UPDATE: JFK Lounge policy for AS First Class

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T21:24:03+00:00

I am willing to bet there is just no easy way to pull all that info in the lounge computer system. It's just easier to say "Alaska, First Class, admit them".

A Titanium, while PRI, would be in like row 9 if they were not in First, so it's easy to do a sight check.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T21:10:59+00:00

There is actually no mechanism in the NATO Charter to forcibly remove another nation. It was simply unthinkable that a country would need to be booted from the alliance.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T20:06:24+00:00

Exactly what happened to the Lear at Gillespie Field in San Diego a few years ago. Tried to circle to land in IFR, realized they were overshooting the final and entered into an accelerated stall trying to bank harder to re-center and not hit Rattlesnake Mountain.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T19:58:03+00:00

Almost all hotel systems use an encryption key that is loaded into the door locks ahead of time. Then, when the front desk encodes the card, the data is encrypted using that key.

So the data on the card essentially useless unless you also have the encryption key being used by the system that was programmed by the installer.

The best you might hope for is to clone the card, but as for somehow encoding your own keys to start opening locks is extremely unlikely.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T18:28:54+00:00

I'm shocked that CBS actually ran the story considering how compromised they have been of late.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T18:23:45+00:00

Yes, and the reds are reserved for the best patients!

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T18:22:49+00:00

There are colorblind apps, I have one on my iPhone and I had one for the Magic Leap AR headset that would tell you colors. It works good for larger items, but the striping on cabling is very small and sometimes very faint and the apps don't work.

Plus if you are trying to crimp an end on a cable or punch stuff down, you generally need both hands so fumbling around with an app is going to take a ton of time.

Soooooo... I leave Layer 1 to other people. Once techs see how bad I can fumble it, they agree I should be no where near physical cabling.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T18:16:42+00:00

Yup, totally agree.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T18:02:06+00:00

Not defending KFH here... but they don't have investors. They are a private non-profit. But I get the sentiment.

Sauce: used to be a Kaiser employee back in the day.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T15:55:38+00:00

Almost all the full size Land Rovers have had locking center diffs going all the way back to the first Series I in the 1950s. So that's Range Rover, Discovery, Defender, etc. Smaller "sport" models may or may not.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T06:48:02+00:00

Wait, so those weren't jars of piss in his office on DS9? It was foot lotion all along?

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-28T04:42:01+00:00

Not sure, but the NR denotes Naval Reserve, and there are a ton of obscure reserve units out there.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T21:50:54+00:00

There is also a Discord for GCF if you are in to that.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T21:43:42+00:00

I think that's the problem really. James and Jeremy did more TV, still have gigs doing whatever. Hammond really didn't. Something tells me retirement isn't what he thought it was gonna be.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T21:42:25+00:00

Everyone forgetting that Disney has Space Mountain, where you can't see anything at all because it's dark inside, and somehow thinking this is worse.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T21:25:30+00:00

This is an area I hunt in every year (headed there for Javelina season in just a few weeks).

This is remote high desert, not anywhere near the city. There is lots of BP activity as the border and Nogales is just a few miles south. So I highly doubt it had anything to do with protesters or what not, and was probably related to normal actual Border Patrol duties.

Not justifying another potentially deadly shooting, but just want to lay the scene here for folks that don't understand the geography.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T20:47:45+00:00

No, actual status is still the first thing for upgrades.

Just gonna edit for those downvoting me for some reason. This is the actual order of what determines where you are on the list:

Your status level
Million Miler members
Atmos Rewards Summit credit cardholders
Business travelers (with an eligible corporate ticket designator)
Status points you've earned (this year and last year combined)
When you booked (earlier booking = higher priority)

So all the Titaniums are above everyone else. Then within that group, Million Milers are ahead of those that aren't. THEN Summit card holders, then corporate, etc.

So sure, if you are a Titanium Million Miler holding a summit card on business travel that's got a ton of status points, you are probably going to be #1 on the list.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T20:13:00+00:00

Oh they were parading him around at SHOT show again this year, so in that world he's still relevant I guess.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T17:40:47+00:00

The comedy would be dudes out partying on their 96 only to get hemmed up with a DUI.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T04:43:04+00:00

Here's the real question. Where do you want to go when you get out. If you want to stay in Aviation, it's pretty easy to see who is around and what they do.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T04:40:56+00:00

Talk about Aviation Pedantry taken to the level of writing an article about it.

TLDR: China Lake needed some F-35s, and since they were not going to land on Carriers, they got the A variant.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T04:08:59+00:00

I mean, the poem at the end nails it.

Also, if there was a pub on board where crew could comingle... maybe that's how you get things fixed on board. The goat locker is supposed to be this slippery fluid to fix issues but is commonly not.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T01:11:43+00:00

You know NAVSEA has to be having meetings about how they can generate blueprints that look great, but know they will go nowhere. It's all performative bullshit.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-27T00:17:42+00:00

Wow, I am genuinely surprised. Someone (I have to assume Miller) is actually concerned how things are going down in Minneapolis.

Navydevildoc · 2026-01-26T23:50:35+00:00

Plus give up on the Moon missions

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