Southwest lands at wrong airport?

Boris Badenov said:
By that metric, a soccer midfielder is the greatest team sport athlete ever. 'Course a marathon runner could probably fly those steam gauges, too...
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That's about spot on. Biathletes are right up there in the running, too, but ai'm biased.
 
Crop Duster said:
but ai'm biased.
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Training for your next Biathalon with your buddies Jim and Jack, are you? ;)

I played soccer (at midfield, as it turns out, what a coincidence!) in high school. It's a demanding position, at least cardiovascularly. That said, even at my most fit, I'd break like a • (I MEAN A BUNCH OF STICKS, look it up, it's the correct usage of the word, damit!) if hit by even a high-school linebacker at full steam. There are all sorts of ways to be awesome at all kinds of sports. Don't know why it has to be a damned Competition about Competition every time. Hell, I even respect Curlers. Sort of. A little bit. Maybe.
 
JEP said:
Washington (CNN) -- A company dispatcher who was seated in the cockpit jump seat as Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 landed at the wrong Missouri airport has been placed on paid leave pending the outcome of the investigation, the company told CNN on Tuesday.

Another person on paid leave.....
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Rumor has it that there was an AA guy in the jumpseat during the SWA nose gear smash in LGA. Maybe they get performance anxiety?!
 
TFaudree_ERAU said:
Spend enough time in the Caribbean, and you have to drink rum to not go broke. @mikecweb did the math, and rum is cheaper per ounce than water. By A LOT
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Over a hundred dollars a month for water. I could definitely bath in rum for cheaper!

Hell, electricity is insane as well! I should save money by running a generator on rum!
 
Boris Badenov said:
Training for your next Biathalon with your buddies Jim and Jack, are you? ;)

I played soccer (at midfield, as it turns out, what a coincidence!) in high school. It's a demanding position, at least cardiovascularly. That said, even at my most fit, I'd break like a (I MEAN A BUNCH OF STICKS, look it up, it's the correct usage of the word, damit!) if hit by even a high-school linebacker at full steam. There are all sorts of ways to be awesome at all kinds of sports. Don't know why it has to be a damned Competition about Competition every time. Hell, I even respect Curlers. Sort of. A little bit. Maybe.
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Sounds like you were very "joyful" (another absconded word) while being a bunch of sticks (a bunch don't usually break, though... isn't that the point of a bunch?)
 
Skåning said:
Rumor has it that there was an AA guy in the jumpseat during the SWA nose gear smash in LGA. Maybe they get performance anxiety?!
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Yeah, would have loved to have been the fly on the wall for that one... "Uh, fellas, er, ah, where y'all headed?"
 
Boris Badenov said:
Training for your next Biathalon with your buddies Jim and Jack, are you? ;)

I played soccer (at midfield, as it turns out, what a coincidence!) in high school. It's a demanding position, at least cardiovascularly. That said, even at my most fit, I'd break like a (I MEAN A BUNCH OF STICKS, look it up, it's the correct usage of the word, damit!) if hit by even a high-school linebacker at full steam. There are all sorts of ways to be awesome at all kinds of sports. Don't know why it has to be a damned Competition about Competition every time. Hell, I even respect Curlers. Sort of. A little bit. Maybe.
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Lawn bowlers.....WAAAYY tougher than curlers
 
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gotWXdagain said:
Hockey collisions are also harder than football collisions. It's been scientifically measured.

Anybody who says football is harder than hockey has probably never hit the ice.
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And yet baseball players are still taking all of them to the cleaners.
 
That WFAA TV story is from an Associated Press report that is in the Daily Oklahoman this morning. Makes it sound like the pilots were enamored by bright shiny things, even after programming the FMS.

"But as they were approaching to land at night last Sunday, they first saw the airport beacon and bright runway lights of Graham Clark Downtown Airport and mistakenly identified it as the Branson airport."

That settles it. Pilots can't be trusted to use their eyes or fly visual approaches.
 
It just seems to me the simplest thing is on the top left of the screen is not the dme to the programmed fix? If the airport was in there and it wasn't close to 0 then even ignoring everything else on there if that field is in the fms than during a visual you'd want a peek at that one number.
 
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