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Comment Re: Wait a minute... (Score 1) 320

That's not a bug, unless it's referring to a shooter other than the Vegas one. Google's job is to give you search results that match your query. THAT'S IT. It's not their job to determine what's true and what isn't, that's YOUR job.

Comment Re: New control (Score 1) 96

You don't know what you're talking about, I do it for a living. Every time the autopilot disconnects, every time it doesn't follow the course, every time that any minor failure happens, humans correct it. We don't report it because it HAPPENS EVERY DAY. The pilot doesn't tell you when something breaks or is inoperative, because we work around it and go so you can get where you're going.

You have no idea, not the single slightest clue, what goes into it, so shut it.

Comment Re: New control (Score 2) 96

That quora is full of bad information. Auto land is only a requirement for some CATIII approaches. You can certify CATIII hand flown as well, using a HUD.

If an airplane is not certified for CATIII autoland, then its autopilot doesn't have to be capable of landing. Even if it is, the autopilot can be downgraded, it just can't do a CATIII autoland approach until the autopilot is fixed.

Comment Re: Airlines don't even bother with a safety conce (Score 1) 50

They usually follow their own policies, so they're, by definition, right. Most things that passengers complain about are, in fact, safety related. People don't get what it is they're actually doing. They're getting into a pressurized aluminum tube and shooting through the sky ~6 miles above the ground at ~500 miles an hour. Things that would be a minor annoyance on foot, or in a car, could kill you in that situation.

Consider an airplane that didn't have any epinephrine on board (this was the case a few years ago when there was a shortage). A passenger with a peanut allergy doesn't have their own epi pen, and is removed from the flight by the captain. What do you think their reaction will be? Probably something like, "OMGWTFBBQPWNSAUCE they discriminated against me and denied me boarding because I have a condition OMGOMGOMGSUESUESUE I HATE THIS AIRLINE THEY'RE THE WORST EVER!!!" What's going to happen to them if their seat neighbor busts open some peanuts and they go into anaphylactic shock? They're probably going to die. There is literally nothing that can be done. You can't pull over, you can't call an ambulance, you can't separate them from the problem. They were removed from the flight because their life would be in danger.

How about the canceled flights due to fog? Invariably there are passengers that complain, "my wife says it's clear there," and things to that effect. Well, it's not clear at the airport, and if we try to land in that fog, YOU COULD DIE.

Or cancelled for thunderstorms, "OMG, YOU'VE RUINED MY LIFE, I HATE THIS AIRLINE, WHY CAN YOU JUST GO." Because that thunderstorm could kill you.

"OMGWTFBBQ they canceled my flight because of snow, I can drive in snow, why can't they fly in it?" Have you tried landing a 150 ton pressurized aluminum tube on a snow or ice covered runway at 150 miles a hour? You could die. They don't make chains for that, and they wouldn't help anyway.

The reason airlines are so safe is because they don't take stupid risks. Most passengers don't even realize what those risks are and don't consider the consequences.

Comment Re: Airlines don't even bother with a safety conce (Score 3, Insightful) 50

Aviation is one of the industries where the customer is almost never right. You don't know what happened, and you don't know what you're talking about.

"That door is open," it does that.
"That engine is turning," wind.
"The engine is clanking," wind.
"There's a hole in the wing," there's supposed to be.
"There's a fuel leak," it's water.
"That other plane was REALLY close," no it wasn't.
"That turbulence was REALLY bad, is the plane ok?" It was light turbulence, you'll break before the plane does.
"You didn't do a run up, you're supposed to do one," no we're not.
"Nice landing," actually it was terrible.
"Wow, that was a bad landing," actually it was perfect.
"The flaps aren't set for takeoff," yes they are.
"You took off too close behind that plane," no we didn't.

I could go all day.

Comment Re: bad airplane sensors can kill (Score 2) 313

You really think that was trained for? No way. We don't train for it now after it's happened. We don't train for ditching in the river after Sully did it. All of that is accomplished by combining human experience with the human ability to improvise and adapt.

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