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Mark 09 Jan 20, 21:44Post
My dad was a railway signal maintainer for his entire career... 42 years. His biggest fear: Someone getting killed at a level crossing due to a level crossing light and bell system failure, especially if it failed shortly after he'd worked on it. I don't know specific details, but he told me at one time that American and Canadian level crossing warning systems default to the "on" or "activated" setting in the event of any fault. That's true, because he got called out after hours countless numbers of times to repair crossing signals for being on without the presence of a train.

I've only witnessed one instance during my dad's tenure with the railroad when a level crossing's lights and bell failed to activate normally. Since train crews are required to verify the operation of each level crossing's lights and bell they pass by, I assume it truly was an isolated case. Until a signal maintainer repaired a malfunctioning level crossing light and bell system, all future trains passing by would have to hand flag the crossing and limit the train speed to 5 mph.
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mhodgson (ATC & Photo Quality Screener & Founding Member) 10 Jan 20, 21:24Post
All the crossings I work over are CCTV controlled - in theory, the barriers are lowered by a signaller who verifies the crossing is clear before he can set a route across - signals will not clear for a train until he has confirmed the crossing is clear (and he won't be able to do that until the barriers are down and all warning lights are proved to be working).

I don't work on any of the type featured in the video, which generally are operated by the train activating a treadle or track circuit which lowers the barriers a determined time before the train arrives. There is no indication to the driver that the barriers are down/lights are operating; though if a fault is detected the signaller will be warned and he can stop trains (and they will also fail safe, barriers down and lights on). With these crossings, track circuits occupied by the train 'hold' the barriers down until the relevant track circuit is cleared at which point the barriers raise - if the train is crawling, or stops, the barriers will not raise (and a warning will be sent to the signaller). What seems to have happened in this case is that the train 'disappeared' briefly, so the automatic system thought it had passed and raised the barriers - it was re-detected shortly after as can be seen by the light sequence starting again on its final approach.
There's the right way, the wrong way and the railway.
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 23 Feb 20, 22:47Post
I would like to bring to your attention a chap by the name of 'Mad' Mike Hughes. Mike, one of the most prominent flat earthers, has been working for many years on a homebuild rocket that will take him into space so that he can prove that the earth is flat. Earlier today our heroic exposer of Illuminati lies strapped himself into his steam-powered (no, I'm not joking) rocket and headed into the blue yonder to finally prove that the earth is a flat disc surrounded by an ice wall. It didn't go well:



Fittingly, Mike is now flat and in the earth. It's what he would have wanted.
A million great ideas...
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 24 Feb 20, 00:15Post
JLAmber wrote:Fittingly, Mike is now flat and in the earth.

You're a bad, bad man. :))
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GQfluffy (Database Editor & Founding Member) 24 Feb 20, 04:18Post
I hate it when Youtube freezes right before the best part. {grumpy}
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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 24 Feb 20, 08:11Post
GQfluffy wrote:I hate it when Youtube freezes right before the best part. {grumpy}

Then you get it back, and right before the best part they decide you need to know about some VPN service, and YouTube goes "yo, dawg" and drops an ad into that ad. I'd pay for Red or whatever it's called these days, but then the embedded sponsorships would annoy me even more.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
Mark 24 Feb 20, 13:52Post
JLAmber wrote:
Fittingly, Mike is now flat and in the earth. It's what he would have wanted.


Hmm... He was 64 years old. Just one year from receiving Social Security and Medicare.
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GQfluffy (Database Editor & Founding Member) 24 Feb 20, 18:31Post
ShanwickOceanic wrote:
GQfluffy wrote:I hate it when Youtube freezes right before the best part. {grumpy}

Then you get it back, and right before the best part they decide you need to know about some VPN service, and YouTube goes "yo, dawg" and drops an ad into that ad. I'd pay for Red or whatever it's called these days, but then the embedded sponsorships would annoy me even more.


Bloomberg.

{crazy}
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ShyFlyer (Founding Member) 24 Feb 20, 20:01Post
ShanwickOceanic wrote:and YouTube goes "yo, dawg" and drops an ad into that ad.

AdBlock. :))
Make Orwell fiction again.
Mark 24 Feb 20, 20:54Post
Goddamned Bloomberg ads. Grrr.

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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 25 Feb 20, 01:32Post
GQfluffy wrote:Bloomberg.

Mark wrote:Goddamned Bloomberg ads. Grrr.

Thankfully I'm spared that particular brand of lunacy.

Wix and Netflix, the dix.

ShyFlyer wrote:AdBlock.

