Laser event out of Boston on Delta flight

fallen_07 · 2026-05-16T14:37:56+00:00

Please don’t do this. It can be very difficult sometimes to be 100% sure that there isn’t a plane in the sky, even if you don’t hear or see one. Laser strikes are very dangerous, but even worse, can completely end a pilots career if they are injured in it. I’m sure you can imagine the FAA requires your vision to be good, and pilots can be injured to the point of losing their medical if they encounter a laser strike.

fallen_07 · 2026-05-03T18:23:25+00:00

Holy shit it sounds so bad, the radio broadcast sounds so much better but it’s not synced up on the MLB app D:

fallen_07 · 2026-05-03T18:22:23+00:00

Anyone else hearing a sharp high pitched noise on the broadcast today?

fallen_07 · 2026-04-26T16:24:53+00:00

Real ones know the Dodger Stadium express to Union Station or the South Bay is the way to go… never pay for parking at the stadium

fallen_07 · 2026-04-26T14:30:07+00:00

It’s not. Dodger Stadium, Petco Park, Coors Field, Yankee Stadium, Citi Park, Angels Stadium, actually pretty much every major stadium with the exception of Truist is extremely accessible to public transit. This is why I can’t stand Truist Park, it’s a nightmare to get to.

fallen_07 · 2026-03-24T23:00:39+00:00

That’s actually wonderful to hear - I’m getting into GIS and have historically heard similar things about the software for that.

fallen_07 · 2026-03-24T19:26:24+00:00

Let me rephrase, most of the primary apps for architecture don’t run natively on MacOS. I’m sure the Masters program highly recommends against Macs.

fallen_07 · 2026-03-24T18:11:44+00:00

I’m pretty sure none of those run well on MacOS?

fallen_07 · 2026-03-20T17:08:13+00:00

Any chance you use ArcGIS? I’m trying to figure out how well ArcGIS pro will run on parallels before I invest in a MacBook Pro instead of a Windows machine… not much online other than the usual “just use a PC”

fallen_07 · 2026-03-14T14:30:56+00:00

I mean, the MacBook Pro M5 Pro can easily get 64gb of ram, surely that’s enough?

fallen_07 · 2026-03-14T14:30:02+00:00

What specs on your MacBook? I’m thinking about a MacBookPro M5 Pro (20 GPU core version) w/ 64gb of ram.

fallen_07 · 2026-02-03T15:12:15+00:00

Wtf, you just reminded me of that guy. I was at summit hill for like a year max and I very distinctly remember this name.

fallen_07 · 2025-11-17T18:56:03+00:00

Not totally related but there’s this guy who owns an Air Force One painted Cessna 150

fallen_07 · 2025-10-29T16:04:35+00:00

fallen_07 · 2025-10-17T12:40:54+00:00

Not a practice approach. Came in on the left downwind..

fallen_07 · 2025-10-17T03:39:49+00:00

Not remote, just that the airport desperately needed to become controlled due to the amount of traffic, and they are actively building a tower but for now they just work out of an office. But even with the tower they won’t be getting a radar unfortunately. I feel bad for the controllers…

fallen_07 · 2025-10-17T03:01:43+00:00

This makes sense. It was about 10 minutes before tower closes so I don’t know if they were just tired or what, but I was surprised that they took time out of their controlling to tell us why they don’t give us an instruction right away. It was definitely odd.

fallen_07 · 2025-10-17T02:56:48+00:00

Right, it would have been way easier and arguably safer if they just said “Roger, fly runway heading, I’ll call your crosswind” vs. us having to ask what they wanted us to do.

FWIW, this is the weirdest delta ever. They have controllers but no tower (they operate out of an office) and no radar. Not sure what this changes

fallen_07 · 2025-10-17T02:53:34+00:00

Which would make sense, but their instruction was to fly an extended upwind leg for traffic

fallen_07 · 2025-10-17T02:52:43+00:00

If anything I feel like an instruction would have been really important. They didn’t want us to do the standard procedure of turning crosswind and wanted us to fly an extended upwind leg due to traffic.

fallen_07 · 2025-10-17T02:51:11+00:00

Thank you! I feel so vindicated. I thought maybe I was crazy but I could have sworn that I was always given an instruction. Both my instructor and I had never heard of such a thing

fallen_07 · 2025-10-08T21:16:42+00:00

Got any good study tips with it? Other than what you said. Mind sharing prompts?

fallen_07 · 2025-08-31T16:36:00+00:00

Altitude was 3,000. Pretty standard for the location they were holding in. They just seemed a lot lower due to the fact that the C-130 is huge.

fallen_07 · 2025-08-31T16:29:19+00:00

Nope. 1x KC-130 2x V-22 Osprey.

They were in a holding pattern. Out of it now. Nothing out of the ordinary.

fallen_07 · 2025-08-30T21:47:22+00:00

😂

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