@ZssBecker I listened to Ben. Still bought IBIT calls and sold cash secured puts in early February. Now I’m all cash again after a nice profit. Also DCA a bit on spot BTC, but I’ve stopped for now. Not being an idiot is a choice, really.
I’m making “claims about your knowledge” because you have claimed that there will be a technological way around this. There isn’t. 4300’ is the physical distance required for traffic separation. There is no way around it other than expanding the footprint of the runway layout at SFO. I know that because I’m a professional pilot that has operated out of the Bay Area for decades. You go on to make claims about the Bay Area’s history, economy and conservation actions that are all extremely inaccurate. Speaking someone who grew up in the SF Bay Area and is involved professionally in aviation it’s clear to me that everything you said was inaccurate or had a political-left bias. Instead of looking at things through a policial lens I’d suggest looking at the practical reality that is required due to safety regulations.
You said all recent incidents were due to 47s term. That is not the case at all. A staffing and capacity crisis has been developing for decades due to lack of infrastructure investment in airports and ATC. I don’t care about “Orange Man Bad” I care about safety. Decades of not training new controllers and horrible staffing issues will lead to incidents and accidents. Chalking it up to whoever is in office is idiotic.
Now you’ve gone off the deep end blaming a multi decade ATC staffing crisis on Trump. Yes, yes. Orange man bad. However there is no technology or savior for SFO the runways need to be 4300’ apart. They are 750’ apart. The only way to do that is fill in a small portion of the Bay. We get that the SF Bay Area has been absolutely infested by east coast liberals since the 1960s and it’s great you enjoy the spot. Howecer, your lack of history on the area is astounding. There have been multiple plans to fix this issue. All of them involved filling in a small portion of the Bay for a massive wetland improvement in another larger and more environmentally significant part of the Bay. All of those plans had detailed reports on the current environmental quality of the Bay in the portions that would need to be filled to expand SFOs footprint to handle simultaneous, parallel approaches in IMC.
You only quoted part of what I said. Making it seem like I said that conservationist screwed over the entire Bay Area. That is not true but with SFO arrivals down to 30 flights an hour from 60 at all times the Bay Area no longer has a meaningful international airport.
You then go on to say that somehow hobbling the airport which is a major hub for United Airlines and serves many others is worth it to protect a small amount of polluted mudflats in order to halt the east-west runways from being the required distance from each other to operate simultaneous approaches.
Airports are a critical infrastructure for a flourishing economy and growth for the SF Bay Area and California. Conservationists have now succeeded in reducing SFOs capacity by 1/2. This will have a tremendous economic impact on the entire region. Many will lose their jobs.
There are many solutions that could be implemented to allow SFO to expand and improve the environment. Areas that are salt ponds could be restored to wetlands and traded at a 10:1 ratio to allow SFO to use a small amount of fill to meet the minimum distance between runways and allow the normal arrival traffic for the airport. But this is all prevented by law. A law put in place by conservationists. Specifically Save the Bay.
If you think that destroying the economy of an entire region is worth a few acres of polluted mudflats that’s your view. But this entire issue could have been solved with a compromise. One that could have restored much more wetlands and actually had a meaningful positive impact on the environment. Rather than a law that conservationists knew would render SFO all but useless as an international gateway and forever trap it as a small domestic satellite airport. The impact from this law will have a massive negative economic effect on the entire area.
@emiliecole@pitdesi You’re paraphrasing that I was insinuating that “conservationists screwed over the entire Bay Area.” You even put it in quotation marks. I never said that. It’s completely inaccurate and disingenuous. AKA a logical fallacy and a personal attack.
@emiliecole@pitdesi If you want to talk about the red herring logic fallacy you’ve aptly demonstrated it here. I never said that so you can add in ad hominem as well. Most would acknowledge that running the only international airport in the region into the ground isn’t a great idea but you do you.
@genesisyepez20@pitdesi Growth has been limited since the 1980s. By conservationists. SFO just lost the waiver to allow parallel approaches in VFR conditions. As a professional pilot I can tell you that waiver was only delaying the inevitable.
@emiliecole@pitdesi No. Conservationists screwed over the entire Bay Area from a real useful international airport. Anyone that’s waited hours for their flight to depart late knows not to use SFO during the summer. When it’s foggy. In San Francisco 🤣 Now it’s like that all the time.
Red herring? Every airport that does simultaneous approaches requires a certain width between runways. SFO doesn’t have it. SFO can only run simultaneous approaches when the ceiling is above 1800’. It was mandated by law that this mandatory width can never be achieved and that was put in place by conservationists. All facts my dude.