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    1 hour ago

    Breaking news: Pilot dragged out of the cockpit by swat team because of false bomb reporting by air traffic controller.

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    11 hours ago

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  • Apeman42@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Report: 42% of commercial pilots confirm being given tower instructions to “do a barrel roll”.

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    21 hours ago

    People have other skills , people can enjoy video games and be good for aviation. This doesn’t mean one equals another. The US government is basically a monkey trying to fuck a football …

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    20 hours ago

    If you’ve been on the various Flight Simulator networks like VATSIM and IVAO, you’d know plenty of gamers would quickly transition to IRL ATC with minimal additional training. And they’re used to handling some seriously chaotic and dumb shit with a straight face and perfect protocol.

    Check some vids or people’s ATC setups on /r/flightsim

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    20 hours ago

    AirForceProud could run a whole airport by himself.

    He would just have to watch out for hot-air balloons doing Mach 3.

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    How do we prevent further incidents like this from occurring?

    Assemble an army of g*mers.

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      18 hours ago

      When you Air Traffic Controler tells you to drop 10K feet and enter the landing pattern but you do it wrong and they start waxing poetic about fucking your mom. /s

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    16 hours ago

    There are some hardcore people in the aviation video game space. I’m sure there’s 2000 people in the country who are fully qualified to be an ATC that learned it from a hyper realistic simulator.