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  1. How the heck did Air Canada almost land on a taxiway? What was going on in that cockpit I wonder

    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/07/11/air-canada-flight-nearly-lands-on-taxiway-at-san-francisco-airport.html

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      It's also the reason SFO is such a disaster in poor weather. As soon as IFR approaches are required, it becomes a one runway airport.

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  2. How the heck did Air Canada almost land on a taxiway? What was going on in that cockpit I wonder

    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/07/11/air-canada-flight-nearly-lands-on-taxiway-at-san-francisco-airport.html

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      That's how it is done but they tell you to expect the sidestep beforehand. The runways are too close for parallel approaches so it allows them to run aircraft much closer together on the same approach. Seems to me that it was always the approach to 26R with a sidestep to 26L. From the article it looks like he lined up on the taxi way to the right of 26R. I don't get that.

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  3. How the heck did Air Canada almost land on a taxiway? What was going on in that cockpit I wonder

    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/07/11/air-canada-flight-nearly-lands-on-taxiway-at-san-francisco-airport.html

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      I wonder. Not easy to confuse a runway with a taxi way at night in good visibility. Don't know how familiar you are with SFO but the parallels are very close together and it is common practice to fly the ILS on one runway then be side stepped to the other inside the marker.

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  4. Passport Canada has metal benches for its waiting room. METAL. What private sector business would put metal benches in its waiting room?

  5. Passport Canada has metal benches for its waiting room. METAL. What private sector business would put metal benches in its waiting room?

  6. This forum is a cesspool of rightwing bigots and conspiracy wing-nuts. 

  7. Putin is smarter than Trump or Obama.

  8. Hahahahahaha...Oh.....the freakin' double-standard, bias and moronic media.

      They're freaking out because of Trump's latest video showing him pummeling a man with CNN super-imposed on his face.  They say he's promoting violence against journalists!  :D

    So they say he should at least respect Independence Day week-end.  Why the importance of this particular week-end?  It's about freedom.  Because of free expression!  rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-smiley-emo

     

    So....everyone can freely express themselves.....except Trump!  sarcastic-laugh-smiley-emoticon.gif

  9. Hahahahahaha...Oh.....the freakin' double-standard, bias and moronic media.

      They're freaking out because of Trump's latest video showing him pummeling a man with CNN super-imposed on his face.  They say he's promoting violence against journalists!  :D

    So they say he should at least respect Independence Day week-end.  Why the importance of this particular week-end?  It's about freedom.  Because of free expression!  rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-smiley-emo

     

    So....everyone can freely express themselves.....except Trump!  sarcastic-laugh-smiley-emoticon.gif

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      It's nice that people want to come here but no JT, I'm not jealous of them and I don't feel guilty about being born here. Just grateful.

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  10. OK, Watching the news today...Obama didn't care about the Russians because he thought Hillary would win?  And the media makes this OK?

  11. Pro tip kids: if you smell like pot & you tell a police officer you're carrying a gun, keep your hands on the steering wheel and don't immediately reach for anything including your wallet.

  12. If a brown man had of been driving the van in London, automatically "terrorist attack". Hours later after a white man drives over people exiting a mosque, "Oh we're not really sure" 

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      I don't see any difference either but I think maybe we are in danger of making "terrorist" too broad a definition. I don't have a problem with police doing due diligence before applying that label in every case, not just this one.

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  13. If a brown man had of been driving the van in London, automatically "terrorist attack". Hours later after a white man drives over people exiting a mosque, "Oh we're not really sure" 

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      Motive is what defines an attack as terrorist. Most incidents of nut cases intentionally running over pedestrians aren't terrorist attacks. Unlike the previous two attacks, this guy didn't jump out and start stabbing people. I don't think the police were out of line in not broadcasting an immediate conclusion, regardless of what they might have initially thought.

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  14. Sen. McCain...   poster child for term limits.  

  15. Is wondering why Comey isn't being grilled for destroying Hillary's campaign in the last days of the election cycle.

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      Actually, Trump has a history of ditching people who have served their purpose. Christie, Giuliani etc.

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  16. Liberals finally unveil their big defense policy. No new money until sometime after the next election - maybe.

  17. Police will be on London Bridge to keep it safe.  What about the rest of UK?  :rolleyes:

     

    Don't you get it?  The terrorists are inside your country....among you.....in your midst....... anywhere......

     

    Sadly, there's not much you can do.

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      You are exchanging it for free access to every other country in the EU. You are not being dictated to. 

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  18. Police will be on London Bridge to keep it safe.  What about the rest of UK?  :rolleyes:

     

    Don't you get it?  The terrorists are inside your country....among you.....in your midst....... anywhere......

     

    Sadly, there's not much you can do.

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      It works both ways, all the citizens of EU members have the right to travel and work in any EU country. It is about making people more free, not dictating to nations. Improvements need to be made in how people are allowed into the EU itself, not individual countries.

      Anyway, with BREXIT this will become a non issue for the UK, but so will all the advantages of EU membership.

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  19. Police will be on London Bridge to keep it safe.  What about the rest of UK?  :rolleyes:

     

    Don't you get it?  The terrorists are inside your country....among you.....in your midst....... anywhere......

     

    Sadly, there's not much you can do.

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      If he was an EU citizen, he had freedom of movement within the EU.

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  20. Police will be on London Bridge to keep it safe.  What about the rest of UK?  :rolleyes:

     

    Don't you get it?  The terrorists are inside your country....among you.....in your midst....... anywhere......

     

    Sadly, there's not much you can do.

    1. Wilber

      Wilber

      They're monitoring 3000 people but only a very small percentage of them will actually try anything. The trick is figuring out which ones.

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  21. Seventy two years ago now men were dying on the beaches of Normandy.

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