Calvin

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 08/30/2020 at 19:35 • Filed to: Calvin & hobbes, Planelopnik

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Calvin channels his inner Captain van Zanten.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 19:41

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Lol I read the comic and thought “TIL that Calvin was a KLM captain” then saw your comment

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 08/30/2020 at 19:43

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:D

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 19:45

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This will forever be my favorite Calvin strip because it has 2 of my favorite things in one

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 19:47

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Too soon. For that cluster-fuck in the fog?

It will always be too soon.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 08/30/2020 at 19:49

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That was a one man clusterfuck that killed a whole lot of people.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 19:50

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It was plenty more than 1 man, even if he was the biggest issue. 

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 19:59

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This is my Sunday smile while I cook dinner. Thank you.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 19:59

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That one? And AF447. They both deserve a special place in our hearts for “How does one SOB manage to kill hundreds of people through complete incompetence ?”

Germanwings? Specific intent.
TWA 800? Chain of mistakes
ET/LionAir MAX? Monstrously long chain of mistakes...

But, in modern aviation, it’s remarkably hard for one asshole’s incompetence to kill so many people. It takes a real commitment to ineptitude to accomplish it.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 08/30/2020 at 20:01

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Or just an extraordinarily large ego.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 08/30/2020 at 20:02

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I’m no expert, but I do put some blame on Airbus for AF447. When you have a system where on pilot can be putting in an entirely opposite command input while the other pilot has no idea what he is doing, that’s a problem. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 20:10

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Yeah. I hate that control scheme... which they are committed to never fixing. OTOH, I think the recent safety stats show that a A32x is a safer ride than any 737. And, (including the rudder fiasco, the metal fatigue fiasco, the MAX fiasco) in the arc of the 737 program they’ve actually had quite a number of really ugly design flaws. That rudder thing was damn hard to figure out.

In Airbus’s defense? Had all the pilots simply LEFT the cockpit for 5 minutes and got un caffe et croissant? The neutral handling and the native stall recovery would have let the plane descend to a height wherein the pitot tubes would have melted away, and proper airspeed would have registered again.  In this case all it took was Bonin’s incredible commitment to ignoring several hundred STALL warnings of various types.  That takes an extra special devotion to dumbassery.  Above and beyond, really.

Just Jeepin' > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 20:17

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I’m definitely going to have to break down and buy the complete set at some point.

facw > Just Jeepin' 08/30/2020 at 20:41

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I have mine sitting on the table being me, and it was totally worth it. I don’t know what they are going for these days, but it’s actually more brilliant than I remembered.

ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 08/30/2020 at 20:52

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I had a similar discussion with a guy who said he was an A320 pilot (I had no reason to doubt him), and he said that all other things aside, there was something “civilized” about being able to put your tray of food on your lap at mealtime. 

CB > Just Jeepin' 08/30/2020 at 21:16

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Two things Oppo will never tell you to do:

1) Don’t do something dumb involving cars

2) Don’t buy Calvin and Hobbes books

CB > ttyymmnn 08/30/2020 at 21:18

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“... there was something “civilized” about being able to put your tray of food on your lap at mealtime.”

How about you fly the damn plane, how’s that for civilized?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 09/01/2020 at 09:25

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What is the Van Zanten reference?

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/01/2020 at 09:28

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Van Zanten was the captain of the KLM 747 who was so impatient to take off in the fog that he ignored ground control and his first officer and   crashed into a Pan Am 747 at Tenerife . He killed 583 people, along with himself.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 09/01/2020 at 09:31

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I was just going to tell you NVM. Tenerife.