Posted on 08/11/2018 4:16:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The worker, who worked for Horizontal Air at Seattle Tacoma Airport for nearly four years according to his Linkedn account operated as a ground service agent and operations agent loading bags.
...worker’s personal blog revealed Russell living in Pierce County with his wife, Hannah who he married in 2011 after meeting her in school the year before. The ground service agent, referred to as ‘Rich’ and ‘Richard’ by air traffic controllers, was born in Key West, Florida and moving to Alaska as a child.
... Russell and Hannah opened a bakery called Hannah Marie’s Bakery in North Bend, Oregon and ran it for three years.
In 2015, the couple relocated to Seattle ‘because we were both so far removed from our families’, Russell wrote.
While living in Seattle, Russell started working for Horizon Air, where he would have been earning circa $13.75 an hour as a baggage handler, writing that he enjoyed being able to travel to Alaska in his spare time. Russel, who was pursuing his bachelor’s degree for social sciences from Washington State University, said he wanted to move up in his company to one day work in a management position.
(Excerpt) Read more at scallywagandvagabond.com ...
How many actual ormer and current pilots have to tell you that you are wrong?
Enough with the insults.
If it's all a lie, what do ya think his ultimate motive was?
I’m surprised he could actually start the two engines, control the variable pitch props and taxi correctly to the runway.
I’m guessing the PC simulator doesn’t cover that bit very well...:^)
Really? He had two already and that didn’t work out so well.
A liberal majoring in Social Sciences might just do it. He did go out in a bombadier - a very 'toxic masculine' plane, after all.
Nothing can be done my friend. Nothing.
I didn’t mean that anything meaningful will be done. Just more meaningless feel good TSA type crap. They might “crack down” on private aviation like they did after 9-11... None of us were allowed to fly our small planes for months after the attack. Why??? Small plane values dropped by 50% and never have recovered completely.
I have even debated the merits of what was done then with people here who are afraid of small airplanes somehow being a threat to them. What if someone stole a small plane and crashed it into a baseball stadium? Or what if someone stole a small plane and started shooting from it? Never mind that a rental truck is a far more effective mass casualty weapon and there is a pretty good chance that the perpetrator could get away to terrorize more another day. Most small plane scenarios end with the pilot not making it.
What the hell was REALLY going on here? are we being lied to AGAIN?
Probably
LOL!
In his defense he was just winging it.
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In a prop jet?
Same here. Was always one of the first in line with new releases...until FSX(bought the steam version few years back for $5 but never installed, figuring my old PC didn't have the horsepower).
Still fly FS9 now and then...thinking about trying XPlane.
Not much into general aviation aircraft, mostly like the airline environment with PMDG/PIC767/others...used to create AI traffic data from airline PDF timetables, but they've all pretty much switched to electronic data now, and the services who handle/provide that data are pretty protective with that data...unless one wants to spend $$$.
“Give me a break. NO ONE CAN TAKE A TURBO JET OFF AND FLY LIKE THAT. Wake up!”
When I met my husband he had a twin-engine King Air 350 which is a pretty big airplane. I learned how to start it, set the flaps, release the brakes, taxi, take off, fly, set the autopilot, set the flaps again, land, taxi, set the brakes, and shut it down.
I once flew all the way from Lincoln, California (LHM) to Cody, Wyoming (COD) with Steve in the left seat and me in the right seat and he never touched the controls even once.
It really isn’t that hard. The hard part is trying to listen to all the stuff on the radio, read the charts and know where you can and can’t go, and all that.
Flying the plane is the easy part. It’s so easy I can do it.
No man not buying that for a 75 passenger twin turbo. The asked him to land. He sad if he did(meaning he could) “they would rough him up”. There is something we are not being told.
Ruh Roh
Twin props aren't easy to just fly from video training. I agree, something up here.
It ain't that easy, ask Thurman Munson
“I’m surprised he could actually start the two engines, control the variable pitch props and taxi correctly to the runway.”
It’s all right here. It’s long, but entertaining if your in to that kind of thing. The narrator is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usKRZRPhjgU
Context is really important here. When Russel was told he could land at McChord AFB he said the military people might rough him up.
He made no indication whatsoever that he was afraid of that happening anywhere else.
And yeah, I could totally fly this.
We’re always being lied to. For example, last week LVPD released the 167 page report on Paddock. It is very bizarre. “They” are hiding something.
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