Comment on "Pilot had to dive aggressively to avoid midair collision over Burbank airport."

• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And airplanes shouldn’t be in each other’s airspace

  I don’t know what you’re trying to say, the airplanes nearly running into each other is the clear problem

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Check out John Oliver’s take on air traffic control on LWT

    I was a kid when Reagan fired all the striking air traffic controllers. It turns out it takes a long time to train them, so we haven’t recovered from that one incident. It also means all ATCs are overworked, still underpaid and using outdated hardware and methods.

    Air travel was screwed even before Trump defunded the FAA.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fair, but it has gotten very noticably worse based on Trump’s deregulation catching up on the aircrafts and the latest round of forcing out air traffic control

      Also, I didn’t know you could just say “all pronouns”. I like that a lot, I’m really uncomfortable putting myself in boxes and that describes my preferences very succinctly

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      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        TBH I was in theater as a kid and TTRPGs as a teen and young adult, so it was super easy to get comfortable whatever pronouns suited my character. And yeah, embraced my enby status as I got past my forties.

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  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are things you can control and things you can’t. I can’t keep the planes out of each other’s airspace, but I can keep my seat belt on.

    That would be more insightful if I wasn’t a pilot…

    Tap for spoiler

    I’m not.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’ll keep you from getting slammed on the ceiling…in a situation that should never, ever happen. Which I’d over a midair collision, in which case you’re just screwed no matter what you do

      I don’t blame the pilot either, they did their job properly. It was the military that failed to coordinate with the civilian air control tower, which also could have been avoided if the civilian tower had radar

      What should you do? Demand better. Not think “I would have been fine, they must’ve been stupid”

      You can’t protect against every freak event, what you can do is be one drop in the wave that demands competence from our government

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      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There are certainly things that can be done better. My instance should give an idea about how much my government can do about this problem. That said, just like in a car, there is no good reason you shouldn’t be wearing your seat belt most of the time. And there are plenty of situations they can’t fix, such as clear-air turbulence. But the seat belt still helps.

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