Look at their shoes! 😅

How many trouser breaks does it take to hide the fact that your boss is not as good at guessing shoe-size as he thinks? Boy on the end looks like he's in hand-me-downs from the BFG! 🤣

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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Another Don, tilting at windmills!

Incidentally, despite how 'quaint' the UK is, we do not use offshore wind turbines to mill anything. The flour gets far too damp!

She will... 😉

Australia is getting a rough shake here!

Dozens! Scores even! That might confuse them though.

What are Juno's feelings on the topic?

Good that it gives you the option then, if it's not solid enough to do the job itself! 😁

Yeah, that's definitely one way to go, particularly if you've got addresses on the subnet that aren't assigned by DHCP. Or assign a static lease.

Depending on the OS, we can look at checking what DNS server it's trying and failing to use.

Have you checked it's getting the correct DNS IP, presumably from DHCP?

I absolutely agree, it is to me too!

To paraphrase Philip Pullman: creating is a dictatorship, while consuming is a democracy.

While he may not have intended political themes in his works, or managed to discern them in others', that doesn't mean we can't, or mustn't, find them in either!

While I agree with his sentiment, and am pleased that he's using his platform to speak truth to power, I find myself a little conflicted that he preaches against wealth inequality from his gilded throne. Still, any step forward is a step closer to the destination!

Given the ease with which they've ignored the purported words of Jesus, they should have little difficulty ignoring the words of Leo.

If controller workload wasn't recorded as a contributory factor I'd be very surprised, based on my understanding that the same controller was working tower and ground at a major airport.

It's not solely about the root cause, it's also about identifying ineffective barriers.

This is something the investigation will no doubt uncover.

Given the visibility apparently wasn't terrible, you'd expect the landing lights to have been visible, if they were on.

It's difficult to judge distance at night. We don't know whether the truck was listening on tower. Many unknowns.

Pursuit of accuracy need not be pedantry, otherwise how could we ascertain what's correct or incorrect!

The important thing is what's right, not who's right.

7/7 More information is required to draw firm conclusions.

6/x Is there anything the pilots could have done? Maybe. If they had a perfect mental model of the ground movements from the radio traffic.

Should they reasonably be expected to have? Likely not. It's a busy phase of flight, and what communications they could have heard is unclear.

5/x Blame should seldom be a goal of investigations.

I'm loathe to apportion any blame, or absolution, absent a more thorough investigation report.

4/x Initial indications are that there is little, if anything, the pilots could have done about the situation, by the time they recognised the situation, if they did at all.

3/x The driver of the fire truck may have had an opportunity to avoid the incident, as one is still beholden to check that the approach is clear despite being cleared onto a runway.

I currently have insufficient detail to know whether they did check, or whether the aircraft was visible to them.

2/x My initial impression of the incident is that some important barriers (in the context of Reason's 'Swiss Cheese' model) were compromised:

The controller appears saturated, and was dealing with another aircraft incident, this it seems they cleared two users onto the same runway.

1/x In that case I'd genuinely, and collegially, urge you to revisit your PoF studies. We've always gotta maintain a growth mindset, and never stop learning.

I'm not arguing, I'm trying to aid your understanding. Definitions are, by definition, definitive, and stall means a very specific thing.

All the best to you too!

It would be rather more inconvenient having to taxi aircraft on their tails so as to never reduce below their critical AoA until ready for departure! 🤣

Now what do you understand by 'critical value' as it pertains to AoA?

Next time you're on a commercial flight, and are lucky enough to have a window seat with a view of the wing, watch the wingtip from touchdown to taxi. You'll notice it gradually flexing downward. That wing is still producing lift, just not enough to keep the aircraft airborne.

No.

Yes, I believe this is the source of your misunderstanding. A wing with less lift than the mass of the aircraft is not necessarily stalled.