In the new airliner thriller on Netflix, it shows Jason Bateman's character going to the rear galley, pulling up a rug, finding a panel and climbing down into the cargo hold. Is this just how big planes work?

White house announced they believe the majority of the drone sightings were civilian or military drones. Will this sub re-evaluate after numerous posts claiming they were all passenger aircraft?

The seizure destroyed me. It was 4 months after I graduated with my aviation science/professional pilot degree. I was going to be a captain of a jumbo jet and live the life.

I was told by the FAA the next day I will never fly again.

Every once and I while I dream that the rules will change.

I'm now 43 and hope they have.

Here's my periodic 10 year ish check in to the community well-aware that my vulnerable heart will probably hear what it already knows.

So here goes nothing:

Any news?

I was out railfanning a little north of Las Vegas and was able to catch this AWACS plane land at Nellis. I always liked the big dinner plate on top looks wacky.

Here the link to the Interview where DHS Sec Mayorkas says this: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mayorkas-federal-authorities-addressing-new-jersey-drone-sightings/story?id=116798039

Now I understand what he is saying, and his entire statement is just making clear that SOME of the sightings have been drones and SOME are just planes.

But I'm sorry this use of language is completely incompatible with the reality and creates the illusion of a 50:50 drone: plane sightings. Where the proper statement would have been "very few, maybe a handful have been drones, and nearly 5000 have been everyday aircraft." Instead the DHS Sec chose this wording, which I am sorry, is dangerous, it enables a group of absolute morons online to think they are indeed on to something, and will only explode this hysteria even further. And this hysteria is not without true danger, FAA statements show that laser incidents are on a sharp rise.

Is Mayorkas not aware the President Elect told people to shoot down these "drones"? Surely he is, why is he being so infuriatingly reckless with his use of language.

It is true there have been drones, a Chinese national was indeed arrested last week for using a drone near Vandenberg AFB.

But People online are oogling at a crappy photo of a helicopter, some speculating that a giant white orb in the sky is re-energizing the drones, from a blurry video that (an I'm sorry if I offend) was clearly the goddamn moon with a 50$ commercial drone flying in front of it filmed on a crappy iphone. And millions are loosing their minds over this. 98% of sightings are definitively everyday aircraft, everyone here knows it within milliseconds. 1% are CGI or simply faked, like the drone in front of the white orb mothership otherwise known as the fucking moon. And yet the New York Post (a shitty ass newspaper but people read it) say "Alejandro Mayorkas insists NJ drones are no big deal — there’s ZERO reason to believe him", major news agencies (WSJ, AP, NYT, Fox News, CNN) are still promoting this mystery for money I guess, and millions online are seething at fucking plane-spotting videos. And the Fed's response EMBOLDENS THEM?!?!? Even the background video on this interview shows commercial airliners and the implication is "drone? thoughts?."

I will thank Reuters for making it clear that less than 100 sightings warranted further investigation.

How did we get here? I'm asking the last bastion of sanity online, what the heck is happening? At least its raining in NJ so at least they'll shutup for one night.

My opinion is that this is stupidity to the power of 3 (average joe stupidity * government stupidity * journalistic stupidity) mixed with a lil bit of grifting. But I wanna know what y'all think.

I wanted to share my experience of flying into ATL as a relatively low hours pilot and not native English speaker.

I flew into ATL in a Cessna 150 with a friend (low hours pilot as well). We both arrived there with less than 150 flight hours and was our first B airport, but found it easier than most C

The day before we called TRACON, they said that it was not a problem to come in a slow plane like a C150 and that to be on a VFR plan was better because they could manage us more freely. During the approach they vectored us and then made us follow a 737 landing. We kept 100 MPH of indicated airspeed but on short final slowed down and also put flaps. Landed on 8L, so short taxi to the FBO. Landing fee was not bad, something like 40$, that could have been waved with a purchase of 10 Gal of fuel.

When departing we had no major problem, called delivery and requested flight following. Taxi to 8R was not so long and only waited like 5-10 minutes before the take-off.

Overall it was a great experience, controllers were really professional and the whole system really efficient.

I'm about to finish my PPL and am looking for my first plane. I've been mainly looking at experimental LSA due to their utility and gas efficiency. My mission would only require two seats and a useful load of about 500-600 lbs. My budget would be 120k-160k and im looking for a tricycle config with IFR and IMC capability along with a BRS/frame parachute + Some kind of Garmin GX3 Avionics not a big fan of Dynon Skyview. I've found a few options that fill out some of these requirements but not all besides the Tecnam linked below which has been sold. I've trained in a few models of C172 Skyhawks and plan to start IFR as soon as I get my own plane.

https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Single+Engine+Piston&make=CESSNA&model=162+SKYCATCHER&listing_id=2437108&s-type=aircraft

https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Single+Engine+Piston&make=TECNAM&model=P2002+SIERRA&listing_id=2430657&s-type=aircraft

I was unable to find a vintage aviation sub on here, but I am the daughter of a dad who loves airplanes and has worked on them his whole life. For Christmas I was thinking to find him some vintage aviation magazines that could be cool for him to look through or have as coffee table books. I've done some scouring on Ebay but am not sure what the "good" or cool magazines are for aviation lovers. I know his favorite planes are the F-4, Sr-71, and the a-10 so if theres some old magazines that include two or more of them in one that would be perfect. Was also thinking of getting an edition released in October 1967, his bday month/year.

Was hoping there may be some people in this sub that could point me in the right direction or tell me if this is a bad Christmas gift idea! Thanks!

I served in the German Air Force.

We had many out-phased Starfighter wing tip tanks laying around. That got me the idea to use them front halves for converting into a bar, and the tip I converted into nice active speakers.

I added roller bearings in the joint between the tip and the tube section, so I can "open" and "close" the bar.

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Portugal.

Friend of mine says he saw a group of F-14s flying about but that's impossible because the only flying F-14s are with Iran right? Are there actually air worthy F-14s in the UK (that aren't in museums)?

Was riding in an A321neo yesterday, and after we landed and were taxiing to the gate, I could hear these short "squeals" in clusters of 2-3 at a time coming from below the floor. I was seated in row 22, so I was pretty much in the center over the wings. The sound was like a short burst of hydraulics operating, like a jackscrew operator. (Movable) flight surfaces had already been retracted, so I know it wasn't them.

Any idea what I was hearing?