Once when I watched a C185 on amphibious floats taking off, I noticed that the left main wheels did not retract. I called the pilot on the UNICOM and told him what I saw. He did a flyby and sure enough, he had three up and one down. He put the gear down and did another flyby and all wheels looked down so he came back and landed. Turned out recent maintenance had been done wrong. Two days later a box of very expensive Scotch whiskey was delivered to me with a thank you card from the pilot. In the attached card he explained that he was headed to the lake to take his grandkids for their first ride in his airplane. Had I not noticed it, they would have watched him crash.

(Written on 2021年 07月 30日)(Permalink)

Semantics. "complicating law enforcement subdural, restraint, and neck compression". "Positional asphyxia, also known as postural asphyxia, is a form of asphyxia which occurs when someone's position prevents the person from breathing adequately. Positional asphyxia also may be a result of the policing technique known as "prone restraint", used by police, corrections, military, or health care staff. People may die from positional asphyxia accidentally, when the mouth and nose are blocked, or where the chest may be unable to fully expand." Cardiac arrest occurs for many reasons - including when there is a lack of oxygen to support heart function. The force applied to his neck led to a lack of oxygen and cardiac arrest - a.k.a. he died of positional asphyxia.

(Written on 2021年 06月 18日)(Permalink)

Good god, how have we ever survived as a society with more than a century of living with rules and regulations that are meant to protect life, health and property? Maybe it's time to think about more than just yourselves?

(Written on 2021年 06月 18日)(Permalink)

If y'all would bother to put away your spring loaded hatred of the "MSM" for just a moment and actually read the article, you might actually find that everything he said was based on facts and statements of people who went on the record. Sheesh!

(Written on 2021年 06月 18日)(Permalink)

Oh please. At a time when traffic numbers are still significantly below normal, the US has had more reported unruly passenger incidents in the first 5 months of 2021 than they had in all of 2019 - the last year of normal traffic volumes. It clearly ties to the prevalence of anti-mask / COVID hoax hoard of anarchists whose behavior was incited and encouraged by the former president.

(Written on 2021年 06月 18日)(Permalink)

Tell that to my flight attendant colleague who was off for a year recovering from injuries sustained while trying to diffuse a situation with an unruly passenger. She suffers permanent pain and mobility issues to this day over a decade later. Some proper law enforcement on site would have been a big help that day.

(Written on 2021年 06月 18日)(Permalink)

"He died from a drug overdose. Not from a knee." So you're accusing the medical examiner of lying on the autopsy report - which clearly stated he died of positional asphyxiation? Wow, I sincerely hope if you're involved in aviation that you have better critical thinking skills than you're displaying here.

(Written on 2021年 06月 18日)(Permalink)

They are not experimental treatments. They are vaccines that underwent testing every bit as robust as any other clinical trial. The reason they were allowed so quickly is because of the urgency, meaning the trial population was significantly larger than in most cases.

(Written on 2021年 06月 11日)(Permalink)

There is plenty of evidence that they're effective. Jurisdictions where more than 50% of the eligible adult population is vaccinated are reporting virtually zero hospitalizations of vaccinated people and very few mild to moderate infections.

(Written on 2021年 06月 11日)(Permalink)

Name calling gets us nowhere. It says much more about you than it does about your intended target, and none of it is good.

(Written on 2021年 06月 11日)(Permalink)