CNN article on problems in Air Travel, as seen by FAA

Mxsmanic wrote in
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John Kulp writes:

You're completely dense. You change the flight paths. They're in the
AIR not on the GROUND like the runways. Got that?

During take-off and especially approach, the flight paths are
necessarily aligned with the runways, since aircraft cannot instantly
turn after leaving the runway or instantly turn just before touching
down. Thus, there are flight paths that are inextricably linked to
runway positions. The only way to change them is to reposition the
runways.

The pilots don't know how the planes work.

Apart from the most general principles, yes.

They just sit there like robots staring out the window while
some ghost flies them.

No, but during automated phases of a flight (which means most phases,
today), they don't have a lot to do. Still, that's better than
requiring them to keep their hands on the controls for eight hours at
a stretch, in a number of ways.

They use GPS overseas all the time but they don't know how to use
them.

They use GPS everywhere, but they don't have to know how it works to
use it.


More unadulterated bull ****.

Take a look on YouTube and see the 747 landing at the old Kai Tak
airport in Hong Kong. He is turning at the runway numbers to land in the
TDZ.

On an IFR departure, turns can commence at 400' AGL. It is going to
be a short runway on a very hot day at MGTOW not to be 400' AGL by end of
runway. Hell, I fly a small plane out of a 3,000' runway and can be 800'
AGL by the end of runway. I don't have anywhere near the climb performance
of a jetliner.

You don't have to constantly keep your hands on the controls of an
aircraft even a light aircraft without an autopilot. There is a reason
aircraft control surfaces have trim capability, you moron.

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