Falcke

[Kama @Kama_Kamilia]

A street full of grown men the second they hear a helicopter

[Kama @Kama_Kamilia]

Martin Baker as soon as an airframe hits the ground and the chute is in the sky

[Jet Fucker @JetFucker_]

aviation community has rotted me why did i see a fucking blackbird

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Hoy es el dia de star wars
Y como olvidar cuando obi wan cayo a la rioja, se metio en la casa de unos vecinos y se puso a comer guiso

Ni el imperio entra ahí

[Славян @SlavAesthetics]

You will never be her

[Viking Rob @VikingRobVWO]

I saw a C-17

[El Oráculo de Trenque Lauquen @laromadelsur]

si no te gusta el Espacio antes que nada sos un trolo, no sos hombre, no sos occidental, no sos blanco y menos aún heterosexual.. sos la definición mas plena de una pussy.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.

Both pilots are dead.

Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.

A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.

The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.

The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.

Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.

Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.

The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.

The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.

The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”

One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

[Sergio Hidalgo @SergioHidalAERO]

La verdad es que yo percibo un nivel intelectual bajismo en los comentarios de tiktok comparado con otras redes sociales. En el mismo vídeo pero en distintas plataformas la diferencia en comentarios es notable

[doomer @uncledoomer]

this week has been like Christmas for aviation autists

[Tobilandia @tobilandias]

Nos re hicimos los boludos con el tema de que no hubo mosquitos este verano

[leyva @LeyvaCFM_]

cuando ya sientes esa brisa de marzo y sabes que vienen días mejores

[Take Testosterone @maxyourtest]

Monitoring situations you’ve never even heard of

[Andrei Serbin Pont @SerbinPont]

¿Quién apagó los radares? Permíteme presentarte a nuestro amigo Growler:

[Mortífago del Hombre Gris @BrianLPBlue]

EL 2026 (van a penas 3 días)

[Spike @spikesguides]

This is how Redditors must feel when they watch a Marvel movie and all their favorite action figures show up.