I thought I was on /r/flying for a sec. Nice to see aviation people in Lemmy

Everyone is starving, inflation is terrible.

Trump sits at the resolute desk. He types into his computer “ChatGPT, is the economy good?”

“Yes” it replies

…… and SCENE

There was a cargo plane (747? 737?) that flew VFR. It’s not impossible but would greatly reduce the rate of arrivals/departures.

It’s kind of unprecedented at where we are headed. I wouldn’t expect them to do this normally, but desperate times may lead to desperate measures. We’ll see (even though I don’t think air travel is a need)

If the airlines industry crashes though, our economy is royally fucked though so

That doesn’t mean anything. You can land at an airport without ATC. You can fly VFR. It’s unusual for ATP because, well, it severely limits when and where you can fly. Doesn’t mean it’s impossible. And if it’s a center and not an individual airport tower, you can probably fly IFR and cancel IFR when you get close to the airport and land under VFR.

You’ll still need fire trucks and such, but that shouldn’t be federal to my knowledge.

Doesn’t feel like a threat. Feels like a scare tactic to people who don’t know enough about how flying works.

There is no way in hell he gets away with physically shutting out other planes. NORAD is US + Canada. Canada is extremely unlikely to acquiesce, so he’ll have to use unpaid American military. Because ICE is not building fast enough (ICE is his excuse to say, “see? I’m not using military on civilians!”), he relies on the military to keep a hold on the populace. If they become too disgruntled, he loses or at least greatly impedes his progress towards his desired control of the entire US government.

If he declares that towered airports are now class G, then airplanes are still able to land but at a greatly reduced rate

If he makes them into TFR’s, then he’ll add time for planes to go around them.

His “threat” feels completely toothless.

What does this even mean? How do you “close certain parts of the airspace”?

Do you invoke NORAD to prevent airplanes from flying into certain portions of US air space? Do you NOTAM certain airspace as class G? Do you maintain the class so VFR can’t fly through and have IFR avoid it? Do you put a TFR across the airspace?

Come on, dude. Be specific. FAA is DOT. You have the means to find someone who knows the correct words.

They are trying but Microsoft emailed my work email, yes on office 365, that now is a great time to try Copilot

Microsoft had a “bug” in which after you update, even though you have copilot disabled, would show the icon anyway.

Yeah I missed my chance to land at a bravo during COVID

You wouldn’t fly a Delta? I mean, I’d avoid Bravos but it’s not like my area is full of untowered airports

Why do you need to study turbines? We’re not studying airplanes? Shouldn’t it be like thermodynamics or even just physics?

Economic effects don’t have to take time.

See: tariffs

Fly VFR and make everything a class G.

Fucking stupid? Yes, but flying is not necessary.

End the shutdown:

President ®, Senate Majority ®, House Speaker and Majority ®

Fuck Whitmer. She’s for the car companies and not for the people. She puts on a show but does nothing of substance.

Run Ocasio-Cortez

Foolish has never stopped them before

I don’t know why but I foresee Pam Bondi intervening. Something about losing local support and losing a big item on their agenda?

I am not the knitter or crocheter in the family.

Don’t. I have like five boxes of yarn.

Funny, SCOTUS sees you and will rule that the president is the arbiter of what is and isn’t free speech

Excuse me, I find that offensive. We are publicly known as “friends of Tux”

Totally no conflict of interest here