flyingtexastiger
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Southlake, TX |
| Biography: | 1983 All Northeast La Honorable Mention DE |
| Interests: | Flying, golf, shooting sports, fast cars, faster women |
| Occupation: | Fighter pilot, Major airline pilot |
| Number of Posts: | 1714 |
| Registered on: | 10/23/2005 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: To the guys who are done with the fertility rate: what’s a vasectomy like?
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 4/22/25 at 6:30 pm
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Fast forward about a year later and on a drunken night I let it go thinking another kid wouldn't be the worst thing. My wife did not get pregnant.
Wait a minute. You went through the trouble to have a vasectomy and didn't ejaculate during intercourse for a year afterwards???
:but why:
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re: When staying at a Hotel, do you put a layer of TP on the seat or go in raw?
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 3/13/25 at 4:50 pm
I grew up in Louisiana. The toilet seat should fear me!!
re: TGIF Watch thread
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 3/12/25 at 9:35 pm
New to me Montbrillant Datora
re: Great quote from Will Rodgers I have never heard before but seems applicable now…
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 3/2/25 at 6:59 pm
Who??????
re: Shingles vax: Yay or nay
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 2/19/25 at 6:18 pm
Get it. You don't want shingles. I don't thing the shingles vax has the issues associated with the rushed thru Covid shots. Big reward for little risk, so well worth it.
re: Southwest Airlines corporate layoffs
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 2/17/25 at 6:18 pm
Sounds like their differences made their business plan untenable???
re: Saving for college/car etc..
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 2/10/25 at 7:07 pm
IDK, I'm pretty sure a lot of dudes financial circumstances have been radically improved by the connections they made in a Fraternity?? YMMV. For some it's a success multiplier, for some it's a stupid added expense.
Be the ball Danny. Make your future.
Be the ball Danny. Make your future.
re: Boomer Flex RE: Superbowl and Halftime Show
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 2/10/25 at 6:37 pm
Television is driven by ad revenue.
The choice for a halftime act should be driven by ad buys.
Eyeballs with the disposable income to buy your company's product shoud be the key metric.
The goal should be to have a halftime act that appeals to your core constituency such that companies will pay top dollar to secure those advertising spots.
The NFL's core constituency is still GenX/Boomers. Gambling/Fantasy may have made some inroads with the younger gens, but I question how much
IDGAS if 18-25 yo's loved the shite out of Kendrick. They have no money, DGAS about the NFL and are undoubtedly playing GTA or HALO or WhateverTF instead of watching the Super Bowl. The highest rated ads featured the Clydsedales, Mich Ultra, Willem Dafoe and Catherine O'Hara, Damon/Affleck/Beckham and When Harry Met Sally.
We can debate artistic merit all night, but I was a History major at LSU, and even I realize that Kendrick Lamar was a poor choice as far as Marketing was concerned??? And if you don't understand that TV/NFL Football is about eyeballs and TV Money, I don't know what to tell you. Somebody F***** up!!
(Please feel free to blow my thesis up with actual demographic data that shows the actual viewership numbers vs comparitive purchasing power of the respective demographics)
The choice for a halftime act should be driven by ad buys.
Eyeballs with the disposable income to buy your company's product shoud be the key metric.
The goal should be to have a halftime act that appeals to your core constituency such that companies will pay top dollar to secure those advertising spots.
The NFL's core constituency is still GenX/Boomers. Gambling/Fantasy may have made some inroads with the younger gens, but I question how much
IDGAS if 18-25 yo's loved the shite out of Kendrick. They have no money, DGAS about the NFL and are undoubtedly playing GTA or HALO or WhateverTF instead of watching the Super Bowl. The highest rated ads featured the Clydsedales, Mich Ultra, Willem Dafoe and Catherine O'Hara, Damon/Affleck/Beckham and When Harry Met Sally.
We can debate artistic merit all night, but I was a History major at LSU, and even I realize that Kendrick Lamar was a poor choice as far as Marketing was concerned??? And if you don't understand that TV/NFL Football is about eyeballs and TV Money, I don't know what to tell you. Somebody F***** up!!
(Please feel free to blow my thesis up with actual demographic data that shows the actual viewership numbers vs comparitive purchasing power of the respective demographics)
re: Saving for college/car etc..
