Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
There is one room there that the bed literally goes from wall to wall. You have to climb over the bed to get to the desk and lamp on the other side. I've got that room twice. I'm sure it is reserved for airline employees only.
You must have gotten the Hobbit-accessible rooms.
Seniority at retirement calculator
A while ago someone showed me a calculator that would show you your seniority at your retirement date. I can't remember where it was..
Anyone know?
Thx,
MCFlyer
Anyone know?
Thx,
MCFlyer
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Why do we stay there? Its absurd IMO. Nothing like an all nighter to JFK to get stuck in early a.m. traffic for an hour trying to go "downtown." ALPA's downtown fetish might need to be tweaked in a few locations.
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all we did was invent the entire industry, although to their credit they beat us to the punch with the Comet. So, yeah.
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I'm not a fan of using batteries to replace internal combustion. I would rather focus on fusion, or the production of artificial oil.
Theoretically, there is enough Thorium that if it were used in molten salt breeder reactors, there would be enough excess energy to produce hydrocarbons. If the government stopped wasting money on entitlements, and invested in three key technologies, Thorium molten salt reactors, Indium antimonide fast semiconductors, and coal liquefaction/bio fuels using nuclear heat. It would not only eliminate our dependence on foreign oil, it would stabilize the economy for several generations.
Theoretically, there is enough Thorium that if it were used in molten salt breeder reactors, there would be enough excess energy to produce hydrocarbons. If the government stopped wasting money on entitlements, and invested in three key technologies, Thorium molten salt reactors, Indium antimonide fast semiconductors, and coal liquefaction/bio fuels using nuclear heat. It would not only eliminate our dependence on foreign oil, it would stabilize the economy for several generations.
The closest we might come WRT revolutionary tech in this regard IMO is either abiotic oils or bio fuels. Real bio fuels though, like algae petrol, etc. Not the insane corn lobby nonsense that sucks up more petrol than it saves.
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Not even close. Single and even no pilot tech is technically available now. Just scale up a Citation/King Air/Predator. Big deal. But no one cares if those crash. To get true single pilot "one heartbeat away" redundancy in an airliner sized plane carrying paying pax will require a massive network of 10 autopilots, 10 auto throttles, full redundant hacker proof remote controls, several self contained autoland systems capabile of any airport anywhere (including numerous redundant steering, reversing, remote circuit resetting tech and everything else) and so much other stuff. They could easily do all of that today, but it'll be a very, very, very long time before all that is cheaper than the laughable block hour costs of an FO.
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As always submit a hotel FCR and cc ALPA on it if your hotel stay is unacceptable. It really is the only way that change will happen.
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