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#2970129 19-Sep-2022 14:27

The most reassuring thing I heard someone say on a plane... Flying into Christchurch for the 4th time in 2 weeks, into storms, and this one being particularly bad and having our landing delayed for the second time, I was white-knuckling it pretty hard. The guy next to me, puts his hand on mine, and says 'you know the pilot wants to get home to his family too, right?".

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#2970130 19-Sep-2022 14:27

Behodar:

Years ago, in a small plane, which I think had four propellors:

Propellor 1: Starts up fine
2: Starts up fine
3: Starts up fine
4: Slow whir. Stop. Starts slowly again. Stops again. Starts up. Slows down.

Meanwhile the stewardess is just standing there, watching it, with her "customer services smile" on her face.

The flight was fine once they got the thing started.

THAT annoys you after years? The Lockheed Super Constellation was one of the most beautiful three-engine propeller planes in the world - one prop of the four was somehow always feathered.

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#2970178 19-Sep-2022 16:04

The wait time in the DIA call queue, which is currently slightly longer than the wait time in The Queue.

Actually I have no idea what the wait time is since the count maxes out at two hours. Earlier on they were turning calls away because they couldn't answer them by, presumably, end of business.

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#2970233 19-Sep-2022 16:15

Kyanar:
Now I know that planes have a lot of failsafes, but at first hearing that sounds pretty darn scary.

It's not just that they have a lot of failsafes, they're designed in such a way that they're safe to fly even with equipment that's failed. The technical term is a MEL, minimum equipment list, which specifies what minimum you need functioning in order to fly and under what conditions. Technically there's a master MEL or MMEL provided by the aircraft manufacturer, and then a more specific MEL for individual operators or countries, but the point is that there are agreed-upon levels of nonfunctioning equipment for which the aircraft is still safe to fly. So flying with, say, a failed X isn't someone being irresponsible, it's the aircraft being run within its design parameters.

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#2970235 19-Sep-2022 16:22

networkn:
The most reassuring thing I heard someone say on a plane...

You can also do this the other way round. Years ago I was flying in the US when someone who really wanted to sign me up for his religion started talking to me on what was going to be a long flight. Part of the introductory spiel alongside "and what church do you go to?" was asking what I do. I said I worked with computers and did engineering physics simulations for, among other things, aircraft. See that wing out there? See how it's flexing in the crosswind? We ran a simulation for that last month, the metal looks solid but it's really like butter in these conditions, you could stick your finger through it. You wonder how these things actually stay aloft...

He stopped bothering me after that. Luckily he had his faith to comfort him.

(Nothing against anyone's faith, I just don't want a sales pitch for it while I'm flying).

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#2970236 19-Sep-2022 16:28

neb:
networkn:

The most reassuring thing I heard someone say on a plane...

You can also do this the other way round. Years ago I was flying in the US when someone who really wanted to sign me up for his religion started talking to me on what was going to be a long flight. Part of the introductory spiel alongside "and what church do you go to?" was asking what I do. I said I worked with computers and did engineering physics simulations for, among other things, aircraft. See that wing out there? See how it's flexing in the crosswind? We ran a simulation for that last month, the metal looks solid but it's really like butter in these conditions, you could stick your finger through it. You wonder how these things actually stay aloft... He stopped bothering me after that. Luckily he had his faith to comfort him. (Nothing against anyone's faith, I just don't want a sales pitch for it while I'm flying).

In my view what you said to him, was a lot worse than what he said to you. Pretty mean actually.

A much more reasonable thing would have been to say. Hey, I respect your right to religion, but I am genuinely not interested and I'd like you to stop talking to me about it.

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#2970242 19-Sep-2022 16:38

networkn:In my view what you said to him, was a lot worse than what he said to you. Pretty mean actually.

A much more reasonable thing would have been to say. Hey, I respect your right to religion, but I am genuinely not interested and I'd like you to stop talking to me about it.

A reasonable thing to say is I don't give a damn what you believe, quit trying to push it on me.

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#2970244 19-Sep-2022 16:41

Rikkitic:

A reasonable thing to say is I don't give a damn what you believe, quit trying to push it on me.

Why be rude when you don't need to be?

Even if you consider their approach to you to be wrong, two wrongs don't make it right, and it won't change their views or likelihood to bother anyone else.

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#2970252 19-Sep-2022 16:54

networkn:

Rikkitic:

A reasonable thing to say is I don't give a damn what you believe, quit trying to push it on me.

Why be rude when you don't need to be?

Even if you consider their approach to you to be wrong, two wrongs don't make it right, and it won't change their views or likelihood to bother anyone else.

I'm rude in response when others are rude to me. Invading my privacy uninvited is being rude. People who feel entitled to start rabbiting on about their religion to perfect strangers are being very rude.

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#2970253 19-Sep-2022 16:55

networkn:
Rikkitic:

A reasonable thing to say is I don't give a damn what you believe, quit trying to push it on me.

Why be rude when you don't need to be?

I wasn't being rude, I was courteous to him the entire time. How would you have responded if you'd sat down on a flight and the guy next to you started trying to sell QAnon, or the truth from Fox News, or the global Zionist conspiracy, to you? If you're stuck next to someone for, in this case, five solid hours, it's quite a violation of etiquette to launch into a sales pitch to them shortly after they sit down.

When I worked in the US, as I was leaving, one of my co-workers gave me a videotape his church had made of the life of Jesus. The entire time I worked with him he never proselytised, never tried to push his faith on me (or anyone else), and overall everyone there never pushed any particular religion or political position on others. I really appreciated the gesture because it was obviously something he felt deeply about but, no matter how deeply he felt about it, wasn't going to try and push on anyone else.

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#2970262 19-Sep-2022 17:12

networkn:

A much more reasonable thing would have been to say. Hey, I respect your right to religion, but I am genuinely not interested and I'd like you to stop talking to me about it.

Other day we we just getting around the corner to our home when one of the Ring cameras notified us of people in the driveway. We arrived and these two people from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were just pushing the button in the our video doorbell. I parked, got out and asked "Yes?"

They said "Oh, we are here to visit [name I can't remember] who is new at our church."

I replied "Sorry, there is no one by this name here."

And continued to unlock the house and give no attention to them. They got the cue and walked out of the property.

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#2970263 19-Sep-2022 17:16

A lot of "processing" going on.

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#2970271 19-Sep-2022 17:54

networkn:

Kyanar:

I've been on an Air New Zealand flight which sat on the apron for three hours, with engineers even boarding and strolling up and down the aisles, before finally they closed the door and the captain informed us that they had an issue with one of the brakes, so they disconnected it.

Now I know that planes have a lot of failsafes, but at first hearing that sounds pretty darn scary.

As a person who *hates* flying despite having caught hundreds and hundreds of flights in my lifetime, that would probably be me Karening out and insisting on deplaning :)

Well, I‘m pretty sure it was a joke … honestly. If not, he would not have flown anywhere. :-)

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#2970402 20-Sep-2022 10:14

My otherwise very intelligent wife’s complete dunderheadedness with regards to navigation.

Case in point. Today we have a meeting at the PWC building in Cashel Street in Christchurch. We follow Apple Maps and get there. Park. Then have a 15 minute walk because my wife just entered “Cashel Street” with no number. She could even have entered PWC and it works.

Doh!

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#2970403 20-Sep-2022 10:28

On planes and weather and turbulence.

My other half isn't a good flyer, she went on the British Airways fear of flying course and one of the speakers is/was 747 captain with? 10,000 hours flying the type.

Some one asked him if he gets nervous with turbulence and he replied that he has great faith in engineering and had only been really worried about three times in those 10,000 hrs.

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