No. He’s just a war criminal involved in overthrowing democratically elected governments/presidents in other countries, organizing and supporting military coups and causing suffer and death of many innocent people. If that’s called diplomacy then Putin is diplomat as well.
Airborne_Again wrote:
Please. Covid-19 did not mean the end of civilization as we know it which was repeatedly claimed by some in this forum.
It did not do that but still, the damage is severe, both with regards to health and what it did to society. And it is far from reality that it’s over. It is out of the press coverage and mainly people shut it out of their concience, but to claim it’s over or even won over is far from the truth. The fact that people who still urge caution and who still dedicate their lives to research to see how we can keep it at bay are threatened and treated and called names just proves the point. Denial is easier.
LeSving wrote:
You seem to have a very gloomy view on the future on most things, but you are always proven wrong in the end
You know what, I could not be happier if I was proven wrong. But simply denying stuff or negating probabilities doesn’t make them go away.
It’s funny. Prior to February 24 2022, right up to the first shots fired, there was a huge majority of folks claiming “Putin won’t dare to invade”. Those who said he would were poh-pooed.
Now the same thing exists for the more unpleasant probabilities where this war will go. Most people go “what can’t be won’t be”. Like a year ago. No Putin won’t invade. Only, Putin did invade and quite a few people’s world view turned upside down. Yet, the denial continues.
LeSving wrote:
My point was that some day the Ukraine war will be over. And just like Corona, the world will keep on going as if nothing has happened.
As if nothing has happened? Really? Interesting outlook on events which cost millions of lifes and which continue and will continue to affect our daily lifes for probably the rest of our lifespan… And why should the world go on like before, when there was a clear potential to actually learn and make things better? Because it’s easier to deny it ever happened?
LeSving wrote:
Clearly draconianism doesn’t help one bit. What is there to learn? With Covid the only thing to learn is that life will go on, and that hysteria doesn’t make life better in any way.
Indeed. If anything was learned from the pandemic it was that there was no correlation between the outcome in terms of death rates and the harshness of the measures. The damage draconian measures did to the economy (which in itself costs lives) and not the least to the future of children who lost much of their school time will not be fully appreciated for years to come.
Yes, if everyone had washed hands and put on a mask, airline flying could have gone on without parking the global fleet and causing major ramifications.
Snoopy wrote:
Yes, if everyone had washed hands and put on a mask, airline flying could have gone on without parking the global fleet and causing major ramifications.
Would help keeping the flu down as well.
Airborne_Again wrote:
The damage draconian measures did to the economy (which in itself costs lives) and not the least to the future of children who lost much of their school time will not be fully appreciated for years to come.
The damage the fact that Covid was not contained when it first popped up will not be fully appreciated ever probably, as it goes as accepted “fact” that this was “too harsh” and “impossible”. Long Covid, long term effects on the body and not least the absolute disastrous change in popular perception of vaccinations will cause many diseases which have died out to come back. Not to mention the effect the division has caused in society.
Ah yes. And the message is clear as well to anyone who considers using biological warfare. It would be a perfect weapon to decimate the population in Europe and the US as any measures are looked at as tin-foil-hat stuff and nobody gives a fart.
From here?
Ibra wrote:
I am sure @pilotrobbie know how to deal with these, he goes regularly into COHOR airports and maybe he has some tips
We get this into Amsterdam (EHAM), which is strict on slots. They even operationally try to manage arrival times over their inbound fixes. For example going into Amsterdam, when you get near the German border the Radar controller can already tell you “Approach would like to have you at ARTIP at 1105”, in a GA aircraft you then have 30 to 45 minutes still to go.
For arrival slots I usually file a cruise speed at 70% power instead of 75%. When everything goes according to plan, just fly the 70%. When you’re a bit behind, speed up with 75% power. Gives you some space to work with.
There are 2 choices in life.
With EDNY you have no choice.
Peter wrote:
There are 2 choices in life.
One more Peter… ok, maybe not for you after all 
I agree with that too, and do it a lot 
You just can’t do that under IFR, etc.
Peter wrote:
Fly to places where ATC do the job they are paid for.
I don’t know if your comment was motivated by Thomas28’s post, but trying to “operationally … manage arrival times over their inbound fixes” at a heavily congested airport is, IMO exactly one of the jobs ATC is paid to do.
