 of those passengers; similar for rail, but not so much for the bus. And I think about bus and there's two different kinds of buses, IMO, the inner city bus that's on the road for hours, but doing few miles while making frequent stops. Not sure what a journey is then, whether it's stop by stop or from start to finish. And there's
So yeah, I dunno. If it's your time it's your time. I don't think any of these means of travel are "unsafe," whatever that means. But I'll still have a couple of beers before I get on the plane, because I'm not afraid of flying, but having a couple beers beforehand makes it better.
Iโll still have a couple of beers before I get on the plane, because Iโm not afraid of flying..
Have to admit this is kind of funny.
Everyone wants to shit on motorcycles, but it's as much a red herring as a meaningful statement. You might as well mention that horse riding is 25x more dangerous than motorcycles. And if you really want to get into the weeds, go look up how many motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle accidents, and how many of those are due to speeding or alcohol involvement. So if you don't drink, and don't act like a fool, you're really not all that badly off. Still worse than being in a steel cage for protection, but it's not only for people "who don't want to get old."
I was commenting on the vast difference in the statistical numbers. I have no doubt there are lots of steps that can be taken to decrease the risk of shortened lifespan.
But yes, we can safely engage in high-risk behavior (or in some instances like air racing pilots, come to terms that they will likely -- and preferably -- end their lives explosively and spectacularly). And then there's how James Cameron does super-deep submersible exploration vs. Stockton Rush.
My mother would not only climb up rock faces and summit mountains all over the Sierra Nevadas (and later in other parts of the world) but would lug twenty five pounds of old-school photography gear to show she did it and take pics of the astounding vistas. As a kid I went along with her sometimes, and encountered a few two many poison oak pushes, mosquito swarms, and stories about lost bits due to frostbite. I Belong To The City now (I belong to the night).
Planes have nonetheless huge advantages over the others, like if you have to travel hundreds of km, or across the ocean. Cruising through the Atlantic in a Greyhound would be wild, though.
It sure feels like that margin has been shrinking in the last year or so.
So I don't know how true it is (or isn't). This wiki article gives a list of "all newsworthy" incidents since 2023. Got two (now three) this year. Five last year. Ten in 2023. But newsworthy is the key word. We have an incident like we did in DC, and in the immediate wake of it there were news reports just about anytime someone sneezed on an airplane (hyperbole).
I'll tell you, my eye test and feelings agree with you, but I just don't know how true it is. And it's hard to avoid getting political, but there is a vested interest in certain news circles to paint a bleak picture (don't take this wrong, I'm in favor of funding government agencies).
So yeah, fuck it, you know?
They have seatbelts, but for the most of the flight they are unused - you only need to buckle in during takeoff, landing, and if when encountering turbulence.
I guess there wasn't enough time to get all the passengers to fasten their seatbelts before the collision?
I wonder if you've ever listened to the part of the safety briefing before every flight where they instruct you to keep the seatbelt fastened throughout the entire flight.
Judging by the number of clicks I hear when the seatbelt light turns off, I'd say most people don't.
Where I fly they also always advise to remain fastener regardless of no immediate warnigs. Exactly for situations like this - and others.
Yeah, but people are still going to be using the bathrooms and such, even if you assume everyone actually obeys the rules
Pour one out for the poor fella who finally got his turn to poop just before this happened.
News report: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/...
Visualization from flight data: https://youtu.be/VTAUMP2le3c
keep your seatbelt on or that might be true more ways than one.
And the same thing happened in Minot, North Dakota not even a week ago.
Damn
We almost got rid of Jimmy dore
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Finally, the freedom to have sick plane crashes thanks to deregulation ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
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