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That guy from Texas, Kevin Lacey, is a friend of a friend of mine. I've never met him but he seems like he would be cool to have a beer with.

I was kinda wondering the same thing but I don't have a dog in the fight and was too lazy to try to look it up. I was fairly certain you could do just that (ATP w/o type rating) with the GI bill. As nunya said, it just has to be a 141 approved course which can be slightly difficult to find without maybe a little travel involved.

Except, she should have taken her shirt off. ETA: WTF is she doing out of the kitchen anyway?

I can honestly say that I did not. After seeing the pic above, I didn't waste a mouse click....okay, really I'm at work. Had I been home, it may have been different.

Women, cars, and booze.

^^^^That's awesome. I haven't laughed so hard since that picture/avatar/thing of the llama was posted.

Not as awesome as the rest but this is one I took at the Hofbrauhaus, Munich a couple years ago.

It's this thing we use to keep the sun out of our eyes because it hurts to wear sunglasses with headsets. We keep them stored in the galley right beside the coffee maker and the waffle iron. All you have to do is snap your fingers and point outside and the Nav jumps up and retrieves them.

Funny. He should have taken that opportunity to look inside at his airspeed. Sounds like a line right out of Korean pilot "save face/SERE" school." Maybe it was the PAPI when it went into "WTF, are you kidding me mode." Yep, that's a new mod to the PAPI...you get that when you go even lower than red/red

We know who doesn't. ETA: Besides you really don't have to "use" them, but they are nice to "reference" occasionally <technique only>.

A jury made of you, me, and 10 others from this board would say exactly that. However.....Hi, I am Mark Geragos <speaking to a jury made up of people who know less about aviating than a CNN reporter>. I am representing Yu Suk Me and Suk Su Kim.....Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, these two ladies lost their precious daughters all because the big, powerful FAA turned off the GS. This big, super advanced airplane can land all by itself if it has a glideslope to tell it where to go. If that GS had of been on, we wouldn't be here today. But that big, mean, ugly FAA man RIGHT THERE..the one with the big checkbook.............turned it OFF! How would YOU like it if you had sent your sweet 16 yr old daughter to China for a summer vacation and they died in a plane crash because the Chinese government turned off their glideslope.

It is starting to sound like a case of pilot error if these reports of the low airspeed are, in fact, true. However, you can bet that you and I (the taxpayers), via a court settlement fining the FAA for not having that GS on the air are going to pay heavily.

The PAPI shouldn't have been out. It was returned to service on July 2. It is NOTAM'd out now due to the fact that it was destroyed by the crash.

Well, looks like the GS for 28L is not even there right now. Appears that it is being relocated so my theory about them locking on to a GS putting radiating HMI is out. The 28L PAPI was destroyed in the event. Another 777 had just landed in front of the accident aircraft.

Yep, Them's some cankles.

I just said basically the same thing in a FB conversation with a Delta pilot. All of these people are talking about how low they were. As many landings as I have had the pleasure of observing as a paid approach critiquer/back seat driver, I am simply amazed at the ability of these chuckle heads to be able to judge where they are on the glidepath from the cattle car..... especially when coming in over the water. There is the one passenger now talking to the media explaining how HIGH they were. He even throws in some engine sounds. Break break. Looking at the NOTAMs, I am assuming some runway construction is going on there (I will know some more tonight when I go in to work and can look at some stuff there). Going back to what was said earlier about the long flight, flying a visual, etc.... I wonder if maybe they overlooked the NOTAM and flew a coupled approach. I am just bringing this up to point this out: IF IT IS NOTAM'd OUT, IT'S OUT....DO NOT USE IT. Where I work, we manage the outages and maintenance of Navaids. There are times that a facility may appear to be operating normally but could be radiating "hazardously misleading information (HMI)". Due to the fact that the GS was NOTAM'd out, it is possible that techs could have been out there doing maintenance. At the end of a long flight it is possible they overlooked the NOTAM and just flew it coupled like they always do. I'm not saying that is what happened here, just a possibility, and I wanted to point out that fact (the HMI thing) for everyone to keep in the back

CNN just reported the deceased were two female, Chinese passport holders. One was 16, the other was 17yrs old. That's about all I will be able to report.....can't take watching/listening to all this expert reporters any longer.

I'll go ahead and make the motion to nominate this for the thread of the year award.

This^ When I hear stories like this I just think about how the media F's up aviation stories. I know as much about cops and their training/procedures as the average cop knows about flying. It pisses me off to hear dumbass yocals and reporters giving all of their expertise on why/how an airplane crashed within minutes of an incident. Same thing here.....there is probably more to the story.

I don't know you but I am going to go out on a limb here and say that I would feel victimized if I saw you walking around nude edit to fix typo

All this^ I agree that there are going to be that small percentage of bad cops but I've never had a problem.....Well, except one time as a teenager I was initially accused, by a cop, of something that I didn't do . Instead of being a dick, I politely explained that I had not done what I was being accused of and gave a polite explanation about what I had been doing that night making it impossible for me to have done what I was accused of. The entire incident lasted less than 5 minutes and we both went our seperate ways. Had I been a dick, it would have probably ended much differently. The only people that I have ever known to have been treated unfairly (in their mind) by the cops were douche bags and probably had it coming.

Their ORI probably consists of being able to launch with 24 hrs notice and fly to Cairo or Amman. ETA: .....likely with mercenary pilots...Anyone know if that's the case?

One year ago today.....

Wait. Qatar does have a military. Two C-17s. I'm guessing the seating capacity of two 17s is just about enough to fit the entire royal family of Qatar in the event of a massive "Let's get the fvck outta here" exercise.