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I try not to over think why I like planes so much.
Its just so neat to see no plane and then the ATC say "784" turn your transponder on please"
"Oh, sorry"
Then on ADSB, you see the flight appear. Its callsign is just numbers which is a little strange for a passenger flight.
Then you see the callsign change to the correct one.
Just one of those days I guess haha. All is well. Controller is calm, nice and on top of things. Don't know why I enjoy this but I do.
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I try not to over think why I like planes so much.
Its just so neat to see no plane and then the ATC say "784" turn your transponder on please"
"Oh, sorry"
Then on ADSB, you see the flight appear. Its callsign is just numbers which is a little strange for a passenger flight.
Then you see the callsign change to the correct one.
Just one of those days I guess haha. All is well. Controller is calm, nice and on top of things. Don't know why I enjoy this but I do.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@AirportStatusBot/116859041162745332
Ooooof. Lots of weather in the east causing big delays all over right now #Aviation #EWR
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@AirportStatusBot/116859041162745332
Ooooof. Lots of weather in the east causing big delays all over right now #Aviation #EWR
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Okay the current controller sounds like he is about to conk out and it is making me a lil nervous. Can y'all send some energizing vibes towards #EWR for me? #ChillyATCAdventures
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Okay the current controller sounds like he is about to conk out and it is making me a lil nervous. Can y'all send some energizing vibes towards #EWR for me? #ChillyATCAdventures
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Wer hatte das nicht erwartet? #Microsoft verlängert #Windows10 #ESU für Privatleute um 1 Jahr auf Oktober 2027 - inne #EWR dann gratis ...
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Wer hatte das nicht erwartet? #Microsoft verlängert #Windows10 #ESU für Privatleute um 1 Jahr auf Oktober 2027 - inne #EWR dann gratis ...
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How many runways can you see for Newark Liberty International airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kewr/en #newarklibertyinternationalairport #airport #newark #usa #kewr #ewr #aviation #avgeek vl
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How many runways can you see for Newark Liberty International airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kewr/en #newarklibertyinternationalairport #airport #newark #usa #kewr #ewr #aviation #avgeek vl
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Flights to nowhere can be fun
I hadn’t planned on my brief visit to Vancouver for Web Summit’s second annual conference there to include any flying between my landing at Vancouver International Airport Monday and my departure from YVR Thursday morning. But sometimes, your event schedule has a gap just large enough for somebody to pilot a floatplane through.
That idea of taking an aerial tour of Vancouver got lodged in my head at Web Summit Vancouver last May–when I found myself distracted by aircraft departing from and arriving at Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre, next to the convention center and its bitmapped-orca Douglas Coupland sculpture.
And as I was nearing the end of my first five appointments on an overscheduled Tuesday, I realized that a) I had almost two hours before my next appointment and b) the weather looked ideal for flying, at least compared to Wednesday morning’s forecast of clouds and possibly rain. So I booked a 20-minute tour flight on Harbour Air’s site at what seemed a workable time before I had to walk a few blocks away for an offsite panel.
The flight on this 67-year-old de Havilland DHC-3T Turbine Otter was what I hoped and expected it to be, going from my experience taking a floatplane ride above Seattle out of Lake Union 13 years ago. Taking to the air and returning from it without solid ground below the wing feels like cheating at flying; being in a plane small enough where you can see the pilot adjust the controls and almost immediately see and feel the aircraft respond provides an extraordinary demonstration of aerodynamics at work; the views from a large and non-pressurized window maybe 1,000 feet above ground are magical.
(The timing of this particular flight was less than magical, in the sense that it seemed that Harbour consolidated its 3 and 3:15 p.m. tour flights into one that departed at 3:20 and then left me hustling to get to my panel. I’ll expand on my avoidable scheduling fail in this Sunday’s weekly recap.)
Avgeeks sometimes call out-and-back bookings like this “flights to nowhere,”1 and I’ve now taken enough of them to realize I may have a bit of a flying problem.
My introduction, as far as I can remember, took place at a 1997 air show at College Park’s airport–the oldest continuously-operated airfield in the world–at which I recall paying $20 in cash for a flight in what years-later searching suggests was a Stearman Model 75 Kaydet biplane.
I then went almost 16 years before the next such flight, my Lake Union joyride–and then followed that days later with a balloon excursion above Sonoma County, Calif., that remains my slowest-ever aviation experience.
2014 bought a work-related flight to nowhere, a hop out of Austin during SXSW on the inflight WiFi operator Gogo’s business jet. That company invited me to try out the ground-to-air connectivity on this Canadair CL-600 by texting people, so I taunted a friend on the ground with “I’m texting you from a private jet. How are you?” and got the reply I deserved.
