On Mar 10, 12:59 am, Dave S wrote:
KM wrote:
On Mar 9, 9:39 am, Dave S wrote:


Dave, you also have to understand that the ATC facilities are at two
separate locations.

I understand that perfectly. Tower in one place. VOR in another.

Dave, with all respect, you dont understand.Tower in one place,
approach controll facility in another.If you get a frequency change
and try unsucsessfuly to check on what are you gonna do? Go back to
the last assigned, right?I think the last thing you are going to do is
just keep motoring along and ignore turning to final and ignore your
TCAS.

I once was a volunteer fireman for about 10 years... in that time, we
had a big snake go slithering up equipment in a substation one night. I
guess the hum and warmth of the stuff was just tooo inviting to resist.
He completed a short circuit that took out power to thousands of homes,
caused a PCB oil fed fire and had the fire marshall's office initially
investigating it as a terrorist act until we found the charred skeleton
of the snake. (Pre 2001 but after 1994 - the first WTC). The transformer
bit is quite credible, and if you are ever near one when one lets go,
its an underwear changing event.

Wow, being a fireman had to be pretty interesting.I have seen a
transformer let go once.I dont know what size it was but it was
spectacular.There are some plausable elements to "Capt" Dougs story,
and that is what makes it entertaining."Capt" Doug reminds me of Cliff
Claven, who was a charatcer on the TV show "Cheers".Cliff was a bar
fly who always had in depth knowlege about everything, but in real
life he was a mailman who lived with his mom.I am not trying to knock
"Captain" Doug, because Cliff's words of wisdom were always amusing
and he was one of the most popular characters on the show.Captain Doug
is just like Cliff in that he posts about stuff he knows nothing
about.But, many of his posts are plausible enough that they are
amusing and entertaining.I hope I havent chased the guy off by asking
what he really does for a living.The only sad part of this is the
couple of dickheads (Matthew Barrow and a guy going by Kilomike) who
thought this story was true.

... something like this happens, with big iron yanking and
banking on the final approach course, after an explosion at an airport,
with a power loss.... and never heard a word about it except here.. hmmm..

Delta had two incidents out of LAX, before I got there (G), and they
both made national headlines.A few years ago I had an incident that
caused a return to the airport, and with the advent of cell phones,
one of the local news stations actually called Delta for a comment
BEFORE whe could taxi to the gate and deplane and go downstairs to
talk to the chief pilots office about it.