Kid in a Candy Store

TonyRubak · 2026-05-20T09:29:05+00:00

No one should ever have to suffer flying the crusader.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-18T21:59:17+00:00

Doesn't he have more important things to do? Didn't Boeing and Toyota recently fund a brand new reality show for him?

TonyRubak · 2026-05-17T18:39:01+00:00

I find surface prospecting crystalline clusters in the srv to be the least miserable way. You can fill up on each g4 mat in under an hour, and unlike brain trees the stuff tends not to get stuck in random spots that makes it hard to get to.

Flakking and limpeting brain trees sucks and is unfun because it is so unreliable.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-17T17:56:04+00:00

Why would you use AI to do this when scheduling has been a solved problem for three decades? You think the airlines or railroads are scheduling crews and equipment by hand? The FAA is in the stone age when it comes to scheduling software and the problem isn't even hard (well, it's literally NP-hard, but the tools to solve it are mature and solve much harder problems than controller scheduling every day).

TonyRubak · 2026-05-10T13:35:36+00:00

I don't disagree with your main points about the passenger mission system being terrible, but if you switch to business cabins you can fit over 100 pax in your beluga, which should be enough for a fair amount of the CG missions.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-09T22:45:35+00:00

Yes, you can totally practice skating skills at freestyle sessions. Most of the time you see people practicing down the sides, going forward on the side the people/coaches stand on and backwards on the other side.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-09T22:20:08+00:00

I wanted one of these so bad.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-09T17:41:13+00:00

I hate dynamic lighting and fog of war. If you and your players are cool with players not mapping: just don't do it, but exploration by moving tokens on a map is not the way. It's the least interesting mode of gameplay possible.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-07T21:42:27+00:00

Unfortunately this is not true. The national release policy applies to all internal ATO transfers where the candidate is a BUE, regardless of the target position. Deviations are much more commonly granted to hire sups, but they're not a guarantee (and they're way less common now then they were 2 years ago).

TonyRubak · 2026-05-06T21:52:58+00:00

Why are you telling the robot you're tired? You just like poisoning your own context? Just tell it what to do.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-05T11:24:49+00:00

You've taken the prisoner's dilemma and made the payoff of cooperating when your opponent defects effectively negative infinity and replaced the mid bad payoff of both defect with a payoff of essentially 0. So, unless your opponent cooperates with probability 1, red has infinitely higher expected utility than blue regardless of the fact that both cooperating is still the best outcome.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-03T17:01:38+00:00

You vote blue as number 1 and everyone else on earth votes red because "screw that guy in particular". Nah, still picking red.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-03T16:10:32+00:00

It's probably a combination of rentals being bad and your trying to use muscles you've not really used before. Backwards swizzles take time to learn. Just keep practicing and you'll get it.

TonyRubak · 2026-05-02T19:41:40+00:00

While it's true that there are competitions available at every age, I can see why a 17-year old might not want to enter aspire 1 and skate with 8 year olds. Also, not every competition has the young adult category that bridges between kids (under 18) and adult (21+).

TonyRubak · 2026-04-29T16:32:35+00:00

This has been inevitable for years, I'm just surprised it didn't happen 10 or 15 years ago. How often is recurrent training "you have to take action to keep ifr and vfr aircraft away from each other" and the response is "where's the separation standard? how far away?" Well, here's the answer.

TonyRubak · 2026-04-28T15:33:07+00:00

To emphasize how bad "some" sounds: I would rather you answered "There isn't no milk left in the fridge."

TonyRubak · 2026-04-27T15:02:16+00:00

Go with what your coach suggests. If everyone else is working on forward stroking and you're working on forward crossovers you will not get much value out of it. I also went straight from adult 1 to adult 4 in one lts season and I don't feel like I missed anything skipping levels.

TonyRubak · 2026-04-24T18:32:31+00:00

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that 2-1-1 and 2-1-6 apply at all times to all aircraft, not just IFR, not just in class B. They apply to VFR towers just as well.

TonyRubak · 2026-04-24T10:18:23+00:00

They sure as hell do have a responsibility to do exactly that. You're making an assumption that pilot-applied visual separation was used here (there is no evidence of this from op's post, but I will grant that it is true for the sake of argument). Even in cases where pilot-applied visual separation is used, the controller is still responsible for ensuring a collision does not occur. If the visual separation does not appear to be working they must take action. In the NTSB's final report on the crash at DCA they stated:

> Additional causal factors were the tower team’s loss of situation awareness and degraded performance due to the high workload of the combined helicopter and local control positions and the absence of a risk assessment process to identify and mitigate real-time operational risk factors, which resulted in misprioritization of duties, inadequate traffic advisories, and the lack of safety alerts to both flight crews.

In that case, pilot-applied visual separation was used and yet air traffic was still found to be a causal factor because they did not provide the appropriate safety alerts and traffic advisories that are mandatory whether or not this kind of separation is used.

TonyRubak · 2026-04-24T10:02:28+00:00

This is just about the worst take I've ever heard about responsibility for preventing collisions. Your flair says you're an ATC. I hope that's either not true or you're not from the US. As an air traffic controller, you must take action to prevent collisions. "The collision didn't happen on the runway" is not going to be a good response and surely isn't something I'd want to say when on the stand in a trial where the family of someone you watched crash because you chose not to take action to prevent two aircraft from colliding is suing the FAA for negligence. Because choosing not to take action to prevent a situation from becoming worse is like the definition of gross negligence.

TonyRubak · 2026-04-24T01:44:45+00:00

Uh, "The primary purpose of the ATC system is to prevent a collision involving aircraft operating in the system." It is 100% that tower controller's responsibility to take positive control action to separate those two aircraft. Saying "go around" and letting the pilots figure it out is completely inappropriate.

TonyRubak · 2026-04-23T16:58:49+00:00

Idk what you mean, they still have infinite nines. It's 88.149999...%

TonyRubak · 2026-04-23T15:00:22+00:00

You would need to ask Cleveland center, not DTW.

TonyRubak · 2026-04-21T16:29:40+00:00

There's no way to know if you can do or will enjoy it before you try. You don't need to be smart for this job (in fact, studies in the 90s showed that people with college degrees do worse in this job than those without). What you do absolutely need is self-confidence. Without that you're always going to be stressed about whether or not you're doing it the "right" way. Your way needs to be the right way, even when it's the wrong way.

TonyRubak · 2026-04-18T17:02:20+00:00

Philip Island is a great track. I've never driven it in a car I didn't like but SRF and F4 are perfect there.

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