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 2/5/25 at 4:07 pm
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f they qualify for TOPS, 30-40K per kid.
Depending on the type of vehicle and what college he/she chooses.
Would second this for most normal situations. If you can have 50K saved up by Freshman year you should be fine. If they want to go more expensive/Greek life, etc, that's what part time jobs and student loans are for.
re: Plane collides with helicopter over Reagan International Airport; Looking in Potomac
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/30/25 at 4:48 pm
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The 1500 with two lines above and below (very near runway 33) I believe recommends an altitude of 1,500.
Can you confirm that?
I'm pretty sure that altitude is for the East/West route that transits directly over the top of the runway complex?
re: As an airline pilot, my opinion on the airline crash.
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/30/25 at 12:40 pm
No one in this thread has a clue about ATC SOP in the National Capitol Region, DCA local control area, etc, etc. You can say it's all on ATC but since you don't what they are or are not allowed to do you really have no idea.
This may be by the book the way they have been doing it for the last decade. Every other time they asked the helo if he had the traffic in sight, maybe he did have the correct traffic in sight. Maybe unfortunately last night for the first time in the last 100,000-1,000,000th time the guy said he had the traffic in sight and would maintain visual separation but he was looking at the wrong plane.
Let the investigation play out before you make sweeping pronouncements of guilt
This may be by the book the way they have been doing it for the last decade. Every other time they asked the helo if he had the traffic in sight, maybe he did have the correct traffic in sight. Maybe unfortunately last night for the first time in the last 100,000-1,000,000th time the guy said he had the traffic in sight and would maintain visual separation but he was looking at the wrong plane.
Let the investigation play out before you make sweeping pronouncements of guilt
re: Plane collides with helicopter over Reagan International Airport; Looking in Potomac
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/30/25 at 10:01 am
The runway switch was also not necessarily because the departing plane didn’t get off Rwy 01 quickly enough. There is a line of airplanes holding short of Rwy 01 waiting to takeoff. Moving the RJs to 33 creates a hole so the tower controller can position an airplane on 01 waiting to blast off. One of many tricks the outstanding controllers there have at their disposal to try to facilitate the huge number of operations they handle
re: Plane collides with helicopter over Reagan International Airport; Looking in Potomac
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/30/25 at 9:56 am
For everyone discussing their boat collision avoidance, imagine trying to pull up at Crab Island. At some point it becomes useless because it’s giving you a thousand warnings about things that are very low threat.
Same situation with aircraft TCAS systems. With all of the airplanes moving around the point you are attempting to land on at some point the info is useless at best and distracting at worst, so the system is designed to deescalate the warnings the closer you get to landing. I E it won’t give you a “Fly Down” Resolution Advisory command below a certain altitude to try not to fly you into the ground. Certainly approaches we fly and emergency procedures direct you to switch the system to “Traffic Alert” mode only to prevent spurious and unnecessary commands.
Same situation with aircraft TCAS systems. With all of the airplanes moving around the point you are attempting to land on at some point the info is useless at best and distracting at worst, so the system is designed to deescalate the warnings the closer you get to landing. I E it won’t give you a “Fly Down” Resolution Advisory command below a certain altitude to try not to fly you into the ground. Certainly approaches we fly and emergency procedures direct you to switch the system to “Traffic Alert” mode only to prevent spurious and unnecessary commands.
re: Does anyone know why Laura Ingram can't close her lips?
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/28/25 at 7:55 pm
It's hard to tell from all the pics you posted
re: AOC is none too happy with the ADL
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/20/25 at 6:44 pm
Who???
re: What Happened To Kasey Musgraves?
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/20/25 at 6:42 pm
Diarrhea???
re: Dr. Wesley Vanderlan-trauma surgeon going famous for groping woman in plane
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/10/25 at 8:29 pm
Looks like a Theta Xi??? :dunno:
re: Looked like a good INT to me
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/9/25 at 10:00 pm
Oh, PI was definitely called on the play. It was picked up because the DB tipping the ball made the pass "uncatchable". Rogers Redding said so.
Looked like a good INT to me
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/9/25 at 9:40 pm
re: Words/phrases that people commonly screw up
Posted by flyingtexastiger on 1/9/25 at 12:17 pm
Precedent/Precedence
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