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Imperialism
2012-01-18 03:05:14 PM
imgc.allpostersimages.com
/hot
//can't find an actual image of that scene
 
Calm Down You Spaz
2012-01-18 03:05:29 PM
At least he didn't fall into a lifeboat
 
Current Resident [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:06:00 PM
Maybe the pilot suffers from Verbal Dysdecorum.
 
janeuner
2012-01-18 03:06:20 PM
Sounds like code monkey after meeting with management.
 
Resident Muslim
2012-01-18 03:07:09 PM
Why didn't he ask Tank to upload the flight program to him?
 
Loaf's Tray
2012-01-18 03:07:11 PM
Tried the Wikipedia article first but it was blacked out...
 
That coward David Lopan
2012-01-18 03:07:49 PM
As long as the video wasn't on his iPhone we should all be okay, right?
 
Impasse
2012-01-18 03:07:58 PM
Hopefully the video was properly viewed after acquiring appropriate licensing.
 
minoridiot
2012-01-18 03:11:19 PM
Not duct tape, but they use speed tape to fix planes all the time.
 
Russ1642 [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:13:59 PM
So Jessep was right, "You can't handle the truth."
 
ChrisDe
2012-01-18 03:16:12 PM
minoridiot: Not duct tape, but they use speed tape to fix planes all the time.


Speed tape link. Non-wiki today.

Link (new window)
 
SpikeStrip [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:16:29 PM
bullshiat.
 
Russ1642 [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:17:26 PM
Loaf's Tray: Tried the Wikipedia article first but it was blacked out...

en.m.wikipedia isn't blacked out. Jimmy didn't have the balls to actually shut down the site.
 
Captain_Ballbeard
2012-01-18 03:19:33 PM
STFU Margie, you don't know jack shiat about anything except travelling the world as a priveleged princess and turning your latest whoring globetrot into tortured prose. If you would honestly biatch about the pilot in command needing to fulfill his carrier's requirement to familarize himself with a tricky approach in mountainous terrain he has not seen in over two years, you obviously have nothing better to do with your life except manufacture things for your special little self to be outraged over. Walk into a propellor or something useful please.
 
Lord Dimwit [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:21:01 PM
I remember I flew to Lady Eliot Island off the coast of Queensland a few years ago on a little single-engine prop plane with another six or so people for diving and such (no wiki link today of course, but, interestingly, the image for Lady Eliot Island on Wikipedia was taken on the flight I'm talking about by me).

The pilot waited until we landed on Lady Eliot Island, where the airstrip literally takes up the entire length of the island, to tell us that we were overweight for taking off on the island's airstrip and he might have to make two trips to bring us back. Instead he took off with all of us on board, but none of the cargo he was supposed to take off the island and minus an employee who volunteered to stay.

The plane also had speed tape over a wing strut and a gear strut.

CSB.
 
Lord Dimwit [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:22:43 PM
Lord Dimwit: I remember I flew to Lady Eliot Island off the coast of Queensland a few years ago on a little single-engine prop plane with another six or so people for diving and such (no wiki link today of course, but, interestingly, the image for Lady Eliot Island on Wikipedia was taken on the flight I'm talking about by me).

The pilot waited until we landed on Lady Eliot Island, where the airstrip literally takes up the entire length of the island, to tell us that we were overweight for taking off on the island's airstrip and he might have to make two trips to bring us back. Instead he took off with all of us on board, but none of the cargo he was supposed to take off the island and minus an employee who volunteered to stay.

The plane also had speed tape over a wing strut and a gear strut.

CSB.

Elliot, not Eliot.

Ouch.
 
Loaf's Tray
2012-01-18 03:23:21 PM
Russ1642: Loaf's Tray: Tried the Wikipedia article first but it was blacked out...

en.m.wikipedia isn't blacked out. Jimmy didn't have the balls to actually shut down the site.

Yeah, you can get around the blackout on the "regular" site too by disabling JavaScript or some shiat...
 
Thelyphthoric [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:24:46 PM
Resident Muslim: Why didn't he ask Tank to upload the flight program to him?

Dammit. Was going to do a similar, yet less eloquent version of this.
 
Russ1642 [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:28:59 PM
Loaf's Tray: Russ1642: Loaf's Tray: Tried the Wikipedia article first but it was blacked out...

en.m.wikipedia isn't blacked out. Jimmy didn't have the balls to actually shut down the site.

Yeah, you can get around the blackout on the "regular" site too by disabling JavaScript or some shiat...

I just like the idea of an actual shutdown rather than a symbolic gesture. This protest comes off like a UN sternly worded letter.
 
Carousel Beast
2012-01-18 03:32:54 PM
Loaf's Tray: Russ1642: Loaf's Tray: Tried the Wikipedia article first but it was blacked out...

en.m.wikipedia isn't blacked out. Jimmy didn't have the balls to actually shut down the site.

Yeah, you can get around the blackout on the "regular" site too by disabling JavaScript or some shiat...

