And hard to make sure you hit the "right" ones when you want to use them.
I've wondered about the ability to "dump" pressurization in the cabin, and use that to subdue hijackers... probably not an option due to safety concerns.
Addison
A simple question nobody seems to ask
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (73)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 09:44:27 AM EDT
Up to now...
- (Simon_Jester)
- (2)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 09:54:59 AM EDT
Tasers might be a good idea.
-NT
- (admin)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 10:00:56 AM EDT
Still useful to the wrong people...
- (addison)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:04:41 AM EDT
Gong!
- (gdaustin)
- (15)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 10:06:56 AM EDT
I agree with your assessment...
- (Simon_Jester)
- (3)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 10:24:49 AM EDT
Odd random thought
- (drewk)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 10:40:42 AM EDT
Luggage Laptops
- (gdaustin)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:02:11 AM EDT
Passenger planes
- (Steven A S)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 10:47:18 AM EDT
You do realize...
- (cwbrenn)
- (7)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 10:47:41 AM EDT
I don't realize that.
- (addison)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 10:55:56 AM EDT
YOU DO REALIZE...
- (gdaustin)
- (5)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:16:16 AM EDT
Re: YOU DO REALIZE...
- (addison)
- (2)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:20:09 AM EDT
actually both is better than one
-NT
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:30:08 AM EDT
Praise the Lord and Pass the Powder
- (cwbrenn)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:49:05 AM EDT
YES I REALIZE THAT, THANKS FOR SHOUTING
- (cwbrenn)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:50:04 AM EDT
Something like that has happened once before
- (bconnors)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 06:11:14 PM EDT
One answer: no carry-on; fly nude (G-strings).
- (Ashton)
- (2)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 06:35:49 PM EDT
Re: One answer: no carry-on; fly nude (G-strings).
- (Steven A S)
- (1)
- Sept. 13, 2001, 09:43:34 AM EDT
Understood: free night-shades supplied on request_____:-\ufffd
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Sept. 13, 2001, 08:01:14 PM EDT
Asked and answered many times.
- (addison)
- (42)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:01:17 AM EDT
Why do the cockpits have to be accessible from the cabin?
- (mmoffitt)
- (41)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:19:18 AM EDT
Lots of reasons.
- (addison)
- (40)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:25:00 AM EDT
Most of that could be fixed.
- (mmoffitt)
- (6)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:40:15 AM EDT
Fixing is relative.
- (addison)
- (5)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 12:14:12 PM EDT
Better a relative fix than an absolute abdication.
- (marlowe)
- (4)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 01:10:54 PM EDT
Don't have airplanes. Then they can't crash.
-NT
- (addison)
- (3)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 01:17:28 PM EDT
A slightly more moderate version.
- (marlowe)
- (2)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 01:46:01 PM EDT
I'm glad you've decided to moderate some.
- (addison)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 02:15:12 PM EDT
Concur on time. Ban everything except GA ;-)
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 03:46:27 PM EDT
Lots of solutions
- (marlowe)
- (32)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 12:24:05 PM EDT
There's *no* "justs" here.
- (addison)
- (31)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 12:35:01 PM EDT
Seven to ten years?
- (marlowe)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 01:15:50 PM EDT
Yep.
- (addison)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 01:18:46 PM EDT
OT: Kneejerk
- (mmoffitt)
- (12)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 01:23:13 PM EDT
Not given the emergency.
- (addison)
- (11)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 02:22:02 PM EDT
It is weird.
- (mmoffitt)
- (10)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 03:44:39 PM EDT
Not really.
- (addison)
- (9)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 03:57:07 PM EDT
most arrests too...
- (Simon_Jester)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 03:59:32 PM EDT
So, what do we do?
- (mmoffitt)
- (7)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:20:16 PM EDT
No.
- (addison)
- (6)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:29:23 PM EDT
You know something I don't?
- (mmoffitt)
- (5)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:30:59 PM EDT
Just the NOTAM.
- (addison)
- (4)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:45:34 PM EDT
Can you imagine the NOTAMs that'll be out shortly?
- (mmoffitt)
- (3)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:56:42 PM EDT
That's not that unusual.
- (addison)
- (2)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 05:05:19 PM EDT
I know what flight following is.
- (mmoffitt)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 05:47:58 PM EDT
OK
- (addison)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 06:37:45 PM EDT
Here's a question for you.
- (marlowe)
- (15)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 01:24:54 PM EDT
The answer is:
- (addison)
- (14)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 02:25:27 PM EDT
I blithely ignore nothing. Shame on you.
- (marlowe)
- (13)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 03:31:57 PM EDT
Emotions gentlemen....
- (Simon_Jester)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 03:44:39 PM EDT
But this is part of the problem.
- (marlowe)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:11:06 PM EDT
There's no shame attached to me.
- (addison)
- (10)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 03:53:32 PM EDT
That's harsh.
- (mmoffitt)
- (9)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:29:22 PM EDT
It should be.
- (addison)
- (8)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:42:33 PM EDT
Had to reread my posts.
- (mmoffitt)
- (7)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 04:50:45 PM EDT
Nobody's saying it's easy.
- (marlowe)
- (6)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 05:10:29 PM EDT
You did.
- (addison)
- (5)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 05:20:41 PM EDT
The WTC survived the crashes just fine.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 05:33:28 PM EDT
Doesn't change my point....
- (addison)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 06:31:20 PM EDT
Re: The WTC survived the crashes just fine.
- (wharris2)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 09:24:49 PM EDT
All right. Maybe not so much words in my mouth as...
- (marlowe)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 06:56:12 PM EDT
Not as bad as
- (addison)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 07:38:20 PM EDT
A few idiots with box openers who claimed to have a bomb...
- (inthane-chan)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 11:52:58 AM EDT
They probably never would have got a chance to use it.
- (tuberculosis)
- (2)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 03:35:06 PM EDT
Re squawk, this time.
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- Sept. 12, 2001, 07:30:04 PM EDT
Too much uncertain.
- (mmoffitt)
- Sept. 13, 2001, 09:44:47 AM EDT
2 words...
- (bepatient)
- (6)
- Sept. 13, 2001, 10:01:41 PM EDT
double barreled no. 4 ? should stay in the hull
-NT
- (boxley)
- (5)
- Sept. 13, 2001, 10:21:44 PM EDT
Cockpits are really quite tough.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (4)
- Sept. 13, 2001, 11:52:34 PM EDT
Reminds me of a story...
- (inthane-chan)
- (3)
- Sept. 14, 2001, 12:40:33 PM EDT
I remember that one
- (wharris2)
- (1)
- Sept. 14, 2001, 01:20:39 PM EDT
Yup.
- (inthane-chan)
- Sept. 14, 2001, 01:24:42 PM EDT
We had "the chicken guy"
- (Andrew Grygus)
- Sept. 14, 2001, 03:04:55 PM EDT