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

• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨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 It also means all ATCs are overworked, still underpaid and using outdated hardware and methods.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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can’t argue with that. I think we’re on the same page

        On pronouns… Honestly I just don’t want to be called it. Anything else, call me what feels natural. I feel shackled, I just want to be who I am at any given time without pretending or forcing myself to meet gender expectations

        I feel like I should’ve been a theatre kid, but they were mean to me so I did sports, my teammates always had my back

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• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It applies to everyone - you’ve had an event this year too. I should have said our governments

        Air traffic control is just not an individual thing. Not even an individual country thing.

        And I’m aware of unexpected turbulence…I just don’t see getting banged about that big a deal. Shit happens. Wrong place, wrong time… Sure, put on your seatbelt when you’re sitting down, but even if you don’t you’re probably not going to die from it

        But planes nearly colliding? Actually colliding? That should never happen… It’s a 3D arena, the sky is huge. Planes should neither fall apart nor be anywhere near each other without coordination

        We made air travel very safe with old technology, for a long time too. This is a very recent problem, and totally unacceptable

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