Yeah, I should probably get around to that.
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fiatstilojtd 23 Mar 20, 20:46Post
Last year Belgium has destroyed 6 MILLION FFP2 masks and did not order new ones to replace them.

Source: (Only in German)

https://www.krone.at/2122888
Non vitae sed scholae discimus
airtrainer 24 Mar 20, 23:12Post
fiatstilojtd wrote:Last year Belgium has destroyed 6 MILLION FFP2 masks and did not order new ones to replace them.

Source: (Only in German)

https://www.krone.at/2122888


I'm not a news person (said the NAS Daily guy {boxed}), but I live in Belgium and didn't heard about that story. Guess they're not proud about that {sarcastic}
Grounded...
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 04 Apr 20, 11:05Post
*sigh* Humans.

Mobile phone masts have been torched and engineers abused over "baseless" theories linking coronavirus to 5G.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52164358
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Lucas (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 04 Apr 20, 20:33Post
My sister's college.
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miamiair (netAirspace FAA) 08 Apr 20, 08:36Post
Someone fell asleep at the wheel...

And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 08 Apr 20, 11:30Post
Gahhh, they pulled the video.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 25 Aug 20, 23:05Post
Some double translation fail. Kauhava really is an unfortunate name, it seems.

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ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 30 Aug 20, 19:01Post
A local car rental firm have come up with a great way to handle rentals with no customer contact. (Covid, dontchaknow.) They leave the car with the key in a combination lock-box hooked over one of the windows, and you sign the paperwork online and get an SMS with the lock-box combination. When you're done, you fit the lock-box to the window, lock the car, lock the keys in the box, and scramble the combination. Ignoring the fact that they're trusting a Master lock, that's actually quite clever.

Well, it's quite clever until they decide to give you a car with a push-button ignition, doors that unlock when you pull the handle if the key is near, and a key that's quite happy talking to the car through the lock-box...

{facepalm} {facepalm} {facepalm}

The "Ohhhhh, shit!" I got from their rep when I called them about this was absolutely priceless.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 31 Aug 20, 22:42Post
On a similar note, I witnessed some comedy gold fail last night. Warning: Accurate presumptions ensue:

Sunbed-tanned, lip-filler disaster of a woman in an enamel white BMW X5 that her plasterer husband sells his soul to pay the finance on is driving along Blackpool promenade. We have a tram line here and there are several crossing points where access is required. Mrs lives-in-a-negative-equity-new-build wants to park in the casino car park that uses one such crossing point but it's full, so she parks across the tram track. Before she can get out to put another week's grocery money on red, trams have approached from both sides and are using their substantial horns to tell her to move her M-badged monstrosity.

She motions to the trams to go around her. She actually expected two 45 ton railed vehicles to go off-rail so she didn't have to move!

Unfazed by the fact that she's now the subject of mirth for a good 300 people, she defiantly strides out of her car and goes into the casino. The tow fee for parking on the tram track is £650 plus a £90 fine and they were not gentle with the vehicle her husband almost certainly never uses except when he's meeting his boyfriend.

She's on several facebook groups today complaining that there are deep scratches in every panel of her car {laugh}
A million great ideas...
mhodgson (ATC & Photo Quality Screener & Founding Member) 01 Sep 20, 14:06Post
You'd think it was an isolated incident, but the amount of times people gestured to my tram expecting me to drive round them as they picked up a takeaway or stopped to chat to a friend - thoughtfully placing hazard warning lights on though {bored}
There's the right way, the wrong way and the railway.
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 01 Sep 20, 14:24Post
Forget towing them, get a mobile crusher. That kind of stupid should hurt.
My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.
GQfluffy (Database Editor & Founding Member) 01 Sep 20, 18:34Post
They have some fortified deer guards on our lorries here in the States. Methinks your trams need them as well.

https://www.rigguard.com/
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JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 03 Sep 20, 20:21Post
mhodgson wrote:You'd think it was an isolated incident, but the amount of times people gestured to my tram expecting me to drive round them as they picked up a takeaway or stopped to chat to a friend - thoughtfully placing hazard warning lights on though {bored}


Seems to be a common problem. I had a look on a tram forum and there is a whole gallery of people doing the same.

GQfluffy wrote:They have some fortified deer guards on our lorries here in the States. Methinks your trams need them as well.

https://www.rigguard.com/


That's an idea, or we could just send one of our heritage trams - a 76 ton GE balloon tram at full tilt stops for nothing, even taking out one particularly evil soap character.
A million great ideas...
ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 11 Sep 20, 07:08Post
Shot through the heart, and you're to blame, darling, you give science a bad name (bad name)...

A top Brazilian expert on isolated Amazon tribes has been killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous site.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54109584
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