gobills404 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/30/2025 at 12:23 PM, 4th&long said: You are obviously very jealous of people with money. Sad. Expand I’m literally a millionaire go cry some more 1
Tommy Callahan Posted January 31 Posted January 31 You can't make this up. How many devices probably have red book on them.
4th&long Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 5:16 AM, gobills404 said: I’m literally a millionaire go cry some more Expand Yup and I'm a billionaire. Go cry somemore.
4th&long Posted January 31 Posted January 31 So trump fires everyone at the faa safety board. Pressures everyone else to quit, creates nothing but chaos, an accident happens. What's he do? Blame dei to try and cover his ass for the mess he made. Is it a coincidence that the worst aviation accident in over 20 years happened less than 2 weeks into his term? Nice try trump, not going to work. 1
sherpa Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 12:37 PM, 4th&long said: So trump fires everyone at the faa safety board. Expand For those not familiar with this industry, this is quite misleading. There are scores of safety groups in both the industry and the FAA, and constant contact between them. Lots of them.
sherpa Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 1:26 PM, sherpa said: For those not familiar with this industry, this is quite misleading. There are scores of safety groups in both the industry and the FAA, and constant contact between them. Lots of them. Expand Late addition. I had never heard of this committee so I looked up it's charter, member and policies. It did not report to the FAA, as suggested by another poster above. It was a security group formed after the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie in 1988. It met four times per year, and advised the TSA. Again, nothing to do with the FAA, and absolutely nothing to do with this midair. 1
wnyguy Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 3:36 PM, sherpa said: Late addition. I had never heard of this committee so I looked up it's charter, member and policies. It did not report to the FAA, as suggested by another poster above. It was a security group formed after the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie in 1988. It met four times per year, and advised the TSA. Again, nothing to do with the FAA, and absolutely nothing to do with this midair. Expand Sherpa, I don't appreciate you trying to muddy the waters using facts. 1
sherpa Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 12:37 PM, 4th&long said: So trump fires everyone at the faa safety board. Pressures everyone else to quit, creates nothing but chaos, an accident happens. What's he do? Blame dei to try and cover his ass for the mess he made. Is it a coincidence that the worst aviation accident in over 20 years happened less than 2 weeks into his term? Nice try trump, not going to work. Expand Just incredibly stupid.
The Frankish Reich Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 5:16 AM, gobills404 said: I’m literally a millionaire go cry some more Expand Good for you! Now let's come up with a term for people who have real serious money. I mean, with inflation - and particularly home values and 401k's going up almost exponentially - there's a bunch of millionaires everywhere you look. Billionaire is a whole different league. It's very serious money. But what about the comfortably rich, don't really need to work a day in their life if they don't want to? Even "multi-millionaire" is no good anymore. What, that's 1 ... 2 ... multi. That's not f-you money. Ten million? Maybe that should be the new million. But what's the term for ten-millionaire? We need one. Now.
Joe Ferguson forever Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/30/2025 at 3:50 AM, gobills404 said: If you’re immediate reaction to a tragedy is to try and politicize it you’re a worthless piece of trash. Period. Expand https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-facing-two-crises-in-his-second-week-spreads-the-blame-around-55fe36d9 On 1/31/2025 at 6:51 PM, The Frankish Reich said: Good for you! Now let's come up with a term for people who have real serious money. I mean, with inflation - and particularly home values and 401k's going up almost exponentially - there's a bunch of millionaires everywhere you look. Billionaire is a whole different league. It's very serious money. But what about the comfortably rich, don't really need to work a day in their life if they don't want to? Even "multi-millionaire" is no good anymore. What, that's 1 ... 2 ... multi. That's not f-you money. Ten million? Maybe that should be the new million. But what's the term for ten-millionaire? We need one. Now. Expand $1.17 mil puts one in the top 5%. As far as house prices, there are many people mortgaged to the teeth. But yes, $11 mil puts you in the top 1% https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/605075/are-you-rich 1
4th&long Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Trump’s FAA used the same language about hiring people with disabilities he’s now blasting https://flip.it/VSC0mK
Albwan Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 8:26 PM, 4th&long said: Trump’s FAA used the same language about hiring people with disabilities he’s now blasting https://flip.it/VSC0mK Expand lol that looks like an email scam url 1
Joe Ferguson forever Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Here's another pilot's opinion. Ya know what they say about opinions... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/video/trump-press-conference-plane-collision-les-abend-digvid 1
sherpa Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) On 1/31/2025 at 8:39 PM, Joe Ferguson forever said: Here's another pilot's opinion. Ya know what they say about opinions... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/video/trump-press-conference-plane-collision-les-abend-digvid Expand I can't believe this guy showed up again. Background. I think Trump's comments were stupid and unnecessary, and certainly not germane to this accident. But.........I am well aware of this Les Abend guy. He wrote for years for "Flying Magazine," and did so as an airline pilot writing for small airplane people as a civilian background guy who simply lived the title. Most airline guys don't. He is one of those guys that probably has "Captain" prior to his name on his checks. Just a goof. I know all about him. He was junior to me at the same airline and same base, same airplane, the 777. CNN used him routinely as an "expert" after Malaysia 370 was lost. He would be on there nightly, offering his views. It was embarrassing to us. He was a civilian background guy who stated nonsense about his views on military night formation flying, which were preposterous. He stated things about the ACARS system, which is a data link reporting system that would have easily solved this if Malaysia had paid for it. The problem was that he was completely wrong, to the point that on our union website, the check captain that certified me as a 777 captain exposed him as an idiot and told him to stop, or at least shut up. Loves the camera. Probably wants his first name changed to "captain." Trump says really stupid stuff, but this guy is a total goof. Probably one of those guys that wore his uniform on a trip to the local convenience store. I would take a bet that on his gravestone he is going to have "Captain" inscribed before his name. Makes the rest of us cringe. Edited January 31 by sherpa 3
daz28 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 1:24 PM, BillsFanNC said: Expand This is one of the rare times that NC is actually right. trump has said campaigning that he wanted to hire more ATC.
sherpa Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 9:35 PM, daz28 said: This is one of the rare times that NC is actually right. trump has said campaigning that he wanted to hire more ATC. Expand Very good. I opine that although politically aimed people will disagree with this, those of us that are familiar with the system, including the people directly hired into it, will totally agree. The FAA has become a social experiment. Still functional, but undeniably driven, in recruitment and promotion, by DEI and quotas.
Roundybout Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/31/2025 at 1:24 PM, BillsFanNC said: Expand Did IB there ever delete her blatantly wrong tweet about the J6er who got hauled back into jail?
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