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https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxvdy/pentagon-says-reaper-drone-spotted-metallic-orb-ufo-in-middle-east Watch the embedded Twitter video. Want to explain what that orb is? I'm not saying aliens either. But you tell me what that is.

Again, this is what I’m talking about. Extreme skeptics can’t handle the idea they might be wrong, and that their nonsense explanations might not be true, so you resort to jokes and name calling to cope. You’re honestly no different than a religious nut.

Awesome to see you have everything figured out! Your arrogance is exactly what I’m talking about.

Look, I’m a raging atheist and skeptic and I 100% agree. The problem with the skeptic community is that in situations like this, they almost become a religion in terms of skepticism for skepticisms sake. I honestly think some of these people would still try to use the weather anomaly or some...

Ah the good ol appeal to authority fallacy. This guy has briefed people in power, therefore he can’t be lying! Dude, you sound like a bit of a nut right now.

If COVID was similarly deadly to rabies, yet was only 50% effective via an “experimental” mRNA vaccine, you’d still have idiot conservatives refusing it. Didn’t Idaho try to pass legislation prohibiting mRNA technology in the state? Because their legislators are nothing but far right nut job...

You answered the question, sure. But again, your trepidations about the COVID shot are based wholly on conservative media. That’s it. Baby.

Wahhhhh, don’t make me get the vaccine! I don’t wanna! You’re honestly like a 5 year old going to the dentist for the first time. A little pathetic. Several hundred million doses of COVID vaccine have been given. Why don’t you tell me how many actual myocarditis cases there have been out of...

Nah, I’m illustrating the childish stupidity of you right wing nut jobs. If you refuse the COVID vaccine, you’d refuse the rabies vaccine as well, right? Answer the • question.

I trust you’d refuse the rabies vaccine if you were bitten by a rabid animal. For logical consistency. Right?

They aren’t that close anymore. One state is trending away from general craziness, the other has a boner for fascism.

So • stupid we still treat Cuba this way. But hey, no problem flying to Shanghai or Hong Kong!

Kind of off topic, but I just love how these mega corporations use idyllic words like “Oasis” to describe their hell scape of a product. The seats are thinner than a sheet of copy paper, and a cat litter box has more room than the “Oasis” lavatory.

Seems like that would be pretty difficult to do. Not sure about the -500, but on the OG -202/212s I fly, there is a feather gate….you have to lift a lever on the associated condition lever to move past MIN RPM into FTR. Autofeather is part of the ATPCS system, and it only occurs when the power...

72-212 this morning at 37,000lbs our approach speed was 95 KIAS. Hilariously slow for such a big airplane

Yeah, our clapped out ATR's still require you to do pilot stuff, so my skills have stayed sharp. But I don't really have the same nostalgia for GA flying. Literally zero interest in it at all. Not one day has passed where I wish I could still fly some piece of GA junk around the pattern. THAT is...

I get my fun on days off. That being said, it just makes me chuckle when some guy in an Airbus, sipping on coffee with his little tray table extended, above the ice, reminisces about how "awesome" turboprop flying was. It's more work. That's about it. (Again, my opinion only, YMMV)

Different strokes I guess. They’re more hands-on, but that’s all they have going for them.

Yeah, I don’t know why people think Turboprops are so cool and “fun”. They aren’t.

I feel sorry for people who have such pathetic lives, they can’t see anything outside of a political perspective. You have plenty of other places to talk political drivel. The workplace shouldn’t be one of those places.

Stick pusher activation on the -42 occurs at 15 degrees AOA. You are correct, it doesn’t change with ice protection (specifically either or both “horns” selected on since it’s these specific push buttons that control icing/normal AOA). The AOA required to get the shaker does change though (goes...

He’s furiously searching DailyMail as we speak.

I hate when people say they aren’t going to speculate on an accident, then proceed to do so. So I’m not going to do that here. I’m just pointing out that there is a reason so many ATR accidents have occurred in developing countries.

The ATR has a spotty accident history. But you can’t discount where most of these accidents occur. Most of these things are flying outside of the US, many of them in third world countries. I’ve got a lot of experience in these aircraft. My company has been operating them for several decades now...

Dude, I get it. You’re a helo Pilot and love your unlighted tower notams. But you represent an incredibly small part of aviation as a whole. The rest of the stuff you mentioned has more relevance to the 99% of aviation that doesn’t involve helicopters. If you want to go looking for unlit...

Oh noes!1!1!1 If you Jumpseat on my plane, you get to use a travel Jon plastic baggy in zone 1 if you have to pee. And if you have to poop? Hope you brought a trash bag. Enjoy your flight.

This makes me so damn glad I fly freight. Sure. There are plenty of people PISSED that their packages didn’t arrive in time for Christmas due to the WX issues in MEM and especially IND. But we don’t see or deal with any of those pissed off customers.

We had a retired Mesa captain (LoL) at my company way back when I still flew the Caravan. Apparently he had quite a few altercations while at Mesa up to and including taking a swing at a gate agent. So these other stories seem 100% on brand for them.

I remember in my Caravan days, those suicidal Southwest catering trucks flying down the roadway that cuts through the Cargo alley at BWI. Seen those idiots almost hit FedEx aircraft pushing back, and also almost hit me as well.

Respect! Hope you get the job offer!

If you don't mind me asking, how much experience do you have? I have an in-person interview with them in December, and am kind of curious. I'm at 5,300TT with about 4,300 of that being fixed wing, 2,400 turbine, with about 1,600 of that being turbine PIC. No jet time for me, but multi-thousand...

The FAA loves tripping over their balls at every opportunity. My brother graduated from riddle back in 2009 through their CTI program. Dude wanted to be and would have been great at ATC. Never got hired by the FAA. In fact most of the people in his class didn’t either. Never got selected to go...

No doubt.

“Puta Madre.”

Sweet. I work for FedEx now! Nobody look at my paycheck tho.

Not trying to be a • here, but those guys aren’t “FedEx.” Feeder = aircraft owned (in most cases) by FedEx, but employed by contractor.

I think you mean WestAir/CorporateAir/Empire, or whichever Feeder has the contract for that route. Although the thought of a FedEx MD11 crew donning bicycle helmets descending through 10,000 on the arrival into LAX gave me a massive chuckle.

By the time one gets to a major, the “real man’s plane” BS should have disappeared into the ether a long time ago. I want to sit in my seat while the plane flies itself and scratches my ass for me on demand.

Boeing Executives: I hear you, but what if we stretched the 737 to infinity instead?

Boeing’s only fresh ideas these days involve stretching the crap out of the guppy and trying to justify their own lack of innovation. Airbus has surpassed Boeing in that regard. I’m always amazed as a passenger at just how much better the Airbus is. Additionally, I’m pretty sure the 737 flight...