FedEx crew videos pulsating UFO over Mexico

Derg said:
So you two bought a house finally? Good! Adulting! :)
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Not yet. We have been in LA ever since the NYC base closed. I’m renting (and paying myself) a townhome. The owner is some old Asian woman, I didn’t know her. I found it online. Not sure where the FIL comment came from. The in laws are in Michigan.

We are looking in Orange County to buy, but have been holding off in this pandemic because I didn’t know if I’d be displaced to SEA as Capt, or worse, downgraded to FO. Hopefully as things settle down more next year, I’ll buy something then. 2022-2023.
 
Boris Badenov said:
I'm not invested in any of...uh. Whatever is going on here. But ya can't turn Guard off where I work, and that SUCKS when putative adults can't find it within themselves to stfu and at least ACT like adults in public. If your idea of being a "fun person" is "annoying others", why not work retail where you belong and your "talents" can be brought to the entire, general public? Why irritate ME, specifically? What did I ever do to you? Other than, I dunno, ok, maybe I suggested that it would be a good idea to learn to read or count without using your fingers.

I mean I think it's all basically the same angry old man stuff as other threads. To wit, our parents, and certainly THEIR parents were serious people. They had serious concerns about serious events and serious subjects. They read serious BOOKS. They not only created jets, split the atom, and landed on the moon, but also worried about the arc of human history and what would become of all of their serious efforts (they also created the models of the universe which even *allow* for the sort of lazy solipsism I'm nerd-raging against here, btw, but nevermind).

And I guess they were right to be worried, because while they created a world in which big, serious ideas of physics, mathematics, and philosophy (for wont of a better word) became legitimately popular, it gives every appearance of having been a flash in the pan. Because, well, you know. Meowing on guard, Kardashians, vaccines are s3Kr1T Poison, and we should all be eternally set against each other because some accident of birth defines our Identity such that the only way to view the entire freaking experience of being alive is as a fragment of some "intersectional identity", rather than as the burning, aware, original, individual, ineluctable intellects that every one of us is. Ahem.

But seriously you should get off my lawn. No joke, no metaphor. The hydrangeas are delicate. Screw off.
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“Ineluctable”?

I learned a new word today :)
 
Roger Roger said:
Back when you could talk to an actual useful human at an FSS?
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A couple years before the out-sourcing to Lockheed, maybe early 90’s, I was visiting the AFSS that was next to our little terminal. They had just received the latest, greatest DF equipment. It used multiple, simultaneous receivers to triangulate your position real time, and displayed it on a big CRT map. It was almost like radar, but obviously wasn’t.

It was pretty cool though for the time, though LORAN had been a thing for a while, and GPS was just spooling up, I could see how this could help guys out of a jam.
 
mrivc211 said:
@SlumTodd_Millionaire These Fedex guys must be crazy too huh? ;)

ETI's UAP's are real. They've been here for a lot longer than we have. The sociopathic narcissists that took hold of this technology have held it for more than half a century and have no intention of giving it up. Wouldn't be surprised if some guys on this forum are in the program the way they strongly deny its existence. They're heavily recruited from the USAF.



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You probably shouldn’t be allowed to fly planes.
 
Richman said:
A couple years before the out-sourcing to Lockheed, maybe early 90’s, I was visiting the AFSS that was next to our little terminal. They had just received the latest, greatest DF equipment. It used multiple, simultaneous receivers to triangulate your position real time, and displayed it on a big CRT map. It was almost like radar, but obviously wasn’t.

It was pretty cool though for the time, though LORAN had been a thing for a while, and GPS was just spooling up, I could see how this could help guys out of a jam.
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I remember a required demo item in the local syllabus when I was doing my civilian inst rating was a DF approach. Or maybe it was just DF vectors or something, I forget. But I mean really, in the scheme of things, that wasn't so long ago.....maybe 2002? Crazy to think how much has changed in just a few short years.
 
ADF is how you listen to local AM radio stations on cross country flights. You people think too much.
 
///AMG said:
I remember a required demo item in the local syllabus when I was doing my civilian inst rating was a DF approach. Or maybe it was just DF vectors or something, I forget. But I mean really, in the scheme of things, that wasn't so long ago.....maybe 2002? Crazy to think how much has changed in just a few short years.
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I flew the NDB-A in IMC a number of months back. Easy peasy, just like its been for 30 years. Namely because everything worked.
 
MikeD said:
I flew the NDB-A in IMC a number of months back. Easy peasy, just like its been for 30 years. Namely because everything worked.
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Yeah sorry I was talking about a ground based DF steer, which at the time was a bit of a "I need to look this up in the AIM and see wtf this is" sort of item. NDBs were still fully part of that syllabus and even the IFR practical. I don't miss them, aside from the novelty and historical appreciation respects. Truest definition of "non precision", though of course you are right, they aren't hard, and they will still get you to to the land, even if they reliably drop you off "over here somewhere". But then again, you were doing them when I was doing multiplication tables in grade school so :) old man.

I weep for the current generation of our younger brothers who grew up not having to shoot TACAN approaches to mins when weather was actually terrible and there was no PAR, and then they had to ask people questions to find out where they could land (analogous to having to make human contact when your smart phone runs out of batteries). Did I mention we are getting LPV soon? NBD
 
///AMG said:
Yeah sorry I was talking about a ground based DF steer, which at the time was a bit of a "I need to look this up in the AIM and see wtf this is" sort of item. NDBs were still fully part of that syllabus and even the IFR practical. I don't miss them, aside from the novelty and historical appreciation respects. Truest definition of "non precision", though of course you are right, they aren't hard, and they will still get you to to the land, even if they reliably drop you off "over here somewhere". But then again, you were doing them when I was doing multiplication tables in grade school so :) old man.

I weep for the current generation of our younger brothers who grew up not having to shoot TACAN approaches to mins when weather was actually terrible and there was no PAR, and then they had to ask people questions to find out where they could land (analogous to having to make human contact when your smart phone runs out of batteries). Did I mention we are getting LPV soon? NBD
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Yeah, you used to be able to (still?) call FSS for a DF steer if you were really lost. A couple of transmissions after various turns and they could locate your position. The technology is out there. I’ve never seen anyone play on guard in all my years of airline flying.
 
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