Pretty amazing the smart parrot can un-China/Cloud something like this in about 20-30 min. Prior to that I was expecting to need an IR blaster to try to control the thing with HomeKit and a complicated setup maintaining state. That’s all just solved now.

Edit: https://a.co/d/09I0VuLM this was one of the books. No affiliate link. ISBN-13 is 978-0761143833

Edit 2: it was this one! https://www.booktopia.com.au/worlds-greatest-paper-airplane-...

https://amadeus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/frontier-airl...

During longer periods away from flying I will spend a few days prior to the next flight mentally chair flying normal procedures.

I do think there’s some level of experience necessary for this to be beneficial though. Chair flying a plane I've never flown isn’t likely to be very productive without feedback from an experienced pilot. I would imagine the same is true for a couch potato trying to imagine a difficult squat set.

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack...

Could this be the same group? Or someone inspired by reading that article? Or just entirely unrelated?

I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, I just don't see society taking that measure until it's either 1) cheaper, or 2) the threat moves from being just a threat to reality.

For example, if I’m living out of a car I’m more likely to use EBT to buy some bags of chips I can toss in the car rather than some cheap chicken and fresh veggies or eggs. How would I store chicken or cook any of it if I live in a car?

Yes, I know there are solutions here like small fridges and hot plates. But those cost money and require time and effort. Again, scenario is living in a car or the streets.

The site linked is not clear on that AT ALL.

The entire interview he's just grinning like he has the "answer" to all these companies he alleges don't take safety seriously.

But my routine business trips in the CONUS with strictly defined booking options... let me just email an agent "Get there by meeting on day A, leave after meeting day B" and have it sort it all out without the drudgery of the corporate travel portal. YES PLEASE!

Essentially a position is calculated from VOR/DME, GPS, and INS. When there is disagreement it is flagged and procedures are in place to fall back.

The issue is VOR/DME is slowly being decommissioned eliminating one of those sanity checks. It hasn't been degraded to the point of creating massive gaps in coverage over land but it will slowly happen if the rate of decommissioning continues.

Ultimately, INS is sufficient for enroute navigation but if you're degraded to just that state, the impacts to traffic separation, particularly in congested airspace, are significant. Required Navigation Performance (RNP) levels dictate all of this.

GPS is fantastic and as a primary source everyone loves the benefits it brings. However, in a century of aviation, everyone has kinda sorted out that you can't have too many backups to critical items... unless you let the accountants and bureaucrats run the show.