so what happened in CLT the other day?

[Captzaahlie]

I heard a couple F-16's escorted a flight into CLT and all the pax cell phones were confiscated on the ground by authorities. Anyone in the know?

 

[Turtle21]

I heard a couple F-16's escorted a flight into CLT and all the pax cell phones were confiscated on the ground by authorities. Anyone in the know?

So now I gotta start carrying an extra cell phone to surrender a false one to authorities?

Not sure about F-16s and all but there was a big fire in D Concourse from the moving side walk that caught fire. A moving sidewalk in CLT catching fire.. who would have thought.. those things are broke standing still so much. :blush:

 

[Captzaahlie]

No this was a different incident from the sidewalk fire. I was just showing up for a trip after the D concourse thingy.

 

[Carl_Spackler]

Where did you hear this? It seems like it would be a pretty big news story, but nothing showed up with a google search.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Looks like it happened... www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/passenger-describes-security-situation-charlotte-b/nhshs?nmredir=true

 

[GlorifiedCabbie]

Since this is basically a pilots forum, be advised your enroute wifi signals are being monitored. You can be monitored as to the websites you visit. Nat'l security but also monitored for future disciplinary action. We currently don't have protections built into the system.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Cabbie, you've some additional insight on this incident?

 

[densoo]

Who knows. Some people just don't have any common sense.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...when-al-quida-wi-fi-network-became-available/

A Los Angeles International Airport flight bound for London was cancelled Sunday when a passenger's phone picked up the Wi-Fi signal "al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork" (sic) that was emanating from a fellow flier's hotspot minutes before the United Airlines flight was set to liftoff.

After a concerned passenger notified a flight attendant of the network at about 9:30pm, the plane taxied to a remote section of the Los Angeles airport and was held there for three hours. The plane was searched as passengers of Flight 136 were ordered to power off electronic devices, local media said.

"After an hour, (the captain) said there was a security threat and that we didn't have clearance to take off," passenger Elliot Del Pra told ABC7.com. The person responsible for the hotspot was not discovered, LaWeekly said.

"After further investigation, it was determined that no crime was committed and no further action will be taken,"LAX said in a statement. American Airlines said the flight was cancelled "out of an abundance of caution."

It was the second time in as many months that an Internet indiscretion caused an airline scare. An American Airlines flight from Dallas to San Diego was cut short in August following a tweet that there was a bomb on a plane carrying a Sony executive.

 

[Mach 80]

I just want to know where this new thing of starting sentences with "so" began. It's everywhere and it's stupid.

 

[GlorifiedCabbie]

MX has a log of the tail#, the user's id, websites and times for "trouble shooting" purposes. This is obviously a different incident than the one I was referring to.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

I just want to know where this new thing of starting sentences with "so" began. It's everywhere and it's stupid.

What would happen if a United flight started a radio transmission with "so."

 

[pilotyip]

I just want to know where this new thing of starting sentences with "so" began. It's everywhere and it's stupid.

yep, and I bet most of them have college degrees, so what wahts your problem with this?

 

[flywest]

I just want to know where this new thing of starting sentences with "so" began. It's everywhere and it's stupid.

So I think the genesis can be traced back to Lumbergh.

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001873/quotes

"So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk"

 

[The Prussian]

I just want to know where this new thing of starting sentences with "so" began. It's everywhere and it's stupid.

I agree with you...the very first place I noticed it was during Janet Yellen's confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. Almost everyone of her answers started with "So...".

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Mach should just start a "You know what really grinds my gears!?" thread. It would be a welcome diversion from the usual drivel on FI.

 

[Mach 80]

The word "so" is a conjunction or adverb, you don't begin sentences with it. This is another goofy language fad.

Don't you love news people who tell a news story and improperly use "literally" all the time?
"He literally ran from the fire at 100mph."

Now, why do some guys feel the need to waste words and add to radio congestion by adding "...checking in with you...". When the controller hears you say "Skyblue 245 at flight level 370" he kinda automatically knows that you are checking in and that you are "with him". Just sloppy and unnecessary but I guess some guys like hearing their own voice.

 

[Guppiedriver]

The word "so" is a conjunction or adverb, you don't begin sentences with it. This is another goofy language fad.

Don't you love news people who tell a news story and improperly use "literally" all the time?
"He literally ran from the fire at 100mph."

Now, why do some guys feel the need to waste words and add to radio congestion by adding "...checking in with you...". When the controller hears you say "Skyblue 245 at flight level 370" he kinda automatically knows that you are checking in and that you are "with him". Just sloppy and unnecessary but I guess some guys like hearing their own voice.

How about the guys that checks in with...."aannd, ABQ center, this is sky d o u c h e 1234"....

 

[Dornier 335]

2 cents

(...) but I guess some guys like hearing their own voice.

Pilots and egos. Do I need to say more? You do have a valid point, radio discipline is much more procedural in foreign (including English-speaking) airspace.

I remember someone referring to this as the "Southwest" effect not too long ago.

 

[Turtle21]

So.. Just checking.. Does anyone have anything to reveal about the OP question?