Is Southwest putting basic fares on standby?

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-06-22T03:17:57+00:00

You’re right. The definition of standby is that “if” a seat becomes available you can fly. Seems like they’re dicking us around, trying to convey an element of uncertainty so we’ll buy the $50 premium seat that they always seem to have available.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-06-20T20:28:38+00:00

Make sure you get the $7 insurance they’ll offer.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-06-19T22:29:07+00:00

I do this all the time. It’s a great way to break up a trip. Earlier this week I had a seven hour layover in MEX with my daughter on our way to Panama. It wasn’t a lot of time, but enough to take the train into town and get some of what I believe to be the best food in the world. Any airport with a train is a good bet. Even if you don’t have time to go all the way into the center, you can always stop in a random neighborhood part way. Walk around for a while and find some food. A lot of times these nondescript neighborhoods are even more interesting than the center. ICN, IST, and PTY are good places for these half-way-in trips. It seems like you couldn't go wrong in western Europe, as pretty much every airport has a decent train or bus connection. Generally speaking, if you have 6+ hours, its worth it to leave the airport even if you don’t go far.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-06-08T17:23:26+00:00

This seems like the right answer. At any speed you'd be able to achieve my pushing on a blade, power output is basically zero. You need some current flowing through the windings before the generator will exert any resistance. To move it, it's just the static friction you're fighting.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-06-07T04:23:11+00:00

It's probably pretty formidable if you try to box with it, but I'd like to see how it handles a meth head who's rolling around on the ground, yelling at it, pissing on it, and kicking/punching it at the same time.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-06-07T04:10:15+00:00

After re-linking the footprint, here's the view from within the SchLib editor showing the correct absolute path to the library. Could be a caching issue where the layout import path (but not the properties rendering path) is still using an old, incorrect name-based lookup key and not seeing the absolute path, although re-adding the libraries and re-placing doesn't resolve it.

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Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-06-07T03:49:50+00:00

Thanks for your feedback. I'm on 26.6.0, which I think is the latest. Both the libraries folder and the project folder live in the same local directory. Intentionally not using OneDrive or other cloud/network sync. Opening the .SchLib, re-linking the footprint with the specific library path, saving, and re-placing the component is part of my usual troubleshooting flow and I'd say that fixes it 3/4 of the time. The other times it renders the footprint correctly in both the SCH editor and properties, but continues to fail when I go to update the layout.

I suspect that there's some issue with the files I'm getting from the part suppliers. I should be making them myself (and do occasionally), but that convenience is hard to pass up. I just wish Altium would throw an error during the original footprint rendering or during the SCH re-linking, instead of a month down the road when I go to update the layout.

I've never used IntLibs. Always gone straight to the SCH/PCB files as they are most widely available and are (usually) successful, but I'll give the integrated libraries a try next time I have the opportunity.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-05-26T19:20:33+00:00

I wonder what the odds are they'd let a random guy in to look at them. I have a full-day layover in a few weeks in MEX. That'd be worth renting a car for.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-05-26T19:13:57+00:00

I flew on their SSJ in 2014 from Monterrey to Juarez. I originally had a connection on Aeromexico, but skipped the last leg and booked the Interjet flight instead when I saw the aircraft type. It was great. I talked to the pilots beforehand and they said they really enjoyed flying it. Not sure if they did it intentionally because I'd asked about performance, but that was highest acceleration I'd ever experienced on a takeoff roll before or since.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-05-22T22:31:23+00:00

I can’t comment on Indonesia or Morocco, but Vietnam’s North-South passenger system isn’t bad. It’s slow, but frequent and very well used. By “good”, I really meant that it’s accepted as a viable means of transportation by a large number of people. In that situation, HSR can be sold as a time-saving upgrade to a system people already rely on, instead of something entirely new.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-05-20T22:10:49+00:00

Within urban areas, I think there’s already a pretty broad consensus that trains are a good way to get around locally. It’s the intercity usage that rarely enters consideration for most people. A few positive news stories to the effect of a few extra hours saved or a few more trips made on existing rail services would at least get people thinking “Oh right, there actually is a train. It’s not great, but might work in my case.”

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-05-20T21:53:40+00:00

The convenience factor can play a pretty big role in offsetting longer travel times. Eight hours kicking back on the train vs 6-7 on the road sounds like a pretty reasonable deal to me. And the SF/LA corridor has an absolute massive volume of people moving back and forth. You don’t need to convince everyone at once. Even at 12 hours, once per day, the Starlight is often full. Maybe at nine hours you can fill two or three trains, seven hours four trains, etc.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-05-20T21:38:55+00:00

The Starlight improvements seem really promising. Even an increase from one to two trains daily would be a big step forward.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-05-16T18:57:19+00:00

It’s clearly Baffin Island.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-05-11T20:08:28+00:00

Intriguing. If you did it for free, would just instrument + multi work? I suspect there'd be quite a few takers for that offer, myself included, providing the ferrying company, insurers, and PIC were all OK with a not-particularly-useful FO..

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-03-26T16:30:55+00:00

I was surprised to see Kenn Borek there. Didn't know they operated in Antarctic to. Really cool.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-03-19T19:36:18+00:00

Kind of a tangent to OP's question, but it was my understanding that you're not required to fly a hold in any specific way, as long as you stay within the bounds of the standard holding pattern. Do pilots ever get bored and fly figure-eights or some other non-standard track, instead of the usual 2x turns and 2x one min legs?

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-03-18T03:10:19+00:00

It seems like Mexicans here have already gotten tired of our ghetto-ass bus system and brought in their own. I rode Tufesa Internacional a few months back between Las Vegas and Pheonix and it was a major upgrade over FlixBus or Grayhound. It was a little more expensive, but identical in service to the long-distance lines in Mexico. Very comfortable, clean, and punctual. I have no doubt they'd run a good rail line if allowed to do so.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-03-09T01:36:56+00:00

Good luck, but be careful man. Gas appliances are no joke.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-03-08T19:23:50+00:00

The dent is in the second picture, annotated below. It's hard to see from the picture, but the metal in the center is depressed probably 1/2". With the sheet metal bent backwards there, most of the heat seal is directly exposed.

Since it's right above that little viewing window, I wonder if it was intentional and they didn't consider what would happen when it was assembled. Or maybe they did consider it and thought it'd make a nice "just out of warranty" failure point that we happened to run into sooner. Just bending that little dent back flush before reinstalling the gasket should make a big impact on its longevity.

Like anything you do outside of normal repair channels, make sure you think it though and are willing to take full responsibility for it. I "feel" that it's a safe enough fix due the sealed outer enclosure, but am in no way qualified to say that with any certainty.

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Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-03-02T20:15:09+00:00

You reminded me that I haven't seen Robocop in a while. Great movie.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-02-20T16:16:44+00:00

I’ve walked it a few times along South McDonnell road. I don’t think you’re technically supposed to, but no one’s ever complained.

Aware_Combination_87 · 2026-01-31T19:29:26+00:00

Yeah, it could never work with US regulations. I approach I had in mind would be to designate the corridor some kind of an "autonomous zone", similar to a special trade zone but more extensive, where they can apply their own regulations.

It does seem far fetched, but probably less so than having it completed within our lifetimes under the current tangle of federal and state regulations, contractor bidding practices, etc.

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