Posted on 08/05/2013 7:03:52 PM PDT by B4Ranch
SAN FRANCISCO U.S. aviation officials are no longer allowing foreign airlines to land alongside another plane when touching down at San Francisco International Airport in the wake of the deadly Asiana Airlines crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Tuesday it implemented the change to minimize distractions during a critical phase of flight.
In the past, two planes could approach SFOs main parallel runways at the same time in clear weather. Domestic carriers can still do that, but air traffic controllers are now staggering the arrivals of foreign carriers.
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Maybe they should put a local pilot on their wing to help guide them down, keep them on speed and on the glideslope.
Gee, on Saturday in San Mateo I had one of those in a beat-up Honda sedan make a right turn from the leftmost of two left turn lanes. No signal or head movement - the fact that she was sitting there on a green left arrow made me wary tho so I slowed down...she turned right to pass directly in front of the police station - then turned into the side street and before stopping again and turning right again back onto the original street (at a "no turns" sign).
Today one of the young ladies at work was involved in a "following too closely" fender bender...we all nodded our heads knowingly. The other day I found her trying to park next to me and failing miserably. After a few too many attempts I told her to move over and parked it for her. Apparently she never drove when growing up in India, and didn't start here in California until she graduated from college. I can't quite comprehend how she passed the driving test.
It basically takes a browser to show animations. Email won’ do that without help.
At this stage of the game I’m too old to start being PC.
I can easily vision how she was missed in the frantic rush to save the majority. At some point they’ll place a dollar figure on her and blame someone.
I would imagine aviation firefighters don’t get a lot of actual airliner crash experience during their career. At least I would hope and pray they don’t.
Yep, but air traffic control is a big hassle to begin with. Now they have to put up with this BS too.
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