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This might be the first time I've agreed with @disgruntledemployee, but I've seen a 10 knot wind make the engine windmill enough during the walk-around that looked to me like it could cut off an arm. Also, it's not a fighter in an ACM CAP. Your eyes are 95% inside on the ground if you're not moving. Absolutely 0% chance that I'd notice someone running towards the engines and think "I bet they're going to commit suicide, I'd better shut the engines down just in case."

100%. A blatant and unconvincing appeal to authority when I don't really trust anything that some random captain has to say, let alone some dude on youtube that has poor enough sense to do the video in uniform. Far too many "experts" have never experienced a significant emergency themselves but are all to happy to leap to conclusions about an incident with a significant amount of assumptions that often turn out to be incorrect. For example, there was the United plane that went off the end at Jackson Hole. Many pilots that should know better immediately and with zero evidence publicly said that the pilots landed long and fast in bad weather. Turns out the brakes weren't wired correctly and gave good enough braking that crews didn't notice for a couple landings in nice weather, but as soon as they asked for max performance for a short runway in the snow, the brakes gave something like 50% of what they should have.

WSJ article today indicates a pilot might have shut off the fuel. That would be completely bizarre if true but the available evidence does match that scenario. The 787 engines start so slowly that if they were accidentally shut off at low altitude, I doubt you'd have any chance. Also interesting that everything so far is only mentioning two pilots, so apparently no IRO to watch out for buffoonery like critical switch errors. With the flight being over 8 hrs, you'd think they'd have an IRO. The article points out the abnormal delays from India in releasing the accident data. I infer from that an intentional delay that the results are so embarrassing that India as a country is hoping that the world's attention is elsewhere when the final report is released. Maybe they're going to slowly leak the info over a long time until it isn't a big deal when it is finally released.

I'm sure it would stretch the budget, but if your budget can be stretched to buy it, I would for sure. And this isn't empty sideline advice, I've personally done exactly this to control my surroundings as much as I can afford and I have had no regrets. Especially when I see some properties down the road getting subdivided and suddenly a quarter section that had a single house now has a small neighborhood. Can always sell later if finances stop working out or rent/lease it out. I know multiple people that had an opportunity to buy adjacent land and didn't that lived to regret it when a bad neighbor moved in and set up a bunch of junky trailers on the edge of the property and junk like that.

No change from current tax under the current Senate version. But, the House Rules Committee is pushing back against the Senate version, so there's still a chance.

My understanding of the process is the parliamentarian goes through and throws stuff out that's policy rather than taxes but the majority leader could add it back in. My guess is based on the 51-49 vote, there was one or two "Republicans" that didn't want that included, so it wasn't put back in. Should have put it back in and forced the people to vote. Easy to remove it and vote again but at least everyone knows where their Senators stand.

Helps to have 180,000 pounds to throw at a problem.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-gunman-shot-dead-after-opening-fire-sunday-church-service Churches and schools are some of the places most often legislated to be gun free and most often are the places of a shooting. Good thing this church thought differently. Luck is no substitution for a defensive plan. If anyone in your church protests against an armed defense, tell them to read Nehemiah.

I don't think Biff is an Eagle driver

And where did both fatal 737 MAX accidents take place? It was an absolutely stupid software update for the trim to do that and Boeing was dump and culpable, but I don't think its a coincidence that both accidents happened in non-Western airlines despite the fact that the west was likely flying far more Max flights.

Could be flaps instead of the gear. India to London with a full pax load is going to be at or close to max weight, so the engines might not be able to overcome an early flap retraction, especially if the flying pilot didn't immediately go max thrust. That or fuel contamination are probably the two most logical possibilities I've heard so far.

I don't see the RAT deployed, did someone else see it in the video? Tough to tell from a cell phone video like that. If it were a dual engine failure or significant electrical issue, then it should deploy automatically. Also deploying it is the second step on the dual engine fail memory item. Flaps 5 is the norm. Strange that the gear is still down, but if they had a dual engine loss shortly after liftoff then they probably aren't thinking much about the gear.

Shit talking in baseball actually makes more sense to me than in football. Talk too much in football and the guy might get some extra anger strength and make you pay. Baseball is 90% mental, so you get inside their nugget, you might get an advantage. Not to say that wouldn't happen in football, but a bit tougher to knock a lineman out of his game by talking smack.

Man, that's some serious stupidity there. First of all, carrying a gun in the back pocket of your jeans and obviously sticking out enough for someone to not only see it but easily grab it? And then following that person when they are now armed and you're not? The dude gave enough intent by shoving him and pointing the gun at him to show he obviously wasn't giving it back. Call it a lesson learned and move on.

No, but if you get one, please let us know. That looks awesome and I want one, although I could see the 9mm not generating enough gas to cycle properly. Have a WWII original, but I generally try not to shoot those guns much, more of the safe queens...