EWR radios and radar fail again

Boris Badenov said:
38 seconds in...ANOTHER ONE! They're everywhere!
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpxA5PNA74w
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There’s a few inaccuracies but I’m not going to nitpick. I will say though there’s a lot of focus on “aging infrastructure” failing which while not wholly wrong, in the case of EWR what is failing is the stuff we contracted Verizon (aka private company) to handle and they cheaped out. All the FAA laid stuff still works fine. Just remember that during the privatization push that will come from this.
 
NovemberEcho said:
There’s a few inaccuracies but I’m not going to nitpick. I will say though there’s a lot of focus on “aging infrastructure” failing which while not wholly wrong, in the case of EWR what is failing is the stuff we contracted Verizon (aka private company) to handle and they cheaped out. All the FAA laid stuff still works fine. Just remember that during the privatization push that will come from this.
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But I imagine it was suit at the FAA that decided that piggy backing off n90 instead of creating an independent system at Philly was a good idea
 
GolfChuck said:
But I imagine it was suit at the FAA that decided that piggy backing off n90 instead of creating an independent system at Philly was a good idea
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Supposedly, this is what I’ve heard with no way to verify, it’ll take 5 years and $200million to get us fully integrated into PHL’s system rather than piggy backing. How well the piggy back works if done correctly I have no idea so I don’t know if it was really a valid idea or not.
 
scooter2525 said:
While landing this morning, tower advised everyone that the taxi lights just failed.
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It's the leadup to a post-apocalyptic America where even the lights don't work.

It's all good, the rest of the world doesn't have to endure our struggle. :)
 
GolfChuck said:
And I'll add, the FAA is fairly competent at enforcing it's rules on other entities, it just doesn't police itself.
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Privatization isn’t really the answer in some cases, because there is no way to codify the intangibles either in a contract or on a spreadsheet. If you can’t codify or track it, there’s no way to really monitor it, other than to say “the new way sucks”.

One only needs to take a look at how Flight Service went from a competent, functional part of the airspace system to something that is begging to be cut, and probably 95% of pilots would agree. The parts that they did well, namely providing “nuance” on weather situations, both in briefing and enroute, and providing an interface to ATC when required. Those two specific issues went right out the window once LM took over, because all the smart people left.

It reminds me of the stupid “euro-style” dryer I once had. Technically, it was a dryer. It would, in theory, dry clothes if given long enough, and so you could check that box and say “yes, the apartment comes with a dryer.” But it was so moronic to use and functionally useless compared to a regular dryer that it really was performative art furniture.

It was one of those “heat pump” dryers. So, I’ve had good luck with using heat pumps in certain applications. I had a Rheem hybrid water heater that even in eco mode would generate way more hot water than I’d ever use, and would air condition your garage while it was at it. My pool heater ‘sploded one day in a spectacular shower of sparks, and got replaced with a Rheem heat pump pool heater, which would boil your pool if you let it.

But this dryer was woefully stupid at what it did, and what’s more, you had to not only clean the lint trap like a normal dryer, but you had to clean the evaporator filter (it would cycle the drum air through to remove the moisture) which was full of wet lint slime.

My bigger point is that just because something checks a box, doesn’t mean it’s any good at what it’s supposed to do.
 
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