I had another Gogo flight to AUS and back in 2016 on the 737-500 that Gogo had acquired in the meantime, on which I saw a travel journalist successfully ask the pilots for a chance to experience takeoff in the cockpit jumpseat. That led me to make the same request before another Gogo flight on that 737 in 2017, treating me to an EWR-departure experience unlike any other.
In 2019, a friend took my wife and I on a tour above Sonoma County in his Diamond Star DA40 single-engine, four-seat aircraft. That remains my smallest-plane experience, and the only one in which I got to touch the controls. Briefly.
In 2021, I had my loudest-plane experience when I spent $450 to fly on a 1945-vintage B-25 bomber out of Hagerstown, Md., my only flight to date to allow a view from a tail gunner’s seat.
And in 2023, JSX treated me and other invited journalists to a DAL-DAL hop to try out Starlink WiFi on an Embraer 145.
The last two years tacked on ORD-ORD and LAX-LAX flights courtesy of United Airlines to test their deployment of Starlink on an Embraer 175 and then a Boeing 737. And with this week’s joyride above British Columbia’s metropolis, I have to accept that I’ve developed a moderately expensive habit here.
Which is okay with me.
- The bad kind of “flight to nowhere” involves a long-haul international flight that experiences some sort of malfunction that requires returning to the departure airport, even if that requires backtracking across much of an ocean. ↩︎
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Flights to nowhere can be fun
I hadn’t planned on my brief visit to Vancouver for Web Summit’s second annual conference there to include any flying between my landing at Vancouver International Airport Monday and my departure from YVR Thursday morning. But sometimes, your event schedule has a gap just large enough for somebody to pilot a floatplane through.
That idea of taking an aerial tour of Vancouver got lodged in my head at Web Summit Vancouver last May–when I found myself distracted by aircraft departing from and arriving at Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre, next to the convention center and its bitmapped-orca Douglas Coupland sculpture.
And as I was nearing the end of my first five appointments on an overscheduled Tuesday, I realized that a) I had almost two hours before my next appointment and b) the weather looked ideal for flying, at least compared to Wednesday morning’s forecast of clouds and possibly rain. So I booked a 20-minute tour flight on Harbour Air’s site at what seemed a workable time before I had to walk a few blocks away for an offsite panel.
The flight on this 67-year-old de Havilland DHC-3T Turbine Otter was what I hoped and expected it to be, going from my experience taking a floatplane ride above Seattle out of Lake Union 13 years ago. Taking to the air and returning from it without solid ground below the wing feels like cheating at flying; being in a plane small enough where you can see the pilot adjust the controls and almost immediately see and feel the aircraft respond provides an extraordinary demonstration of aerodynamics at work; the views from a large and non-pressurized window maybe 1,000 feet above ground are magical.
(The timing of this particular flight was less than magical, in the sense that it seemed that Harbour consolidated its 3 and 3:15 p.m. tour flights into one that departed at 3:20 and then left me hustling to get to my panel. I’ll expand on my avoidable scheduling fail in this Sunday’s weekly recap.)
Avgeeks sometimes call out-and-back bookings like this “flights to nowhere,”1 and I’ve now taken enough of them to realize I may have a bit of a flying problem.
My introduction, as far as I can remember, took place at a 1997 air show at College Park’s airport–the oldest continuously-operated airfield in the world–at which I recall paying $20 in cash for a flight in what years-later searching suggests was a Stearman Model 75 Kaydet biplane.
I then went almost 16 years before the next such flight, my Lake Union joyride–and then followed that days later with a balloon excursion above Sonoma County, Calif., that remains my slowest-ever aviation experience.
2014 bought a work-related flight to nowhere, a hop out of Austin during SXSW on the inflight WiFi operator Gogo’s business jet. That company invited me to try out the ground-to-air connectivity on this Canadair CL-600 by texting people, so I taunted a friend on the ground with “I’m texting you from a private jet. How are you?” and got the reply I deserved.
I had another Gogo flight to AUS and back in 2016 on the 737-500 that Gogo had acquired in the meantime, on which I saw a travel journalist successfully ask the pilots for a chance to experience takeoff in the cockpit jumpseat. That led me to make the same request before another Gogo flight on that 737 in 2017, treating me to an EWR-departure experience unlike any other.
In 2019, a friend took my wife and I on a tour above Sonoma County in his Diamond Star DA40 single-engine, four-seat aircraft. That remains my smallest-plane experience, and the only one in which I got to touch the controls. Briefly.
In 2021, I had my loudest-plane experience when I spent $450 to fly on a 1945-vintage B-25 bomber out of Hagerstown, Md., my only flight to date to allow a view from a tail gunner’s seat.
