The Bludgerigar

Aviation photographer. IT tech(net/sec). Pilot. Atheist. Lib/conservative. Science. Loves a good banter but really a compassionate soul. From #flyghuvudstaden

[𝗔𝗬𝗕𝗘𝗡İ𝗭🇹🇷 @nnlvn4]

Seyirci kalıp video çekmek yerine anında müdahale ederek karaya vuran köpek balığının hayatını kurtaran bu genç , kocaman bir takdiri hak ediyor. 👏👏

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@Skand777 @Turbinetraveler 1) most French pilots suck at speaking English so there’s a struggle when going outside of standard phraseology 2) workload would be high given the situation they were in, communication is not top priority, maintaining control is. Aviate, navigate, communicate. In that order.

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

A potential mid-air collision narrowly avoided at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Saturday, thanks to excellent work by ATC.

Air France AF028 (A350-900 F-HUVK), departing runway 24L for Papeete, began turning left.
At the same time, American Airlines AA1660 (A321-200), departing runway 25R for Dallas–Fort Worth, also turned left, putting the two aircraft on conflicting flight paths as they climbed out.

ATC immediately intervened, issuing instructions to both crews to turn away from each other. The aircraft reportedly came within just 400 feet vertically of one another.

You can hear the pressure in the Air France crew's voice as the controller gives them time to collect themselves and correctly read back the instructions before addressing the possible pilot deviation and providing a number to call.

Excellent situational awareness from the controller.

[Ola Kallqvist @olakallqvist]

1/10 Lying by omission. Det mest eleganta sättet att vilseleda är att bara berätta sanningen. Fast inte hela. Inga lögner, inga falska citat, inga påhittade fakta. Bara en omsorgsfull gallring av sådant som skulle kunna störa ”berättelsen”. Och vips har vi journalistik. Häng med! 🧵

[Ola Kallqvist @olakallqvist]

1/9 Sveriges Radio har fått ett litet värdegrundsproblem. Den mysige morgonfavoriten David Druid har fastnat på film där han grovt förnedrar en kvinna och förklarar att han ska köpa kokain och knarka. SR:s reaktion? Vi vill ha tillbaka honom. Han är ju så uppskattad! Häng med! 🧵

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@Ride_fixer Alkoholmissbruk!

[TimonSemplar @svinarp]

Detta är inget annat än en skandal. Saknas pengar att anställa arrestvakter, samtidigt som det läggs enorma summor att bevaka vuxna män, med barns kognitiva förmåga, som inte klarar titta på fotboll utan att bråka

https://t.co/V08BPrMCLR

[Gareth Jennings @GarethJennings3]

Brilliant session on #Ukraine F-16 at @DefenceIQ #IFC26. F-16s have scored 4,700 OWA shoot downs mainly with the gun, and in October alone 1,100 shoot downs. "One pilot got a record 8 drones in one sortie using 400 rounds and brought back 100 rounds. A few days ago broke his record with 9 drones and brought back 80 rounds. One of the younger pilots just made holes in the sky and hit nothing, but with simulator training he then went and hit 5" - spox, adding, "The tactics are simple – just get in range and shoot the gun!"

[Dave @HangryDBowman]

Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if he thought Ice was the issue.

“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”

“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”

“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary

But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.

So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.

This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”

“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.

These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.

These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.

This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.

The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@JulietEchopapaa Arbetsmiljöproblem? 😁

[Carl-Oskar Bohlin @CarlOskar]

Det är dags att ni läser den gula broschyren igen och agerar därefter.

Vi befinner oss i en tid där antalet sårbarheter i cyberdomänen ökar lavinartat och därtill i en säkerhetspolitisk miljö där våra antagonister inte tvekar över att använda dessa sårbarheter för att skada våra samhällen om de har möjlighet.

De senaste dagarnas attacker mot livsmedelsbutiker illustrerar detta med tydlighet. Antagonister söker psykologiska såväl som fysiska effekter. De vill att du ska vara rädd. Men bättre än att vara rädd är att vara förberedd.

Förberedd som samhällskritisk verksamhet genom att genomföra alla uppdateringar och ha en ordentlig kontinuitetsplanering på plats. Cybersäkerhet är kärnverksamhet.

Förberedd som individ genom egen uthållighet. Genom att klara sig utan externa beroenden under minst en vecka om det skulle behövas. Ingen blir arg om du är bättre förberedd än så.

Vi lever i en paradox i så måtto att ju mer bekvämt och användarvänligt vårt samhälle har blivit, ju mer sårbart för disruption och störningar har det också blivit.

Slutsatserna av detta måste vara två:

1. Bedriv mer proaktivt med dessa sårbarheter.
2. Ha en plan B.

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@Rebel44CZ Sure will be exiting to wake up tomorrow morning and reach for the phone… victory cry or SMH sobbing is the million dollar question.

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@SteveNomadic @lucaberta Are there any conclusive indications that this isolated cell was indeed powerful enough to have caused severe problems like this? The weather to the north was inclement and they were tracking south of it, but this small isolated speck, was it potentially this bad?

[TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog]

.@EV_Trapper, I have seen some stupid stuff today, but this...takes the cake.

I am at least 10 IQ points dumber for reading this shit.

Your argument is that the junior co-pilot is responsible for the crash because she's "completely unqualified, uneducated & unprepared" yet acknowledge that the main pilot probably thought the ice was better managed than it was, blaming his lack of aircraft management on her age and experience level.

As general practice with two pilots, one flies while the other handles the radio. Her job was to communicate with ATC. She literally communicated exactly what was happening with the aircraft until the end, including bank angle, rate of descent and that they were going to crash.

The only thing you said that's correct is you aren't being mean. You're being stupid.

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@Sulthan_uncle @Sandra_Romandia It’s not a 152 you know… T210N.

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@Moosejaw50 @Sandra_Romandia You have a point but it was a turbocharged engine, they too suffer from the density altitude but they compensate very well, to a limit. Definitely something you want to have flying out of places like this.

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@joseguidof @Sandra_Romandia Only the spectacular ones make the news. There are crashes every single day somewhere in the world. Follow NTSB here on X or aviation safety network site and you will learn…

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@xonchanouri Inte särskilt aktiv där heller men under den stora flykten från Twitter när Musk köpte så försökte jag spegla där med här, samma konton, samma ”bubbla”. Tycker jag ser ungefär samma nu på båda utan slagsida men en del underliga kommentarstrådar har jag sett.

[The Bludgerigar @Borgsquirrel]

@creebeauvoir Mach tuck is physics. Applies to all high performance aircraft.

[Ridefixer @Ride_fixer]

Den här händelsen visar att en hel del tyckare inte ska ses som auktoriteter inom straffrätten, eftersom de helt enkelt har fel.

Även om statsråd ska "tåla" även hård kritik är inte deras hem forum för fritt-fram-agerande. Rimlig dom från hovrätten.