Dettweiler42

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

MD was going out of business. Boeing bought them, but for some reason put the executives from MD in charge of Boeing after the merger. Boeing is now prioritizing cost savings over quality, cutting down worker and training, and has been suffering from quality issues since the merger.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I feel like I'm saying this on an almost weekly occurrence:
McDonnel-Douglas ruined Boeing.

Aside from that, it's more appropriate to call them McBoeing these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It would take a metric buttload of things going wrong for that condition to happen. There are a lot of sensors tied to detecting that the aircraft is on the ground, and the system fails safe in air mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The CVR starts recording when the engines start running, and goes until both engines shut down with weight on wheels. It does not start recording when the aircraft has electrical power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Modern ones are solid state and the owner can choose how long they want to record for. Most ETOPS aircraft will record for much longer than 2 hours. I believe my airline records for 25 hours, even though our aircraft are not based in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Boeing doesn't have to fulfill that requirement. The CVR manufacturers will. Most likely it's Honeywell or L3. Boeing will just have to install upgraded CVRs on new aircraft, while airlines will need to update if the FAA ever gets around to updating the requirements.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

CS:GO cosmetics appear to be obtained by gambling with real money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I refuse. 18-20% is for outstanding service, not normal service. Personally, I would rather see tipping go away

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

We want German tight (gutentight), not Russian tight (brokenov)!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The real struggle was explaining the input button to your parents afterwards, and how your video games did not break the TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Latest batch of drivers has them competing against the mid-range current-gen cards. They're putting in the work to really start throwing punches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Being sick AF. People came into work sick because of our asinine sick policy, and now they're better while I've been bed ridden for 3 days.

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