Oddly enough, it's like he knew that people who block javascript might tend to be more net-savvy and informed, while the great unwashed who don't keep up with either would run straight into the information page.

/More likely, of course, is they just half-assed it, but still, it works
 
Lord Dimwit [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:33:13 PM
Russ1642: Loaf's Tray: Russ1642: Loaf's Tray: Tried the Wikipedia article first but it was blacked out...

en.m.wikipedia isn't blacked out. Jimmy didn't have the balls to actually shut down the site.

Yeah, you can get around the blackout on the "regular" site too by disabling JavaScript or some shiat...

I just like the idea of an actual shutdown rather than a symbolic gesture. This protest comes off like a UN sternly worded letter.

My personal favorite results are the people on Twitter with poor reading comprehension saying Obama shut down Wikipedia.
 
JackieRabbit
2012-01-18 03:36:49 PM
Now why to I smell a hoax? I can't believe any airline captain is that stupid.
 
Russ1642 [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:37:59 PM
Carousel Beast: Loaf's Tray: Russ1642: Loaf's Tray: Tried the Wikipedia article first but it was blacked out...

en.m.wikipedia isn't blacked out. Jimmy didn't have the balls to actually shut down the site.

Yeah, you can get around the blackout on the "regular" site too by disabling JavaScript or some shiat...

Oddly enough, it's like he knew that people who block javascript might tend to be more net-savvy and informed, while the great unwashed who don't keep up with either would run straight into the information page.

/More likely, of course, is they just half-assed it, but still, it works

Any idiot with an iPhone still has full access by default.
 
RoyBatty
2012-01-18 03:57:05 PM
Assumed this would be an article about a pilot who couldn't fly until he fulfilled his HR and corporate attorney's demand he annually watch a sexual harassment video because the CEO has been sued again for farking the sexretary.
 
Committee_For_Aesthetic_Deletions
2012-01-18 03:57:56 PM
Anyone who's ever flown into Jackson Hole, WY would prefer that the captain takes the time to view the video.

That airport is in a valley with 14,000 mountains around it. Even in a small airplane, the pilot has to corkscrew into the landing.

The landing isn't too nerve-wracking on the passengers, because you know the ground is down there and everthing seems normal. It gets freaky when you take off. If you can see out the cockpit window (again, small planes), you're looking at mountains FOREVER while you spiral upward to finally get enough altitude to turn in the direction of travel.

I like this pilot's style. I'd prefer to know what's going on rather than the typical silent treatment you get from the airlines.
 
WTFDYW [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 04:00:12 PM
Captain_Ballbeard: STFU Margie, you don't know jack shiat about anything except travelling the world as a priveleged princess and turning your latest whoring globetrot into tortured prose. If you would honestly biatch about the pilot in command needing to fulfill his carrier's requirement to familarize himself with a tricky approach in mountainous terrain he has not seen in over two years, you obviously have nothing better to do with your life except manufacture things for your special little self to be outraged over. Walk into a propellor or something useful please.

Yes

^
I
 
Crotchrocket Slim
2012-01-18 05:05:28 PM
WTFDYW: Captain_Ballbeard: STFU Margie, you don't know jack shiat about anything except travelling the world as a priveleged princess and turning your latest whoring globetrot into tortured prose. If you would honestly biatch about the pilot in command needing to fulfill his carrier's requirement to familarize himself with a tricky approach in mountainous terrain he has not seen in over two years, you obviously have nothing better to do with your life except manufacture things for your special little self to be outraged over. Walk into a propellor or something useful please.

Yes

^
I

I can't disagree with you about reviewing the landing procedure at that one particularly bad airport, but you have to be struck at that terrible condition these planes are being maintained in. The airlines are trying to cheap out there on their techs and maintenance, and it shows.
 
Captain_Ballbeard
2012-01-18 05:28:02 PM
Crotchrocket Slim: I can't disagree with you about reviewing the landing procedure at that one particularly bad airport, but you have to be struck at that terrible condition these planes are being maintained in. The airlines are trying to cheap out there on their techs and maintenance, and it shows.

I spent years on weekly commuter flights. Got to know some crew and partied with some a few times, the horror stories about outsourced maintenance and pencil whipping would have scared me except I was so sick of flying that I used to WISH for the goddamned plane to go down. And the pilots are effectively gagged, if they raise a stink, they get blackballed and never get sent up to the majors. I heard ex-Navy pilots say they were less terrified of night carrier landings than flying some of that crap.

Got a Private Pilot license decades ago to get over my acrophobia, only to have it replaced with a fear of being in between some exec and his quarterly earnings bonus.
 
rhiannon [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 05:45:36 PM
SpikeStrip: bullshiat.

I continued reading to the end to see if it would get any more believable, but it didn't.
 
lanmac
2012-01-19 08:56:07 AM
at least he was honest, and being a curious dude i rather have this guy as my pilot then some one who is mute.
 
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