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> no excuses

Airplanes don't pay any attention to excuses. The only way to fly is do it perfectly, every time.


> You expect this behaviour from a first-timer in the sim, not a commercial cargo pilot.

I'm curious - are commercial pilots reprimanded for doing a go-round after messing up the approach?


No. They might have to say why they went around but they can't be punished for it (that's a great way to open yourself up to liability even stripping away all of the human elements). And I can't imagine any reason that an airline would truly care since they don't want their planes crashing so they don't want to discourage pilots from going around if they need to do so. The delay incurred is usually fairly small anyways, maybe 20-30 minutes.

However I will say that the majority of unstable approaches (97%!!) do continue to landing: https://flightsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Go-aroun...

...but I think that most of these unstable approaches are likely marginally unstable and only in one dimension. This landing was so far outside the realm of normal it's actually mind boggling that it actually happened. Pilots are trained to immediately go around without questioning it if many of the things that happened on this flight occur (such as not being in landing configuration well before touching down!)


No, they're reprimanded for continuing.

https://skybrary.aero/tutorials/stabilised-approach


The most ridiculous one was a poster who claimed that MCAS would run the trim at double the rate of the trim switches.

The trim motors only have 2 speeds - on and off.


Somebody's got to work. Look at all the nice goodies we have.

I miss the 70's when I was in high school. I had a great time. It's one reason why I drive a '72 Dodge. I feel like a kid in it every time.

> the point of life is to explore and have fun and have human to human experiences

Not really. The point of life is successful reproduction. Because without it, we cease to exist. It wasn't that long ago when humans spent their entire lives struggling to live and protect their children.


In my experience, reproduction and child rearing is fun, and it also is a human to human experience.

Having children does make people happy.

> Children have no concept of violence or empathy or right or wrong

This is not correct. I remember having a sense of shame when I was 4 when I tried to hurt another kid. Kids will also hide the things they do wrong, because they know it is wrong.


> because they know it is wrong

Or they know they'll be told it was wrong. Children start knowing nothing then they slowly absorb what they're told again and again, and what they see around them until they feel it. They go from knowing nothing, to knowing what the adults told them, to internalizing that and feeling it rather than just knowing it (maybe these 2 concepts fully overlap in other people's minds).

But until they do get all of that, they'll spend a lot of time plucking wings off of insects, burning ants with a magnifying glass, pulling the cat by the tail, or throwing rocks at dogs and frogs.


That simply was not true for me.

How could it be possible for anyone to accurately reflect on the mechanisms shaping their emotional reaction to a specific situation when they were 4 years old? It should be transparently obvious that this is unknowable. First, by the time we begin to form memories, these influences have already been shaping us for months to years. Second, even if at 4 years old you remembered every moment from birth to now, you still wouldn't have the ability to actually reflect on all that data. Most adults aren't even capable of reflecting accurately on the influences affecting their current decisions!

> ... because they know it is wrong

No. They hide the things they do wrong because they learnt there are consequences and they dont want to get caught.


Not my experience.

I accidentally killed a baby bird when I was little. It still hurts when I think about it.

Some kids are indeed savages. But not all of us.


No, not all kids are a little sociopaths. They in fact hide things they have no experience of being reprimanded or punished for, because they feel bad about them. Kids do care about other kids, animals or adults in their lives. They do feel empathy - underdeveloped and sometimes weird, but they display it very clearly.

And they do care about right and wrong.


Not true. For every medical condition, there are a very large number of treatment options, with a wide variety of efficacy, pain, and cost.

For example, I bet you could enumerate plenty of weight loss options off the top of your head.


Let me know where I can find all that competition for surgery

A good doctor will present many options for you. I had hernia surgery a while ago. I went over the options with the surgeon, the varying surgical methods used, including doing nothing about it.

Medicine is not "if A then B".


> I will find out for myself how much of a backbone software engineers etc have when I employ them.

You're in for a rude awakening.


Am I?

I’ve worked with them and did a comp sci degree years ago. I’ve got enough exposure.

However I want to see given what is happening in the world now - are they still weak and feeble?


Being an employer means you will find out. Employees are not weak and feeble. They quit all the time for more money elsewhere, or just don't want to work. And there's NOTHING you, as employer, can do about it.

Old soviet joke:

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under socialism, it's the other way around!

Myself, I always exploited my employers by extracting money from them.


I learned to hate corpo jobs less by thinking of them as "farming gold out of a megacorp". Of course I'm losing my ability to do even that, as sloppotrons beat half-century-old grognards every damn time.

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