xnomad

I grew up in South East Asia with air con running all night, when I moved away I found it hard to sleep in 'quieter' countries

I used to get a cold around every 6 weeks from working with people and being in the office with freezing airconditioning all year round. Since working from home I haven't been sick in two years.

I'd hate to be a carrier pilot and the helmet fails on blue water ops, you can't land, only option is to go for a swim. And single engine too over water... hmmmm no thanks. No backup instrumentation either.

Is nobody going to mention the hilarious typo in this article? "mechanics plug in to asses"

Probably referring to A330: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72 They never quite figured out the root cause of the un-commanded dives

The first and second report look to be the FO's and Captain's for the same incident. And don't make sense as I though MCAS is during manual flight. Why would Auto Pilot need MCAS, it's like Auto Pilot using Auto Pilot?

I can't help think ETOPS are going too far. One day a big twin will fly from Sydney to Santiago and develop double engine trouble and the 3-4 engine minimum will be mandated again.

It's not about being lazy, it's a huge help if you are multi-tasking and are time poor ,like most parents are. A pretty normal scenario for me is trying to get the kids out the door, whilst doing their shoelaces you tell Alexa to turn off the tv, turn off lights, tell you the weather forecast and when the next bus is due to arrive out the front.

This is just like the Brexit vote. The populous doesn't know what they are voting for. When they realise all that daylight at 4:30 AM is wasted while they are sleeping it will be too late. As others have mentioned a lot of the DST opponents are confused and actually hate the switch from DST to standard time. I love DST I look forward too it every year.

My mum would try to stop me playing this because it was too violent. The prisoners getting whipped in the dungeon really apalled her. Violence has come a long way since then.