Sean was here

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She’s at it again

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Knobs to twist! Buttons to press! Hours of fun for busy hands!

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The green dot represents the speed that corresponds to my best lift/drag ratio.

If I were to lose an engine this is the speed I’d target.

The little hashmarks show where speed protection will kick in - where the automation will start trying to help get us back into the normal envelope.

(it’s just water and a little bit of soot catching the light from a sunset)

#contrails #avgeek

Khamenei was a butcher. I’m not going to shed a tear for the dictator of a repressive theocracy.

Nor am I particularly confident that US and Israeli air strikes are harbinger of a secular liberal democracy.

The US is much better at blowing stuff up than they are with successful regime changes.

One thing about me… I’m a giant chicken.

Another thing about me… I’m kinda lazy.

Big margins make fewer demands on my nerves and my attention. 😀

You’ve got me there.

The only jets I’ve ever flown are airliners, and we just poke ourselves up into the stratosphere now and then.

U2 pilots are out there wearing astronaut suits at the edge of space - I’m not sure what crazy stuff pilots are dealing with at FL900.

Moon halo

I was trying to draw attention to that area between the red “barber pole” (the maximum speed) and the amber; low speed markings on the indicator.

I wasn’t really using correct phraseology since I was trying to get the point across and stay inside the character limit.

I was using “speed tape” to describe the scroll like airspeed indicator on the left side of the primary flight display.

There’s a maximum and minimum speed that we can fly where we still get a smooth, subsonic flow of air over the wings.

These numbers change depending on the atmosphere and the weight of the airplane.

If those numbers get closer you find yourself in the “coffin corner”.

40kts is as tight as I’ll go

My perf charts go up to the fanciful altitude of 41,450.

So yeah, 41,000.

Tickling the stratosphere. It was the optimum performance altitude.

I’d be unhappy with this kinda margin between the speed tapes if I were over the ocean or downwind of a mountain range.

Over the US Eastern seaboard in the middle of the night we had a quick way out if things got tight.

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Jacksonville Florida (time lapse).

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If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot:

Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus.

It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵

They opened one down the street from my house… I have a problem

It’s a donut flight.

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He’s gonna have a hard time going back-to-back with FIFA Peace Prizes

Here’s ATC explaining the plan to an aircraft out in front of us.

Listening to ATC talk to other airplanes helps build a more complete picture of the situation.

When it was our turn we weren’t caught off guard by the new routing.

At first glance you might think we’d sneak around to the right of the weather.

But we don’t have the Big Picture™️.

ATC needs to sequence planes into and out of several busy Florida airports, so we took a little detour out to sea to get around the storms.

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Some St. Elmo’s Fire along the front windshield as we skirted around some storms over northern Florida.

#AvGeek #Meteorology

What are the odds that his profile mentions the bible and/or his devout faith?

If it’s an “I have friends everywhere” Andor shirt then the math changes

It looks like the trap door is about to open and he’s gonna try to feed Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a Rancor.

I’m still hoping I win a free drink from a free drink.

That’ll put some spring in my step for a couple of days

You came out too strong.

You’ve gotta pace yourself!

Everything’s coming up Sean

The OP’s a Candid Camera (TV prank show) clip from the 60s, where people were confused and shocked when they were told they were flying with a female pilot.

The comments are rancid.

Why do I still go on IG? I know BSky is a silo, but maybe I just don’t wanna spend time listening to insecure bros.

a man with a crown on his head and a cane ALT: a man with a crown on his head and a cane

Even George III couldn’t just circumvent Parliament