And in 2023, JSX treated me and other invited journalists to a DAL-DAL hop to try out Starlink WiFi on an Embraer 145.
The last two years tacked on ORD-ORD and LAX-LAX flights courtesy of United Airlines to test their deployment of Starlink on an Embraer 175 and then a Boeing 737. And with this week’s joyride above British Columbia’s metropolis, I have to accept that I’ve developed a moderately expensive habit here.
Which is okay with me.
- The bad kind of “flight to nowhere” involves a long-haul international flight that experiences some sort of malfunction that requires returning to the departure airport, even if that requires backtracking across much of an ocean. ↩︎
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Newark Airport's $10 Billion Transformation Is Actually Insane (in a good way)
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Newark is being a bit more specific about wind sheer after the accident.
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I guess I was right as a kid to be worried about how low the planes fly over the #NJTurnpike when landing at #EWR.
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I guess I was right as a kid to be worried about how low the planes fly over the #NJTurnpike when landing at #EWR.
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Can't sleep so going through detections. Favorite ATC is up with me. She has probably the best pronunciation/speed ratio IMO and often has to give this fast instructions since she is working combined positions. I think I got most of it?
We should stop doing combined positions as a country but good luck filling all those slots with an ATC shortage.
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Oh my Lord. The plane his a tractor trailer.
#ewr #united #ua169 #NJTurnpike #LightPole -
Oh my Lord. The plane his a tractor trailer.
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I’ve lived in Northern and Central NJ since 1977. I grew up driving by Newark Airport on the Turnpike, watching the planes pass over so low. And now it’s happened.
United Airlines flight strikes light pole on the NJ Turnpike
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I’ve lived in Northern and Central NJ since 1977. I grew up driving by Newark Airport on the Turnpike, watching the planes pass over so low. And now it’s happened.
United Airlines flight strikes light pole on the NJ Turnpike
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A United flight arriving at EWR (Newark NJ) hit a bakery truck on the frickin' New Jersey Turnpike this afternoon. (Apparently the plane hit a light pole that hit the truck.) You need to watch the video to appreciate. The driver and the passengers are reportedly ok.
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A United flight arriving at EWR (Newark NJ) hit a bakery truck on the frickin' New Jersey Turnpike this afternoon. (Apparently the plane hit a light pole that hit the truck.) You need to watch the video to appreciate. The driver and the passengers are reportedly ok.
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Lol the one day my ATC scanner wasn't running I miss this. Absolutely wild. Good on the passengers for restraining the attacker. Happened at my favorite airport, #EWR.
AGGRESSIVE Passenger Attacked Cabin Crew and Opened Main Door!
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Lol the one day my ATC scanner wasn't running I miss this. Absolutely wild. Good on the passengers for restraining the attacker. Happened at my favorite airport, #EWR.
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Its okay buddy, we all make mistakes.
interesting okay well it is a it's a controller in training so uh notify his trainer thanks
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The ATC on Newark Approach North sounds really controlled and calm its quite soothing imo
https://www.liveatc.net/hlisten.php?mount=kewr_app_n&icao=kewr
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FedEx causing some drama at #EWR. Thankfully the pilots end up agreeing
"I don't know if that was a smart comment earlier or not you about accommodating but look at what your company's doing."
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Its my favorite ATC tonight. She is efficient, clear, funny and chill almost all the time. Usually on the midnight shift.
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Anyway ATCs are basically sky gods. They tell the plane to go, it goes. They tell it to squawk 1200 and boom its squeaking 1200. They tell it to switch frequencies and boom suddenly I can hear the plane on the radio. Magical. Obviously its mundane to most but I think it is a beautiful ballet of machinery and humans
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Wooo my favorite ATC. It's been month since I've had the time and energy. #ChillyATCAdventures #EWR #NewarkAtNight
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This guy is new. Its after 22:30 positions are combined ground frequency is tower frequency in a lot of the country my pilot fren
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Newark Liberty International Airport - Newark, United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Liberty_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/40.692501/-74.168701#KEWR #EWR #Newark #UnitedStates #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS
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WABC: American Airlines plane makes emergency landing at Newark Airport
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WABC: American Airlines plane makes emergency landing at Newark Airport
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#UAL921 apparently landing with an emergency at Newark. Not sure yet if they need assistance when they land. #NewarkAtNight #EWR #ChillyATCAdventures
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Gusting 42mph at Newark right now. Phew. Wimdy. Apparently a tire blew onto the runway? Wild.
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So a pilot said they could see a light on the runway... ATC said they couldn't see anything from the tower or on ground radar... You know what that means... Newark is haunted
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Just received word third hand that the PANYNJ is searching all cars going into the Newark airport terminal C parking lot. The reporter did not see anything one way or the other at other terminals.
