News and notes from around the interweb:
- I’m speaking in a month month at TravelCon in Austin. Over 600 people will be there, so if you’re going to be one of them let me know and say hello? I’m doing a penel with USA Today and Singapore Airlines. But the whole schedule looks fun. Apparently tickets from folks who cancelled are available, so you can just on in if you want to go.
- North Korea agrees to ICAO aviation checks. Even China was worried about their safety practices.
- Hotel occupancy and rates are up year-over-year and last year was a record don’t expect good hotel promotions soon.
- The magic switch so many pilots know so little about
- Fresh orange juice is gone from the British Airways first class lounge at London Gatwick
- Everything can run in the New York City subways… except the trains.
A new one for us (we think): Two goats are roaming along the N line tracks in Brooklyn. They’re safe and not currently affecting service, but they are on the run. We’ll keep you posted.
— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) August 20, 2018
So clickbait link times a clickbait written article equals what? Seriously “the magic switch”? Think about the concept of airbags before and during reading the article. Point being. The whole system is a joke! A pilot must physically activate it? Yah that’s what I want him thinking about if we’re dropping 1,000’/second. Make it automatically ping if NOT deactivated every x period of time which can vary based upon active control imputs or not. I’m over simplifying but the point seems simple enough
Don’t read very carefully, do you 8bb8b8? I suppose that’s what happens when you are only skimming to slam the blogger. Or maybe your lips got tired.
The ELT switch automatically notifies the Mission Control Center that the airplane is in distress. Rescue centers are alerted, and Search And Rescue operations are initiated.
Your idea is similar to just having your cell phone call 911 automatically every X minutes. Not very practical.
I’m not someone who is going to critique every typo, grammar, etc. error but geez what the heck is “penel”? Almost any program you use to write anything would flag “penel”. And it looks so unprofessional.
I had a resume to review and English wasn’t his first language but in his case the lack of caring about how it looked (different fonts in the resume, and starting a sentence and not finishing it) just should a lack of effort.
This goes into the same bucket. Sadly people still click the referral links.
@rich, This is the bane of the existence of an internet commenter who is taking a blogger to task for a misspelling: Having an incorrectly spelled word in his/her comment complaining about the misspelling:
“…the lack of caring about how it looked …just *should* a lack of effort.”
I love @rich
His tirade at typos includes a typo!