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knot4u said:
I'm confused. If your wagon is the family car but you park it at the airport when you're away what does your family use when you're absent? Not trying to bust balls, just wondering.
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My wife has her own car that we mostly use as the family vehicle. But the kids do occasionally ride in mine, and all it takes is a few hours for there to be crumbs in every possible location.
 
BEEF SUPREME said:
Cats are only getting yoinked by the meth zombies at short term. The employee lot has a lot of super sketchy stuff going on around it but never in it.


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Thats good to know actually. Who knows, maybe I will take the other ride for a day trip in the summer sometime :)
 
///AMG said:
Thats good to know actually. Who knows, maybe I will take the other ride for a day trip in the summer sometime :)
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There is some very odd stuff going on just outside of the employee entrance to the employee lot. Look left before you make the left turn into the employee lot. Pretty sure those cars have a whole lot of prostitution and drug use going on in there.


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nypost.com

JetBlue plane bound for Puerto Rico hits empty aircraft at JFK Airport

The bump follows a scary incident at JFK on Friday the 13th, when two planes almost collided.
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A JetBlue plane bound for Puerto Rico struck the tail of another company jetliner in the gate area at JFK Airport on Wednesday morning – just days after two planes almost collided on a runway.

The plane “came into light contact with a parked unoccupied aircraft during pushback,” JetBlue spokesman Derek Dombrowski told The Post in an email.

“Flight 1603 returned to the gate, no injuries were reported, and the flight has been assigned to another aircraft. Safety is JetBlue’s first priority, and both aircraft involved will be taken out of service for inspection and the incident will be investigated,” he added.

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that “Flight 1603 struck the tail of a parked JetBlue aircraft while pushing back from the gate around 7 a.m. The flight was going to Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Both aircraft were Airbus 320s.”

Delta Flight 1943 returned to the gate and ordered its 145 passengers and six crew members off. It was rescheduled for the next morning and customers were given hotel rooms for the night.

American Flight 106 was bound for London Heathrow airport.
 
zmiller4 said:
Hey they may have lost a static wick here. That’s way more damage than the abort.
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Can they MEL the static wick? Let's go back to the gate and figure it out, seems like a pretty solid plan. Static wicks are important and although their primary purpose is to reduce radio noise, they also provide, in the event of a lightning strike, an exit path for that energy. I've worked on a few jets after they were hit pretty hard by lightning and the static wicks were just sacrificial lambs compared to the other damage to the flight controls but the airplanes all kept flying and landed safely. They seem like an annoying little protuberance but safety and quality is always in the details.
 
lostplanetairman said:
Someone broke the first rule (of 5) of a successful aviation career: Don’t scratch the paint.
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I will relate a story your post somehow managed to dislodge from the memory banks. When I was a freshly certified A/P there was not really any opportunities for someone with no actual experience but my instructors had all thought very highly of me as I went through their program, they all knew I was working full time after school as a line guy and I graduated their program with a 4.1 GPA (yes I'd do extracurricular things to boost my average) and they appreciated my dedication. One of them basically handed me a job up at Santa Paula working on small airplanes and because I had a 1984 Toyota truck that I had absolute faith in I took the job regardless of the daily 63 mile commute each way. Santa Paula is a special place, Steve McQueen used to hang out there to relax, I don't know if they're still there but some of the T-hangars had been modified with basically apartments built on the roof, and you never knew what you might see or who you might meet, I was on a first name basis with Mira Slovak (look that name up young people). Anyways, on my first day one of the locals brought in his 185, he was a well known stunt pilot and aerial coordinator (I wish I remembered his name, he's one of the many people that try to stay under the radar while also making movies). I think he needed the rotating beacon assembly on the top of the vertical to be replaced. I was proudly introduced to the customer by my new boss as he said people like me were the best of what A/P schools were producing. He and the customer watched as I set up a ladder, grabbed a cordless drill motor and started drilling rivets to remove whatever it was (time makes things fuzzy). Problem was I'd never experienced a Cherry rivet in real life up to that point, I thought they were like pop rivets. They're not like pop rivets. I don't know if when the customer had his absolutely pristine 185 restored he or maybe whoever did the work they decided to use those rivets but as my new boss and his good customer proudly watched the drill bit hit the stainless core of the rivet and proceeded to make an unexpected left turn and a very precise set of spirals on the vertical before I backed off, I was standing on a ladder after all and had no real idea what I was doing. That was my first day as an A/P. I was not fired and I learned plenty working there afterwards. I think intention is important when a person scratches an airplane, was it careless or negligent, or just ignorance? I was ignorant, but apparently I had potential.
 
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